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A house fire in Clarkstown last night temporarily shut down Route 9W in Valley Cottage near the south entrance of Rockland Lake State Park. No word on any injuries in the blaze.

Rockland Community College is celebrating Jewish Heritage month, and it includes a variety of virtual activities and programs designed for students, their families, faculty and staff. Rachel Golland is co-chair of the Jewish Heritage Month Committee. Golland says since 2008, Jewish heritage has been celebrated at RCC the month between Purim and Passover…

You can take a virtual tour of Israel on March 15th and get an Israeli Cooking demonstration on April 14th. For more information, click here, or go to SunyRockland.edu and click on “Events.”

If you have any gently used professional clothing or other items for women in need you might want to bring them to the Piermont Reformed Church tomorrow. A group called “Wonder Girls,” an after-school program for high school girls, is hosting the group’s monthly Volunteer Day to benefit the Career Closet of the Women’s Rights and Information Center. Just bring the items to the Piermont Reformed Church on Ferdon Avenue in Piermont, tomorrow from 9 a.m. to noon. Learn more about the group, a fund in the Rockland Community Foundation, at their website, www.WonderGirlsUSA.org.

Rockland Community College is celebrating Irish Heritage month, and it includes a variety of virtual activities and programs designed for students, their families, faculty and staff. Professor Patty Maloney-Titland is with RCC’s Department of Visual and Performing Arts and chairs the Irish Heritage Month Planning Committee. Maloney-Titland says Irish culture offers a rich heritage of song, poetry, dance and magic…

There’s an Irish Baking Demonstration on March 15th and on March 24th you can attend a Virtual Irish Coffee House. All events are free and open to the public. For more information on these and other events, click here.

Orange and Rockland Utilities is giving out $50,000 in grants for innovative classroom projects that focus on science, technology, engineering and mathematics, or STEM. O&R spokesman Mike Donovan says O&R will make 50 Classroom Grants of up to $1,000 each available to educators at schools and youth group leaders on STEM projects that get the thumbs-up by a panel of educators and engineers…

The STEM Classroom Grants Program application can be found here (PDF Download). The deadline is March 31st. The grants will be awarded in May.