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Rockland. section Tuesday, August 3, 1993 Rockland Journal-News Leave ac -names must one" Rockland Watch B2 Obituaries D2 Business D6 Local news editor Greg Clary, 578-2424 Man beaifien beffoire byteheirSini ROCKLAND REPORT Route 9W rest stop on Saturday morning, the county medical examiner said yesterday. Michael Sakara, however, probably died from numerous blows to his head with a blunt instrument possibly a meat cleaver before his arms and head were severed from his torso, Medical Examiner Dr. Frederick Zugibe said. Sakara's skull had multiple West Side.

Detectives from Haverstraw village police and District Attorney's Office were working with New York City police. District Attorney Kenneth Gri-betz said Sakara was last seen alive on Friday morning and was probably killed that night or early Saturday. At the weekly "The New York Law Journal," where Sakara worked in the composing room, there was shock that a co-worker had been killed, said Harvey Uklist, the paper's personnel director. Uklist described Sakara, who had worked at the paper for a year, as a quiet man who kept to himself. Sakara, 56, apparently did not have friends, relatives or property in Rockland, Gribetz said.

He is survived by his parents in Florida and a sister in Santa Fe, N.M. Woman makes judicial history First in county to be town justice By Glenn Blain Staff Writer NEW CITY Last night, Clare McCue-Cincotta fulfilled a. dream and made history. McCue-Cincotta became the county's first woman town judge after being appointed by the Town Board's three Democrats to succeed Harry Edelstein, whose resignation was formally accepted last night. r' McCue-Cincotta, a Democrat running for the bench in November, will preside over her first case today.

"This appointment is not only a great honor, but it is also a great respon NEW JUDGE: McCue-Cincotta fills post left open by Edelstein A Victim struck with blunt object, says medical examiner By Stephen Britton Staff Writer HAVERSTRAW A Manhattan man was butchered just hours before his severed head and arms were placed in a trash can at i 1 s- -r-r a cuts, said Zugibe. The condition of the body parts indicated they were removed within a few hours of their discovery by vendor Ron Colandrea. Police continued searching yesterday for Sakara's torso and legs, Haverstraw village Police Chief Jay Reilly said. The search for Sakara's killer or killers continued in Manhattan, where Sakara lived on the Upper 1 1 counselors and social workers the opportunity to learn what was impossible to glean from the pages of a textbook. More memories of those early years at Killoleet.

Camp director was John Seeger, brother of folksinger Pete. Singing "Goodnight Irene" around a camp fire while roasting marshmallows on a stick you had just whittled with the pocket knife that often became a camper's best friend. Sending home a bracelet and lanyard made in crafts. Knowing your parents had no use for those items, except to show friends how clever their child was. Skinny dipping at 6 a.m.

in a Vermont lake is an experience one never forgets. It's a great way to jump-start your day. Goose pimples until lunch. I remember the annual departures from Grand Central Station in Manhattan. Thousands of kids going off to dozens of camps throughout New England.

Trunks filled with clothes, each item having your name tag Thruway Authority yesterday designated the E-ZPass lane as an exact toll lane. This change required that cars come to a stop as they reach the toll plaza. The E-ZPass system is designed to record toll transactions using an electronic box about the size of a credit card inside vehicles participating in the program. The 2,000 motorists participating in the pilot program at the Spring Valley Toll Plaza were originally told that they could pass through the toll booth area at 15 mph when they signed up. To avoid confusion yesterday morning, Thruway employees spent the weekend calling E-ZPass customers to tell them about the EZPASS continues B2 Only one bid for unused school SPRING VALLEY The East Ramapo School District's attempts to lease the Bluefield School were once again up in the air yesterday as the district received only one bid for the building.

The Widman Terrace building has been tangled in legal webs for more than a year with Yeshiva of Spring Valley yesterday becoming the third group interested in the school. Bais Medrosh Kahal Chera-dim, a Jewish congregation in Monsey, first put a $300,000 down payment to buy the building this year. The congregation then filed for bankruptcy, but contends its $3 million bid to buy the school is valid, according to papers filed in U.S. Bankruptcy Court in White Plains. Bais Medrosh and United Tal-mudic Academy, for whom the building was intended, contend the district is not allowed to lease it.

After postponing the bidding process once, the district yesterday got a $151,000 bid from Yeshiva of Spring Valley to lease the building. Joseph Kazarnovsky, president of the Yeshiva of Spring Valley, said he hopes to transfer the girl's school to Bluefield in the autumn. At tomorrow's scheduled Board of Education meeting, it is expected the yeshiva will be told it has to wait for a final court decision. "The board will have to decide, in light of the litigation, whether to accept the bid," Superintendent Jack Anderson said. "In all probability, the board will hold the bid until such time as the bankruptcy court gives the district permission to lease the facility." Diane Alalmo COMING UP Today WESLEY HILLS ARCHITECTURAL REVIEW BOARD, 8 p.m., Village Hall, 432 Route 306, will consider proposals for two homes, Village Green on Route 306 and Wesley Chapel Estates on Grandview Avenue.

Tomorrow CLARKSTOWN PLANNING BOARD, 7:30 p.m., Room 311, Town Hall, 10 Maple New City. COMMUTER ALERT tappan ZEE BRIDGE! Northbound Two northbound lanes closed from 8 p.m. to 4 a.m. until Aug. 5.

Two northbound lanes closed 9 p.m. to 9 a.m. from Aug. 5 until Aug. Toll plaza approach to southbound Exit 9 has one lane closed.

