03/17/11 BREAKING NEWS: Better Late Than Never - Two Days After The Fact - The Westmore Snooze Finally Reports On Tuesday's Mayoral Election

Westmore News: Pilla wins re-election by a landslide

By Nathan Mayberg and Jananne Abel

Port Chester Mayor Dennis Pilla, a Democrat, won a landslide victory over his challenger, Republican and Independence Party-endorsed candidate Bart Didden Tuesday. According to unofficial results provided by the village, Pilla gained a third term as mayor by garnering 1,595 votes, or approximately 59.4% of the 2,689 votes cast. Didden earned 1,094 votes, or 40.6%, a figure that included absentee ballots....

....As the results started coming in and the restaurant filled up, the mood became more festive. Winning District 18 by 58 votes was a good sign.

Almost every runner that came in with results from a different district gave a thumbs up. First 10, then 18, then 8 and 9....

....The whole room, filled with voters representing a cross-section of Port Chester, broke out in applause......

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03/15/11 Nice Guy Dennis "Good Government" Pilla Crushes Bad Boy Bart "The Bigot" Didden In Port Chester Mayoral Race (Updated)

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THE GOOD PEOPLE OF PORT CHESTER

HAVE SPOKEN LOUD AND CLEAR !!!!!

Beloved Mayor Whips Political Villain In Port Chester

Projected Election Results Points To Huge Bart Didden Defeat

Port Chester Mayor Dennis Pilla Whips

Bart "The Bigot" Didden

By Approximately 480 Votes !!!!

UPDATE:

9:46pm

WHERE'S THE WESTMORE NEWS?

Pilla Wins Third Term as Port Chester Mayor‎

Port Chester Patch

By Nik Bonopartis

Dennis Pilla has won a third term as Port Chester's mayor, according to unofficial election results.

"This vote is about the belief that the people in Port Chester have about our future and about how positive and hopeful it is," Pilla told an elated crowd at Chavin Restaurant on Main Street.

Pilla built a steady lead as vote tallies came in from districts across Port Chester. Fellow Democrat and Trustee Dan Brakewood kept the crowded restaurant updated, leaning over his laptop before shouting out results: "Dennis just won 18!"

Pilla built a lead of almost 400 votes before the margin became insurmountable for his Republican opponent, Bart Didden.

All results are unofficial until the Board of Trustees certifies the victory at a special meeting on Thursday. However, unofficial results show Pilla took the election by nearly a 500-vote margin, with 1,564 votes to Didden's 1,076........

UPDATE:

WHERE'S THE WESTMORE NEWS

10:12 PM

PORT CHESTER ROUNDUP ELECTION ANALYSIS

BART"S CAMPGAIN PACKED FULL OF HATE

Hispanic-Slur Spewing Mayoral Candidate Is Kayoed

In Virtual Every Port Chester Voting District

Port Chester Roundup's initial analysis of preliminary unofficial district by district election results shows that there was at least one close district race.

In Bart "The Bigot" Didden's home district Port Chester's infamous racist won by only two votes.

That means that if Bart and his wife wouldn't have voted Mayor Dennis Pilla would have tied the USA Central Station Alarm company owner who repeatedly told everyone in town that he was going to spend $80,000 to become the next mayor of Port Chester.

It's amazing just how much money Extremist TEA Party Lunatic Bart "The Bigot" Didden flushed down the toilet. At Least Port Chester Republican Chairman Billy Villanova Was Pretty Darn Smart Not To Spend A Damn Dime On Port Chester's Infamous Racist.

Please Look For More Election Analysis From Port Chester Roundup

When Bart "The Bigot" Didden Finally Gets Around To Filing His Two Missing Financial Disclosure Forms It Will Be Interesting To See Just How Bart Flushed $80,000 Down The Toilet.

UPDATE:

WHERE'S THE WESTMORE NEWS?

