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Joining Tedesco and enjoying the celebration, are: Bergen County Freeholder Steven A. Tanelli, center, and Rockland Electric Company’s Kate Wysokowski, near right, and Linda Feger, far right.

December 13, 2019

Bergen County’s Winter Wonderland A Dream Come True for A 4th Year

Pictured here is O&R’s Kelly Rolo, of Goshen, honoring one of the fallen, on December 7.

December 10, 2019

O&R Donates $5,000, Helps Place Holiday Wreaths On All West Point Graves

Pictured here, center, on the front steps of one of the Homes for Heroes apartments in Tappan, organization co-founder John Murphy describes plans for expansion to O&R volunteers who took part in the fundraising event: far right, Jacqueline Frosco; near left, Siobhan Keane-Revie and, far left, Jennifer Hall.

November 25, 2019

O&R Employees Raise $16,000 for Homeless Veterans’ Housing in Rockland

Pictured here, admiring some of the photos, are, on left, RCC President Dr. Michael A. Baston and, right, O&R’s Director of Corporate Affairs Tom Brizzolara.

November 14, 2019

Vintage O&R Photos Grace New RCC Market at Company’s Former HQ In Nyack

Pictured here, from left, are the adults in the room: Benito Herrero (with microphone), O&R Regional and Community Affairs Manager and Rotary member Michael Grant, North Rockland Rotary Club president Jake Cataldo and NRRC members Ileana Eckert, Joseph Truhon, Eileen Lima, Claudia Depkin, Gary Mower and Sonia Crannage.

October 11, 2019

O&R, North Rockland Rotary Share The Power Of Words

Pictured here at the event are, from left: Youth Council President Gillian Parris from North Rockland High School and O&R’s Manager of Strategic Partnerships Linda Feger.

September 27, 2019

O&R Supports ‘Success’ at Nyack NAACP Youth Event

O&R donates $15,000 for Back to School with Dignity effort

August 26, 2019

O&R Donates $15,000 for Needy Kids' School Supplies

Making a new farm friend at the chicken coop at the Rockland Farm Alliance Agricultural Education Program in New City last week are, from left: Aidan Smith, Ellie McCluskey and Ella Smith.

August 21, 2019

O&R Awards $20,000 to Rockland Farm Alliance Education Program

students at STAC summer program analyze blood spatter

August 19, 2019

O&R Donates $50,000 to STAC Middle School STEAM Program

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July 30, 2019

Orange & Rockland Grant Funds Science Duo’s Stem Summer Studies Program

From left: Regina Soriano, staff and Pamela Van Den Berg, board member, both holding Rom; Christine Swanson Dykshorn, foundation co-founder; Vaughan Wiles, board member, holding Applause; O&R Regional and Community Affairs Manager Michael Grant, shouldering Jack, Christine’s son; Gloria Smith, foundation president; and Corey DeMala, foundation co-founder and licensed mental-health professional, holding RockStarr.

July 9, 2019

O&R Calls In the Cavalry to Help Heal Suffering Local Veterans

Here, on the stage of the Penguin Rep in Stony Point, marking O&R’s $10,000 donation, are: O&R’s Strategic Partnerships Manager Linda Feger, O&R’s Corporate Affairs Director Tom Brizzolara; Kennedy: Bobby’s Last Crusade’s author and solo performer David Arrow and O&R’s Strategic Partnerships’ Lisa Culhane. Kennedy: Bobby’s Last Crusade is now playing at the Penguin Rep Theatre.

June 24, 2019

That's Entertainment! O&R Donates $10,000 to Help Support Penguin Rep

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June 19, 2019

O&R Makes North Rockland High School Student's Baseball Dream Come True

Pictured here, from left, are: O&R Smart Grid Manager Ben Brown, a Leadership Orange board member; O&R Vice President – Operations Francis Peverly; Leadership Orange Executive Director Karolyn Thompson; O&R Project Manager Diego Morales, a Leadership Orange 2019 graduate; Leadership Orange Board President Sarita Bhandarkar; O&R Department Manager -Project Management Suzanne Sweeney and O&R Regional and Community Affairs Manager Eric Fuentes, a previous Leadership Orange graduate and former board member.

June 17, 2019

O&R's Morales Graduates from Leadership Orange

O&R's United Way team at United Way recognition breakfast

June 7, 2019

United Way Honors O&R for Top-Donor Fundraising Campaign

Pictured from left - O&R's Director of Regional and Community Affairs Neil Winter, a past president of the Spring Valley Rotary; retired Spring Valley Police Chief Howard Goldin, a past president of the Spring Valley Rotary; O&R's Corporate Affairs Director Tom Brizzolara, a past president of the South Orangetown Rotary; and Ramapo Town Clerk Christian Sampson, the current president of the Spring Valley Rotary.

May 24, 2019

Spring Valley Rotary Honors Orange & Rockland For 'Outstanding Community Service'

Pictured, from left, are: O&R’s Eric Fuentes, honorees Maureen Crush and Kellyann Kostyal-Larrie, and O&R’s Michael Grant.

