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Byline: Peter D. Kramer, Rockland/Westchester Journal News NEW CITY , N.Y. - The family of Josef Neumann - the 72-year-old great-grandfather who suffered the most serious harm of the five [...]

Byline: Peter D. Kramer, Rockland/Westchester Journal News In the past 14 months, if the wider world has noticed Rockland County at all, it has been because of Monsey, N.Y. First, [...]

Byline: Peter D. Kramer, Rockland/Westchester Journal News Long before lines and music are learned and a single ticket is sold comes the call that puts the high-school musical in motion: [...]

Byline: Peter D. Kramer, Rockland/Westchester Journal News Foster Bass has a college freshman son, Teddy, and twin 21/2-year-old girls, Beth and Lucy. What the South Nyack app developer doesn't have [...]

Byline: Peter D. Kramer, Rockland/Westchester Journal News Their exact origin is lost to history. Some say grave blankets began in Scandinavia, where families would place evergreen boughs on graves in [...]

Byline: Peter D. Kramer, Rockland/Westchester Journal News With snow showing up for the first time this fall, commuters can be forgiven if they break out in a cold sweat, remembering [...]

Byline: Peter D. Kramer, Rockland/Westchester Journal News This weekend, the table tennis world -- including a seven-time Olympian -- follows the bouncing ball to tiny Pleasantville, New York, focusing the [...]

Byline: Peter D. Kramer, Rockland/Westchester Journal News Verizon is getting out of creating hyperlocal news, announcing Wednesday that it is partnering with the rival it sought for 10 years to [...]

Byline: Peter D. Kramer, Rockland/Westchester Journal News As Verizon prepares in coming days to announce how it will move forward with hyper-local news in its post-RNN-contract world, New York lawmakers [...]

Byline: Peter D. Kramer, Rockland/Westchester Journal News Fifteen New York state senators, including Senate Majority Leader Andrea Stewart-Cousins and the chair of the powerful committee on energy and telecommunications, sent [...]

Byline: Peter D. Kramer, Rockland/Westchester Journal News Verizon Fios customers who want hyper-local news will have to wait a couple of weeks to find out what will replace the Fios1 [...]

Byline: Peter D. Kramer, Rockland/Westchester Journal News 'RNN remains open to discussion with Verizon and will continue to make the case that original local news is critical to the communities [...]

Byline: Peter D. Kramer, Rockland/Westchester Journal News The red Ford minivan hurtled down the fast lane of the northbound Taconic State Parkway in Mount Pleasant -- but it wasn't going [...]

Byline: Peter D. Kramer, North Jersey Record Yes, there was the massive Saturn V rocket and the LEM and the Command Module we've been hearing so much about in the [...]

Byline: Peter D. Kramer, Rockland/Westchester Journal News 'If you're in the business of revenue generating from parking and you still have a chalk fairy, you've just been put into the [...]

Byline: Peter D. Kramer 'I love going to my office. I love being with these young people.' Frank Lucianna Attorney, the 96-year-old dean of the criminal bar in Bergen County [...]

Byline: Peter D. Kramer, Rockland/Westchester Journal News Dolly Levi's going to need another business card, one that reads 'Dolly Gallagher Levi: Metro winner.' At Monday's 21st annual Metropolitan High School [...]

Byline: Peter D. Kramer and Joshua Jongsma, Rockland/Westchester Journal News WEST POINT, N.Y.-- Christopher James 'C.J.' Morgan, of the U.S. Military Academy Class of 2020, was the cadet killed when [...]

Byline: Steve Lieberman and Peter D. Kramer, Rockland/Westchester Journal News 'It's very rough terrain. You can see the hills we have here. We want to make sure that our soldiers [...]

Byline: Peter D. Kramer The last time New York radio station WPLJ went silent, it was because Yoko Ono asked it to. On Friday, the iconic New York station, on [...]

Byline: Peter D. Kramer Don't look now, but we are in a Catskills moment, and this is no summer fling. This moment hopes to live long past Labor Day, powered [...]

Byline: Peter D. Kramer, Rockland/Westchester Journal News Rachel Zegler is honored to be nominated for an outstanding-leading-actress Metro Award for the fourth straight year, but Steven Spielberg's 'West Side Story' [...]

Byline: Peter D. Kramer, Rockland/Westchester Journal News If it is an honor just to be nominated, there were plenty of honors to go around after last week's announcement of nominees [...]

Byline: Peter D. Kramer, Rockland/Westchester Journal News Patti and Joseph Ranieri's photos couldn't capture just how small their newborn girl, Tess, was when she was born on July 19, 2008 [...]

Byline: Peter D. Kramer, Rockland/Westchester Journal News Before there can be the 21st annual Metro awards -- honoring achievements in high-school musicals in Bergen, Rockland, Putnam and Westchester counties -- [...]

Byline: Peter D. Kramer, North Jersey Record When Michael Douglas first arrived on the set of Chuck Lorre's Netflix comedy 'The Kominsky Method' last year, he hit a 50-year time [...]