12:37

Pilla wins 3rd term as Port Chester mayor

PORT CHESTER — Two-term Mayor Dennis Pilla fended off a challenge Tuesday from Trustee Bart Didden.

Democrat Pilla beat Didden, who was elected trustee in June, by a vote of 1,595 to 1,094, according to unofficial results from the village clerk.

"This reflects the belief people in Port Chester have about Port Chester's future," Pilla said. "They see the village as heading in a positive direction. They see we're making good progress.".......

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10/05/07 - Mayor Dennis Pilla And The Port Chester Board Of Trustees Are opening up the selection process for two vacant trustee seats

Port Chester Mayor Dennis Pilla

HEADLINE:

The new trustees, who will be paid an annual salary of $5,200 each, are expected to serve until the March village election, when all seats except Pilla's and Democrat Daniel Brakewood's are set to expire.

STORY:

In October, the village Board of Trustees will be considering eligible residents who are interested to be temporarily appointed to our village Board. You can find more information on our home page.

The future of Port Chester is very exciting! We are becoming a more progressive community and have attracted major developers. There is an exciting change that is underway in our village. All of this combines to make Port Chester, "Westchester's best kept secret"!

Source: Mayor's Corner @ http://www.portchesterny.com/

Reporter: Dennis Pilla, Mayor Of Port Chester

Source URL: http://www.portchesterny.com/page.cfm?pageID=5

10/05/07 - Port Chester Residents Are Being Warned - Don't Lose Your Home To Greedy Hedge Fund Guys And Their Predatory Subprime Loan Investments.

HEADLINE:

Business in the Burbs: Westchester starts subprime awareness campaign

QOUTE OF THE DAY:

"We're going to do everything we can to educate the community," said Geoffrey Anderson, executive director of Westchester Residential Opportunities. Ownership of a home is "an American dream."

"We need to keep that dream alive," he said.

STORY:

'Don't Borrow Trouble' is the theme of a campaign started yesterday in Westchester County to alert consumers to the dangers of subprime mortgages.

The subprime market provides loans for homebuyers who have less than perfect credit. The mortgages usually have adjustable interest rates, and the rates have been resetting this year to levels that are onerous for many borrowers.

The Westchester County Clerk's Office said 1,593 foreclosure actions were commenced in the county through September, an increase of 40.8 percent year over year. The number of foreclosure judgments reached 476, up 52.6 percent.

"There's not a month when somebody doesn't call my office and say, 'What can I do?' " County Clerk Timothy Idoni said at a program promoting the campaign yesterday outside the County Courthouse in White Plains.

A toll-free telephone number (877-WRO-4YOU) and a Web site (http://www.dontborrowtroublewro.org/), have been set up for county residents who are having problems keeping up with mortgage payments. Westchester Residential Opportunities of White Plains will counsel callers on their options. People who live outside the county will be referred to counselors in their area

........ in their area. The Westchester campaign will post signs, in English and Spanish, at five train stations: Port Chester, New Rochelle, White Plains, Mount Vernon and Yonkers. Notices also will be posted inside county Bee-Line buses. 'We're going to ......

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Source: The Journal News

Reporter: Jerry Gleeson. Reach him at jgleeson@lohud.com or 914-694-5026.

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10/01/07 - "We're called the Pride of Port Chester," said Jose Bautista, a senior at Port Chester High School and co-president of the marching band.

he Port Chester High School marching band performs during yesterday's East Ramapo Marching Band 2007 Competition

East Ramapo Marching Band hosts competition in Spring Valley

The thundering sounds of drum lines filled the air at the Ramapo High School football field yesterday, where the East Ramapo Marching Band hosted its fourth annual U.S. Scholastic Band Association competition.

... Long Island to compete. Suffern High School marching band placed second in Class II and received a trophy. The Port Chester High School marching band, the only Class V band to participate in the competition, won best in color guard, percussion, ...

...Holding their trophy, the Port Chester band leaders explained that preparation begins in Band Camp, where all the members work intensely for two weeks before school starts and grow close.
"We consider ourselves a family," said Kimberly Irwin, the band's drum major.

