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Vol. 1, # 4 | January 29, 2007

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Jon Prusmack

The military has come a long way since those leaky, drafty, environmentally unfriendly MASH tents that were also anything but mobile as their acronym (Mobile Army Surgical Hospital) implied.

One of the pioneers of today’s quick-erect shelter systems is A. Jon Prusmack, chief executive officer of DHS Technologies L.L.C. (www.drash.com) in Orangeburg. With speed being the word out in a battlefield, one model, the 1,102-square-foot J series, can go up in 15 minutes.

 
 
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Health 'net'
Groups aim to share patient info without compromising privacy

By BRYAN F. YURCAN

In the future, the familiar sight in a typical doctor’s office of rows of filing shelves filled with folders full of patient information may be nothing but a memory.

 

 

 

The mountain is the same, but the name is new. The former Sterling Forest Ski Center is now called Tuxedo Ridge after three businessmen spent $750,000 on upgrades on and off the slopes.

 

 

 
By ALEXANDER SOULE

In touting newly secured Empire Zone incentives to expanding companies, Rockland County officials undoubtedly will showcase other sophisticated businesses with local operations, including Chromalloy New York, a turbine manufacturer owned by New York City-based Sequa Corp. that employs more than 400 people in the village of Orangeburg.

 

 

 
By BRYAN F. YURCAN

Gov. Eliot Spitzer last week appointed Daniel Gundersen as upstate chairman of the Empire State Development Corp. (ESDC), filling the role of the “upstate economic development czar” promised during his campaign.

 

 

 

The announcement came as no surprise to most people, but the timing couldn’t have been better for Hillary Rodham Clinton, New York’s junior senator and much-touted contender for the 2008 presidential race. While others slept or prayed for snow, Clinton announced her candidacy Jan. 20 in a media blitz that bombarded airwaves and e-mail boxes nationwide.

 

 

 

By KATHY KAHN

Wine expert Kevin Zraly says he loves his hometown of New Paltz, where he grew up in the shadow of Mohonk’s tower overlooking the Ulster County community. He learned his trade while attending SUNY-New Paltz and working in John Novi’s then-new Depuy Canal House where he dreamed of the fields of grapes growing and the world-class wines they produced.

 

 

 
By BRYAN F. YURCAN

State Sen. Bill Larkin, R-Cornwall-on-Hudson, was reappointed chairman of the State Senate Committee on Racing, Gaming, and Wagering by State Senate Majority Leader Joseph Bruno.

 

 
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