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If you think about where your food comes, then prepare your favorite healthy dish using locally grown foods and bring it to a fun gathering of like minded individuals.
We are the Rockland County chapter of the Weston A. Price Foundation, and will be meeting this Sunday at 4pm. RSVP information below.
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About one in ten Rocklanders smoke, leading New York’s 62 counties with the lowest percentage of residents who light up. But that number is still too high, according to the state’s Department of Health. The NYS DOH has released a new series of commercials meant to shock New Yorkers and remind them why they should quit.
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Nyack’s Hook Mountain Growers and Dr. Pamela Yee were featured on WNYC last week in a story about the medicinal aspects of bitter melon, a tropical fruit which is every bit as bitter as its name implies. Yee is co-owner of Hook Mountain Growers, a farm where “all plants are biodynamically, organically, and sustainably grown.”
As both a physician and a farmer, Yee can speak to the health implications of bitter melon — a delicacy which fits into the “acquired taste” category.
Filed under: As Others See Us, Health, People, Rockland County by admin
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San Francisco lawmakers say that just because you are wireless you shouldn’t be worry-less. There’s a new law in the city by the bay that requires cell phone sellers to show the Specific Absorption Rate (SAR) of electromagnetic radiation for each cell phone model. This act has reignited public concern about radiation from cell phones and the possible affects of their prolonged use.
The cell phone industry has sued the city of San Francisco to stop the law saying there is no scientific evidence linking cell phone radiation to an increase in health problems. “Peer-reviewed scientific evidence has overwhelmingly indicated that wireless devices do not pose a public health risk,” the international wireless industry association CTIA told Time magazine last Fall. “I am disappointed that the…wireless communication industry has decided to challenge our landmark consumer information law in court,” says San Francisco mayor Gavin Newsom.
Upper Nyack, July 2, 7:30p — United Water and the Rockland County Department 
of Health have ended the five day “boil water” advisory that had been in effect since June 28.
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June 29, 8:20a — United Water has issued an advisory to Upper Nyack residents to boil water following a required service shutdown at Lake Deforest Treatment Plant on Monday. Customers are being told to boil their water until further notice.
The advisory affects Upper Nyack and a limited number of homes in Valley Cottage (404-406 Christian Herald Road). Continue reading →
Orange & Rockland has declared a Heat Watch for today with a predicted high temperature of 92 degrees in the Lower Hudson region.
A Heat Watch means non-emergency work on the electric distribution and transmission systems will be deferred and system engineers will closely monitor the loads throughout the electrical distribution system.
by Dave Zornow
Rockland County, Updated June 6 — Legislators will dip into a contingency fund to pay for the county’s effort to prevent mosquito-borne diseases. The 2010-11 county budget had stripped funding for the annual program leaving the responsibility to treat catch basins to town and village governments.
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by Bea Frien
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I have no idea whether or not there are any laws against raising bees in Nyack specifically but then I have always been someone who would rather apologize later than ask permission first.
So for now I will be a surreptitious beekeeper.
Filed under: Biking/Outdoor, Environmt/Green, Health, Rockland County by admin
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by Bill Demarest
Rocklander Jimmy McNicholas, killed in a hit and run incident in Pearl River last year, will be remembered with a community blood drive on Tuesday, Feb. 23 sponsored by the Stony Point Police Benevolent Association.
The blood drive will be held from 3 to 9p at the Stony Point Police Department multi-purpose room, 79 Route 210 in Stony Point.
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