Their hard work has paid off. Senior Madeline Rende, the band's other co-president, recalled that the entire band was invited to play in the movie "Spider-Man 3."

"We played when he got the keys to the city," she said....

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Source: Journal News

Publication Date: October 1, 2007

Reporter: Annie Shreffler

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10/01/07 - Port Chester Fire Department Provides Emergency Responce To Westchester County Airport

Concern over landing gear sensor prompts emergency response at county airport

Westchester County Airport officials launched an emergency response yesterday after a pilot received an abnormal landing gear reading after takeoff. The corporate jet returned and landed without incident.....

... as a precaution for an emergency landing, Boyer said. The airport asked area fire departments in Purchase, Port Chester and Armonk, emergency medical services, and its own emergency crews to wait on standby at the airport. At 10:17 a.m. the Hawker ...

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Source: Journal News

Publication Date: October 1, 2007

Reporter: Kathleen Ryan O'Connor

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09/29/07 - Port Chester Republican’s Do Not Support Supervisor Wanna Be

Port Chester Republican’s Do Not Support Supervisor Wanna Be Joe Carvin

In 2004, Joe Carvin applied to be the Port Chester Village Manager who would replace Richard “Fritz” Falanka. Joe Carvin should have been able to scoop up the job with ease.

Carvin was a Republican and Republican Mayor Gerald Logan and Six other Republican Trustees governed Port Chester. Also, Carvin was active in local politics and had strong political connections with all of the Republican Movers And Shakers. The other candidates lacked such strong connectons.

Carvin has a Harvard Degree in Public Administration and the other job candidates did not have the same prestigious degree. Plus, Carvin lived less than a mile from Port Chester and would be easily available for a village emergency, the other candidates lived very far away.

However, in 2005, Mayor Gerald Logan, Deputy Mayor Dan Colangelo, Trustee Bob Sorensen, Trustee Ken Manning, Trustee Pete Ciccone and Trustee Cicatelli decided not to hire Joe Carvin.

All Of These Main Stream Port Chester Republicans Unanimously Rejected The Hotheaded and Opportunistic Joe Carvin And His Harvard Degree.

They chose Bill Williams who did not have the local political connections or the Harvard Degree that Carvin can’t stop bragging about. Bill Williams even lived far away and might have trouble quickly responding to emergencies in Port Chester.

Why no City, Town, Village or Hamlet in America has has ever hired Joe Carvin and his fancy Harvard Degree in Public Administration to be their Manager or Administrator?

What Made Logan, Colangelo, Sorensen, Manning, Ciccione and Cicatelli not support and hire their fellow Republican Joe Carvin?

09-28-07 The Rye Town Report Is Wrong

It Is Not True That Rye Brook Taxes Have Went Down 1.5% This Year.

Rye Brook Taxes Have Actually Went Up Year After Year After Year.

This Year Rye Brook Taxes Have Gone Up 2% This Year Alone.

The Only Local Governmental That Has Reduced Taxes Two Years In A Row Is The Town Of Rye.

The Village Of Port Chester, The Village Of Rye Brook and The Schools have all failed to reduce taxes like the Town Of Rye.

Unfortunately, The Village Of Rye Brook has not had a full blown New York State Comptroller's audit since the 1990's.

The Office of the State Comptroller needs to audit the Village Of Rye Brook.

A State Controller Audit help ensure that Rye Brook funds are used efficiently, and assets are adequately protected against fraud, waste and abuse.

Year after year after year Rye Brook's own internal auditors have repeatedly said, "We can not express an opinion on the effectiveness of the village's internal control over financial reporting. Accordingly, we express no such opinion."

This reporter has personally set at Rye Town Board Meetings and repeatedly overheard Joe Carvin, Janus Richards, Sam Terenzi, Bernie and Richard Abel comment about Rye Brook Mayor Lawrence Rand and the whether Rye Brook is operating economically or efficiently. They even have speculated on if Rye Brook has complied with all the laws of New York State.

