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Those leaves you’ve been raking out of your yard…you know they’re not supposed to be in the street, right? In some areas you could be fined for putting them in the roadways. Mike Wilson is with Cornell Cooperative Extension in Stony Point and hosts the Storm Water Consortium monthly show here on WRCR, and he says you’re best off leaving the leaves where they are…

Clarkstown supervisor George Hoehmann says his town’s leaf pickup program has completed its first sweep around the town. Hoehmann says if leaves are left in the street in his town, you could face a fine…

For more information from the Cornell Cooperative Extension on the benefits of leaving the leaves, click here for a helpful video.

Do you remember watching old TV shows and movies, and seeing cool gadgets that hadn’t been invented yet, that we now have? Things like TV-Phones, wrist watches that do everything, and flying cars. OK, so we don’t quite have flying cars yet, but Lou Morris of the local AARP chapter says the guest speaker at tomorrow’s special event in West Nyack can probably explain why we don’t have them or when we will…

The event is free and it’s tomorrow at 12:30 at the JCC in West Nyack. In other senior news, the Haverstraw Senior Citizens Club is celebrating its status as a senior citizen, with its 65th anniversary tomorrow…

And that was Haverstraw supervisor Howard Phillips. For more information about the club visit Haverstraw’s website, www.TownOfHaverstraw.org.

An unidentified woman is reportedly in critical condition after she was
hit by a car in Spring Valley last night. According to YeshivaWorld.com,
the accident occurred around 10:00PM at Route 59 and Dutch Lane. The
woman was taken to the Westchester Trauma Center in Valhalla. No word on the extent of her injuries.

The town of Ramapo will be hosting an information session with local
police officials to discuss the controversy that’s been swirling around
the criminal justice reform bill that passed with the state budget in
April set to take effect January first. The bill makes sweeping changes in
bail and other court rules that could end up with significant price tags
for local municipalities. Ramapo supervisor Michael Specht says it’s
important to hold the various meetings with the public and state
lawmakers, even if changes won’t be made before January first…

Rockland Sheriff Lou Falco will be among the participants in tonight’s
event, and he told WRCR last week he’s hopeful local state representatives
can fix the rules that shouldn’t be changed…

Falco and others agree there are some rules that could be changed, but
without the funding many communities will be hard-pressed to afford them. Two upstate lawmakers have introduced legislation to have the laws delayed a year, while western Ramapo and Orange County assemblyman Karl Brabanec has suggested a bill that would cancel the reform package altogether.

The second Pearl River Transit Oriented Development Zone hearing is being held tomorrow to figure out how best to proceed with a potentially major revitalization project for the hamlet’s downtown district. Orangetown
supervisor Chris Day says some changes have already been made to the draft presentation from a few weeks back…

Day says the changes won’t happen overnight. The next meeting is tomorrow night at 8:00PM at Orangetown Town Hall.