If you’re a Verizon TV customer, that’s what you’ll hear in your newscasts later this year. Verizon said it’s replacing the RNN-produced “FiOS1 News” with Altice USA’s “News 12” starting in November. In addition to the News 12 Networks, Verizon viewers next year will be able to access content from i24NEWS, a global news network, and Cheddar, a business news network. Verizon announced last month it would not renew its 10-year contract with the Rye, New York-based RNN.
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Two Men Caught, Charged in Sunday’s Fatal Shooting in Spring Valley
Two men have been charged in the death of a Spring Valley man Sunday night. Published reports said 20 year-old Paul Miller of Haverstraw and 17 year-old Jayden Rodriguez of North Bergen, New Jersey were charged with second degree murder in connection with the shooting death of Spring Valley’s 20 year-old Emerson Jean-Baptiste. Spring Valley Police told the Journal News they were caught in North Bergen and awaiting extradition to New York. The incident, which was reportedly caught on video, occurred at a Spring Valley apartment complex on Liberty Parkway around 11 Sunday night.
Visitation for Former Hudson Valley Senator Who Died Saturday Starts Today
Final goodbyes begin today for a former area state Senator who died over the weekend. Bill Larkin passed away at his home on Saturday at the age of 91. He had retired from the Senate just last year. Rockland State Senator David Carlucci says it was an honor to work with him and call him “friend”…
Visitation is today from 4 to 8 p.m. at the Newburgh Armory Unity Center in the William and Pat Larkin Education Center. Larkin was a World War II and Korean War veteran, became supervisor of the Town of New Windsor in Orange County, an assemblyman in 1978, and then was elected in 1990 to the state Senate covering portions of Orange, Ulster and Rockland counties. A Mass of Christian Burial will be held at 11 a.m. on Thursday, September 5th at St. Thomas of Canterbury in Cornwall-On-Hudson. In lieu of flowers, the family suggests donations can be made to Newburgh Armory Unity Center, Hospice of Orange and Sullivan Counties and Nora Cronin Presentation Academy.
Rockland Country Day School Files for Bankruptcy
The Rockland Country Day School has filed for bankruptcy. Just weeks after announcing they would be unable to start the school year, the Journal News reports the school filed Chapter 7 in federal bankruptcy court last week. School was to have begun yesterday with orientation and today was to be the first day of classes, but families were left scrambling after last month’s announcement. We’ve reached out to the school’s administration but have not heard back.
Hold on to Summer: Pick up a Good (Rockland) Book
Summer isn’t quite over, you still have time to enjoy some locally-themed books. New City Library’s Head of Adult Services, Brian Jennings, says one of his top summer reads was “Gringos” by Michael Rumaker, who passed away two months ago…
Joe Barbieri is the New City Library’s local history librarian, and says one of his top picks for summer reading was written by local teens…
Another, released last month, is called “The Forgotten Hilltop” by Clarkstown North student Dylan Frawley, who you may recall helped rescue a hiker, and that served as the inspiration for his book. For these and other great titles, check out your local library. Both Brian and Joe were guests on August’s episode of Crossroads of Rockland History with Clare Sheridan. If you missed it, online, we have a link to it right here.