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A local organization is doing its annual count of the homeless in Rockland County this week, and they need volunteers to help out. Kathleen Lathrop of “Helping Hands of Rockland County” says the group does the “Point-in-time” count in a single, 24-hour period. That way, Lathrop says, the county can qualify for federal grant money from the Housing and Urban Development agency…

The count is being coordinated at four locations where volunteers will be needed: the United Church of Spring Valley, the Haverstraw Community Center, the All Souls Church in Suffern and the Veterans Service Center in New City. Volunteers will be needed for a 24-hour period from 7am on Thursday to 7am Friday. For more information on how to volunteer, send an email to Kathleen, at lathropkathleen@gmail.com or call 845-357-3025.

Adam Krainak, a former Spring Valley village police chief and 70-year member of the Rockland Hook & Ladder Company in Spring Valley, died last week at the age of 97. Krainak was also a World War Two veteran. Visitation is Wednesday from 2 to 4 p.m. and 7 to 9 p.m. at Wanamaker & Carlough Funeral Home in Suffern. A funeral Mass will be Thursday at 10:30 a.m. at St. Joseph’s Church in Spring Valley, with burial to follow at Ascension Cemetery in Airmont.

It was a snowy weekend for some in Rockland County, for others, not so much. Orange and Rockland crews restore electric service to a round 72-hundred customers whose power was knocked out due to Saturday’s storm. If you see a downed wire, don’t touch or approach it. Assume it is energized and dangerous. Call O&R immediately toll-free 1-877-434-4100. Depending on the situation, you may also want to call your local police to divert traffic until an O&R crew arrives.

The Unity Celebration honoring the life and legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. at Ramapo High School gets underway this afternoon at 3pm. The theme is “The African Diaspora, Resistance Through Music and Poetry.” The celebration is presented by the Martin Luther King Multi-Purpose Center, the East Ramapo Central School District and the Gordon Center for Black Culture and Arts. There’s also a breakfast this morning at nine at the St. Charles AME Zion Church in Sparkill, and the NAACP Nyack Branch’s Interfaith Commemorative Service is at 2pm today at the Pilgrim Baptist Church in Nyack.

A man is behind bars following a shooting in Ramapo last Sunday. Supervisor Michael Specht says Ramapo Police charged a suspect in the Hillcrest Shopping Center incident that left one injured…

34 year-old Jonas Marseille was nabbed at the Budget Motor Inn on South Liberty Drive in Stony Point by Stony Point police. He faces four felony charges, including attempted murder, assault, criminal possession of a weapon and reckless endangerment.