You can’t teach what Rob had in a writing class or journalism school. He was born with it and worked passionately to perfect it. In the process, Iowans learned a lot about themselves. Rob in turn learned to love Iowa life almost as much as he did his sons, Raj and Romen, and Rekha Basu, his wife and partner in a shared devotion to their profession.
I met Rob in the mid-1970s at a radio station where we worked together in Kingston, New York. After leaving town for a few years, I returned to work with him again in the early 1980s. He had become editor at the Daily Freeman and hired me as his assistant city editor. I met Rekha there as well. We eventually went separate ways, but kept in touch over the years and both wound up landing in the Midwest; two guys from the Bronx, one in Des Moines, the other in Milwaukee.
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Suspect Still at Large After a Bank Is Robbed in Ulster County
The Key Bank branch was robbed Thursday afternoon.
Every time we report that a bank was robbed in our area, I always seem to have the same thought: People still try to get away with robbing banks? Apparently, the answer is yes they do because it happened again yesterday afternoon in Ulster County.
According to the Daily Freeman, the Key Bank branch located at 1203 Ulster Ave, in the town of Ulster, was held up by a white male around 2:40 p.m. Thursday afternoon. Town of Ulster Police Chief Kyle Berardi told the Freeman that the suspect reportedly entered the branch and demanded money from a teller. Chief Berardi did say that the suspect, described to police as an older white male did not display a weapon during the robbery, however, there was one mentioned .