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Nancy Cutler

Nancy CutlerNancy Cutler, editorial page editor in Rockland, has lived in the county for nearly 20 years. Cutler, 45, started her journalism career in California, where she was raised. She left for the East Coast to attend graduate school and never looked back (unless it snows more than a foot and temperatures dip below 28 degrees). Her career at The Journal News includes a stint on the copy desk in 1986, fresh out of Columbia’s J-School. She then returned in 1996 and worked for about nine years as assistant metro editor in Rockland. She is now Rockland’s editorial page editor. She resides in South Nyack with her spouse, two children and more pets than she cares to admit.

E-mail Nancy Cutler at ncutler@lohud.com

Entries written by Nancy Cutler

Leaf peeping season at hand

September
22

Feeling autumnal today? Yup, it’s now officially fall (so will we get a little Indian summer and

finally have that warm weather we missed most of the summer?!?!)

According to the ILoveNY.com foliage report, there’s plenty of leaf peeping to be had in the Adirondacks and Catskills. According to their map, Rockland is still solidly in the [...]

Posted by Nancy Cutler on September 22nd, 2009 | Post a Comment »

School food

September
17

In today’s editorial, Safe food 101, we looked at health code violations in school cafeterias.

John Stoughton, a senior public health sanitarian with the Rockland Health Department, has been in charge of regulating food safety compliance for 28 years. He says that for the most part, Rockland’s schools have a good track record.

Why? Stoughton believes there are [...]

Posted by Nancy Cutler on September 17th, 2009 | Post a Comment »

Rockland primaries are prime time

September
15

It’s primary day, and in certain communities in Rockland, that’s prime time. Places like Spring Valley (and pretty much Ramapo) and Nyack are likely to be decided today, with the Democratic primaries.

Here’s a take on some of the big races:

Nyack mayor: Three current village trustees — Denise Hogan, Richard Kavesh, Marie Lorenzini — and businesswoman [...]

Posted by Nancy Cutler on September 15th, 2009 | 2 Comments »

In NY, parity for PTSD treatment

September
11

The New York State Senate unanimously passed legislation to add Post Traumatic Stress Disorder to the list of diagnoses that would be covered under Timothy’s Law, which ensures insurance coverage parity for biologically based mental illnesses. State Sen. Thomas Morahan, R-New City, a longtime champion of Timothy’s Law, introduced the PTSD coverage.

The addition is timely, [...]

Posted by Nancy Cutler on September 11th, 2009 | Post a Comment »

Chicken slaughterhouse grant followup

September
9

A recent news story and editorial on a $1.63 million “Restore New York grant  for a new, state-of-the-art kosher poultry slaughterhouse in New Square has grabbed plenty of attention. Many have focused on the list of state officials who contacted Empire State Development (which manages Restore NY grants) about the New Square grant application. A [...]

Posted by Nancy Cutler on September 9th, 2009 | 1 Comment »

Well, finally

September
8

A couple years of bickering, and back-and-forth in court, and finally a settlement announced in August.

Now, we’ll see tomorrow, some action to fix the construction mess in front of the Tappan firehouse. It’s all over a disputed curb: The county put in a curb in front of the firehouse parking lot during a hamlet revitalization [...]

Posted by Nancy Cutler on September 8th, 2009 | Post a Comment »

Sneering over deer

September
2

It was a wild time at last night’s public hearing on a proposal to cull Rockland’s deer herd by allowing bow hunting in county parks. (See story here.) Voices were raised, snipes were met with sharp retorts, and that was just among speakers at the podium. There was plenty of cross-talk in the audience, which [...]

Posted by Nancy Cutler on September 2nd, 2009 | Post a Comment »

Protecting people with Alzheimer’s/dementia

August
31

Today’s editorial, explores Rockland legislators’ efforts to launch a Silver Alert program in the county that would help find people who have Alzheimer’s disease or another form of dementia if they go missing. (The Lower Hudson Valley, as Director of Putnam County’s Office for the Aging William Huestis describes it, a “gray belt,” with a [...]

Posted by Nancy Cutler on August 31st, 2009 | Post a Comment »

Should Ramapo be Preserved or Reserved?

August
27

Most people in Ramapo, and Rockland, have heard of Preserve Ramapo, an environmental activist group that has morphed into a ballot line, and has spoken out long and loud against the policies of Ramapo Town Supervisor Christopher P. St. Lawrence. Preserve Ramapo’s Web site defines the group as “The not so silent majority.” (Personally, I [...]

Posted by Nancy Cutler on August 27th, 2009 | 4 Comments »

Honoring Myra Dembrow

August
26

Today, amid a busy, crazy, newsy kind of day, I joined many of my colleagues to celebrate the life and mourn the passing of our former colleague and my neighbor, Myra Dembrow. Myra was just 58, so young, with an attitude of a fighter, a challenger-of-all-things, an intellectual giant, a devoted and wonderful mother and [...]

Posted by Nancy Cutler on August 26th, 2009 | 1 Comment »

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