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Rockland Week in Review, March 28, 2008

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Here’s the latest Week in Review podcast. Beneath the video are links to the related stories, as well as links to downloadable PDFs of each article (the links expire once our articles move into the paid archives) and video, where available. Thanks for stopping by.

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Fleetwood Elementary cheating: link here, pdf here.

Immigration forum: link here, pdf here.

Tappan Zee Bridge: link here, pdf here.

Neighbor helps Nyack woman escape fire: link here, pdf here, video here.

Posted by Amy Vernon on Friday, March 28th, 2008 at 6:29 pm |

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