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May is Mental Health Month, observed to raise awareness about the importance of mental health and to stop the stigma associated with it. Rockland County Sheriff Lou Falco says around two-thirds of the people in the county jail suffer from some form of mental illness…
Falco says sometimes one’s mental illness can be made even worse when people self-medicate with alcohol or drugs. The National Alliance on Mental Illness says one in five people will be affected by mental illness in their lifetime.
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If you have white or blue plastic winterization sheeting wrapped around your boat that you’re taking off so you can get that boat in the water, officials are asking you to recycle it. Howard Phillips heads up Rockland’s solid waste management authority, and says you just have to bring the Marine Wrap to the Haverstraw transfer station on Beach Road by Peck’s Pond…
The wrap is accepted through June third. The transfer station is open weekdays 7:00am-3:00pm.
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Two young children were reportedly rushed to the Westchester Trauma Center yesterday afternoon, one of them in critical condition with a serious head injury, after falling out of a third-floor window of a Spring Valley home. Yeshiva World News reported Hatzolah of Rockland ambulance was called to the West Street home around five o’clock. The two children, ages 5 and 2, apparently were leaning against a screen that gave way.
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An Israeli traveler with the measles may have sickened others at Newark Airport. Officials say the infected passenger was at Terminal C on April 16th. Anyone there between 4 and 8 in the morning could have been exposed, and symptoms could develop as late as May 7th. Meanwhile the official measles count here in Rockland has grown to 212.
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The cause of the fire at the Mountain View condos in Valley Cottage that displaced 30 people last month is still undetermined. Clarkstown Police Captain Jeff Wanamaker said as much at a press conference last week, about a week after the fire had occurred…
Though Clarkstown Police Department Fire Investigators have completed their investigation, the case will not be closed. Investigators have video footage and statements from eyewitnesses, but they’re hoping to get additional evidence. The department is also continuing to assist the families who were displaced due to the fire.