Rockland Year in Review
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It’s December, and that means we’re gearing up for the annual Year in Review, a look at the 10 biggest news stories in Rockland in 2007.
The main criteria we look at is that the news has to be Rockland-specific, so the war in Iraq would not qualify, but news regarding the criminal military case stemming from the fragging death of U.S. Army Capt. Phillip Esposito would.
We’d love your thoughts and suggestions. Some stories we’re looking at so far, in no particular order:
• Election defeats of District Attorney Michael Bongiorno and Haverstraw Mayor Francis “Bud” Wassmer.
• Wyeth Pharmaceuticals celebrates 100 years in Pearl River.
• The rabbi banned from baking matzos on a converted bus in his backyard.
• Rats, roaches in Clarkstown North.
• Scientists at Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory in Palisades share in the Nobel Peace Prize with Al Gore.
• Controversy over fire trucks stopping by the Nanuet anti-war rally.
• The FAA’s plan to fly more planes over Rockland and the ensuing uproar.
• Emergency access gates installed on the Tappan Zee, as well as suicide hotline phones at each end of the bridge.
• The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey takes over Stewart Airport.
• Weekend and off-peak train service returns to the Pascack Valley line.
• Pascack Valley Hospital closes.
• Spring Valley Mayor George Darden hires illegal immigrants to do village work.
• Rockland Board of Health votes to ban smoking in cars in which children are passengers.
• Fire kills 10 horses at a Chestnut Ridge stable.
• Good Samaritan Hospital performs its first open-heart surgery.
• Arsenic is discovered in United Water New York drinking water wells but customers and the county aren’t informed for months.
Let me know if we’ve forgotten something and cast your votes for the stories you think should make the final list of the 10 top stories. All of these will be mentioned in some way, but we recap the Top 10 in an article on Dec. 31. And Christina Jeng will also do a special podcast on the Top 10.
E-mail me at avernon@lohud.com or leave a note in this post’s comments section.
Photo credits:
Bongiorno’s defeat and West Nyack Fire Co. at rally, by Vincent DiSalvio/The Journal News
Illegal immigrant working on a building in Spring Valley, by Suzan Clarke/The Journal News
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