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Tufts Lacrosse Player From Hudson Valley Dies In Hot Dog Eating Contest Tufts Lacrosse Player From Hudson Valley Dies In Hot Dog Eating Contest
Tufts Lacrosse Player From Hudson Valley Dies In Hot Dog Eating Contest A college student from the Hudson Valley has died from injuries in a hot dog eating contest on Saturday, Oct. 16. Rockland County resident Madie Nicpon, a 2019 graduate of Suffern High School, was a junior at Tufts University in Massachusetts.  She fell unconscious during an off-campus charity fundraiser and died at a Boston hospital the following day, WCVB, ABC 5 in Boston reports. Nicpon was a biopsychology major and a member of the college's women’s lacrosse team. News of the tragedy was shared with the university community in a statement signed by Tufts' president, dean of studen…

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by Joe Lombardi
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Students, Responders, Others Attend Candlelight Vigil For Late Demarest Pizza Owner Students, Responders, Others Attend Candlelight Vigil For Late Demarest Pizza Owner
Students, Responders, Others Attend Candlelight Vigil For Late Demarest Pizza Owner TRIBUTE: Steve Renke, who made Demarest Pizza a local institution for more than three decades, constantly took up the causes of anyone who needed funding -- advertising campaigns at his shop, urging people to give what they could. Now the community is rallying to help his widow and three children after he died suddenly late Saturday. Renke, a 49-year-old father of three, from Haworth was a senior at Northern Valley Regional High School when he and three partners bought the Hardenburgh Avenue shop in 1987. "Because the day of the closing was a school day, he proceeded to ask his lawye…

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by Jerry DeMarco