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Rockland Legislator Takes Stand Against Funeral Protestors
NEW CITY, NY (WCBS 880) – Ed Day, a Rockland County legislator with two sons in the army, is pushing a bill that would set up buffers between those who want to protest military funerals and the...
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Rockland County Legislator Wants To Cap Sales Tax On Gas
NEW CITY, NY (WCBS 880 / AP) – With gas prices well over $4 a gallon, Rockland County legislator Ed Day says there is no way they can compete with New Jersey. WCBS 880’s Catherine Cioffi: Ed Day Says...
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Rockland County Legislator Wants Gas Tax Cap
NEW YORK (WCBS 880) – As the price of gasoline continues to rise across the Tri-State, a Rockland County legislator is trying to introduce a bill to cap the county’s sales tax. LISTEN: WCBS 880’s...
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Rockland County Passes Funeral Privacy Law
NEW CITY, NY (WCBS 880) – The Rockland County board of legislators has passed a funeral privacy law that will prohibit demonstration activities within 750 feet of all funerals at all locations, not...
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Rockland Legislator Ed Day Continues Push To Lower Gas Prices
NEW CITY, NY (WCBS 880) – Rockland County residents know the road to cheap gas leads down south to New Jersey. WCBS 880’s Sean Adams On The...
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Orange & Rockland: Most To Have Power By Midnight
NEW CITY, NY (WCBS 880) – New City homeowners Joe Bricks and Kirk Reilly were explaining the misery of living on generator power to WCBS 880 reporter Marla Diamond, when suddenly the power came back....
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Moody’s Downgrades Rockland County Credit Rating
NEW CITY, N.Y. (CBSNewYork) – Rockland County, already in a struggle with its finances, has just been hit again, WCBS 880 Sean Adams reported. WCBS 880’s Sean Adams On The Story...
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Republican Ed Day Elected Rockland County Executive
NEW CITY, N.Y. (CBSNewYork/AP) – County lawmaker Ed Day has been elected Rockland County executive. Day, a Republican, defeated Democrat David Fried for the seat, which had been held by C. Scott...
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No Toll Hikes Coming To Tappan Zee Bridge, Thruway In 2014
NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) – Drivers who take the Tappan Zee Bridge will not see a toll hike in 2014, the Thruway Authority announced. As WCBS 880’s Sean Adams reported, New York State Thruway Authority...
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Stories From Main Street: Vanderhoef Looks Back On 5 Terms As Rockland County...
NEW CITY, N.Y. (CBSNewYork) – For the first time in two decades, Rockland County has a new executive. WCBS 880’s Sean Adams sat down with C. Scott Vanderhoef, a Republican who was at the helm for five...
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NYC’s Northern Suburbs Take Brunt Of Storm
http://media.newyork.cbslocal.com/CBSNY_0502201417231106369AA.mp4 NEWBURGH, N.Y. (CBSNewYork/AP) — New York’s northern suburbs took the brunt of the storm Wednesday. Newburgh, in Orange County, had...
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Snowstorm Makes Mess Of Roads, Causes Power Woes In Westchester, Rockland
http://media.newyork.cbslocal.com/CBSNY_20140213184003337AA.mp4 WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. (CBSNewYork/AP) – New York City’s northern suburbs are again facing a major winter storm. The National Weather...
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Rockland Ad Campaign Hopes To Lure Businesses Into County
NEW CITY, N.Y. (CBSNewYork) — Rockland County is reaching across the border into New Jersey as part of its effort to lure businesses into the county. Rockland County is wrestling with a $145 million...
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Rockland County Residents Protest Planned Kosher Slaughterhouse
http://media.newyork.cbslocal.com/CBSNY_20140601193345753AA.mp4 NEW HEMPSTEAD, N.Y. (CBSNewYork) — Some Rockland County residents rallied Sunday against a planned kosher-poultry slaughterhouse....
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As 70th Anniversary Of D-Day Approaches, Camp Shanks Museum In Rockland...
NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) – An intricate, hand-carved chess set is on display at Camp Shanks Museum in Rockland County. The rare WWII artifact is part of the museum’s way of marking the 70th anniversary of...
