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There were no casualties after a Christmas morning fire that took down a commercial building in Mahwah. DailyVoice.com says the five-alarm blaze started around 4:40 a.m. at Arzee Building Supply on Franklin Turnpike. It took some two dozen fire companies from Bergen and Rockland to bring the blaze under control.

The new Hi-Tor shelter will break ground in the coming year. That’s according to Rockland County Executive Ed Day, who says there’s $7 million dollars budgeted that’s been bonded, and he’s expecting construction to start before the fall…

Day hopes to get some money back from the state as part of the governor’s Shared Services Initiative.

Now that Clarkstown attorney Thomas Mascola is retiring effective January first, the town will be getting a new attorney in the new year. Clarkstown supervisor George Hoehmann says the town’s Deputy Attorney, Leslie Kahn, who’s been running a code enforcement unit that focuses on illegal housing violations, is set to take over…

The job reportedly pays $160,000 annually.

A federal court ruling decided Pomona village officials adopted discriminatory zoning to keep an Orthodox Jewish college for rabbinical students and their families out. LoHud.com says Friday’s federal appeals court ruling lets Congregation Rabbinical College of Tartikov file site plans and seek variances to build the college on 130 acres near Routes 202 and 306. Tartikov also wants the village to pay over five million dollars in legal fees.

Orangetown’s supervisor gave a tearful farewell at last week’s town board meeting. Chris Day decided not to run for re-election after winning his first term of office two years ago. Day revealed at last week’s meeting his health was a factor in giving up his position…

Teresa Kenny takes over as Orangetown’s supervisor next month. In November she was the first woman to be elected to lead one of Rockland’s five towns.