May 24, 2019

Legal Services of the Hudson Valley Honors 2019 Partners in Justice

Life Science teacher Megan Weiboldt, middle right, explains to O&R’s Manager of Strategic Partnerships Linda Feger, middle left, the operation of the ultra-sound sensors on a LEGO Mindstorms EV3 robot during class at the Port Jervis Middle School. The robot, which was made possible by an O&R STEM Classroom Grant last year, is under the control of seventh graders Zaine Storms, left foreground, and Jose Tapia-Mejia.

May 15, 2019

Over 60 Innovative STEM Projects Win O&R Grants Totaling More Than $54,000

Students outdoors in school courtyard looking at a solar power station.

May 15, 2019

O&R Grant Lights the Way for Bergen Classroom Solar Energy Studies

students sitting at a table holding small robots

May 15, 2019

O&R STEM Grant Helps Robots Guide Pearl River Students About New York

Port Jervis Middle School Life Science teacher Megan Wieboldt briefs her seventh grade students on the finer points of operating a LEGO Mindstorms EV3 robot made possible by an O&R STEM Classroom Grant last year. Students, all paying close attention, are: first row, from left, Dorien Belice and Ethan McCoy; second row, from left, Evan Reilly and Alexa Bennett; third row, from left, Addison McElroy and Ivan Figueroa; far right, partially hidden by Megan’s shoulder is Andre Martin.

May 15, 2019

O&R Stem Grant Helps Guide Port Jervis Students on a Journey of Discovery

Con Edison's President & CEO, John McAvoy and O&R's President & CEO, Bob Sanchez, with LOV Award winner, O&R's James Quackenbush

April 16, 2019

O&R's Quackenbush Named a Con Edison Top Award Winner

Raymond Ahmadi, left, at his carwash in Pearl River, discusses his brush with a crook on the telephone with O&R’s Shoko Saito, left, who broke up the robbery attempt.

April 16, 2019

Off-Duty O&R Employee Thwarts Attempted Telephone Scam Robbery

Pictured here are, from left, front row: Summit Park students Marvin Marroquin, Likzy Lopez and Lourdes Acero: Second Row: Edgid Mondestin, Bardoni Camille and Alyson Yanez; Back Row: Rotarians Scott Milich, Marta Rodriguez, Beckerle Lumber’s Larry Beckerle, O&R’s Neil Winter, Joel Klein and O&R’s Mark Beamish.

April 15, 2019

O&R, Beckerle Lumber, Spring Valley Rotary, Branch Out, Get to the Roots of Arbor Day

Pictured here Saturday at the airport are: Allison Culhane, World War II veteran Ralph Manglass, who was making the D.C. trip that day, Damon Williams, Jim Valentine and Vontelle McCall.

April 15, 2019

O&R Donates $15,000 to Help Support Veterans' Hudson Valley Honor Flight

Woman outside holding garbage bag while man and two children fill it up.

April 8, 2019

O&R Donates $30,000 to Rockland Environmental Education Program

Pictured here at the Fifth Friday meeting at the Stony Hill Inn in Hackensack on March 29 are, from left: Rockland Electric Company’s Michelle Reid Jones, JoAnne Seibel and Jacqui Frosco, and Bergen Volunteer Center Board of Directors member Angelina Brady and CEO Lynne Algrant.

April 5, 2019

Rockland Electric Company Donates $10,000 to Bergen Volunteer Center

Pictured here, putting the finishing touches on the SO BOTZ team’s entry from Tappan Zee High School in Orangeburg are: SO BOTZ faculty advisor and computer science teacher Karen Connell, O&R’s Linda Feger, mentor/teacher Marc Eckert and SO BOTZ team member and student Lucy Barsanti.

March 26, 2019

O&R Donates $20,000 to Rockland High Schools' Robot Builders

Honors Abound at Sojourner Truth Awards

March 14, 2019

Honors Abound at Sojourner Truth Awards

Bergen County Executive James J.Tedesco, center, talks last week about some of the highlights of the successful 2018 Winter Wonderland spectacular, and his plans for next year’s bigger and better pageant to Rockland Electric Company’s Linda Feger, right, and Bergen County Director of Parks and Recreation James Koth, left.

January 29, 2019

Bergen Winter Wonderland a Big Hit Again This Year

Pictured here working at the cleanup with 25 other O&R volunteers are Brian Nugent, right, and his son Colin, both Middletown residents.

January 28, 2019

O&R Volunteers Clean Up Holiday Wreaths From West Point Graves

These third-graders in Jennifer LaBier’s class at Stony Point Elementary School are pictured here hard at work on a STEM-oriented project funded by O&R’s 2016-2017 STEM Classroom Grants program.

January 14, 2019

Calling All Teachers: O&R Puts Up $35,000 for Classroom STEM Projects

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