Along with the new year comes New Year’s resolutions and hopes for the upcoming year. And while there are certainly a few popular ones (lose weight, go to the gym more, etc.), there are plenty of other things people are hoping to accomplish and see in 2012.

Jennifer Baca, of Pearl River, said she wants to go walking around more in the new year. She wants to do that because recently she welcomed a new member into her family: Tessa, a part-yorkie part-havanese puppy she got a few weeks ago.

“I think we’ll walk through town a bit, maybe go to the park,” Baca said. “It’s a healthy lifestyle thing to do, plus it should be fun.”

Danny Gormley, of New City, said he quit smoking about six or seven years ago, but has since chewed Nicorette gum, which he hopes to stop as well in the new year.

“I don’t think it’ll happen January 1,” he said. “But I’ll work on it and hopefully I can stop chewing this damn Nicorette gum.”

Beth Wnorowski, of Nyack, said she wants to be more organized and Maria Kcira, who owns Fine Line Cleaners in New City, said hopes all the businesses see more business in the new more, but mostly she is hoping for health for everyone.

“With health, if it goes, you cannot get it back,” she said.

Rockland County Legislator Ed Day also said he’s hoping for health, as well as a more peaceful world, as his two sons are in the military.

“To a military family, peace in the world is an extremely important thing,” he said.

For the community, Day said he would like to see calmer times and better times, especially in the area of finance.

Legislator John Murphy said his resolution is to “protect the gains of the past forty years for people who are hopelessly compromised or damaged, physically or mentally.”

Murphy added he would like to redesign how county government works, as well as visit his children and grandchildren more often.

Clarkstown Town Clerk Justin Sweet said he wanted to “remind myself that everyday is a gift. Appreciate everyday and how fortunate I am for all the great things I have in my life."

Nyack Mayor Richard Kavesh said he would need a little while to think about his resolution.

“You have to really think about what’s important to you,” he said.

After thinking about it, Kavesh said what’s most important to him is the other people in his life. That’s why Kavesh said that in 2012, “I’d like to be a better son to my parents, a better brother to my siblings, a better friend to my friends and a better teacher to my students.”