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'Time Is Not On Our Side': Beloved Restaurateur In Region Seeking Kidney Donor 'Time Is Not On Our Side': Beloved Restaurateur In Region Seeking Kidney Donor
'Time Is Not On Our Side': Beloved Restaurateur In Region Seeking Kidney Donor A beloved chef and restaurateur known for giving back to the community is now turning to that same community in desperate need of help. Chef Yono Purnomo, founder of Yono’s Indonesian restaurant in Albany, suffers from kidney failure that has progressed to end stage renal failure. In early October, doctors told him he would need a live kidney donation. “It hit us both like a ton of bricks,” Yono’s wife Donna said on a Facebook page dedicated to the cause. “We knew based on his declining kidney function over the past few years that dialysis would become a life-saving necessity. We didn’t…

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by Michael Mashburn
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Update: Funeral Set For Ex-NYSP Trooper From Region Who Died From 9/11-Related Cancer Update: Funeral Set For Ex-NYSP Trooper From Region Who Died From 9/11-Related Cancer
Update: Funeral Set For Ex-nysp Trooper From Region Who Died From 9/11-Related Cancer This story has been updated: Funeral arrangements are set for a former New York State Police trooper who died from an illness stemming from his time working in and around the World Trade Center site following the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks. Retired Senior Investigator Nicholas Georgeadis, of the town of Wilton in Saratoga County, died Friday, April 28, at the age of 52, according to his obituary.  Georgeadis was assigned to New York City following the collapse of the twin towers and spent 13 weeks working at the site. In 2018, he retired after being diagnosed with a "rare,…

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by Michael Mashburn
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'A Beautiful, Kind Soul': Community In Region Mourns Death Of 12-Year-Old 'A Beautiful, Kind Soul': Community In Region Mourns Death Of 12-Year-Old
'A Beautiful, Kind Soul': Community In Region Mourns Death Of 12-Year-Old Justin Reale spent the last Saturday of his life with family, mentioning how excited he was for the end of the school year and all the fun events that went along with it, his parents in Orange County told the Warwick Valley Central School District. But just hours later on Sunday, June 19, the sixth-grader died unexpectedly in his sleep at just 12 years old, according to his obituary. “When his mother went to wake him up the next morning, he had passed,” the school district said in a statement. An official cause of death has not been released. Born in Suffern, Reale attended Warwick Valle…

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by Michael Mashburn
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Rosemary Molinaro, 100, Was Devoted To Family, Volunteering Rosemary Molinaro, 100, Was Devoted To Family, Volunteering
Rosemary Molinaro, 100, Was Devoted To Family, Volunteering Rosemary Rita Zito Molinaro died at Long Island home in Kings Point on Aug. 25 after 100 years of gracing this Earth with her loving heart, beauty, winning smile and smart, inquisitive mind. Her strong-willed optimism of “I can, I will, I must” was matched by her unconditional love of her family. She reveled in motherhood and loved children. Rosemary gave selflessly as a devoted wife to Albert, mother to Lorraine M. Molinaro and Valerie A. Molinaro (also of Kings Point) and grandmother to Michelle Birnbach Katz—while also welcoming her son-in-law Howard and grandson-in-law Danny into the fam…

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