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Kathy Reakes
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Kathy Reaks has worked as a reporter in the local news business since 1984, starting as a news clerk and working her way up. She spent 17 years at Florida Today in Melbourne, Florida as a general assignment reporter, crime reporter, entertainment reporter and restaurant critic. She worked four years at Hometown News as a general assignment reporter, then another two years at Spacecoast Daily in Cocoa Beach, Florida. She attended Eastern Florida State College in Melbourne, Florida.
Three Behind Bars Following Violent Robbery, Attack, State Police Say
Three men are behind bars after allegedly invading a home, dragging a resident outside, and then beating and robbing them.
The incident was reported on Friday, May 1, when New York State Police responded to a Sullivan County home in Loch Sheldrake for a reported attack, said New York State Police Trooper Steven Nevel.
Desaan Clark, 19, and Unique Junior, 21, both of Monticello, along with Kaseem Mcneal, 26, of Hurleysville, allegedly went to the home on Wednesday, April 29, and dragged a resident from the home and repeatedly hit the victim.
The victim was robbed of clothing, an iPhon…
Hundreds Honor Memory Of Deputy Fire Chief In Westchester Who Died Of Covid- 19
Hundreds of firefighters turned out wearing masks and dress uniforms to pay tribute to a beloved Westchester deputy fire chief following his death from the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) as he was transported from White Plains Hospital to an area funeral home.
Deputy Chief Edward Ciocca, 62, a White Plains native, died Friday, May 1, due to complications from COVID-19, said the White Plains Professional Fire Fighters.
Ciocca, a third-generation firefighter, worked for the department for 35 years, rising through the ranks to become deputy chief in 1999.
His grandfather, Edward J. MacDon…
Longtime, Popular Westchester HS Coach Dies From Complications Of Covid- 19
Family, students, friends, and fellow employees are grieving the loss of a mainstay of the Valhalla School District for more than 40 years from the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic.
Nicholas Modugno, 91, died on Wednesday, April 29, from complications of COVID-19.
Modugno was known to all simply as Mr. D. or Coach D., said William McGuinn, the former president and a member of the Valhalla Board of Education.
He taught and coached the children of Valhalla for more than 40 years, spanning into six decades. Even after his retirement in 2000, Modugno continued to be an ever-presen…
'The Day The World Changed,' Northern Westchester Girl Reflects On Covid- 19 Pandemic
The following are thoughts on the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic from a 12-year-old Northern Westchester County resident: Alexandria Pryzgoda, a student at the Lakeland Copper Beech Middle School in Shrub Oak:
We went home joking, we thought it would never get this bad, we thought staying home would be fun.
Boy were we wrong. We were told not to go to school, we were told it would be for about a week.
We left New York to stay safe, to keep me safe. We went to New Hampshire, it was safer there. We could still go outside, to the beach, and to the store,…
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Alexandria Pryzgoda
05/04/2020
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