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Wednesday, April 27, 2011

04/27/11 Rye Town Roundup: Once Again Port Chester Property Owners Must Pay For Joe Carvin's Incompetent Administration At 10 Pearl Street

RYE TOWN SHOCKER: This Is Not The First Time That The Rye Town Republican's Failed To Properly Maintain The Three Sump Pumps At Town Hall


As President Ronald Reagan Would Say ....


"Well, There You Go Again"


When Are The Rye Town Republican's Going To Learn That There Is An Underground River That Runs In Front Of Rye Town Hall And The Basement Sump Pumps Must Be Checked On A Daily Basis


If Go In The Parking Lot Behind 101 Westchester Avenue In Port Chester You Will See An Entrance To A Cave. At The Cave Entrance Are Metal Bars And If You Get Up Close And Peek Around The Metal Bars You Will See And Hear A Dangerous Underground River That Runs Into The Byram River That Borders Port Chester


This is The Reason That Rye Town Hall, Which Is At 10 Pearl Street In Port Chester, Needs Three Fully Functioning Sump Pumps At The Ready.


But It Seems Like That Every Time The Rye Town Republican Patronage Machine Get's Back Into Power Preventive Maintenance Begins To Slowly Slip Away At Crawford Park, Rye Town Park And Rye Town Hall.


Just Last Week A Clueless Bishop Nowotnik, Who Is The Confidential Secretary To Rye Town Supervisor Joe Carvin Once Again Failed To Make Sure The Sump Pumps Were Working And The Town Hall Basement Filled With Two And A Half Feet Of Water.


Two Boilers And And The Elevator Now Need Extensive And Expensive Repairs That The Property Owners Of Port Chester, Rye Brook And Rye Neck Must pay For.


But This Is Not The First Time That The Republican's Have Neglected The Town Hall Sump Pumps, As You Can See In This Letter To Former Republican Rye Town Supoervisor Donald Gioffre......


This excerpt from the letter reads .....


"Regarding the noise from the basement .... I advised your office a week previous that a back up sump pump was not working, and that the main pump pressure switch was was stuck in the on position. On November 25, the pump actually fell down into the well and was vibrating against the steel plate. A town employee called me at home to report that a loud grinding noise could be heard throughout the first floor, and that she felt uncomfortable closing the building with that noise continuing."


"Apparently town employees for some reason were reluctant to call Mrs. elso concerning the noise for which I am told went on for hours. It is unfortunate that others have the same difficulty communicating with you and your office.


"Had you acted on my notification to your office, made the week before, the pump might have been repaired, rather than having subjected the town to the costof a new pump, due to neglect. And even up till now there is no back up pump to pick up the water."
As Yogi Bera Once Said.....


"This is like deja vu all over again."


Donald Gioffre Was A Cocky Ineffective Rye Town Supervisor And Joe Carvin Is A Cocky Ineffective Rye Town Supervisor.


Donald Gioffre's Confidential Secretary, Viola Nelson Was A Mean, Rude And Vindictive Person Who Wanted To Always Blame Anyone Who Brought Bad News.


And Therefore, No One Wanted To Tell Her Anything.


Joe Carvin's Confidential Secretary, Bishop Nowotnik Is A Mean, Rude And Vindictive Person Who Wants To Always Blame Anyone Who Brings Bad News,


And Therefore, No One Wants To Tell Him Anything.


Port Chester's Knuckle Dragging Gavone Sam "I Always Have My Snout In A Public Trough" Terenzi Was Donald Gioffre's Paid Financial Advisor.


Port Chester's Knuckle Dragging Gavone Sam "I Always Have My Snout In A Public Trough" Terenzi Is Joe Carvin's Paid Financial Advisor.


Donald Gioffre Ran A Deficit At Rye Town Park And Joe Carvin Ran A Deficit At Rye Town Park Even Though He Had About A Million Bucks And One Of The Best Beach Seasons On Record.


Donald Gioffre Jacked Up Prices At Crawford Park And Joe Carvin Jacked Up Prices At Crawford Park.


