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A new show launched last night on WRCR. Nanuet attorney Patricia Finn specializes in vaccination rights, and she and her first guest on “The Good Health Lawyer” discussed the flu vaccine. Dr. James Lyons Weiler, a bio-medical researcher, believes getting a flu shot isn’t worth the risk…

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has estimated this year’s flu vaccine’s overall effectiveness was on average about 47% with very few safety issues. While Finn is anti-vaccine and works on behalf of those who do not want their kids to be vaccinated, she says her show will welcome all points of view…

Finn’s show is heard every Monday night following the 5 o’clock news right here on WRCR AM 1700.

If you’re concerned about senior issues in New York State, you might want to head to the New City Library tomorrow morning. Rockland State Senator David Carlucci says tomorrow’s Senior Forum is a good chance to discuss relevant issues…

The meeting is being held tomorrow morning at 10:30 at the New City Library.

Rockland County Legislators voted unanimously last week to urge the Bridge Toll Advisory Panel to consider discounted tolls for Rockland commuters. The Rockland County Legislature’s minority leader, Lon Hofstein, says since the state was able to find the money for Staten Island and Brooklyn residents to hold the line on toll increases for the Verrazzano-Narrows bridge earlier this year, the same should be done for Rocklanders…

Rockland assemblywoman Ellen Jaffee says trucks should be charged more to use the Tappan Zee Bridge, to discourage them from using it at all…

Legislator Nancy Low-Hogan thinks the current $5 bridge toll will at least double after 2020, but says Rockland County families and businesses cannot realistically be expected to pay double, calling it “not economically feasible.”

The owner and executive director of a New City consumer products testing company has been charged with wire fraud and other charges in connection a scheme to defraud his customers by reporting false laboratory test results. In a statement, the Justice Department says 69 year-old Gabriel Letizia of AMA Laboratories was arrested and arraigned Friday afternoon in White Plains federal court. They accuse him of faking test results over a 30-year period since 1987. He pleaded not guilty. He faces a maximum of 20 years in prison.

The measles is under control. That’s according to Rockland’s county executive, who isn’t expecting the epidemic to return. Ed Day says he didn’t see the need to renew the state of emergency when it expired last month…

Day says the health department has been in communication with each school district to make sure students that do not have medical exemptions all have their proper immunizations. Nanuet attorney Patricia Finn specializes in vaccination rights, and says parents should be able to choose what’s best for their children…

As of August 8th, there have been 290 confirmed cases of measles in Rockland County. Finn will be hosting a new show, “The Good Health Lawyer,” where she’ll be talking about this and other health issues and the law. Her show starts tonight after the 5 o’clock news.