An Albany Production of GRAFT as depicted by cartoonist Ed Chorba
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TIMELINES 4/11/13
County Legislature Expresses Support for Bohovesky Family During its April 3 meeting, the Rockland County Legislature passed a resolution expressing support for the family of Paula Bohovesky and urging the New York State Parole Board to deny parole to her killers. Bohovsky, 16 of Pearl River, was killed in 1980 by Richard LaBarbera and Robert […]
Heimlich Maneuvers to Help “Freedom Summer” — The Good Doctor comes through, will you help the cause too?
William Tucker, author of “Freedom Summer,” says Dr. Henry Heimlich, the 93-year-old inventor of the Heimlich Maneuver, has donated $8,000 of the $35,000 needed to take the play about civil voting rights and murder in Mississippi during the 1960s on a nationwide tour. Tucker and the Shades Reportory Theatre in Haverstraw hope with the help of Kickstarter […]
Brink’s Controversy Heats Up: Rockland PBA President Asks Columbia University President to Fire Kathy Boudin
Open letter from Rockland PBA President James J. Kelly to Columbia President Lee C. Bollinger Dear President Lee C. Bollinger, Last week we learned that Kathy Boudin was recently employed by Columbia University as an adjunct professor at the School of Social Work. On behalf of the hundreds of police officers serving in Rockland County and […]
Brad Pitt-Produced “True Story” to be Filmed Monday at Sparky’s Diner
The film will not be hiring extras from the community Memo to all Brad Pitt, Jonah Hill and James Franco fans: We don’t know if any of these stars will be in Garnerville for tomorrow’s shoot of the Pitt-produced flick “True Story,” but if they will be in North Rockland at all, tomorrow will be […]
Shades Repertory Seeks $35,000 to Fund National Tour of Play About Drive for Voter Freedom in 1960s Mississippi
BY GEORGE J. DACRE With a deadline of April 19, the Haverstraw-based theatre group Shades Rep is going to the Internet with Kickstart and doing advertising in the Rockand County Times, educational journals and theater publications to raise the funds to present a national tour of “Freedom Summer,” written by Stony Point resident William Tucker. […]