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One of four federally funded health clinics in Rockland has been awarded a state grant to help double its space as the number of patients using its services continues to grow.

Re a proposed kosher chicken slaughterhouse proposed for New Square: We have the opportunity to critique and stop a factory slaughterhouse before it happens.

Evelyn Moses's family has owned the unincorporated plot of land on which she lives, an hour drive north of New York City, for decades.

New Square needs to stop dragging its heels on holding a public hearing on controversial plans to site a kosher chicken processing plant in town.

Our schizophrenic voters did it again Tuesday, re-electing a Republican county executive in a county where the enrollment might look to make that unlikely.

Ramapo Town Supervisor Christopher St. Lawrence may have chafed in 2007, when a Republican candidate backed by Preserve Ramapo ran against him.

SEPT. 11 TRIALS - After a visit from members of eight families who lost loved ones on Sept.

Jeff Weinstein spent his Sunday afternoon marching on Route 45 to express his opposition to a kosher chicken processing plant in New Square.

Concern verging on fear over the Monsey area bloc vote has ventured beyond Ramapo's boundaries.

Kudos, Irene Widman for your truthful and bold statements in Friday's letter, 'Look at Rockland; it's time for a change.' I see that I am not alone in my feelings, on these same issue's presented in your letter.

A public hearing on large poultry slaughterhouse set for Nov. 10 was canceled today with no new date announced.

I question the venue for an upcoming public hearing on a proposed chicken processing plant in New Square, to be held in at Gruss Girls' School in the village on Nov.

During the Tuesday night meeting of our county Legislature, many Rockland citizens used the open comment period to express their deep concerns regarding the proposed building of a chicken processing plant on property within the Village of New Square.

Re Robert Rhodes' Sunday Community View, 'Leaders must stand up to New Square slaughterhouse plan': We need more elected officials in Rockland County with the courage to step forward, look the New Square bloc vote in the face on this issue and just say 'no.' I have introduced a resolution into the county Legislature calling on New York state to ...

NEW HEMPSTEAD - More than 100 people from all over Rockland attended a rally today to show their opposition to plans by the village of New Square to build a chicken slaughterhouse on a vacant piece of land on Route 45.

NEW HEMPSTEAD - A widening group of people furious about a plan to build a chicken slaughterhouse using tax dollars across the street from a residential neighborhood plan to hold a rally Saturday to express their opposition.

A Ramapo grass-roots political party has filed a complaint with the state Attorney General's Office accusing the Rockland District Attorney's Office of failing to investigate nearly 4-year-old accusations of election law violations in New Square.

Rockland County Executive C. Scott Vanderhoef and his Democratic challenger, Orangetown Supervisor Thom Kleiner, debated a range of environmental issues Thursday night.

Creating a legitimate, trained "fire brigade" for New Square makes plenty of sense - for the safety of the residents of the Hasidic enclave and the highly trained volunteer firefighters who protect them.

A group of residents angry at the prospect of a large slaughterhouse near their neighborhood met Monday night to discuss ways to stall the facility, which they say was planned without their input and which was promised $1.6 million in state funding.