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Are you interested in rain gardens or storm water management or biofiltration or all of the above, you may want to check out a special free Zoom program from the Cornell Cooperative Extension happening this week. Mike Wilson is with is with the group and is the host of the monthly Storm Water Consortium show here on WRCR, and he says it’s a good opportunity to see the things he often talks about…

The free “Sustainable Landscapes” program is being held Thursday, November 18th from 7-8pm, but you need to register in advance. For more information visit RocklandCCE.org and click on “Events,” or click here.

COVID has taken two more Rockland lives. The total now stands at 1,000 since the pandemic began. Other statistics are creeping up again, with 12 hospitalized with coronavirus and 682 active cases.

A Rockland fire instructor has been appointed to a state task force charged with studying the volunteer firefighting service in New York. Jerry Knapp is a training officer at the Rockland County Fire Training Center in Pomona, and hopes the task force will improve how new volunteers get recruited, and how fires are fought…

The task force is expected to provide a report to the governor this spring.

Two village of Spring Valley building department employees have been indicted on felony charges stemming from the fatal fire last March at the Evergreen Adult Home in Spring Valley that killed a resident and a volunteer firefighter. Rockland County D.A. Tom Walsh says a county grand jury indicted 45 year-old Raymond Canario and 64 year-old Wayne Ballard, on several charges, including Falsifying Business Records and Offering a False Instrument for Filing. 35 year-old firefighter Jared Lloyd, and 79 year-old Evergreen resident, Oliver Hueston, were both killed in the blaze. Arraignment dates have not yet been set.

A Staten Island woman was killed Sunday after being struck while crossing the Palisades Parkway in Stony Point. State Police say 66 year-old Galina Surman was hiking with family and friends around 11:45 Sunday morning. The driver of a 2010 Acura-TL was traveling in the left-hand northbound lane on the parkway when she was hit. Attempts to revive her at the scene were unsuccessful. Police say the driver was not impaired no charges are expected.