Donald Gioffre Didn't Worry About The Rye Town Hall's Basement Sump Pumps And There Was A Flood.


Joe Carvin Didn't Worry About The Rye Town Hall's Basement Sump Pumps And There Was A Really Bad Flood And Two Expensive Boilers And An Elevator Was Knocked Out.


This Is So Spooky ......


It Is Almost Like Failed Rye Town Supervisor Donald Gioffre Has Been Reincarnated And Returned As Failed Rye Town Supervisor Joe Carvin.


"The future ain't what it used to be."
-Yogi Berra

PLEASE SEE:


04/18/11 BREAKING NEWS: Bishop Nowotnik, The Confidential Secretary To Rye Town Supervisor Joe Carvin, Has Screwed Up Again - Town Hall Basement Is Flooded - Boilers, Elevator And Records Damaged (Updated Three Times)


IF Donald Trump Was The Rye Town Supervisor He Would Have To Say,"Bishop I Don't Care If You Have A Birth Certificate. YOUR FIRED!!!!"


Port Chester, Rye Brook And Rye Neck Taxpayers Are Forced To Pay For Extensive Damage At Rye Town Hall Due To Bishop Nowotnik's Incompetence


Flooding at the Rye Town office building has put the Elevator out of service and damaged historical records, as a clueless Bishop Nowotnik sits at his desk unaware.


Bishop Nowotnik, confidential secretary to Rye Town supervisor Joe Carvin, sat on his tail end as rain water slowly filled the basement at 10 Pearl Street over a period of days.


The three sump pumps were off and both furnaces were slowly put two and a half feet under water, as Nowotnik tried to figure out what was wrong.


Rye Town insiders say that Nowotnik was informed during the heavy rains of last week that water was slowly coming into the Rye Town Hall basement.


Nowotnik failed to properly monitor and stay on top of the situation as two and a half feet of water filled the basement containing irreplaceable and historic town records.


The elevator motor and pump were submerged and water was thrown onto the elevator contacts when it was started up.


Even worse, the water also damaged some records in the Fran C. Nugent basement record room.


Former Republican Rye Town Clerk Fran Nugent's Friends And Family Say
That If She Was A Live She Would Let Bishop Nowotnik Have It.

Decades Of Her Hard Work Have Been Destroyed,
Because Of The Carvin Administration Incompetance !!!!!


Longtime and respected Republican Rye Town Clerk Fran Nugent, who the basement record room is named after, must be turning in her grave as Rye Town Building Manager Bishop Nowotnik was slow to take action and contain the flood waters. This going to be very expensive to the over taxed property owners of Port Chester, Rye Brook and Rye Neck. The newly submerged elevator was recently refurbished for $35,000.


But Rye Town Republican's Have Had A Long History Of Neglecting Crawford Park, Rye Town Park And Of Coarse They Have Repeatedly Neglected Rye Town Hall


Back when Bruno Gioffre was the Rye Town Judge and Donald Gioffre was the Rye Town Supervisor and Fred Gioffre was the Rye Town Republican Chairman Ms. Nugent repeatedly stood up to the Gioffre Clan. Fred Gioffre is now like the head honcho of Rye Town Park.


Later her husband was unfairly let go from Rye Town park, because Ms. Nugent would not go along to get along.


Ms Nugent even went so far as to encourage contractors to complain about the Republican Party rigging bids in Rye Town and in Port Chester.


In one famous incident, a small visually impaired cleaning contractor was forced to bid three times for a cleaning contract that was to go to a Gioffre supporter. Each and every time the small contractor was found to be the lowest qualified bidder, but the Rye Town Republican Patronage machine would reject the bids and rebid the contract.


Eventually the small contractor had to get a lawyer, so that he could be awarded the cleaning contract that he was rightfully entitled to.


Nowotnik failure to keep an eye on things and to quickly take corrective action has cause extensive and expensive damage to Rye Town records. Many of the damaged records are irreplaceable historical documents, others are legal documents.


