Orangeburg News

PALISADES - Raja R. Amar started out with a single cellular phone and accessories retail store in Westchester.

ORANGEBURG - During the late 1950s and early 1960s, hundreds of young families left the Bronx and other parts of New York City to make their way to what they hoped would be a better life in Rockland.

Orangetown recently paid $72,500 to the state to settle 43 violations at its wastewater-treatment plant.

ORANGEBURG: Eight experts will address issues related to women and alcohol and other substance abuse during a roundtable program at 11 a.m. Monday in the auditorium at the Nathan Kline Institute in Orangeburg.

ORANGEBURG: Linda Rosen was named the new director of counseling programs at the Rockland Graduate Campus of Long Island University in Orangeburg.

ORANGEBURG: Tappan Zee High School in Orangeburg had 16 seniors named in the 2010 National Merit Scholarship Program.

ORANGEBURG - Residents would see a 4.5 percent tax increase under the 2010 proposed budget.

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CLARKSTOWN: The district had 11 students who were named National Merit Semifinalists in the 2010 National Merit Scholarship Competition.

CLARKSTOWN: Kyle O'Hara, a student at Felix Festa Middle School in West Nyack, has been accepted into the People to People World Leadership Forum.

DWI charge: Summin Kim, 27, of Suffern was indicted Wednesday on a charge of felony driving while intoxicated.

ORANGEBURG - A resolution for affordable housing before the Town Board on Monday night was defeated after a charged and political debate that brought out hundred of residents who were seated all the way back in the Town Hall vestibule or standing in the aisles.

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PEARL RIVER - This should have been a week of celebration as youngsters headed back to classes and a group of boys who had been friends for years started their last year at Pearl River Middle School.

The following communities will commemorate Sept. 11 with the following events. All are memorial ceremonies unless otherwise noted.

College names vice president of finance - Mount Saint Mary College announced the appointment of Cathleen Kenny as vice president for finance and administration and treasurer.

More than a dozen people spread out across the hamlet yesterday afternoon to staple as many as 2,000 nearly 2-foot high silver-blue ribbon loops on trees and poles in memory of a 12-year-old boy who drowned in North Carolina.

Family of drowned Pearl River boy to return from N.C. By Randi Weiner * rcweiner@lohud.com * September 3, 2009 Friends of a 12-year-old boy who drowned while on vacation in North Carolina plan to tie light blue ribbons around trees and posts in Pearl River today in anticipation of the family's return to Rockland.

Bob Shields of Tappan, who earned Bronze Stars for valor, Purple Hearts and other decorations for his actions in World War II, never returned to Normandy after taking part in the D-Day invasion because, he says, 'All my men are on those crosses.' In fact, over the years, he's given away all his medals, saying that now, 'all I want to do is live in ...

New Leaf Brands, a wholly owned subsidiary of Baywood International, has announced that 7-Eleven is now carrying New Leaf tea in 280 stores in the metro New York area including approximately 180 stores in Long Island and 100 stores across Brooklyn, Bronx, Suffern and Queens.