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The Stony Point Fire Department is hosting a blood drive on Sunday to help boost critically low blood supplies. Walk-ins are welcome at the drive being held at the firehouse at Route 210 and Central Highway Sunday from 9am to 3pm. If you can’t make it to Stony Point on Sunday, there’s another blood drive on Monday in the town of Ramapo. The Community Food Pantry in Suffern is hosting a blood drive Monday to help raise donations and awareness of two critically important services in the area. Sarah Horn of the Community Food Pantry in Suffern says all types of blood are needed, especially O-negative and B-negative…

The Community Food Pantry’s blood drive is being held at their facility at the “All Souls Community Church” located at 81 Washington Avenue in Suffern on Monday April 28th from 1-7pm. Walk-ins are welcome, but appointments are encouraged. To make an appointment through the New York Blood Center, call them at 1-800-933-BLOOD. While you’re making the blood donation, you might also want to consider making a donation to the food pantry or becoming a volunteer there as well. Also check out their website, SloatsburgFoodPantry.org. You can register in advance for either drive at the links above.

New York State lawmakers are expected to approve another budget extender to keep the government up and running, that since the budget failed to be approved at the beginning of the month as it’s supposed to be. At a press conference on Monday in Rochester, Governor Kathy Hochul said she’s bracing for less money to be coming from Washington back to the state…

Rockland Assemblyman Patrick Carroll of the 96th District, covering Clarkstown and parts of Haverstraw and Orangetown, says he’s hopeful once the budget does get passed, Rockland groups and organizations will be pleased…

The budget was due April 1st. It’s estimated to come in at about $252 billion.  

A former Clarkstown councilman, NYPD Detective and Army veteran will be inducted into the New York State Senate Veterans Hall of Fame next month. 54 year-old Mark Woods died last May just a few months after taking office on the town board. Rockland State Senator Bill Weber of the 38th District says he couldn’t think of anyone who could be more deserving of the honor…

Clarkstown Supervisor George Hoehmann says it’s an honor well-earned and much-deserved…

Mark was elected to his first term as a councilman in November 2023, he was a decorated, retired NYPD Detective and Combat Army Veteran who served in Afghanistan. At the time of his death on May 17th last year, he was serving as Director of the Joseph P. Dwyer Veteran Peer Services program at Bridges, and he hosted the monthly program, “Thank You For Your Service” here on WRCR. The Hall of Fame induction ceremony is being held in Albany on Tuesday, May 27th. Mark’s wife, Jeanne, will accept the award on his behalf. Mark was 54 years old.

A bear was spotted during school hours near an elementary school in North Rockland earlier this week. DailyVoice.com says students and staff at Haverstraw Elementary School were not in any danger. The bear was spotted on the outskirts of the campus. The New York State Department of Conservation and local law enforcement were contacted and they successfully and safely contained the bear.

More than three weeks late, New York State lawmakers were in Albany yesterday to pass their 7th budget extender to keep the government running absent a new spending plan. At a press conference on Monday in Rochester, Governor Kathy Hochul said she and Senate Majority Leader Andrea Stewart-Cousins and Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie have been working around the clock to get the budget done…

Rockland State Senator Bill Weber of the 38th District says once the policy items are out of the way, like changes to discovery rules and cell phone usage in schools, for example, the funding can be tackled next…

The budget was due April 1st. It’s estimated to come in at about $252 billion.