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Sprinkler Fitters Union Recruits Apprentices
It's a year-long recruitment period for a small number of apprentices.

She moved to Ossining from Maryland many years ago and is still amazed at the system of government in New York. After 20 years she moved up the river to Croton-on-Hudson (a community she covered for The Journal News back in the day), then in 2014 she moved to Carmel, and now she lives in Mahopac.
She skewed Brown University's four-year completion stats by taking a semester off to find herself.
She and husband Jim have two children, both products of the Ossining public schools. The elder graduated from SUNY Stony Brook; the younger from the University of Toronto.
She spends her spare time studying theology, which amuses her family and friends. She sings in the Hudson Chorale.
Reach her at lanning.taliaferro@patch.com
It's a year-long recruitment period for a small number of apprentices.

A program begun at the height of the coronavirus outbreak in New York, it connects farmers with broken supply chains to hungry families.
Police said the operator, now hospitalized, had been driving on three tires.
"This is a dramatic turn of events in what was a warm start to April," said Alex Marra and Bill Potter of Hudson Valley Weather.
She crashed in Rockland County, New York State police said.
The governor visited the Angry Orchard cidery to make an announcement about mobile vaccination clinics.
But if you will not be able to return for the next visit, do not make an appointment.
One community activist says the school board, whose mismanagement created a massive budget problem this winter, can't be trusted.
The library is helping people reminisce. It's a great family project for Mother’s Day and Father’s Day.
Health officials called for a pause in the use of the J&J coronavirus vaccine due to rare cases of blood clotting in women age 18-48.
The rules change depending on the size of the ceremony and where it's going to take place. Here are the details.
He is accused of driving without a license but with more than 1,000 pills of Ecstasy.
The Hasidic yeshiva that bought Nyack College wants the lawsuit dismissed.
He was arraigned after a year-long investigation.
Calls came to police and the TIP411 hotline about open-air drug transactions, law enforcement officials said.
She is survived by her husband of 60 years, David W. Carpenter, Sr.
Firefighters from several neighboring departments helped the Nanuet Fire Department.
An advocate for animals, she was involved in organizations including the SPCA in Briarcliff, the Humane Society and the Nature Conservancy.
A retired corrections officer, he was a parishioner of St. Augustine’s Church in Ossining.
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