I have also heard Joe Carvin, Janus Richards, Sam Terenzi, Bernie and Richard Abel speculate on if Rye Brook has inefficiencies of uneconomical practices.

I have often said that it not is said at government meetings while the cameras are on that is not very interesting. It is what is said before and after government meetings when the cameras are turned off.

You can really hear an ear full after Rye Town Board Meetings when Joe Carvin, Janus Richards and Sam Terenzi get ready to take Port Chester Republican Billy Vilanova and the disgruntled founder and the publisher of the Westmore News to the Port Chester Coach Diner to talk about hogwash the Abels will print in their hopelessly biased newspaper.

However, I must say all this political chatter from Joe Carvin and his disgruntled band of close advisers concerns me, because let's face it Joe Carvin often tries to present himself as some sort of wanna be expert on government audits.

Yes it is true that it is kind of spooky how Joe Carvin has became sort of a magnet for disgruntled and sleazy opportunists with checkered pasts.

Yes it is also true that most intelligent thinking persons just ignore the Bernie Abels and Sam Terenzis of this world.

Further, I argue that it is better to be safe than sorry.

Let's face it a lot of elections in Rye Brook go uncontested election cycle after election cycle after election cycle.

Rye Brook Government has sort of turned into an Old Girl's Club, where local politicians try to keep each other's skirts down.

Please join Joe Carvin, Janus Richards, Sam Terenzi, Bernie Abel, Richard Abel and I as we demand that Rye Brook to submit to a full blown State Controller's Audit.

It is time for Rye Brook submit to a State Controller's Audit just like Port Chester, Rye City and Rye Town have.

If I have heard Rye Brook resident Dick Hubert say it once I have heard him say it a thousand times....

"We need financial transparency at all levels of government."

Please call state Controller Thomas P. DiNapolli at 518-474-4044 and demand that he audit the Village Of Rye Brook immediately.

It is fiscally irresponsible for the Village Of Rye Brook not to have been audited by the State Controller's office since the 1990's.

You can also email State Controller Thomas P. DiNappoli at osdc@osc.state.ny.us to demand ask him why there has been no state audit of Rye Brook since the 1990's.

It looks like State Controller Thomas P. DiNappoli is asleep at the switch when it comes to providing the residents of Rye Brook with financial transparency.

09/26/07 - Police Blotter - Public Lewdness

A 38-year-old stood, fully clothed, and urinated out his second-floor window just after 2 a.m. Monday, police said. Going up to Julian Rojas Olivares' apartment in the163 William St. building, police asked him what he was doing. He said he had just gone to the bathroom, police said. Olivares was charged with public lewdness, a misdemeanor.

09/26/07 – Port Chester Building Inspector Lenny Cusumano Rushed To Greenwich Hospital.

Port Chester Building Inspector Lenny Cusamano Rushed To Greenwich Hospital.

Port Chester Building Inspector Lenny Cusamano was rushed to Greenwich Hospital after suffering a massive and sever heart attack.

Concerned Port Chester villagge employees have said that Mr. Cusamano had a hereditary heart condition, and this he had been repeatedly hospitalized for heart problems going back to the time that he used to work construction with his father.

Up datees to follow.

09/09/07 - Weekend Roundup For Port Chester

Port Chester resident accused of slashing man; victim needed 80 stitches

Source: The Journal News

A 33-year-old Port Chester man awaits arraignment today, accused of allegedly slashing another man across the face and throat with a box cutter early this morning.

Chris Cummings wanted a light for his cigarette and when a man on his way into the Midland Avenue Pathmark did not have one, he turned to a woman sitting in a car. She was the man's girlfriend and the man did not like Cummings talking to her, police said.

During an argument with the protective 43-year-old, police said, Cummings pulled a silver box cutter and slashed the man.......