The Town of Rye is now planning to pack up and ship out the water soaked records before they start getting moldy, The water logged records may be able to be salvaged through an expensive freeze-drying process.


All three three sump pumps are on the same electrical circuit and they were all shut off.


In the past, a water monitoring alarm has been recommend for the security system, but Nowotnik did not have the risk management experience to know to investigate this option. If the water monitoring alarm had been in place Nowotnik would have been alerted that water was slowly filling town hall's basement.


Further, Nowotnik did not assign anyone daily start at the 3rd floor Town Hall roof stairway and take 15 minutes to walk down both stairways as they go through the building and down the basement stairway.


The Carvin Administration Responds To The Flooding Emergency


Two of Nowotnik's men got stuck in the elevator on their way up to see Nowotnik on the third floor when it shorted out about 10:00 this morning.


The Port Chester Fire Department had to called in to rescue Bishop Nowotnik and his two men from the elevator problem.


Rye Town Supervisor Joe Carvin was missing in action as the basement flood waters were pumped out by a plumbing contractor.


Rye Town will be out of elevator service for about one month.


Rye Town Board meetings will not be held at 10 Pearl St.


The meetings has been moved to the Port Chester village courtroom at 350 North Main Street until the elevator is fixed, because the third floor of town hall is nolonger handicapped accessible.


Now that the village of Port Chester doesn't rent out the second floor of Rye Town Hall, maybe it is time for Nowotnik to reassign a first floor office to the second floor and start storing the Town's historic and legal records on the first floor.


Better yet, Nowotnik should provide display space for the Town to properly display it's vast collection of historic maps and documents.


Bishop Nowotnik and Rye Town Supervisor Joseph Carvin are not effectively and efficiently utilizing all three floors of Rye Town Hall.


UPDATE:


04/20/11


Bishop Nowotnik has given a heating contractor the go-ahead to work on the two furnaces.


They are hoping that heat can be restored to town hall by next week.


UPDATE #2:

04/22/11

There Is A Reason That Port Chester And Rye Brook Residents Want To Take A Copy Of The Westmore News Roll It Up And Smack Richard Abel Upside The Head. Today's Westmore News Snooze Has Come Out With A Cute And Cheery Little Report About Bishop Nowotnik's Rye Town Hall Basement That Was Flooded With Two And A Half Feet Of Rain Water Over Multiple Days .....

If you were planning to attend Tuesday night’s Rye Town Board meeting, don’t head over to the Town Office Building at 10 Pearl St. The 8 p.m. meeting has been moved to the Port Chester village courtroom at 350 North Main St.

If you have a meeting with a representative from the company that has done the latest reassessment of property in the town to discuss your new assessment, don’t plan on taking the elevator. It’s out of service. That’s also the reason Tuesday’s meeting has been moved—the town courtroom on the third floor isn’t handicapped accessible, at least for the time being.

The Article Continues.....

“The damage is fairly extensive and fairly costly,” said Bishop Nowotnik, confidential secretary to the Rye Town supervisor, Wednesday afternoon. “It’s too early to say how much that is costing.”

Westmore Snooze Quote Of The Day:

" I can’t guarantee we won’t have water there again.”
- —Bishop Nowotnik, confidential secretary to Rye Town supervisor Joseph Carvin

Well Maybe We Should Get Someone Else To Manage The Rye Town Office Building


And Maybe We Should Start Telling The Truth About The Abel's And The Westmore News, Before They Manipulate Another Rye Town Election.....

It looks like the Carvin Administration is benefiting from letting Bernard Abel off the hook for once again cheating on his property taxes. When the previous administration got a call from the State Of Florida alerting them that they were looking into the Westmore News founder's Florida property taxes, the Town of Rye learned that Bernard Abel was claiming to be both a full time resident of Rye Town and Florida. thus getting tax exemptions reserved senior citizens in Port Chester, Rye Brook and Rye Town.

When the Town Of Rye took Greedy Ole Bernie to court for unpaid back property taxes he turned around and sued all of the taxpayers in the Town of Rye, its elected supervisor, and four town council members.

