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Rockland Democrats Decide On County Executive Candidate Rockland Democrats Decide On County Executive Candidate
Rockland Democrats Decide On County Executive Candidate A longtime lawyer and activist announced that she will be throwing her hat in the ring to challenge Rockland County Executive Ed Day, becoming the first - and possibly only - Democrat to do so. Attorney L'Tanya Watkins, a Spring Valley resident, announced that she plans to run against Day, a two-term Republican, after submitting a petition with nearly 1,500 signatures to qualify to run on the Democratic and Working Families lines. The number of signatures Watkins secured was more than double what's required to run for county executive in Rockland. “We need a County Executive here in Rockla…

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by Zak Failla
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Damaged Fuel Line Cited As Cause For New Paltz's Tainted Water Damaged Fuel Line Cited As Cause For New Paltz's Tainted Water
Damaged Fuel Line Cited As Cause For New Paltz's Tainted Water Environmental officials have identified a damaged fuel line as the likely source of contamination of the water system in the Village of New Paltz. Village officials reported on Wednesday, Feb. 12, that during the installation of the village's water plant’s new filtration system, a third-party contractor damaged the fuel line to the treatment plant’s oil furnace creating a slow seepage leak into the ground approximately 500 feet from the reservoir on the Mountain Rest Road water treatment plant property.  "We believe oil began to leak from the damaged line once the heat was turned on th…

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by Kathy Reakes