Moody’s Says Rockland’s Ratings On Solid Ground
Moody’s Investors Service assigned Rockland’s Tax Anticipation Notes (TANs) a MIG 1 rating, the highest short-term rating assigned by Moody’s to Notes.
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Rockland Outranks Neighboring Counties in 1st Quarter Home Sales
Rockland County’s first quarter home sales stood in sharp contrast to the rest of the Hudson Valley with a 7.1% increase in overall sales, while Westchester, Putnam and Sullivan counties posted sales volume decline.
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Bed, Bath, & Beyond The Hey Day Of Home Furnishings Retail
Chain Set To Close 40 Locations Just like other struggling big box retailers, Bed Bath & Beyond is shuttering stores and experimenting with new concepts to prevent its demise. The housewares retailers plans to close 40 locations this year and test “lab” stores that sell more home décor and food products. RCBJ recently reported similar […]
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Flewber Takes Ride-Sharing To The Skies
Flewber is a ride-sharing air taxi service set to launch from White Plains and Farmingdale airports prior to Memorial Day.
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Will Barnes & Noble Hold On? That’s A Tough Read
New Prototype Store Opening But Nothing Planned Yet For Rockland County Do we need an “endangered list” for retailers? Although Barnes & Noble has managed to hang on as the country’s largest remaining book retailer, Amazon’s domination of the book market has been detrimental to the chain’s profits for years. Aside from 10 new prototype […]
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Joe D’Urso Puts Local Music Festival On Map With Big-Time Talent
Rockland-Bergen Music Festival started as a birthday indulgence in 2014, but has has built up into a one-of-a-kind event for the region that is scaling up into an impressive enterprise.
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Clarkstown Is Business Friendly, But At What Cost?
Monday night, in a 4-2 vote, the same board shocked the resident-packed room when it granted variances to Vitane Pharmaceuticals Inc. for its expansion.
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Nyack Students Out Front On Plastic Bag Ban
In addition to spring vegetables and baked goods at Nyack’s Farmer Market on Thursdays, keep an eye out for a group of student activists promoting an idea that’s fully ripened: reusable shopping bags.
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Growing Steelhead Trout On A Farm In Hudson Valley
It’s an all-American, idyllic image but the fish you’ll be eating has in fact been grown on 120 acres in a 160,000-square-foot indoor aquaculture facility on a land-locked farm in Hudson New York where steelhead trout is produced.
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Work With An Expert Guide On Your Social Media Campaigns
You don’t need to rack up millions of followers or spend thousands of dollars in paid advertising for social media to work. But you may need a guiding hand because even though social media seems to be something everyone knows how to do, it isn’t!
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