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Rockland Documentary Maker Launches Campaign For Film About Adoption Rockland Documentary Maker Launches Campaign For Film About Adoption
Rockland Documentary Maker Launches Campaign For Film About Adoption POMONA, N.Y. -- Alex Mendelson grew up in Pomona, loved and cared for, the son of Donna and Richard Mendelson. He knew the basics of his adoption story, and for nearly 29 years, that was enough. He was adopted at around one year old from an orphanage in Paranaque, near Manilla in the Philippines. He lived with his birth mother for the first five months of his life.  Now, Mendelson, 29, who is both a filmmaker and an Uber driver, intends to set out on a month-long journey to the Philippines to find his mother, his father, and to learn as much detail as possible about his early life story in o…

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Risa Hoag Joins Clarkstown Daily Voice As Community Advisor Risa Hoag Joins Clarkstown Daily Voice As Community Advisor
Risa Hoag Joins Clarkstown Daily Voice As Community Advisor CLARKSTOWN, N.Y. -- Risa Hoag, founder of GMG Public Relations, is one of Daily Voice's community advisors for its Clarkstown site. Community advisors provide Daily Voice with tips for local news and events. Hoag has lived in Clarkstown nearly all of her life. Prior to founding GMG Public Relations in 1991, she was Director of Public Relations and Marketing for the White Plains office of Ernst & Young.  She serves as the Vice President of Marketing for the Rockland Business Women’s Network, she is the Immediate Past President of the Nanuet Chamber of Commerce and serves on their Board …

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Police In Stony Point Call Off Pursuit Of Dangerous Suspect Police In Stony Point Call Off Pursuit Of Dangerous Suspect
Police In Stony Point Call Off Pursuit Of Dangerous Suspect This story has been updated. STONY POINT, N.Y. -- Stony Point Police have released new informed surrounding the pursuit of a suspect in the area on Friday, leading to an alert for residents to stay indoors. At 11:39 a.m. Friday, Antonio J. Kelly, a 31-year-old male with numerous outstanding warrants whose last known address is 40 S. Cole Ave. in Spring Valley, was at the Colonial Plaza. The department responded to the shopping center and located the subject exiting a business. Upon attempting to place the subject under arrest, he fled. Subsequently, a perimeter was established and a search…

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Game Store With Social Space Opens In Suffern Game Store With Social Space Opens In Suffern
Game Store With Social Space Opens In Suffern SUFFERN, N.Y. -- Sure it's nice to laze around on Christmas day and break out the Monopoly set but 4thought, a new gaming store and social space on Chestnut Street, makes every day feel like a holiday. The concept store, which combines retail sales with a social space for non-electronic gaming, is one of the nation's few hybrid destinations. The store belongs to Marcia and Robert Fitzsimmons, who opened it last month in a space last occupied by a taqueria. Inspiration for the concept, which is unique to the Hudson Valley, derived from their 26-year-old son Bjorn, a gaming enthusiast who spen…

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Police Say Stabbing Victim Posted Roommate Ad On Craigslist Police Say Stabbing Victim Posted Roommate Ad On Craigslist
Police Say Stabbing Victim Posted Roommate Ad On Craigslist WEST NYACK, N.Y. -- In a new twist to the Tuesday stabbing death of Michael Wimbert, 66, of 68 Demarest Ave. in West Nyack, Clarkstown police say the victim had posted an ad for a roommate on Craigslist. The suspect answered the ad and made arrangements to be picked from the train station in White Plains on Friday November 27, 2015. Police say there was no prior relationship.  Dylan Lentini, 19, of W. 41st St. in Manhattan, has been charged with second-degree murder, a felony carrying a potential prison term of 15 to 25 years. He was arraigned in Clarkstown Justice Court and is being held wi…

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Rockland's Haitian Leaders Meet With Interim Healthcare About Offensive Ad Rockland's Haitian Leaders Meet With Interim Healthcare About Offensive Ad
Rockland's Haitian Leaders Meet With Interim Healthcare About Offensive Ad SPRING VALLEY, N.Y. -- Leaders of the county's Haitian community met behind closed doors Tuesday with representatives from Interim Healthcare and Assemblywoman Ellen C. Jaffee (D) to tease out how it was possible that a discriminatory advertisement seeking nurses ran in the local Pennysaver. They also discussed policies that need to be implemented to insure such a breach never happens again. Additionally, Haitian leaders, including attorney Judeline Tamar Constant-Rouzard, community leader Carl-Henry Joseph, and Renold Julien, who heads up Knobit Neg Lakay, asked Interim Healthcare represent…

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Man Charged With Fatally Stabbing West Nyack Resident In Custody Man Charged With Fatally Stabbing West Nyack Resident In Custody
Man Charged With Fatally Stabbing West Nyack Resident In Custody WEST NYACK, N.Y. -- Clarkstown Police have arrested a New York City man in connection with the fatal overnight stabbing of Michael Wimbert, 66, of 68 Demarest Avenue in West Nyack. Dylan Lentini, 19, of W. 41st St. in Manhattan, has been charged with second-degree murder, a felony carrying a potential prison term of 15 to 25 years. He was arraigned in Clarkstown Justice Court and is being held without bail in Rockland County Jail. Rockland County District Attorney said Lentini will go before a grand jury Friday. He thanked Clarkstown police for swift work and for their collaboration. Poli…

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19-Year-Old Charged In West Nyack Overnight Stabbing 19-Year-Old Charged In West Nyack Overnight Stabbing
19-Year-Old Charged In West Nyack Overnight Stabbing This story has been updated. WEST NYACK, N.Y. -- Clarkstown Police have arrested a man in connection with the fatal overnight stabbing of Michael Wimbert, 66, of Demarest Avenue in West Nyack.  Dylan Lentini, 19, of 460 W. 41st St. New York, N.Y. has been charged with second-degree murder. He will be arraigned in Clarkstown Justice Court sometime Tuesday. The victim was found unresponsive with stab wounds around 1:45 this morning. Paramedics responded and pronounced the man deceased. The Clarkstown Detective Bureau is processing the scene for evidence. The Rockland County Medical Examiner …

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Richard Anderson Joins Clarkstown Daily Voice As Community Advisor Richard Anderson Joins Clarkstown Daily Voice As Community Advisor
Richard Anderson Joins Clarkstown Daily Voice As Community Advisor CLARKSTOWN, N.Y. -- Richard Whittaker Anderson, former executive director of the Historical Society of Rockland, is one of Daily Voice's community advisors for its Clarkstown site. Community advisors provide Daily Voice with tips for local news and events. Anderson was born and raised in Congers, in the home of his great, great grandparents, where he still lives today. Anderson's community involvement includes the board of the Congers Civic Association and Congers History Museum, chairperson for the Historical Society of Rockland’s Buildings and Grounds committee and guest co-curator for …

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Rockland Youth Orchestra Cultivating Young Musicians In Nanuet Rockland Youth Orchestra Cultivating Young Musicians In Nanuet
Rockland Youth Orchestra Cultivating Young Musicians In Nanuet NANUET, N.Y. -- Matthew Rotjan and Alex Fung work long days in Rockland's public schools but their energy and commitment to music education is boundless. Nothing makes that more apparent than the spirited style both display while alternately leading the Rockland Youth Orchestra on Wednesday nights from 7:30 p.m. to 9 p.m. at Highview Elementary School in Nanuet.  Accompanying them on keyboard is Alexander Marrero, another dedicated musician and educator.  Parents who come early to pick up their children can testify to the kind of inspirational classroom environment Hollywood scribes invent …

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