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NY Officer Charged in Homeless Death

Source: The Associated Press

A suburban police officer was charged with manslaughter Thursday after a drunken, homeless immigrant was found dying four miles from where the officer had answered the man's 911 call less than an hour earlier.

The indictment did not specify what actions by Mount Kisco Officer George Bubaris are alleged to have caused the death of Rene Perez, who was found unconscious beside a road in neighboring Bedford the night of April 28........

......The friction created by large influxes of immigrants in Westchester County has led to recent court cases alleging police bias against immigrant day laborers in Mamaroneck and voting rights violations against Hispanics in Port Chester. Several municipal officials have expressed frustration with the failure of Congress to come up with a national policy on the rights of illegal immigrants.........

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New Rochelle council candidate named in real estate lawsuit

Source: Journal News

Purchase businessman Joseph LaManna thought he had made a good deal when he bought the former home of Gov. Herbert Lehman there - until he found people building another home on what he believed was his front lawn.

It turned out the property LaManna had bought was not the 4-acre site he thought but a 2.2-acre, L-shaped parcel. What appeared to be his lawn had been sold to someone else.

The episode from 2003 is just one chapter in what an attorney for LaManna and John and Antonella DeBello of Purchase describe as an elaborate scheme cooked up by more than a dozen people, including a real estate agent, a lawyer, an insurance agent - and businessman Albert Tarantino, a Republican now running for New Rochelle City Council.......

.......Some of the people involved are alleged to have filed insurance claims falsely stating that broken water pipes had caused damage in various homes or inflating the values of property that had been damaged. Three men - Louis Cordasco Jr., John Liscio and Robert DiDonato - have been indicted on federal criminal fraud charges in the actions. Attorneys for Liscio and Cordasco said their clients denied the allegations. Attorneys for DiDonato did not return calls.

Lawrence Goldman, an attorney for Cordasco, the chairman of the Port Chester company Crystal Restoration Enterprises, said Cordasco was accused of inflating the value of water-damaged rugs, a claim he disputes. Like Santangelo, Goldman is asking Robinson to dismiss the accusations against his client........

09/09/07 - Charles Carrieri, Of Port Chester, has been charged with assault, unlawful imprisonment, and endangering the welfare of a child

HEADLINE:

Port Chester man accused of beating Conn. girl, holding her captive

STORY:

A village man who held a Connecticut runaway captive for 14 months, physically abused her and having a child with her, is due in Village Court today, police said.

The 18-year-old New London girl left home July 2, 2006, with Charles Carrieri, 27, whom she met on the Internet, Lt. James Ladeairous said.

Although reported missing by her mother, no one knew she was in the village. Carrieri did not let her out of the 75 Purdy Ave. home, nor did she have access to a phone, Ladeairous said.

In December 2006, he began physically abusing her, police said. She is now unable to open her left eye, Ladeairous said, because she has a seriously damaged eye socket from repeated pummeling. So obvious was the damage that police brought her immediately to Greenwich Hospital when she walked into police headquarters Tuesday morning with her mother........

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Reporter: Leslie Korngold at 914-694-3519 or lkorngol@lohud.com.

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09/05/07 - Accused Rapist Ordaz-Cejia Has A Tattoo Reading "Ordaz" Centered On His Back. Port Chester Police Are Circulating A Wanted Poster Of Him.

HEADLINE:

Port Chester police release wanted poster of suspected rapist

STORY:

Police have identified the man they say abducted a 21-year-old village woman from a local gas station at knifepoint and sexually assaulted her.

He is no longer in the area, Lt. James Ladeairous said today. The man, identified as Federico Ordaz-Cejia, 26, is believed to be in the fourth district in Chicago, he said.

He fled, Ladeairous said, soon after the Aug. 27 incident which began at the 37 Westchester Ave. Citgo station and ended on Fox Island Road. He had no known local address.

The rapist, who had sneaked into the back seat of the victim's car around 11:45 p.m., is a white male with brown eyes, black short hair, about 5 feet, 9 inches tall and weighing 140 pounds.......

