Rockland also ranks 9th on the list of highest-income counties by median household income in the United States with $ 75, 306 according to the 2000 census.

Abington ranks 308th of 351 communities in the Commonwealth, and is the fourth-smallest town ( behind Hull, Whitman and Rockland ) in Plymouth County.

* 1981 – Two police officers and an armored car guard are killed during an armed robbery in Rockland County, NY, carried out by members of the Black Liberation Army and Weather Underground.

In Rockland the population was spread out with 29. 3 % under the age of 18, 6. 7 % from 18 to 24, 32. 5 % from 25 to 44, 22. 1 % from 45 to 64, and 9. 4 % who were 65 years of age or older.

This did not stop the Braves though, playing their home games out of Cardinal and Rockland, Ontario, the Braves did not miss a beat.

Barrels of lime were slid on a cable out to Rockland Cove, where they were loaded onto ships.

This original routing of Highway 17 followed what is now Montreal Road, St Joseph Boulevard, and the Old Montreal Road eastward out of Ottawa ; Laurier Street through Rockland ; Regional Road 55 and 26 between Clarence and Plantagenet ; Blue Corner Road and Bay Road ( Regional Road 4 ) to L ' Orignal ; John Street, Pharand Street, Eliza Street, Front Road and Main Street to Hawkesbury ; the shore of the Ottawa River between Hawkesbury and Pointe-Fortune, and Regional Road 17 elsewhere.

Local residents, recalling how the Nanuet Mall nearly drew the life out of Rockland County's traditional shopping villages about 20 years earlier, opposed the mall, predicting that it would bring crime, increased traffic, air pollution, and an economic downturn to the area's downtowns, and that the site was not properly tested for toxins.

It is considered to be one of the more rural communities in Rockland County.

Spring Valley is considered to be one of the more urban communities in Rockland County.

The city includes the communities of Bourget, Cheney, Clarence, Clarence Creek, Hammond, Rockland, Saint-Pascal-Baylon.

From west to east, the major Ottawa Valley communities are Mattawa, Deep River ( with nearby Chalk River, the site of Canada's nuclear reactor program ), Petawawa ( a major Canadian military base ), Pembroke ( where Samuel de Champlain landed briefly ), Fort Coulonge, Shawville, Renfrew, Quyon, Arnprior, Ottawa ( the nation's capital ), Rockland, L ' Orignal, Hawkesbury, and Rigaud.

To a lesser extent, Filipino communities are also present in Nassau, Suffolk, and Rockland counties.

This report was criticized by some for planning service to Smiths Falls and Arnprior while neglecting to plan service to Rockland and Embrun, which are rapidly growing communities east of Ottawa ().

An important park and ride facility was built which is heavily used by commuters from the rural east and Rockland as well as residents from the growing communities of Fallingbrook and Avalon.

Statistically, Rockland is the 103rd most populous community in the Commonwealth, just below the state average.

Rockland is the 62nd most densely populated community in the Commonwealth, and the fourth most densely populated in Plymouth County.

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This visual contrast of forested slopes sweeping down to the sea has been summed up by American poet Edna St. Vincent Millay of Rockland and Camden, Maine in " Renascence ":

During his childhood and adolescence, Shawn had lived in tough, blue-collar, urban towns like Rockland, Massachusetts and Brockton, Massachusetts before moving to the more quiet & small oceanside town of Harwich.

On clear nights, the lights could be seen from over 60 miles away, visible in all of New York City and most of suburban Northern New Jersey and Long Island, Fairfield County, Connecticut, Westchester County, Orange County, New York and Rockland County, New York.

The county's location puts New York City and Long Island Sound to its south, Putnam County on the north, Connecticut on the east, Rockland County on the west.

The widest section across the Hudson River, at, is found between the Westchester and Rockland County shorelines immediately north of Croton Point in Croton-on-Hudson.

Its boundaries at that time included present-day Rockland County, which split from Orange County in 1798 following the American Revolutionary War.

In 1799, the residents of the southern part of Orange County petitioned the state and broke off to become Rockland County.

Rockland County is a suburban county in the U. S. state of New York.

Rockland County is designated as a Preserve America Community, and roughly one-third of the county is parkland.

The area that would become Rockland County was originally inhabited by Algonquian-speaking Indians, including Munsees, or Lenni Lenape.

These settlers, eager to escape " city life ", moved from Manhattan to Rockland.

When the Duke of York ( who became King James II of England ) established the first twelve counties of New York in 1683, present-day Rockland County was part of Orange County.

Orangetown was created at the same time under a royal grant, originally encompassing all of modern Rockland County.

Around this time, as the English began to colonize Nyack and Tappan, the Native Americans began to leave Rockland in search of undisturbed land further north.