Byline: Peter D. Kramer, Rockland/Westchester Journal News It seems harmless enough: a swipe of chalk to mark a vehicle's tire. Parking officials see it as a tool, a way of [...]

Byline: Peter D. Kramer, Rockland/Westchester Journal News 'These people came and they took our innocence away from us in Nyack.' Barbara Thornton Nyack resident NYACK, N.Y.- Less than 24 hours [...]

Byline: Peter D. Kramer, USA TODAY NETWORK - NEW JERSEY Friday was big for Clifton's Rachel Zegler. It was opening night for 'Shrek,' her last musical at Immaculate Conception High [...]

Byline: Peter D. Kramer, Rockland/Westchester Journal News In Maddie Corman's life, and in her one-woman show 'Accidentally Brave,' now running Off-Broadway, time is measured in days A.T.I. -- 'After The [...]

Byline: Peter D. Kramer, North Jersey Record WEST POINT, N.Y. -- Brady Miller has spent 16 of his 21 years competing in organized sports, with his parents looking on from [...]

Byline: Peter D. Kramer, Rockland/Westchester Journal News Now that the New York state Legislature is considering congestion pricing for drivers traveling south of 61st Street in Manhattan, it got us [...]

Byline: Peter D. Kramer, Rockland/Westchester Journal News To hear John Pizzarelli tell it, Nat King Cole had him at 'Paper Moon.' The Jersey jazzman is once again celebrating Cole, the [...]

Byline: Peter D. Kramer, Rockland/Westchester Journal NewsSavvy New York commuters know two things about getting around in the Tappan Zee Bridge corridor: Leave plenty of time, and you never know [...]

Byline: Peter D. Kramer, Rockland/Westchester Journal NewsThey were preparing to demolish the Tappan Zee Bridge, but the wind was blowing too hard. Saturday's planned demolition of the Tappan Zee Bridge [...]

Byline: Peter D. Kramer, Rockland/Westchester Journal News NYACK - When it comes to plans to add housing in the village, there's done, there's digging and there's drawing board. If you [...]

Byline: Peter D. Kramer, USA TODAY NETWORK Happy birthday, America! When are you taking off? Federal, state and local offices will be closed on Wednesday, July 4. Wednesday. As in [...]

Byline: Peter D. Kramer Fair Lawn High School's production of the musical 'Once,' about an Irish street musician who finds a muse in a lonely Czech woman, was named outstanding [...]

Byline: Peter D. Kramer, Rockland/Westchester Journal News For 14 years, Karen Keeler fell for The Rockettes. Literally. As a Rockette -- first in the 'Christmas Across America' national touring companies [...]

Byline: Peter D. Kramer, Rockland/Westchester Journal News Walt Nygard's Marine uniforms were long gone. 'They disappeared into a Goodwill bin back in 1970,' shortly after he returned from his tour [...]

Byline: Peter D. Kramer, Rockland/Westchester Journal News Walt Nygard's Marine uniforms were long gone. 'They disappeared into a Goodwill bin back in 1970,' shortly after he returned from his tour [...]

Byline: Peter D. Kramer What does inspiration look like? For participants in 'Bridging Art,' lohud's Sept. 26 arts salon at Union Arts Center in Sparkill, inspiration is in the eye [...]

Byline: Peter D. Kramer, pkramer@lohud.com Matthew Weiss still gets worked up telling the story, the story he has been working on for more than six years, the story that captivated [...]

Byline: Peter D. Kramer, pkramer@lohud.com SLEEPY HOLLOW - Uncle Junior's daughter has a story to tell, but she insists she's no snitch. Rebecca Chianese, the daughter of Dominic Chianese -- [...]

Byline: PETER D. KRAMER and SALLY L. SATEL The mental health of Donald Trump has been under scrutiny since he began running for president. Now 28 Democratic Congress members have [...]

The mental health of Donald Trump has been under scrutiny since he began running for president. Now 28 Democratic Congress members have signed on to a bill, introduced in April, [...]

Byline: Peter D. Kramer, Poughkeepsie Journal Thanks to a supercrane that could lift a dozen Statues of Liberty at one time, a Hudson River crossing north of New York City [...]

Byline: Peter D. Kramer, pkramer@lohud.com SUFFERN - Some hear the jackhammers rat-a-tat-tatting at 120 Orange Ave., a stone's throw from where Lafayette Avenue dead-ends at the train tracks, and consider [...]

Byline: Peter D. Kramer Northern Valley Old Tappan, Bergen County Academies and Demarest's Academy of the Holy Angels were the Bergen schools that won awards. PURCHASE, N.Y. - Archbishop Stepinac [...]

Byline: Peter D. Kramer, USA TODAY NETWORK Sunday night are The Tonys, honoring the best of Broadway. Monday night come The Metros, the awards for outstanding achievements among participating schools [...]