Pearl River Week in Review: Awards, Lots of Ice Cream

The promise of ice cream drew a crowd of hundreds to the Central Avenue Field in Pearl River Friday. The Franklin Ave. Playground Committee organized the building of a 406-foot, eight-inch ice cream sundae, more than double the Guinness World Record. 

That was just one of the highlights of the past week in Pearl River.

• Saturday during a reception for artists from Pearl River schools, the Pearl River Public Library officially named its art space the Paula Bohovesky Art Gallery. 
• Pearl River High School honored its seniors last Monday, and then focused on the athletes Wednesday at the 14th Annual Senior Sports Awards Dinner at the Pearl River Elks Club in Nanuet. Christa Scognamiglio and Joey Clinton were named Pearl River High School's top female and male athletes for 2011-12. The Pearl River Board of Education also honored some of the district's top varsity athletes at its meeting Tuesday. 
• Two of those athletes, Kieran Brennan and Tom Bonaro, teamed with Clinton and Stephen McNiff to win the state championship in the 4 X 800 Relay Saturday, breaking their own school record with a time of 7:42.45.
• Some of those very same students were in the Pearl River Public Library Thursday for the Rotary Club of Pearl River's Scholarship Awards ceremony. 
• Tuesday night was a busy one, with the Orangetown Board holding key discussions at its workshop meeting. One primary focus was the ongoing contract negotiation between the town and the PBA. Another is Rockland County's plan to push the expense of college charge-backs onto the towns. 
• Albertus Magnus High School junior Alyson Benoit announced that the George Bergerman Youth Activities Fund had reached its goal of raising enough money to bring back Orangetown's Youth Police Academy for 2012.