Jeff Lewis

The town of Clarkstown will be moving next month to strengthen its local laws to ban short-term rentals following a shooting incident at a New City home earlier this month. Supervisor George Hoehmann says the laws that were already in place are not restrictive enough…

Stony Point supervisor Jim Monaghan says after some rowdy incidents in his area, the town decided to ban all rentals less than 30 days…

For Rockland Sheriff Lou Falco, the issue is the guns and keeping them from falling into the wrong hands…

The owner of the home in New City where the shooting took place, who just bought the home in December, is due back in court February 22nd. The Clarkstown town board will hold a public hearing on a proposed ban on short-term rentals on March 8th at 7 pm.

The number of COVID deaths in Rockland is up while hospitalizations and total cases are both down, based on yesterday’s update by the county health department. We’ve got 1,146 fatalities due to COVID, that’s up 11 since Monday. We’ve got 19 hospitalized with coronavirus, that’s down 5, and the total number of active cases is at 871, down 280.

When she was told of the racial incident at last week’s Pearl River High School basketball game against Nyack High School, Orangetown’s supervisor got very angry. Teresa Kenny, whose kids went to Pearl River High, says more adults need to be in the room…

Video posted online showed a Black Nyack student being taunted with monkey sounds as he was attempting free-throws. The Nyack School District called it “racist and reprehensible behavior” and Pearl River’s Superintendent of Schools Dr. Marco Pochintesta said he was outraged by the student spectators’ actions and “the harm they have caused.” Pearl River has been under the microscope lately following allegations of anti-LGBTQ incidents over the past year.

Four Rockland Veterans were honored yesterday with the 2021 and 2022 Buffalo Soldiers Awards. In a presentation at RCC, Rockland County Executive Ed Day and Veterans Service Agency Director Susan Branam presented the 2021 awards to Army veteran Walter Khan who served as a combat medic and telephone technician in Vietnam and Navy Air Reserve veteran Eugene Fields, who served in 1963 for eight years, retiring with the rank of First-Class Petty Officer. The 2022 Buffalo Soldiers Awards were given to Navy veteran Nathaniel Harvey Jr., who was just 19 in 1989, when he was aboard the USS Iowa when an explosion killed 47 of his shipmates. Also honored was Army veteran Dr. Abigaile Taylor, a Human Resources Clerk who also managed the Yellow Ribbon Program for the 99th Regional Support Command from 2010-2013, ensuring more than 5,000 soldiers and their families got training, education, and employment opportunities. “Buffalo Soldier” was the nickname given to members of African-American U.S. cavalry regiments serving in the west in the late 1800s.