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Publication Date: September 5, 2007

Reporter: LESLIE KORNGOLD

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08/30/07 - Rape On Fox Island Road In Port Chester

HEADLINE:

Suspect remains at large after Port Chester abduction, rape

STORY:

A rapist remains at large who allegedly abducted a 21-year-old village woman from a local gas station then forced her at knifepoint to drive to a nearby parking lot, where he committed the sexual assault, police said today.

The suspect sneaked into the back seat of her car as she entered the Citgo station at 37 Westchester Ave. at about 11:45 p.m. Sunday, police said. When she returned to her vehicle, he popped up wielding a knife and ordered her to drive him to a parking lot on Fox Island Road, Port Chester police Lt. James Ladeairous said.

After the assailant raped her, the woman jumped out of the car and ran down the street, where a cab driver saw her, picked her up and called police, Ladeairous said. Officers went to the parking lot, but the assailant had already fled.........

Source: Journal News

Publication Date: August 30, 2007

Reporter: Shawn Cohen at spcohen@lohud.com or 914-694-5046

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09/05/07 - Changes Comming To The Port Chester # 13 Bus

HEADLINE:

Express bus to Westchester Medical Center starts today

STORY:

A new express bus route to Westchester Medical Center will start serving riders today, one of several changes on the county's Bee-Line bus routes this fall that are being made to accommodate growing ridership.

The new Route 43 "Super Express'' buses will travel on the Cross County and Sprain Brook Parkways, which will help cut travel time between Mount Vernon and the Westchester Medical Center in half.

"We will start bus service ...between the 241st Street subway station, downtown Mount Vernon and the Westchester Medical Center in Valhalla," said Transportation Commissioner Lawrence C. Salley. "There will be three trips in the morning and three trips back in the afternoon using coach-style buses."

Ridership has been growing an average of 9.5 percent a month since April, Salley said. That's when the county joined the MetroCard fare system, which offers free transfers within two hours from local city buses and subways.

Other changes beginning today will be on Routes 4, 7, 13, 16, 20, 45, 55 and BxM4C, and Loops A and H. The highlights are........

.......Route 13: Earlier Sunday morning service from Ossining to White Plains and Port Chester......

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Publication Date: September 4, 2007

Reporter: Caren Halbfinger at chalbfin@lohud.com or 914-694-5004

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09/05/07 - Time For Port Chester Catholic School Uniform Ritual

HEADLINE:

Forget designer labels, many schools are putting students back into uniforms.Read More

STORY:

As students prepare for the first day of school, store owners are seeing an influx of parents shopping for uniforms and solid-colored threads to comply with dress codes.

Jonathan Newman, manager of Liebman's Children's Clothing and School Uniforms in New Rochelle, said the number of customers more than doubles from mid-August to early September.......

......Holy Rosary School in Port Chester uses a Newark, N.J.-based company, Scholastic Uniforms, to supply students with clothes for the dress code. The company comes to the school to take student measurements.

Girls wear blouses and blue-gray plaid jumpers or skirts with shirts bearing the school logo. Boys wear navy slacks and white- collar shirts. All students wear black shoes and blue socks. And there's a gym uniform.

"I like it better and the kids look better," said Mary Norelli, principal of Holy Rosary. "It's a lot easier on parents in our neighborhood. ... In the long run, it's better for them."

Norelli said the school also provides gently used uniforms to families that cannot afford to buy new ones. She said uniforms help make the classroom a better learning environment.

"It puts everyone on the same playing field. They're not worried about designers and labels," Norelli said. "We try to keep it simple for them and for the parents.

"Children shouldn't have to live up to those designer names and 'got-to-haves,'" she said.........

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Publication Date: September 4, 2007

Reporter: Stacy A. Anderson at sanderso1@lohud.com or 914-694-5080

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09/05/07 - There Is A Criminal Element On Quintard Drive In Port Chester, New York

HEADLINE:

Port Chester Police Investigate Theft Of True Blue Conservative Newspaper Box On Quintard Drive

Story:

A True Blue Conservative Newspaper Box has came up missing on Quintard Drive.