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Boater Safety Crackdown Around Tappan Zee Bridge
PIERMONT, N.Y. (CBSNewYork/AP) — Authorities are increasing safety patrols around the Tappan Zee Bridge construction project. Boater safety is a major concern around the construction zone. “In the...
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Mystery Surrounds Tappan Zee Bridge Funding, Potential Toll Hike
http://media.newyork.cbslocal.com/CBSNY_20140918182249383AA.mp4 IRVINGTON, N.Y. (CBSNewYork) — The builders of the new Tappan Zee Bridge said Thursday that they are on schedule, and untroubled by a...
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Ramapo Voting Machines Locked Up After Reports Of Suspicious Campaign Phone...
http://media.newyork.cbslocal.com/CBSNY_20141002172208157AA.mp4 RAMAPO, N.Y. (CBSNewYork) — A judge has ordered voting machines in Ramapo to be impounded days after a contentious vote was held to...
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Proposal To Trim Rockland County Sheriff’s Patrol Deputies Comes Under Fire
http://media.newyork.cbslocal.com/CBSNY_20141107181945730AA.mp4 NEW CITY, N.Y. (CBSNewYork) — Police and their supporters have fired back against Rockland County Executive Ed Day’s proposal to trim 37...
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Conditions Go Downhill As Blizzard Swoops Into North Suburban Counties
http://media.newyork.cbslocal.com/CBSNY_2601201523341982471AA.mp4 YONKERS, N.Y. (CBSNewYork/AP) — The evening rush was orderly in Westchester County Monday, but conditions deteriorated in the...
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Westchester, Rockland Officials Defend Travel Ban
WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. (CBSNewYork) — The snow amounted to inches, not feet, in Westchester and Rockland counties. So was the travel ban overkill? No, officials said Tuesday. “For a storm of this...
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West Virginia Oil Train Derailment Sparks Fears Along Rail Lines In Bergen,...
BLAUVELT, N.Y. (CBSNewYork/AP) — The fiery derailment of a train carrying crude oil in West Virginia is one of three in the past year involving tank cars that already meet a higher safety standard than...
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Rockland County Executive Presses Albany For East Ramapo Schools Monitor
NEW CITY, N.Y. (CBSNewYork) — Rockland County’s executive spent Monday lobbying in Albany for a monitor in the East Ramapo Central School District. Executive Ed Day says the financially troubled school...
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NTSB Calls For Safety Upgrades To Oil Trains
NEW CITY, N.Y. (CBSNewYork/AP) – Fuel-hauling tank cars need safety upgrades to keep fires from spreading after train derailments, and the public can’t wait another decade for the improvements as the...
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Rockland County Looks To Crack Down On Illegally Divided Homes
NEW CITY, N.Y. (CBSNewYork) — Rockland County is going after slumlords who illegally divide homes. Rockland County Exeuctive Ed Day said local building-code enforcement has been unable to crack down on...
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Rockland County Urges Residents To Conserve Water
NEW CITY, N.Y. (CBSNewYork) — Rockland County Executive Ed Day is pleading with residents to conserve water voluntarily. As WCBS 880’s Sean Adams reported Thursday, Lake DeForest is at 80 percent and...
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Rockland County Executive Plans To Fight Oil Pipeline Proposal
NEW CITY, N.Y. (CBSNewYork) — Pilgrim Pipeline has applied in New York to build a subterranean dual conduit for crude oil and refined petroleum products between Albany and Linden, New Jersey. It would...
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Construction Crane Collapses Onto Tappan Zee Bridge; One Lane Seriously Damaged
TARRYTOWN, N.Y. (CBSNewYork) — Gov. Andrew Cuomo said it was miraculous that a catastrophe was averted when a giant construction crane collapsed Tuesday onto the Tappan Zee Bridge. All but one lane of...
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Westchester, Rockland Counties Preparing For Major Winter Storm
WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. (CBSNewYork) — Officials and residents in Westchester and Rockland counties are gearing up for Tuesday’s major winter storm that could bring more than a foot of snow in some areas....
