Category: Podcast

Available now on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Riverside, and live on WRCR radio at 4:30 pm Fridays.

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Available now on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Riverside, and live on WRCR radio at 4:30 pm Fridays.

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This week’s sponsor:

Work Smart NY – ⁠www.worksmartNY.com⁠

The premier business conference for Rockland returns for it’s 2024 installment at Nyack Seaport, Thursday September 26th.

Featuring keynote speaker Patricia Stark, as well as three other seasoned business professionals that will show you how to take your business to the next level in 2025.

Visit ⁠⁠www.worksmartNY.com⁠⁠ to learn more and purchase tickets.

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On this week’s episode:

1. Andrea Cacurro talks about last week’s 10th annual Haverstraw Eats & Beats Food Crawl, which was attended by 8500 people.
2. CHPE opens a new community office in Haverstraw
3. Hope Wade from Pomona wins Presidential Lifetime Achievement Award
4. Mike Dolce drops in to talk about following your career and life goals, even in your 40’s

Plus, we’ll look at our newest service for Rockland News subscribers, ⁠RocklandEvents.com.⁠ Find out what’s happening this weekend!

And in our weekly segment “No Names” – I take a huge risk…and begin talking about *migration patterns* in Rockland County. Yep. I said it. And there will be more in future episodes. (No names…of course.)

Finally…I tell a joke. It’s not good. But I told a joke.

Thanks for joining us on this extended episode of the Rockland News Week in Review.

This episode is sponsored by ⁠Work Smart NY⁠. This half day business conference will be held at the Nyack Seaport on Thursday, Sept 26th, from 8:30 am to 12 noon.

Refresh your motivation for taking your interests to the next level, by learning from four renowned industry experts of Rockland County.

Featuring this year’s keynote speaker, ⁠Patricia Stark⁠.

Arrive by 8:30 am for a full breakfast, and then comfortably settle in to learn from our Work Smart NY speakers – all who happen to be business book authors – and show you through storytelling how to take your business to the next level. Plus, speed networking between each presenter. You can’t sit at the same table twice! Honor system!

Learn from the worlds of Media, Real Estate, Marketing and IT in this enjoyable half day event! Get a 360 perspective of how to grow your interests in 2025.

Learn more at ⁠www.WorkSmartNY.com⁠ – the time is now!

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THIS WEEK’S EPISODE:

This week we are pleased to announce the beta launch of our new property, ⁠Rockland Events⁠.

This is in addition to our ⁠Rockland News⁠ platform, and our ⁠Rockland Shopping⁠ project (We’ll get to that around Small Business Saturday time.

(Having an in-house web team at ⁠Rockland Web Design⁠ really is helpful. Thanks, team!)

Anyway, think of ⁠Rockland News⁠ as what’s recently happened. But Rockland Events will be for ‘what’s happening‘.

Some of the events we discuss on today’s episode:

• Sept 14: West Haverstraw Food Truck Festival
• Sept 14: Rockland Boulders Food Truck Festival
• Sept 14: Garner Arts Brick Alley Block Party
• Sept 15: Haverstraw Eats & Beats Festival
• Sept 17: Rockland Tourism Workshop in Nyack
• Sept 20: Open House/Champagne Dance Party
• Sept 26: Work Smart NY Business Summit, Nyack
• Oct 10: Rockland Chamber Alliance Soiree

To learn more about our new platform, visit ⁠Rockland Events⁠. And thank you for tuning into the podcast today, also available on WRCR.com at around 4:20 on Fridays.