Crazy Bernie and his wicked little son Richard argued that Bernie's First and Fourteenth Amendment rights were breaches by a lawsuit against him for unpaid property taxes after he wrote columns criticizing town officials.

The dim witted Judge denied the Town's judgment, finding that Bernie offered sufficient evidence for a jury to find in his favor.

So If you want to cheat your neighbors and school children and make them pay higher property taxes, start a newspaper and attack the local officials that are responsible for making you pay your fair share of taxes.

Bernie cried to the judge that he was the only he was sued sued by the town for property taxes during the period. Hey if another government body would have called a dropped a dime in a tax cheat, they would have been happy to take that good for nothing low life to court too.

The sad part is that Bernie Abel had a long history of not paying his taxes in Port Chester and Rye Town and was know for decades as Bernie "I forgot To Pay Over 100 Property Tax Bills" Abel and his son was know as Richard' My Daddy Gave Me This Newspaper After He Cheated School Children By Not Paying His Taxes" Abel

While Joseph Carvin was running for to be the new Rye Town Supervisor he was constantly seen at the Port Chester Diner and at the Westmore News offices make strategical campaign decisions and coordinating with Bernie "I Forgot To Pay Over 100 Property Tax Bills" Abel.


In an article published on August 22, 2003 in the Westmore News, Bernard "I Forgot To Pay Over 100 Prperty Tax Bills" Abel, wrote an article as part of his regularly featured column called "The Town Crier. The article was entitled "Borrelli on par with Marie Antoinette" (referring to Rye Town Councilman Mike Borrelli), was written by the tax cheating Abel during a heated local election in which he was seeking to chose the politicians who would control of the Rye Town Board.


Under a subheading, entitled "Who is the real Mann?", Abel, who was laughing all the way to the bank, wrote about Rye Town Attorney Monroe Yale Mann, as a "political hatchet Mann" and "one of the biggest powers behind the throne" in the Town of Rye government, because the Town Attorney had tried to collect Bernie's unpaid back taxes on behalf of the school children of Rye Town.


Abel wrote that "Mann pulls the strings" and questioned whether the Rye Town Attorney who had taken him to court for tax cheating was "leading the Town of Rye to destruction."


The Rye Town Attorney took Greedy Bernie Abel and Westmore News, Inc., to court argueing that the statements contained in the article were false and published with actual malice.

Bernie Abel and the Westmore News moved to dismiss the complaint, contending that the action was filed in bad faith to chill the exercise of protected free speech and that the suit was frivolous. Supreme Court denied the motion and the Appellate Division affirmed the Supreme Court Decision against the Wstmore News and that tax cheating Abel.

The Rye Town Attorney moved for summary judgment on the complaint.

The Westmore News Inc.opposed the motion and cross-moved for summary judgment asserting that the article contained only expressions of opinion by Greedy Abel.

The Supreme Court denied both motions on the ground that there were disputed issues of fact, and did not address whether the article constituted protected opinion. The parties were directed to proceed to trial.

Now that the Judges were out of the way, Bernie "I Forgot To Pay My Property Taxes" Abel had to face a jury of his peers at a trial. When all the facts were laid out the the jury found that the statements in the article were defamatory and that defendant Westmore News had published the statements either with the knowledge that they were false or in reckless disregard of their truth or falsity. The jury awarded Mann $75,000 in compensatory damages against Westmore News and punitive damages against both Westmore News and Abel in the amount of $15,000 each.

The Greedy Tax Cheating Bernie Abel Hit the roof and ran back to court appealed, arguing that the statements were constitutionally protected opinion.

The Appellate Division upheld the jury's determination and said that Bernie Abel and the Westmore News Inc.had defamed the Rye Town Attorney, and concluded that the Rye Town Attorney was entitled to compensatory damages. The court dismissed the punitive damages awards and ordered a new trial unless The Rye Town Attorney stipulated to a reduction in the compensatory damage award, which he did, leaving in place only the defamation award against Westmore News Inc.