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Rockland Homeowners Caught Renting Out Backyard Pools Could Face Steep Fines
POMONA, N.Y. (CBSNewYork) — Would you let strangers use your backyard pool? Some homeowners are doing it to make extra cash. They figure it’s like Air BnB, but for pools. The problem is, in many places...
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‘This Has To Happen:’ County Executive Calls For Bus Lanes On New Gov. Mario...
TARRYTOWN, N.Y. (CBSNewYork) – Those who take the Tappan Zee Express bus have several legs to their commute. “The car, to the bus, to the train,” one woman said. As WCBS 880’s Sean Adams reports,...
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Ed Day Aims To Bridge Divides In Second Term As Rockland County Executive
NEW CITY, N.Y. (CBSNewYork) – For Republicans, one bright spot on Election Night was in Rockland County, where County Executive Ed Day won a second term. Four years ago, Day inherited a fiscal mess....
View ArticleMeasles State Of Emergency Bans Unvaccinated Children From Public Spaces In...
NEW CITY, N.Y. (CBSNewYork) – A state of emergency is now in effect in Rockland County as officials attempt to contain a measles outbreak. A ban went into effect overnight prohibiting unvaccinated...
View ArticleRockland County Officials Searching For Solution To Ongoing Measles Outbreak
NEW CITY, N.Y. (CBSNewYork) — With more than 160 measles cases confirmed in Rockland County, officials met Monday to reassess their strategy. On Friday, a Supreme Court judge blocked an executive order...
View ArticleRockland County GOP Video Triggers Charges Of Anti-Semitic Bias
NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) – The Rockland County GOP has taken down a Facebook video some have labeled as anti-Semitic. The video posted Wednesday warned of a Hasidic Jewish “takeover” and featured news...
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Mother Says Son With Autism And His Father Were Kicked Off Bus After Boy...
NYACK, N.Y. (CBSNewYork) — A father and his son who has autism were kicked off a commuter bus, and now the Rockland County family wants more training for bus drivers. His birthday weekend may have...
View ArticleCoronavirus Update: Rockland County Asks Cuomo To Expand Order On Social...
ALBANY, N.Y. (CBSNewYork) – As COVID-19 infection rates climb in southern New York State, Gov. Andrew Cuomo was asked Saturday about setting up a tighter coronavirus containment zone around the hamlet...
View ArticleCoronavirus Update: Rockland County Executive Approves Of Cuomo’s Get-Tough...
SPRING VALLEY, N.Y. (CBSNewYork) — Gov. Andrew Cuomo says he wants local governments to crack down on social distancing and fine those who don’t obey the guidelines. Rockland County Executive Ed Day...
View ArticleCuomo Says He Will Withhold Funding From Local Governments That Don’t Enforce...
NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) — Frustrated by the lack of compliance in Red Zone COVID-19 clusters in Orthodox communities, Gov. Andrew Cuomo on Wednesday lowered the boom, threatening to penalize schools and...
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Clarkstown Voters To Decide Whether Palisades Mall Can Rent Out Unused Attic...
WEST NYACK, N.Y. (CBSNewYork) — Voters in one suburb are deciding an unusual referendum this election cycle. They’re voting on whether to allow a mall to rent out unused space in its attic. In March...
View ArticleRockland County Executive Ed Day: ‘Stay Home’ As Winter Storm Socks Area
NANUET, N.Y. (CBSNewYork) – In Rockland County, officials say they’re prepared for the major storm hitting our area. As CBS2’s Dave Carlin reports, trucks with plow blades are rolling, ready to scrape....
View ArticleMayor Bill De Blasio Warns New York City’s COVID Vaccine Supply Could Run Out...
NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) — As demand mounts for the COVID vaccine, Mayor Bill de Blasio warns the supply could run out next week. Meanwhile, the elderly and front line workers have to scavenge to find a...
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‘Remember The Faces Behind The Numbers’: Jersey City Residents Mourn Lives...
JERSEY CITY, N.J. (CBSNewYork) — Communities across America are together mourning the loss of more than 400,000 people, the staggering new total of U.S. deaths from COVID-19. With all the headlines and...
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