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Monday Jul 6 | Journal News

Tappan scholar given high Japanese honor

TAPPAN - A scholar, educator and activist, Setsuko Matsunaga Nishi has been in the front line of promoting civil rights and conducting sociological studies on racial relationships.

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Sat Jul 04, 2009

The Patent Trader

Nyack professor uncovers history of ex-slave's success

When she died in 1879, Cynthia Hesdra - a black ex-slave - was worth an estimated $2 million in today's dollars, making her one of the wealthiest people in Rockland at the time.

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Thu Jul 02, 2009

Journal News

Briefs in Rockland County

RAMAPO: The New Square Community Improvement Council was awarded a $58,100 Early Head Start Expansion grant from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

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Tue Jun 30, 2009

Journal News

Seeing the broader picture in S. Orangetown school siege

As the parent of a fifth-grader in South Orangetown, Dr. Kenneth Mitchell became one of my heroes from the day he started work.

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Sun Jun 28, 2009

Journal News

Board weighs 4-year terms for town officials

ORANGEBURG - The Orangetown Town Board will weigh the merits of stability and accountability as it reopens a debate on doubling term lengths for three elected positions.

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Fri Jun 26, 2009

Journal News

Tappan Zee High 'class clown' gets last laugh at graduation

ORANGEBURG - Daniel Lynn is not your typical valedictorian. The Columbia University-bound student was one of around 250 who graduated from Tappan Zee High School yesterday evening, and he confessed he might not have been the most well-behaved student in his class.

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Tue Jun 23, 2009

Journal News

Educator honored for disarming gunman

ORANGEBURG - While praise for Ken Mitchell has reached as far as the U.S. Senate, last night at Orangetown Town Hall the local community had its chance to recognize him and the Orangetown police for their heroic work.

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Mon Jun 22, 2009

Times Union

Around Ny

The former New York City policeman who stormed into a suburban middle school with a gun had to sort through body parts after 9/11 and suffers from post-traumatic stress, his attorney said Tuesday.

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Sat Jun 20, 2009

Journal News

Big changes expected in Orangetown

Orangetown, the southernmost town in Rockland, is made up of the river villages Nyack, South Nyack, Piermont and Grand View, as well as a cluster of hamlets.

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Thu Jun 18, 2009

Journal News

Flea market at Tappan Reformed Church

TAPPAN: The Tappan Reformed Church will hold a Giant Flea Market and Antique Sale, rain or shine, from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. June 27 at 32 Old Tappan Road.

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Wed Jun 17, 2009

Journal News

Accused S. Orangetown school gunman pleads not guilty; lawyer claims he suffers from PTSD

NEW CITY - A former New York City police officer accused of holding a schools superintendent at gunpoint last week because he was angry about a swine flu letter pleaded not guilty this morning to a list of felony charges against him.

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Tue Jun 16, 2009

Las Vegas Sun

9/11 stress cited in ex-cop's NY school melee case

Tue, Jun 16, 2009 The former New York City policeman who stormed into a suburban middle school with a gun had to sort through body parts after 9/11 and suffers from post-traumatic stress, his attorney said Tuesday.

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Mon Jun 15, 2009

Journal News

No panic-demic, please

New York is among the 10 states where H1N1 'swine flu' infection is now considered widespread.

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Sat Jun 13, 2009

KXMA-TV Dickinson

Excop in NY school fight charged with kidnapping

Ex-cop in NY school fight charged with kidnapping Eds: APNewsNow. NEW CITY, N.Y. A former New York City policeman who is accused of confronting a suburban school official at gunpoint has been indicted on a kidnapping charge.

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Fri Jun 12, 2009

Journal News

Cocker known in Rockland for community involvement

On paper, Peter Cocker seemed to have little in common with the man police say aimed a gun at the South Orangetown schools superintendent yesterday, threatening to blast him in the heart.

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Thu Jun 11, 2009

Post-Standard

'Hero' superintendent in Downstate New York school scare embarrassed by attention

The unassuming suburban New York school superintendent who tackled and disarmed a gunman in a middle school said Wednesday that the confrontation amounted to "an unfortunate distraction." South Orangetown Central School District Superintendent Ken Mitchell also said he was embarrassed by parents, police and politicians calling him a hero after his ...

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Tue Jun 09, 2009

KansasCity.com

NY school official wrestles gun from armed man

Police in suburban New York say an armed man who was wrestled to the ground by a superintendent at a middle school is a former police officer and parent of a student.Police say a letter from the district about swine flu may have played into Tuesday's incident at the Blauvelt school.

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Mon Jun 08, 2009

Journal News

Rockland briefing

This year's guest speaker will be the Rev. Donald Hoover of the Tappan Dutch Reformed Church.

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Sat Jun 06, 2009

Journal News

Vets recall invasion, start of WWII's end

Frank Fortuna, a Navy coxswain, remembers that the English Channel was very rough during the trip over and that many of the 100 British infantrymen on his landing craft got seasick.

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Fri Jun 05, 2009

Journal News

New supermarket proposed for Orangeburg

ORANGEBURG - In recent memory, residents around Orangetown's river villages and several hamlets have had no nearby supermarket and have needed to travel to New Jersey or Clarkstown for their produce.

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