Port Chester Police Officer Connetta investigated the apparent theft.

Officer Connetta said that he would file a larceny report after checking with village officials, to make sure the village had nothing to do with the newspaper box disapearing from the corner of Quintard and king street.

Village Manager Bill Williams, said that he had checked and found that no one from the village had taken the newspaper box.

Updates to follow......

09/03/07 - The Weekend Roundup For Port Chester

Francella starts strong at State Farm

Source: The Journal News

... 1-under par through four holes today during final-round play at the State Farm Classic in Springfield, Ill. The Port Chester native currently sits in a tie for 59th place at 1-over par for the tournament. She's 12 shots behind leader Sherri ...

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Train line to Stamford was transformed from steam to electricity a century ago

Source: Norwalk Advocate

Part one of two A new kind of train arrived in Stamford on Oct. 5, 1907.

The slower, less reliable steam-powered train sets had been replaced with groundbreaking electric trains, capable of getting commuters and travelers on the New York, New Haven and Hartford rail line between New York City and Stamford in 50 minutes.

The train left Grand Central Terminal at 9:09 a.m. and arrived at Stamford at 10:29 a.m. That is arrived one minute late appeared to be the only reported problem.

'Everything worked lovely,' Hoge Gilliam, a railroad superintendent, told The Advocate at the time.

Interviews with passengers revealed the ride was smoother than a steam locomotive and spared them the distractions of soft coal smoke and cinders. They also marveled about how the electric train seemed to accelerate and decelerate so quickly.

By 12:18 p.m., the first train back to New York left the Stamford station with about 100 passengers. The train carried mainly summer vacationers with a few commuters from Stamford and Greenwich, The Advocate reported.

The electric service, which began along the New Haven Line a few months before the first Stamford train -- in New Rochelle, N.Y., that July and at Port Chester, N.Y., in August -- marked a landmark development for the region's railroad that helped bring ridership to peak levels. Only a few years later, the rise of the automobile and increasing mismanagement issues caused commuting numbers to plummet..........

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CRIME FILE

The Justice Story

The other Greenwich murder

Source: New York Daily News

Summer was in its Labor Day swoon, and eighth grade loomed just ahead for Matthew Margolies.

His footloose days were numbered, so he decided to spend Aug. 31, 1984 - Friday of the holiday weekend - pursuing his favorite hobby: angling.

The gangly 13-year-old was Greenwich, Conn.'s version of Huck Finn. He was rarely seen without a fishing pole, stalking chubby trout in the Byram River near his home on Pilgrim Drive, which traverses the border between Greenwich and Port Chester, N.Y.

Young Margolies lived with his mother, Maryann, and older sister in the blue-collar Pemberwick section of Greenwich, far from the broad lawns and mansions of Belle Haven.

Maryann Margolies worked as a nurse, and Matthew was a latchkey kid, splitting time between his own home and that of his maternal grandmother, who lived a few blocks away.
It had been a difficult year for Matthew.

His parents had split up, and he had become estranged from his father, who moved to Texas. His beloved grandfather and angling guru, George Miazga, had died earlier that month, leaving Matthew without a fishing buddy...........

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Skydivers tackle Pond Swoop challenge

Source: Poughkeepsie Journal

From pizza man to miracle man.

That wouldn't be the bad title for a biography of skydiver Jeff (Jeffro) Provenzano.

Last weekend, the former Port Chester/current Arizona resident won the 11th annual Pond Swoop Nationals skydiving competition at The Blue Sky Ranch in Gardiner.

The victory was the fourth straight at Gardiner for Provenzano, who won $4,000, taking the straight lane, carving lane and freestyle/expression and overall championships.

Straight lane, carving lane skydiving?

