Rockland County

  • County Executive Ed Day Submits 2023 Proposed Budget to Legislature

    No Increase To County Property Taxes New City, NY, – Rockland County Executive Ed Day unveiled the 2023 Proposed Budget which does NOT include a property tax increase, layoffs, or program cuts. The County Executive detailed the proposed $812.4 million spending plan at the Allison Parris County Office Building in New City. County Executive Day detailed […]

  • Senator Reichlin-Melnick Honors Beckerle Lumber for Decades of Community Contributions

    ROCKLAND, NY – Senator Elijah Reichlin-Melnick recently presented a New York State Senate Empire Award to Beckerle Lumber, recognizing decades of contributions to Rockland County. Beckerle Lumber was established in 1940 by Laurence Pete Beckerle, Sr, whose son and grandsons continue to manage the business today. This family-operated business has four locations in Rockland (Congers, Haverstraw, […]

  • Senator Reichlin-Melnick Delivers Funding for New Installations at Rockland’s Holocaust Museum

    ROCKLAND, NY – Senator Elijah Reichlin-Melnick recently visited the Rockland Holocaust Museum & Center for Tolerance and Education to present $75,000 in grant funds he secured for the organization. The grants which will be invested in artifact cases and an active electronic display about hate crimes to help educate museum visitors that anti-semitism and other bigotry […]

  • INCARCERATED GYMNASTICS COACH FROM HILLBURN ARRAIGNED ON NEW CHARGES

    Rockland County District Attorney Thomas E. Walsh II announced today that Joseph Lewin, 71, a well-known gymnastics coach throughout various gyms in Rockland County was arraigned before the Honorable Kevin F. Russo on one count of Course of Sexual Conduct Against a Child in the Second Degree (Class D felony). The charges allege that between […]

  • Attention Small Business Owners!

    Upcoming Webinars!  Register Today! New York State Small BusinessSeed Funding Grant Program Recently, Governor Kathy Hochul announced the creation of New York’s first-in-the-nation Seed Funding Grant Program that provides $200 million in flexible funding to support both early-stage and established small and micro-businesses recovering from the pandemic.  Applications for the Seed Funding Grant Program are […]

  • Free screening of ‘All the Lonely People’ October 28th in Garnerville

    The Rockland County Office for the Aging presents a free screening of All the Lonely People, a social-impact film examining the epidemic of loneliness. It will include a facilitated virtual Q&A with the film’s producers. The documentary places a human face on the hidden epidemic of chronic loneliness and social isolation. Built on hope, it shares the […]