But Greedy Tax Cheating Bernie Abel and his wicked little thieving son Richard Abel were not satisfied they then went back to the State Supreme Court and argued that even though the statements printed in the Westmore News were knowing false and defamatory they were protected speech, because tax cheating Bernie Abel's false and defamatory statements appeared on an "opinion" page.

In other words the Abel's and the Westmore News Inc. Basically Argued We can knowingly lie as long and not be held responsible if we do it on the opinion pages of the Westmore News.

The Dim Witted Judges Agreed With Bernie Abel who has made a career out of cheating school children out of sorely needed tax dollars.


But, Tax Cheating Bernie Abel Always Hated Paying Tax Dollar's For School Children He Even Tried To Stop The formation of the Blind Brook School District and the building Blind Brook High School, because he was afraid he might have to pay a few more buck for the children of Rye Brook. Greedy Bernie repeatedly slammed Blind Brook families saying their proposed high school was "Elitist".


Rye Town Supervisor Joesph Carvin let the tax cheating Bernie Abel off the hook for his knowingly false and defamatory articles in support of the Carvin campaign.


In fact, Good Ole Joe Carvin was so happy with the Westmore News articles that had been repeatedly found to be knowingly false and defamatory, he gave the newspaper a massive cash payout of tax dollars from the property owners of Port Chester, Rye Brook And Rye Neck,


Of coarse, The Greedy Abel Clan Had No Shame, They Threw A Free Speech Party” And Invited The Carvin Administration, as well as, clueless Westmore News subscribers and some relatives looking for a few crumbs from the Joe Carvin Windfall.


I Wonder Who Westmore News Editor Jananne Abel Will Be Endorsing In The Upcoming Rye Town Supervisor's Election In About Six Months?


But What Do You Expect From A Newspaper That Was Founded To Attack Port Chester Officials Who Were Trying To Get Infamous Port Chester Slumlord Bernie Abel To Pay Building Violation Fines And Over 100 Property Tax Bills?

Who can forget how Bernie's apartment buildings mysteriously burned to the ground on Willow Street just before the Town Of Rye and the Village of Port Chester took them over.

Later it was learned that one of Bernie's real estate corporations sold an another apartment building to his wife for $100 and the Town of Rye and the Village of Port Chester soon discovered that they a corporate shell with no assets owed them scores of property tax bills.

Rye Town Roundup has always been proponent of free speech, America is built on the idea that there is a natural conflict between government and the press. That conflict benefits the people. But when an unethical rouge newspaper publisher like Richard Abel snuggles up in bed with a politician like Joe Carvin, then it's the taxpayers that get screwed.


The next thing you know Bernie Abel once again gets a way with cheating on his taxes and Joe Carvin gives hime a massive payment funded by the taxpayers of Port Chester, Rye Brook and Rye Neck.


And Guess Who Get's Hurt


1). Honest Hardworking Families And Seniors Who Can Barely Pay Their Taxes


2). School Children Who Depend On About Half Of The Taxes That The Westmore News Founder "Forgot" To Pay.


Richard And Jananne Should Do The Right Ting And Pay Back The Massive Payment That Rye Town Tax Payers Paid Bernie Abel And The Westmore News Inc.


The Should Also Start Paying Off Those 100 Tax Bills That Bernie Skipped Out On.


God Knows The Schools In Port Chester, Rye Brook And Rye Neck Could Use The Cash.


A Newspaper Is Supposed To Be Funded By Advertising Not By Hustling Honest Hard Working Taxpayers and by making sweetheart deals with ambidextrous politicians.


You didn't see Joe Carvin And The Rye Town Republican Patronage Machine Strategizing And Coordinating With The Owner, Publisher And Editor Of The Journal News Repeatedly At The Port Chester Diner During The Last Rye Town Election.


You Just Can't Trust Richard "My Daddy Gave Me This Newspaper After He Forgot To Pay Over One Hundred Tax Bills" Abel And The Westmore News To Tell You What Is Really Going On In Port Chester, Rye Brook, Rye Neck And Rye Town.