G.WASHINOTON BRIDGE: Eastbound one lane of lower expressway closed from 11:59 p.m. to 5:30 a.m. until Aug. 5. Westbound one lane of lower expressway closed from 9 a.m.

to 3 p.m. until Aug. 6. BUSES, TRAINS: For information on transportation systems serving Rockland, call the Department of Public Transportation at 634-1100. BIRTHS Good Samaritan Richard Anthony (6 2 on July 10, 1993, to Richard and Lisa Leppert of Harriman, formerly of Pearl River.

Michael James (5 9 on July 20, 1993, to James and Christina Adams of Valley Cottage. Joseph Anthony (8 13 on July 28, 1993, to Joseph and Karen Micheletti of New Windsor, formerly of Suffern. DEATHS Madeline A. Brown, Chestnut Ridge. Clara M.

Coughlin, New City. Nicholas Dutko, Spring Valley John Greene, Haverstraw. Catherine P. Looser, South Nyack. Willie James Mack, Haverstraw village.

William L. Reid, Johnson City, N.Y. Obituaries, page B2 Peter Carr IN TUNE: Matthew Wardrop of New City, right foreground, and other campers rehearse a song for Parents' Day at the Deer Mountain Day Camp in Pomona. Days of summer bliss at camp early adulthood. After seven years at Camp Killoleet in Hancock, Vt, there were four summers at Camp Tacoma Pines outside of Litchield, Me.

Later, I would become counselor and employee at Camps Mikan and Recro in Harriman State Park and Camp Wildwood in Central Valley. These were run by Recreation Rooms and Settlement in lower Manhattan, the agency directed for more than 60 RICHARD GUTWILLIG years by my Aunt Mildred, who lived in Harriman. With her death in 1987, the camps lost the flame that kept them alive for so many years. The camps afforded thousands of city kids a two-week hiatus from the poverty, heat and depression of daily life, as well as giving 9 3 sibility," McCue-Cincotta said, pledging to devote her undivided attention to her new post. She will resign as a county public defender.

Republican councilmen Theo-; dore Dusanenko and Ralph Mandia voted against replacing Edelstein. Dusanenko said the board should have waited until after the November election, allowing resi-' dents to choose and saving a third of the justice's $38,000 salary. Dusanenko said the Democrats filled the spot to give McCue-Cin- cotta the advantage of incumbency and to allow the party to claim it appointed the first woman town 1 judge in the county. Supervisor Charles Holbrook denied Dusanenko's charge, saying Justice Court is the busiest in the -county and needs a full compli- ment of four judges to handle the workload. "We are appointing her because she is the most qualified person to fill that position," Hoi-, brook said.

"She just happens to be a Democrat and she just happens to be a woman." Since her days as a law student, McCue-Cincotta said she wanted to be a judge. She said that with so few women on the bench, she did not believe it would ever be possible. "I think the day has come when we are all going to be judged by our own abilities," she said. McCue-Cincotta took the oath from County Court Judge William Nelson, using the Cincotta's red family bible. Before administering the oath, Nelson took off his robe and placed it on the judge-to-be.

"Clare, you look darn good in black," Nelson said. i carefully attached. The train rides were endless, always on one of the hottest days of late June. The destinations, however, eased the pain of leaving home. Eight weeks with your friends, eight weeks with Flicka, camp fires, the lake.

At Camp Tacoma Pines, the emphasis was sports. Baseball and basketball particularly, which was fine with me. I was a point guard and shooting guard before such terms existed. I was a bespectacled catcher long before contact lenses or the idea you couldn't do that. If early morning dips in Vermont were invigorating, predawn plunges into the lake at Tacoma Pines were practically heart-stopping.

The water came in three temperatures cold, colder, coldest. There were canoe trips, some for a week, that tested your endurance and ability to get along with fellow campers. I remember one. I was 13, when we stopped GUTWILLIG continues B2 ON THE ROADt A motorist with an Valley Toll Plaza yesterday. I remember the incident as clearly as it was yesterday, not 50 years ago.

A 7-year-old boy from Manhattan sitting proudly atop a chestnut-colored pony named Flicka. A moment later, the youngster, who had forsaken the buses and subways for eight weeks of summer bliss at Camp Killoleet, found himself unceremoniously dumped on the not-so-soft Vermont soil. Once bruised ego and bottom had been cared for, I climbed back on my recalcitrant steed and off we went slowly. Over the next five summers, Flicka and I became friends, as I learned what to do and say. We progressed from trot to canter to gallop as I envisioned Tom Mix and other western movie stars riding alongside as we made the wild West safe for the newly arrived settlers from back East.

Summer camps were a major force in my youth, teen years and Altered But commuters fail to see a difference By Stephen Britton Staff Writer SPRING VALLEY Safety concerns raised by toll booth workers have forced the Thruway Authority to alter its new E-ZPass electronic toll collection service at the last minute, but commuters still were able to start using the system yesterday. However, motorists going through the Spring Valley Toll Plaza yesterday said they didn't really notice any time savings because of the new system. "It went fast, but you still had to stop," said Nancy Kriz of Sloatsburg, an E-ZPass user who system in gear -rx 1 1 Peter Carr E-Z Pass drives through the Spring travels through the toll plaza daily on her way to work at Nyack Hospital. Kriz estimated that it took the same amount of time to use the new system as it does to pay the 40-cent toll. E-ZPass originally called for motorists enrolled in the program to drive through the plaza without stopping, using special lanes with electronic equipment that makes the system work.

But a state judge on Friday issued an order blocking the Thruway from having E-ZPass-only lanes pending a hearing. A union representing toll collectors said the state workers were endangered because cars would not stop, as they do in other lanes. To make the system work, the "ttiiiiu 4 iiji.lllll.