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Playground Ribbon Cutting, Orangetown Budget Hearing

Find out what's happening this week in and around Pearl River.

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Monday, Oct. 21

  • The ribbon-cutting ceremony at the new playground at Franklin Avenue Elementary School in Pearl River begins at 2 p.m. 
  • Former President Bill Clinton will be in Nyack for a fundraiser for Rockland County executive candidate David Fried, a fellow Democrat. The event is set for 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. at the Nyack Seaport. 
Tuesday, Oct. 22
  • The Pearl River School District Board of Education meets 7:30 p.m. Tuesday in the district administration building on Crooked Hill Road.
  • The Orangetown Town Council will hold a public hearing regarding a local law that would allow the board to override the state mandated tax cap for the 2014 budget at the regular meeting in town hall Tuesday night. The meeting begins at 7:30 p.m. with the public hearing set for 8 p.m. The town council's preliminary budget for 2014 is also due to be submitted Tuesday. The full meeting agenda is on the Orangetown website here
Wednesday, Oct. 23 
  • School Counselors of Rockland County will hold its 40th annual College Night from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. in the Eugene Levy Fieldhouse at Rockland Community College. Read more here
Saturday, Oct. 26
  • The SOCASA/SADD Annual Walk/Run is scheduled for 10 a.m. at the South Orangetown Middle School at 160 Van Wyck Road in Blauvelt. The event is sponsored by South Orangetown Community Awareness of Substance Abuse and Students Against Destructive Decisions. Registration is at 9 .m.
  • Activities related to Nyack's 26th Annual Halloween Parade begin 3 p.m. in the Main Street Parking lot. Marchers and floats gather in Memorial Park at 4 p.m., with the parade stepping off at 5:30 p.m.


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