New Square mayor dies at 91 - Rockland County Times
New Square mayor dies at 91 Mates Friesel, the first and only mayor of the Hasidic enclave of New Square, died on August 1 at the age of 91. Friesel had been mayor since the Village of New Square was incorporated in 1961, maintaining the role... Friesel’s storied career began long before New Square when he traveled from Poland to Brooklyn after the Holocaust and helped established the first Orthodox Jewish community in Ramapo with former Grandd Rebbe Yaakov Yosef Twersky. Since then, the village population has expanded to almost 7,000 and Friesel became a powerful voice in both local and national politics, even meeting with former President Jimmy Carter during his term of office. The mayor also presided over the village’s numerous controversies and scandals, including the contentious plan for a poultry plant on Route 45 and a federal investigation into theft of government funds which led to convictions for several New... Former Subway pitchman Jared Fogle to plead guilty to child porn charge. Jared Fogle, 37, who rose to fame as Subway’s official pitchman after he shed hundreds of pounds eating only the fast food chain’s sandwiches, pled guilty on Wednesday to charges of child pornography and statutory rape. Source: www.rocklandtimes.com