Forget About The Fake Fraudulent And Phony Abels At The Westmore News.


Don't Worry Rye Town Roundup Is Like The Hunter Thompson Of Hyper Local News Reporting And Will Continue To Expose The Fraud, Waste And Abuse In The Town Of Rye.


Rye Town Roundup Will Help Keep The Carvin Administration Honest, Because Richard Abel Is Too Busy Kissing Joe Carvin's White Boney Ass And Can't Be Bothered With Report News About Rye Town.


Bishop Nowotnik, Had Better Straighten Up And Fly Right, Because Rye Town Roundup Is Watching To See If He Properly Takes Care Of Crawford Park, Rye Town Park And Rye Town Hall.


"If I'd written all the truth I knew for the past ten years, about 600 people - including me - would be rotting in prison cells from Rio to Seattle today. Absolute truth is a very rare and dangerous commodity in the context of professional journalism."


-Hunter Thompson


UPDATE #3


04/26/11


Bishop We Hate To Say We Told You So, But .....


Bishop Nowotnik Has Finally Started Doing What He Should Have Done When The Village Of Port Chester Moved Out Of Town Hall. He Has Moved The Rye Town Assessor's Office Upstairs And Moved The Irreplaceable And Historical Records In To The Assessor's Office.


The Assessor's Office Is Now The New Records Office And Has Been Painted.


New Carpeting For The First Floor Records Room Comes Tomorrow.


Now If Joe Carvin Could Get Bishop Nowotnik To Pay A Few More Bucks A Month To Monitor The Rye Town Basement If The Basement Starts To Flood Again.


I Am Sure That Rye Town Supervisor Joe Carvin's Best Buddy Bart "The Bigot" Didden Would Be More Than Happy To Monitor Rye Town Basement Flooding At USA Central Alarm.


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Sunday, March 20, 2011

03/20/11 President Barack Obama Sends Letter Honoring Two Port Chester Firefighters

PORT CHESTER HERO'S

Domenick Cervi and Richard J. Salvatore have been volunteering with the Putnam Engine and Hose Company of the Port Chester Volunteer Fire Department for fifty years. The Port Chester Fire Department Captains have seen their share firefighting.

Both men were honored last night at the South End Firehouse and received a letter from President Barack Obama.

Putnam Engine and Hose Company President Eugene Sciavillo, who has been with the department for 33 years and helped organize the ceremony

Both firefighters are lifelong Port Chester residents.

Their first fire was at an apartment complex at Purdy Avenue and South Main Street in 1961. The fire nearly destroyed a whole block as they and other firefighters fought thee fire forr more than six hours in icy conditions.

Captain Cervi was on the scene of the horrific Gulliver’s Nightclub fire in 1974, where 24 young people died.

Both captains recall fighting the five day long RB and W nuts and bolts factory on Midland Avenue.

Captain Salvatore was working for the Port Chester Schools at the time, but he worked every night to battle the factory fire.

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Friday, March 4, 2011

03/04/11 PORT CHESTER TOPIX MESSAGE BOARD: A Recap Of Last Nights Port Chester Mayoral Forum Hosted By The League Of Women Voters

Topix Port Chester

Port Chester - News March 4, 2011

A Recap Of Last Nights Port Chester Mayoral Forum Hosted By The League Of Women Voters (portchesterroundup.blogspot)
League Of Women Voters Forum Was Ba Ba Ba Ba Booooooring ........

Port Chester Residents Looking For Fireworks Were Disappointed Last Night Last Nights's public forum for the Port Chester mayoral candidates brought a few differences between Bart "The Bigot" Didden and Port Chester Mayor Dennis Pilla.

Some of the differences were ....

The decision on whether to spend another million dollars to appeal the voting rights decision and Bart's perception of the village finances.

Overall, incumbent Mayor Dennis Pilla clearly demonstrated progress on everything from code enforcement to corruption-fighting within the ranks, while Republican nominee and Trustee Bart Didden repeatedly tried in vain to put together an argument of "mismanagement."

