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Bob Baird, local columnist for The Journal News in Rockland County, has worked for the newspaper since 1972, spending many of those years editing or commenting on the news in the county he calls home. From 1976 to 1984, Bob was news editor, managing editor and executive editor in Rockland. During that time, the newspaper was a finalist for a Pulitzer Prize and twice won The Associated Press Managing Editors Association's national community service award.
Bob had been honored for his editorials by the New York State Bar Association, for his columns by the New York State Associated Press Association and for his feature writing in the Best of Gannett Competition. Bob also worked in a variety of editing roles in Westchester before becoming local columnist in Rockland. As local columnist, he has been honored by the Rockland County Association for the Learning Disabled as its Humanitarian of The Year in 2001 and by HOGAR in 2003 for his efforts to highlight the need for affordable housing in Rockland. In 2004, he received the County Executive Arts Award from the Arts Council of Rockland in the Literary Artist category.
Bob, who now lives in Nanuet, raised his three grown children in Suffern, where he lived for almost 30 years. He devotes his spare time to making it possible for people with disabilities to enjoy the game he loves — baseball. In 1993 he was a founder of the Rockland County Challenger Little League, for children with a wide range of special needs. In 2002, he founded Touching Bases, a similar league for 240 adults with disabilities, which now has affiliates in Buffalo, N.Y. and Richmond, Va., with others in the planning stages.
E-mail Bob Baird at rbaird@lohud.com
The Rockland County American Legion will continue a 58-year-old tradition on Sunday, Feb. 1, at the Marian Shrine in West Haverstraw, saluting the sacrifice by four chaplains serving aboard the troop transport USS Dorchester when it was torpedoed and sank during World War II.
The Dorchester was making a dangerous crossing from Newfoundland to Greenland, an [...]
When Ronald Reagan was sworn in as president on Jan. 20, 1981, replacing President Jimmy Carter, the event was both historic and tension-filled.
For 444 days, 53 Americans had been held hostage in Iran, a captivity that grew out of an attack on the U.S. Embassy in Tehran. The standoff between Iran’s Islamic fundamentalist government and [...]
Soon to be President Barack Obama’s search for shovel-ready public works projects need not look any further than the Trans-Hudson Express Tunnel that’s part of the Port Authority and NJ Transit project called Access to the Region’s Core.
The tunnel will connect New Jersey to midtown Manhattan’s West Side at 34th Street, doubling the hourly number [...]
So now safety experts aren’t satisfied that we’ve adapted to going hands-free. Now they want us to stop using cell phones all together while driving.
The idea here is to save lives, so you just can’t poke much fun at it, but for one, I think I concentrate more on the road if I’m using a [...]
Looks like Peter Visich will be behind bars for a while longer, serving the life-without-parole sentence imposed in 2004 in his conviction for hiring a hit man to kill his wife and make it look like the work of an intruder.
A state Appellate Division panel has upheld the Visich convictions, but his lawyer expects [...]
To their credit, crews from the Town of Clarkstown and the state Department of Transportation were out early, hitting the roads with material shortly after the snow began to fall in Nanuet. Crews in other towns likely were out too, and good thing.
Where roads were treated this morning, the going was easy. But where trucks [...]
We’re well into Christmas Eve and judging from traffic while I was running an errand a little while ago, lots of people have places to be and for a lot of those people, the place is the Palisades Center.
I had to run up to Pomona around 2:30 and the cars were moving well on the [...]
Time was, if you were crossing the Tappan Zee either way, you got to pay the toll.
Eventually, the westbound toll booth came down and the toll went one-way. Commuters got a break with a book of tickets that pretty much lasted a month, unless, like me, you found daily reasons for extra trips, like going [...]
I was out running errands on a day off when the snow started to fall in Rockland just about 12 hours ago.
As usual, I tried to keep up with the snowfall or even get ahead. It’s just too risky to sit and watch the snow all day and then try to dig out in one [...]
Each year a ceremony involving the slaughter of a huge number of chickens creates a furor when the ritual’s site is left strewn with feces, feathers and other debris.
The organizers of the kapparot ritual, in which a live chicken is held above a person’s head and moved in a circle three times before it is [...]
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