O&R is scheduled to begin a natural gas main replacement project today on Summit Avenue in Spring Valley. Work will be done 7am to 4pm weekdays. A new high-density plastic gas main will replace the old plastic and steel gas main. Gas service will be periodically disrupted during the project, and O&R says they’ll be notifying individual customers when those outages are needed. The project is expected to last about three weeks.
Holocaust Museum to Bury Ashen Remains of Holocaust Victims in Monsey Ceremony
The Holocaust Museum & Center for Tolerance and Education will be burying the ashen remains of victims of the Holocaust in Monsey after they were recently found in a box in their archives. The Museum was doing inventory when they found the ashes from mass graves at the Chelmno death camp in Nazi-occupied Poland. The remains are just a fraction of the at least 172,000 victims of Chelmno, the first stationary death camp to use gas instead of bullets for mass murder. Museum curator Julie Golding says such a find is extremely uncommon…
A burial service will be held tomorrow at 4:30 p.m. at the Congregation Sons of Israel Spring Valley Cemetery on Brick Church Road in Monsey. That will be followed by a memorial at 6:30 at the Museum on the lower level of the RCC Campus Library, next to the bookstore. All are encouraged to attend.
Rockland Codes Initiative Faces Lawsuit from Group of Orthodox Jewish Congregations
The Rockland Codes Initiative is being targeted by a lawsuit, claiming the county executive improperly bypassed the legislature by using the Health Department for code enforcement. The legal action, which was reportedly filed by a group of Orthodox Jewish congregations, suggests the initiative singles out their community. Rockland County Executive Ed Day says the law targets everyone…
Attorney Dennis Lynch told The Journal News the law’s mandate for the inspection of buildings with three or more units is arbitrary and instead all buildings should be inspected. The county attorney said the law is necessary to protect public health and safety.
New City Man Charged in Deaths of One Year-old Twins Expected in Bronx Court
The New City man whose 1-year-old twins died in a hot car while he was at work is expected back in a Bronx courtroom today. 39 year-old Juan Rodriguez faces second-degree manslaughter charges, among others, but his attorneys have been asking prosecutors to drop the case. Rodriguez has claimed he thought he had dropped the twins off at day care before going to work at the VA hospital in the Bronx.
Former Sloatsburg Mayor, Sam Abate, Dies at 88
Sloatsburg’s long-time former mayor, Samuel Abate, died Sunday in Mt. Pleasant, South Carolina. Abate helped to get rid of the county’s Board of Supervisors and replace that with a 21-member Legislature. He also supported establishing a county executive form of government in the mid-1980s. Rockland GOP Chairman Lawrence Garvey holds the position once held by Abate…
Abate won election to the Sloatsburg Board of Trustees in 1962, then served as mayor from 1963 to 1967. He served again from 1981 to 1985, and then again from 1989 to 2000. In between he also helped run the family flower shop in the village. He is survived by his wife Louise, three children, five grandchildren and six great-grandchildren. A memorial service will be held in South Carolina tomorrow. Memorial donations can be made in his name to Roper Hospice Cottage in Mount Pleasant, South Carolina. He was 88 years old.