Q&A With Pfizer: Progress On Vaccine, Next Steps, Covid-19 Challenges
Taking A Deep Dive With Dr. Phil Dormitzer, Vice President and Chief Scientific Officer for Viral Vaccines at Pfizer
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Category: Latest News
What’s Happening Now In Rockland County.
NLRB Modifies Standards for Protected Offensive Outbursts and Behavior
Last week, the National Labor Relations Board (the “NLRB”) modified the standard it uses for determining if an employee has been lawfully disciplined after making abusive or offensive statements in the course of a union activity.
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Grace Baptist Church Should Be Razed And Sold For Development
Discussions have begun between community members and Clarkstown over what to do with the church and the 2.32-acre property situated along Demarest Avenue.
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Palisades Mall Files Tax Challenge In Supreme Court
Eklecco NewCo LLC, the company that owns the Palisades Center in West Nyack on Friday filed a petition for a tax certiorari in Rockland County’s Supreme Court.
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Immunity Shield On Govt. Relief Bill Up In Air But Businesses Should Prepare
businesses and places of employment should take the time to understand what safety measures they need to keep employees and customers safe, and more importantly, the legally defined difference between negligence and gross negligence.
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Gov. Says Day Camps Can Open For Summer 2020
New York State’s day camps can open for the summer season beginning June 29th – but the state has yet to issue guidelines in response to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic.
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Monument Maker Tackles New World Brought On By COVID-19
Counterintuitively, at a time when COVID-19 has claimed more than 500 lives in Rockland, and 20,000 across New York State, Nyack-based Hudson Valley Monuments has seen a 70 percent drop in business from mid-March to early June despite the spike in deaths.
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Malls Could Reopen Mid-June But How Much Collateral Damage Has Lockdown, Previous Weaknesses Caused?
The Palisades Center did not make April or May mortgage payments and an insider familiar with The Pyramid Group says a June payment is “not likely,” because stores are not on track to open until mid-month.
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The Show Must Go On: Rivertown Film Streams Online
Meanwhile, curators of film festivals and organizations like Nyack-based Rivertown Film Society, are scrambling to adapt to the social-distancing world by bringing their offerings online, or postponing festivals.
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Spreading Love On The Lawn: Yardgrams Make Celebrating More Fun During A Pandemic
What has been a bust for party planners, event spaces and tent rentals has inadvertently become a boom for CB Yardgrams, a small business run by two West Nyack entrepreneurs who had no idea a pandemic would lurch their company meteorically over the course of two months.
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