take to get the program to the next level," Amato told the paper. "Some goals I reached and some I didn't. I thought it would be a good time for someone else to step in and take a shot at it."
Ithaca is 7-53 in the past seven seasons. AD Bill Bryant said a steering committee will be formed to find candidates and the position has been posted within the school district.
Suffern's woes: A Rockland County prosecutor whose husband is the Spring Valley police chief allegedly threw wild parties for her son's Suffern hockey team, The New York Post reported yesterday.
Beth Modica, 44, who worked as an assistant village attorney in Sloatsburg and as deputy town attorney in nearby Ramapo, will be arraigned Tuesday when an indictment is unsealed, said a spokeswoman for the Rockland district attorney.
The spokeswoman would not release the specifics of the indictment, but a high-ranking official said Modica is suspected of providing alcohol and marijuana for some of her 16-year-old son's teammates on the Suffern Mounties.
The official also said she is also accused of having intimate relations with some players as young as 16.
"This is a very delicate thing . . . this is a very sad story for her family and friends," he told the paper. "It's a very shocking, disturbing and sad incident."
It was not clear whether Modica's son or her husband Paul were home at the time of the parties. Paul Modica declined to answer questions from a Post reporter.
A neighbor, who requested anonymity, said there were at least three summer pool parties, after which beer cans covered the street and even turned up in his mailbox.
Beth Modica was dismissed from her Sloatsburg job last month. Her boss, Joel Grossbarth, said the move was related to budget concerns.
