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Missing Teenager From Haverstraw Has Been Safely Located And Back Home

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UPDATE: Missing Teenager from Haverstraw Has Been Safely Located and Back Home
Franyer Cruz Dominguez left his school in Orangetown and took a cab to 197th Street and University Avenue in the Bronx, and his family didn’t hear from him. Community advocates Zahira Rodriguez, Ramon Soto, and Carmen Tavarez immediately went into action, created flyers, spread the word to thousands of people, and got the media to cover the story about Franyer going missing.
Franyer’s family confirmed to News 12 Sunday that the teen was found alive on a Manhattan train and they were in the hospital with him.

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Hezekiah Easter The First Black American To Be Elected Into Rockland County Legislature

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Hezekiah Easter, was inducted into the Rockland County Civil Rights Hall of Fame in 2003.  In his career and in the history of Rockland, Hezekiah Easter was often the first. He became the first Black person elected to public office in Rockland County 1965 when he won a seat on the Village of Nyack Board of Trustees. Easter served as deputy mayor and police commissioner in the village. In November 1969, he was elected as an inaugural member of the Rockland County Legislature.

Easter, a Nyack community leader ensured the preservation and restoration of a historic Black Cemetery (Mt. Moor Cemetery is currently surrounded by the Palisades Mall) and worked on behalf of social justice issues, including affordable housing and an integrated workforce.

” I am of the opinion that my life belongs to the community, and for as long as I live, it is my privilege to do for it whatever I can”  Yours in Christ, Trustee Ezekiah Easter.

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Rockland County At It’s Most Beautiful There Is No Better Way To Start The Day

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                  Beautiful Sunrise at Haverstraw Bay Park
                                                           Photo by Rockland Photographer, Owey Cramsie Jr.

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