A Jersey City man is expected to spend a year-and-a-half in state prison after pleading guilty to sexually abusing an underage employee he supervised. Rockland D.A. Tom Walsh says 37 year-old Jonathan Valencia admitted to one count of rape in the third degree stemming from an incident two years ago at a Jersey Mike’s Sub store. The case was investigated by the Clarkstown Police and the D.A.’s Special Victims Unit. Valencia is scheduled for sentencing in February. Valencia and a partner opened Jersey Mike’s in Nanuet in February 2018.
Rockland’s COVID Death Toll Ticks Up, Hospitalization and Current Cases Trend Down
COVID has taken another Rockland life since last week. The total now stands at 993. We’ve got 15 hospitalized with coronavirus and 655 active cases. Those last two numbers have been creeping slowly downward over the last few weeks.
Haverstraw to Honor Police with Law Enforcement Awards Ceremony Tonight
The town of Haverstraw is honoring their police department at a special Law Enforcement Awards ceremony at tonight’s town board meeting. Haverstraw supervisor Howard Phillips says disagreements over contractual issues aside, the town has a great group of cops who often go beyond the call of duty…
The ceremony is being held at town hall during tonight’s town board meeting at 7pm.
Stony Point Supervisor Concerned Town Will Get Anti-Development Reputation Following Tuesday’s Letchworth Project Rejection
While mathematically, absentee and mailed-in ballots could change the outcome of Tuesday’s defeat of Stony Point’s deal to sell the golf course and 26 acres of Letchworth Village to a local developer, the supervisor isn’t counting on that to happen. Jim Monaghan backed the plan and he won re-election easily, but the plan unofficially went down in defeat, dealing the town a blow in its goal to unload the Patriot Hills golf course and have the buildings at Letchworth remediated. Monaghan is concerned people will start to think Stony Point is anti-development…
George Potanovic is the President of SPACE, the Stony Point Action Committee for the Environment, and has accused the town board of making a deal in secret without allowing it to be held up to public scrutiny…
Monaghan denies Potanovic’s accusations and says concerns over multi-family housing were unfounded and would not have happened.
Haverstraw Continues Search for Letchworth Development Opportunities
The town of Haverstraw meanwhile is still trying to find the right developer for its portion of Letchworth Village, preferably something that offers mixed-use. Supervisor Howard Phillips says different developers have come to them with various ideas…
Haverstraw’s been trying for years to sell their 173-acre piece of the former Letchworth Village Developmental Center, which the state closed in 1996.