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New York has launched a new statewide public awareness campaign designed to educate New Yorkers about the state’s new, first-in-the-nation paid prenatal leave policy, which takes effect January 1st. Last week, Governor Kathy Hochul said pregnant women should never have to choose between a paycheck and prenatal care…

Rockland State Senator Bill Weber of the 38th District says he voted for the bill…

The law covers all pregnant employees working in the private sector, regardless of the employer’s size, and employees are eligible to use all 20 hours immediately regardless of tenure. 

Services are being held this weekend for two former Nyack village board members who both passed away earlier this month. Former Nyack Trustee and Deputy Mayor Marie Lorenzini died December 5th. She served on the Nyack Planning and Zoning Boards before becoming a Village Trustee nearly twenty years ago. Services for her are being held tomorrow afternoon at St. Ann’s Church in Nyack, visitation is from 1–3 and funeral mass starts at 3pm. She was 82. Former Trustee and Deputy Mayor James Leiner died December 4th. He worked for O&R for 35 years, wrote for “The Nyack Villager” and served in the Nyack Fire Department, the Nyack Republican Club, and the Nyack Historical Society. Services for him are being held Sunday morning at Hannemann Funeral Home in Nyack at 11. He was 79.

The town of Clarkstown is considering what to do with the Rockland Country Day School property that the town purchased in 2018 for $4.4 million. Supervisor George Hoehmann says they’re still evaluating the various needs the 22-acre property can fill for the town…

In a recent Monday segment during “The Morning Show,” Naomi Streicher of Q Home Sales in New City questioned whether government should get involved in the real estate business…

Meanwhile, Hoehmann says, there is a new, natural-turf field for soccer and lacrosse that was completed last month at the entrance to the property…

There’s also a 57-spot parking lot. The field is expected to open in the spring after the sod takes hold this winter.

The RCC Senior Club is holding their monthly meeting this Friday. Acting club President Lou Morris says the group will be celebrating “The Season of Light”…

That’s Friday at noon at the Ellipse in RCC’s Technology Building. For more information and to learn more about the group, call 845-540-9739 or visit RocklandCountySeniorClub.org. If you go, you’re asked to bring a non-perishable food item for the RCC cupboard.