TIMES
WALLKILL VALLEY
Arrest is
made in
Speights
stabbing
Vol. 34, No 50 3 WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 14, 2016
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Remembering Pearl Harbor
Memories surface at 75th Anniversary remembrance ceremony
SUNY Delhi student
faces second-degree
murder charge
By JESSICA COHEN
jcohen&tcnewspapers.com
When Ricky Schiaffo received a text on
Thursday, telling him that an arrest was
made in the killing of Justin Speights,
his firefighting comrade and friend since
second grade, he and numerous others
rushed to the Town of Crawford Court, he
said. They watched the suspect, Jauntae
Brown, 20, of Spring Valley, get out of the
police car in handcuffs and walk into the
building.
“He had no emotion on his face,”
said Schiaffo. “There was total silence
watching him go by.”
On Thursday, Brown was arrested
at SUNY Delhi, where he is a student,
according to Major Joseph Tripodo, New
York State Police Troop F Commander.
After Brown was arraigned at the Town of
Crawford Courthouse, he was remanded to
Orange County Jail without bail, Tripodo
said.
Schiaffo and his father, Ricky Schiaffo,
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Bruce Wilson, American Legion Osborn Fitzsimmons Post 521, holds the wreath he would drop into the Wallkill River commemorating
soldiers who never returned.
By JESSICA COHEN
jcohen&tcnewspapers.com
Veterans
described
lingering
memories, whether of a boat, a battle,
or a grocery store, at the Pearl Harbor
“remembrance ceremony” last week
at Powell’s Landing in the Village of
Montgomery. The event marked the
75th anniversary of Japan’s attack on
Pearl Harbor, which drew the U.S. into
World War II. Dozens of veterans from
Osborn-Fitzsimmons American Legion
Post of Montgomery and DusenberryFlannery VFW Post 2064 of Maybrook
participated in the ceremony on the
shore of the Wallkill River.
Rituals included the casting of a floral
wreath into the river to commemorate
those who never returned from the war,
followed by a brief sermon given by
Bob Santo, of Montgomery, in which he
noted that not all that happens reflects
divine “goodness and grace.”
When he asked veterans to talk about
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