About Rockland Review News

County government does not announce itself. It happens on a Tuesday evening in a room holding fourteen people, and by the time a tax bill lands the decision is eighteen months old. Rockland Review News sits in those rooms. Coverage runs across the five towns and the villages inside them, from Stony Point down to Piermont, taking in Clarkstown budgets, Ramapo zoning, Spring Valley code enforcement and the school districts that spend most of the money.

This paper is built on profiles and on attendance. Reporters go to the meeting, read the packet beforehand, and write about the households affected by whatever passed. A story about a sewer assessment begins with the family paying it. Press releases are not published as articles, endorsements are not for sale, and when the paper gets something wrong the correction runs where the error ran. Sources are quoted accurately, including the ones who wish they had said less.

Community reports on schools, volunteer fire companies, libraries, congregations and the neighbors who show up. Government covers town boards, the county legislature, planning and zoning, budgets and the votes behind them. Business profiles storefronts along Route 59, Main Street in Nyack and the industrial parks between them. Events covers fairs, concerts, fundraisers and high school sports. Calendar keeps the running list of public meetings, deadlines and registrations. Rockland News carries the daily file, and Business News follows the developments, closures and employers shaping the county tax base.

Rockland Review News is owned and published by VUGA Media Group, a title of the VUGA Enterprises Network.