At Gardiner, this means exiting a plane at 4,000 feet, deploying your canopy at about 3,000 feet and "slowing" to about 60 miles per hour. Then you drag a foot as far as you can through the water in a designated lane of a 250-foot-long pond, then land on the ground - points added for style.

Freestyle requires basically the same skills, with a tough trick thrown in.
Provenzano's trick was the "miracle man" in which he did a complete 360, landing with his canopy lines twisted.

"People are doing things that five years ago were never dreamed of," said Gardiner resident Kamuran Bayrasli, a competitor who owns the Ranch's pro shop..........

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08/31/07 - The Man Who Committed The Stabbing In Port Chester Got Away. He Is A Hispanic, 5-Foor-8, 160 Pounds, Dark Hair, Wearing A Striped Shirt.

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Stabber escapes, 2 men arrested after attack outside Port Chester bar

STORY:

.........The victim, from the Bronx, was being treated for non-life-threatening injuries at Westchester Medical Center in Valhalla, said police Lt. James Ladeairous.

The attack occurred outside La Dolce Vita at 451 N. Main St., about 4 a.m. The victim had just left the bar and was walking to his car when three men confronted him. The victim's brother, a bouncer in the bar, saw the confrontation and scared the men away. A few minutes later, the same trio men attacked the victim again, this time stabbing him in the lower back.

Police arrived moments later and arrested two of them: Antonio Lezama, 33, of 24 Warren Ave., Greenburgh, and Rubin Alvarez, 34, of 2074 Barnum Ave., Stratford, Conn. They were charged with first-degree gang assault, a felony, because the attackers numbered more than two.

They were arraigned this afternoon and released on $500 bail, pending appearances Thursday in Village Court........

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Publication Date: August 31, 2007

Reporter: SHAWN COHEN

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Antonio Lezama and Rubin Alvarez were arraigned this afternoon and released on $500 bail, evnn though they were both from out of town. In fact Alverez is from out of state. The have a court appearance on Thursday in Village Court.

08/30/07 - Rape On Fox Island Road In Port Chester

HEADLINE:

Suspect remains at large after Port Chester abduction, rape

STORY:

A rapist remains at large who allegedly abducted a 21-year-old village woman from a local gas station then forced her at knifepoint to drive to a nearby parking lot, where he committed the sexual assault, police said today.

The suspect sneaked into the back seat of her car as she entered the Citgo station at 37 Westchester Ave. at about 11:45 p.m. Sunday, police said. When she returned to her vehicle, he popped up wielding a knife and ordered her to drive him to a parking lot on Fox Island Road, Port Chester police Lt. James Ladeairous said.

After the assailant raped her, the woman jumped out of the car and ran down the street, where a cab driver saw her, picked her up and called police, Ladeairous said. Officers went to the parking lot, but the assailant had already fled.........


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Publication Date: August 30, 2007

Reporter: Shawn Cohen at spcohen@lohud.com or 914-694-5046

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08/30/07 - Lowey joins effort to stop Administration from limiting children's health insurance

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Lowey joins effort to stop Administration from limiting children's health insurance

STORY:

Congresswoman Nita Lowey (D-Westchester/Rockland) Wednesday announced that she will lead the effort to stop the Bush Administration from undermining the efforts of New York to provide children with healthcare.

“SCHIP is one of the most successful federal programs in existence,” said Lowey. “Given that 47 million Americans lack health insurance, including nine million children, it simply makes no sense that the Administration would go out of its way to prevent more children from having access to health care.”

Last week, the Administration issued new requirements that states must meet in order to provide health insurance to children in families earning more than 250 percent of the federal poverty rate. ........

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08/26/07 - Westchester County Police Said They Ran The Six-Hour Checkpoint At Putnam And Hillside Avenues With The Assistance Of Port Chester Police.

HEADLINE:

10 snagged for drunken driving in Port Chester

STORY:

Ten people were charged with drunken driving during a checkpoint that ended early this morning in Port Chester.......

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Publication Date: August 25, 2007

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