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Ramapo High Key Club Members Smash Car To Benefit Breast Cancer Research Ramapo High Key Club Members Smash Car To Benefit Breast Cancer Research
Ramapo High Key Club Members Smash Car To Benefit Breast Cancer Research RAMAPO, N.Y. --  Ramapo High School Key Club members and students recently had a chance to take out their frustrations while having fun during the club's Car Smash fundraiser to help raise funds for breast cancer research. During the event, Key Club members, led by math teacher and Key Club adviser Donnette Wilson-McLaughlin, painted a car pink and wrote slogans on it. Then students paid a dollar for two swings on the car with a hammer. More than 120 students came out to participate, most wearing pink, to help the club raise more than $500. The Key Club is a student-led program whose goal …

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Schools
Car Smash Fundraiser A Big Hit In Ramapo Car Smash Fundraiser A Big Hit In Ramapo
Car Smash Fundraiser A Big Hit In Ramapo RAMAPO, N.Y. -- Ramapo High School Key Club members and students recently had a chance to take out their frustrations while having fun during the club's Car Smash fundraiser to help raise funds for breast cancer research.During the event, Key Club members, led by math teacher and Key Club advisor Donnette Wilson-McLaughlin, painted a car pink, and wrote slogans on it. Then students paid a dollar for two swings on the car with a hammer.  More than 120 students came out to participate, most wearing pink, to help the club raise more than $500.  The Key Club is a student-led program whose goal…

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Events
Ramapo Organization Won't Let White Cane Prevent People From Achieving Ramapo Organization Won't Let White Cane Prevent People From Achieving
Ramapo Organization Won't Let White Cane Prevent People From Achieving ROCKLAND COUNTY, N.Y. -- When most people see a person with a white cane it usually doesn't dawn on them they are visually impaired or blind.That's why the Association for the Visually Impaired will celebrate White Cane Awareness Day on Tuesday, Oct. 18, from 1:30 to 3 p.m. at the Helen Hayes Hospital Noyes Conference Center, in West Haverstraw.  The event will feature Jeremiah Taylor, founder and chief executive officer, of ProActive Sales Inc., who lost his sight in April 2000.  Although totally blind, Taylor used his outgoing personality and drive to motivate himself to continue his succ…

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Police & Fire
Rockland Sheriff: Man Stopped For Erratic Driving On Route 59 Was Drunk Rockland Sheriff: Man Stopped For Erratic Driving On Route 59 Was Drunk
Rockland Sheriff: Man Stopped For Erratic Driving On Route 59 Was Drunk  A Yonkers man was arrested by Rockland County Sheriff's deputies following a traffic stop on Route 59, acccording to Sheriff Louis Falco. Justin Thomas, 27, was stopped after a deputy saw him driving in an erratic manner. During the stop, deputies determined he was intoxicated and in possession of marijuana, police said. Thomas was processed at the Sheriff's headquarters in New City and released on a summons to appear in the Clarkstown Justice Court.

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Neighbors
Suffern's Grace VanderWaal Records New Album Suffern's Grace VanderWaal Records New Album
Suffern's Grace VanderWaal Records New Album SUFFERN, N.Y. -- Fans of the delightful and always smiling Grace VanderWaal fans will be happy to know the young Suffern singer is in the studio recording her first album, according to lohud.com. The 12-year-old was so thrilled she tweeted to fans: "I am sooooooo excited about what this is sounding like @SimonCowell can't wait for you to hear it."  The "America's Got Talent" winner looks and acts like a professional, according to some helping out on the new album. Autumn Rowe, a singer and vocal coach on "Americas Got Talent," posted on Twitter that "it h…

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Obituaries
Yonkers Firefighter, 53, Dies From 9/11-Related Disease Yonkers Firefighter, 53, Dies From 9/11-Related Disease
Yonkers Firefighter, 53, Dies From 9/11-Related Disease Lt. John Mario Rodriguez, “J-Rod," 53, of the Yonkers Fire Department died Wednesday, Oct. 19 from a 9/11-related disease. Rodriguez, a Yonkers resident who was born in Cuba, is survived by his wife, Jo-Ann Finning Rodriguez, and two sons, John and James Rodriguez.  Rodriguez was a member of the YFD for 16 years, most recently he served as lieutenant with Ladder 71 in Yonkers. According to his obituary, he loved golfing and also worked as a licensed plumber with Performance Plumbing and Heating. Rodriguez is also survived by his mother Hilda Rodriguez Nardizzi; three sisters, Hilda K…

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News
College President's Resignation Amid Probe Tops Westchester News College President's Resignation Amid Probe Tops Westchester News
College President's Resignation Amid Probe Tops Westchester News WESTCHESTER COUNTY, N.Y. -- The following offer a look at the top stories of the week in Westchester County.  The College of New Rochelle President Judith Huntington abruptly resigned over the weekend as the school investigates “significant unmet financial obligations.” Indy, the North Salem wallaby that's been missing for more than two years, has been spotted back in town. So you just saw "The Girl on the Train" and now you want to do your own voyeurism from the train? You're in luck, since the movie is set and was filmed in Westchester.  Attorneys at a White Plains law firm have…

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Outburst At School Board Meeting Tops Northern Westchester News Outburst At School Board Meeting Tops Northern Westchester News
Outburst At School Board Meeting Tops Northern Westchester News NORTHERN WESTCHESTER COUNTY, N.Y. -- The following offers a look at the top stories of the week in Northern Westchester. The Chappaqua school board temporarily stopped its meeting on Tuesday night after a local critic repeatedly interrupted a board member's remarks. Indy, the North Salem wallaby that's been missing for more than two years, has been spotted back in town. So you just saw "The Girl on the Train" and now you want to do your own voyeurism from the train? You're in luck, since the movie is set and was filmed in Westchester. Jack Bakmezian, a 24-year-old Cortlandt Manor …

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Armed Robbery Suspect's Arrest Tops Week's News In Putnam Armed Robbery Suspect's Arrest Tops Week's News In Putnam
Armed Robbery Suspect's Arrest Tops Week's News In Putnam PUTMAN COUNTY, N.Y. -- Here' s a look at the week's top stories for Putnam County. John E. Caputo, 47, of Wingdale in Dutchess County was charged with the armed robbery of the Subway in Patterson on Tuesday, according to Putnam County Sheriff Donald B. Smith. Shortly after a head-on collision on Route 6 near the Mahopac Library, emergency responders rushed to the scene of a rollover crash nearby on East Lake Boulevard that resulted in one injury and damage to a utility pole late Sunday morning, authorities said. The New York State Police recently welcomed 226 new members, including a large …

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Metro-North Crashes Cost Railroad $55 Million In Legal Claims, Report Says Metro-North Crashes Cost Railroad $55 Million In Legal Claims, Report Says
Metro-North Crashes Cost Railroad $55 Million In Legal Claims, Report Says A series of Metro-North accidents that has the company refocusing on safety efforts, has cost the railroad almost $55 million in legal claims over the past few years, according to The Journal News/lohud.com The staggering figure includes settlements from five accidents that injured dozens of commuters and cost the lives of 12 people, according to the report. Since 2013, the largest payout of $31.9 million has gone to settle claims of injured passengers involved in the Hudson Line train that derailed near Spuyten-Duyvil in Dec. 2013 when the engineer fell asleep, according to the story. Four…

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