August 14, 2000

Article discusses how increasing number of Rockland County, NY, citizens are seeking recognition and respect for county through surge of civic activism while others are fighting to preserve serene landscape and quiet charm that has longed defined their county; major issues facing county is proposed contruction of two power plants and replacing Tappan Zee Bridge with bigger structure; photo

Television's broadcast networks, despite great effort and hundreds of millions of dollars of promotion, are still also-rans on Web; traffic to their various sites badly lags behind big portals like Yahoo, America Online and Microsoft's MSN; Wall Street has all but written off broadcast companies as Internet players; publicly traded shares of NBC Internet and ABC's online cousin Walt Disney Internet Group are down more than two-thirds this year, and CBS has delayed plans to spin off its Internet operations into separate company; photos; chart of stock prices of network Internet spinoffs; chart of visits to network sites (M)

Residents of Jefferson Township in north-central New Jersey survey damage from series of severe thunderstorms over weekend; 300 homes are reported flooded, several bridges and roads washed out, trees down, several cars and boats flooded and two dams destroyed; there are numerous power outages; photo (M)

New York Yankees defeat Anaheim Angels, 4-1; photo (M)

On-Line Entertainment Inc will present concert by Philadelphia Orchestra with violinist Itzhak Perlman in first pay-per-listen live Netcast under recent Classical Music Internet Agreement; photo; Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo begins two-week engagement at Joyce Theater; J Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles launches exhibition of illuminated manuscripts focused on Virgin Mary; photo; upcoming New York Fringe Festival will offer 175 theatrical and performance productions (Footlights column) (M)