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by Bill Batson The low-tech, durable whistle is still saving lives after centuries of service. Whistles were used by early police forces to disrupt crimes...
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by Bill Batson As a documentarian, Joe Allen uses films to explore the perverse arithmetic of racism and antisemitism. In Two Schools in Hillburn,...
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by Jace Tannenbaum On Friday, September 20, I skipped my afternoon classes at Nyack High School and travelled to Manhattan to participate in the...
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by Bill Batson When non-profits faced across the board reductions in funding in 2014, a group of women came together to break and raise...
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by Bill Batson Each September for the last three years, The Great Nyack Get-Together has made the Village of Nyack feel more like a...
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by Bill Batson Poets, performers, social commentators and town criers, rappers are the ultimate American media makers. The influence of the MC, with the...
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by Bill Batson Before Thurgood Marshall helped dismantle discrimination in education by his successful argument in Brown V. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas,...
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by Bill Batson Today is the eighth anniversary Nyack Sketch Log. Since 2011, I have published nearly 400 columns. The flow of ink forming...
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by Bill Batson After a 20 year-old used a rifle and handgun to kill 26 people, including 20 children between six and seven years...
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by Bill Batson Hartell’s in Upper Nyack has always been the kind of deli and market where the owner knows your name, and your...