Rockland County was split from Orange County in 1798.

For this reason, Rockland split off from Orange in 1798 to form its own county.

During the American Revolution, when control of the Hudson River was viewed by the British as strategic to dominating the American territories, Rockland saw skirmishes at Haverstraw, Nyack and Piermont, and significant military engagements at the Battle of Stony Point, where General " Mad " Anthony Wayne earned his nickname.

In the decades following the Revolution, Rockland became popular for its stone and bricks.

Rockland remained semi-rural until the 1950s when the Palisades Interstate Parkway, Tappan Zee Bridge, and other major arteries were built.

In 1798, the southernmost towns in Ulster County were moved into Orange County, to compensate Orange for breaking away the southernmost portion of that county in order to form Rockland County.

By population, the town ranks 17th out of the 32 cities and towns in Berkshire County, and 307th out of the 351 cities and towns in Massachusetts.

As always, the ranks worked out new and better tactics, but there was brilliance in the way the field commands adopted these methods and in the way the army commanders incorporated them into their military thinking.

Arbitrary executions and torture carried out by its cadres against perceived subversive elements, or during purges of its own ranks between 1975 and 1978, are considered to have constituted genocide.

When battle was near, it was drawn out ; then it roared and struggled against its thongs, fire flashed from it, and it tore through the ranks of the enemy once slipped from the leash, never tired of slaying.

They will be pushed into the ranks of the unemployed or out of the labor force.

Mauritius ranks 46th out of 182 countries in Transparency International ’ s Corruption Perceptions Index for 2011, third in Africa.

Greenpeace's October 2010 " Guide to Greener Electronics " report ranks Nintendo last on a list of electronics manufacturers, with the same score ( 1. 8 out of 10 ) as in the previous version of the guide ( May 2010 ).

According to a 2006 report released by Forbes Magazine, the Raiders ' overall team value of US $ 736 million ranks 28th out of 32 NFL teams.

He also claimed that the formation of Janissary out of conquered children would induce other people to adopt, not only out of the children of the conquered nations, but out of a crowd of their friends and relations, who would come as volunteers to join the Ottoman ranks.

In the 2005 survey, Switzerland ranks 7th ( out of 158 surveyed ), with 9. 1 out of 10 possible points, representing an improvement of 0. 4 points over the past four years.

Syria ranks 12th out of 14 countries in the Middle East region, just behind Jordan ( 26. 8 %) and Lebanon ( 29. 0 %) and ahead of Yemen ( 9. 7 %) and Iraq ( 2. 8 %).

By 268, however, the situation had changed, as Odaenathus was put to death, most likely out of court intrigue, and Gallienus fell victim to mutiny under his own ranks.

Despite the destruction wrought on the countryside, the city castle held out in spite of repeated attempts over twelve days to take it, and the Turks left the island unsuccessfully because of poor logistics and an epidemic that decimated their ranks.

The University of Trento ranks highly out of Italy's top 30 colleges, coming 1st in the Italian Ministry of Education ranking, 1st in Engineering area according to Censis-La Repubblica ranking and 5th in the Il Sole 24 Ore ranking of Italian universities, and amongst the 500 best in the world according to the Times Higher Education, coming 252nd.

The city often ranks extremely highly out of all 103 Italian cities for quality of life, standard of living, and business and job opportunities, coming 1st, 6th and 2nd respectively.

A Corinthian capital may be seen as an enriched development of the Ionic capital, though one may have to look closely at a Corinthian capital ( illustration, right ) to see the Ionic volutes (" helices "), at the corners, perhaps reduced in size and importance, scrolling out above the two ranks of stylized acanthus leaves and stalks (" cauliculi " or caulicoles ), eight in all, and to notice that smaller volutes scroll inwards to meet each other on each side.

The ranks of the conspirators included a variety of other patricians and plebeians who had been cast out of the political system for various reasons.

Sir Joseph's marriage with Josephine is now " out of the question " in his eyes: " love levels all ranks ... to a considerable extent, but it does not level them as much as that.

The Economist's 2008 Democracy Index ranks Tunisia 141 out of 167 studied countries and 143 out of 173 regarding freedom of the press.

Greenpeace's Cool IT Leaderboard of February 2012 " evaluates global IT companies on their leadership in the fight to stop climate change " and ranks Fujitsu 3rd out of 21 leading manufacturers, on the strength of " well-developed case study data of its solutions with transparent methodology " and " out in the Leaderboard for scoring high in the Future Savings Goal criterion.

The secondary ranks between the suborders and the families are out of practical or historical considerations than out of strict respect for phylogenetic classifications ( modern cladists spurn the use of Linnaean rank names ).