No one was reported hurt after a school bus caught fire in Airmont yesterday afternoon. Saddle River Road was reportedly shut briefly after the bus collided with a car.

Supporters of the Pearl River teen murdered and sexually assaulted more than 40 years ago are hoping to keep one of her killers behind bars. Robert McCain was convicted of killing 16-year-old Paula Bohovesky as she walked home from the library. He comes up for parole next month. Rockland County Executive Ed Day says he belongs in prison…

McCain’s co-defendant Richard LaBarbera got out on parole two years ago. He was quickly sent back to prison for violating parole, but released again last year. You can go online and sign the “Petition for Paula” to show support for keeping McCain behind bars.

A dispute over where a Spring Valley Trustee should sit during a village meeting has sparked a call for the mayor to resign. That’s according to News 12, which says Trustee Eudson Tyson Francois, who is running for mayor, tried to sit next to current mayor Alan Simon during yesterday morning’s meeting. Mayor Simon reportedly cursed at Francois, and demanded he change seats or leave the meeting. Francois told News 12 he switched seats and eventually left the meeting because he felt harassed, and is calling on Simon to step down for his continued pattern of inappropriate behavior. We could not reach Simon for comment.

They don’t see eye to eye on everything, and now a holiday has two of the state’s highest-ranking Democrats going at it. Governor Andrew Cuomo Wednesday said Columbus Day should remain on the calendar, taking New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio to task for replacing it with “Italian Heritage Day/Indigenous Peoples’ Day” instead…

The New York Post said de Blasio claimed that neither he nor the Schools Chancellor knew about plans to change the holiday, though he did call the move “right and appropriate.”

Rocklanders with lots of paper to shred might want to go to Haverstraw Town Hall tomorrow from 8 to noon. Supervisor Howard Phillips says Shredding Day is open to all county residents, and they’re collecting non-perishable food items…

That’s 8am to noon tomorrow at Haverstraw Town Hall on Rosman Road. For more information visit RocklandGreen.com.

Also tomorrow, Catholic Charities Community Services of Rockland in Haverstraw will host the 10th Annual “Blessing of the Soil” event for its charity garden. In addition to the blessing, the event features a cooking segment and a gardening segment…

The event starts tomorrow at 1pm. If you can’t get there, you can watch it online, just go to Facebook.com/CatholicCharity. For more information about Catholic Charities and the event, visit www.CCSrockland.org.

All New York State mass vaccination sites, including RCC in Suffern, are now open for walk-in vaccinations on a first-come, first-serve basis. COVID-19 by the numbers now, here in Rockland, the death count remains at 952, unchanged since Tuesday. We’ve got 12 hospitalized confirmed with coronavirus, and 419 active cases. Our total case count is 46,483, that’s 37 more than Thursday.

The Rockland Task Force on Water Resources Management last night held a presentation and panel discussion on the state of Rockland’s water. Last summer, New York lowered the levels of acceptable amounts of chemicals known as PFOAs, which are used in the production of Teflon, that can be in the water. The new levels are tougher standards than the federal government permits. Rockland County Health Department hydrology expert, Dr. Daniel Miller, said the most recent testing here in the county shows a slight decrease in those levels…

Carol Walczyk is VP of Water Quality with SUEZ, and said the company does quarterly compliance testing…

Sean Mahar is with the state DEC, and said they’ve already ruled out major sources of contamination in the county…

To learn more about the Rockland County Task Force on Water Resources Management, click here.