Mayor Dennis Pilla noted the recent upgrade of Port Chester's bond rating to its highest ever, coming despite declining sales and mortgage taxes.

A couple times, the candidates were asked what they would do to foster more unity and tolerance among village residents.

Extremist TEA Party Lunatic Bart "The Bigot" Didden avoided the question by saying, "The divide is between government and the people."

Mayor Dennis Pilla said the community is mainly tolerant but that the board itself had to set a more civil tone, rather than fan the flames. "If you watch the meetings on TV, and I don't mean to disparage, but it's as though they're throwing lighter fluid on a fire that's already partially lit," the Mayor Pilla said.

One specific policy difference that I hadn't heard before was on the potential for sharing services with Rye and Rye Brook.

Mayor Dennis Pilla said he and the village manager met recently with Rye about sharing code-enforcement functions and fire services. He noted that Rye Brook already pays a fee in return for service from volunteer firefighters.

Bart "The Bigot" Didden dismissed the notion that the wealthy, less-racially-diverse neighboring communities wanted any deals with Port Chester.

"You think Rye Brook wants a lot to do with Port Chester? Asked Extremist TEA Party Lunatic Bart "The Bigot" Didden. The City of Rye, they don't want us over there. They don't want us in their park, they don't want us on their beach, and we have to maintain our rights and our ability.", Extremist TEA Party Lunatic Bart "The Bigot Didden Continued.
Police blotter: Mamaroneck, Port Chester (lohud)
Harmon Drive: All four tires were punctured on a vehicle parked in a driveway between 10 p.m. Feb.... ..Port Chester Halstead Avenue : A couple were awakened at 3 a.m. Feb. 26 by a man talking to himself in their bedroom, police said. An ... Comment?
Port Chester chief: Electrical malfunction caused Midland Ave. fire (Journal News)
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School news: Rye, Port Chester (Journal News)
PORT CHESTER: Seven students from King Street Elementary, and Port Chester Middle School and High School will participate in the annual Westchester County School Music Association's All-County Band and Orchestra Festivals, to be held at Purchase College, SUNY, March 12-13. The students who will perform are fifth-grader William Brakewood and ...

Thursday, March 3, 2011

03/03/11 The Raw Port Chester News Feed

News Reports About Port Chester, NY
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Tuesday, March 1, 2011

03/01/11 PORT CHESTER PATCH UPDATE: Port Chester Fire Displaces 11 People - Where Is The Westmore News?


No wonder people in Port Chester call the newspaper, founded by Bernie "I Forgot To Pay Over 100 Tax Bills" Abel, the Westmore SNOOZE.


PORT CHESTER PATCH REPORTS: The fire victims will be staying at Port Chester's Carver Center until they can find a permanent place to stay.


Eleven people, including five children, were displaced in a fire at a three-story building in Port Chester that badly damaged several apartments and two stores.

The fire occurred at 304 Midland Avenue just after 1 p.m. today.

Firefighters from Larchmont, Mamaroneck, White Plains and Stamford helped the Port Chester Fire Department fight the blaze. The three-story building has apartments on the top two floors and houses Harbor Marine Canvas and the Cafe Roma on the first floor across the street from Midland Plaza.

Heavy, dark smoke, visible from a mile away, billowed from the top two floors as firefighters on the roof and surrounding the building battled the blaze. About 100 spectators watched.


Village Trustee John Branca, who was in the nearby store DaDa Radice when the fire broke out, called 911.

"A gentleman came running in saying 'call 911, smoke is coming out of Harbor Marine Canvas,'" he said. He called and then helped store owner Daniel Radice, 80, evacuate from his home behind the store, which has been a village fixture since the 1930s. Branca also evacuated people who had come into the store because the smoke outside was so bad.

Moments later, firefighters arrived.

"At that point in time it was just a little bit of smoke, but then it blew up... 'boom!' It just went crazy," Branca said.

"The response was tremendous," Branca said of fire crews’ arrival at the scene.

Police Officer John Bykowski was one of the first on the scene, with Officer Thomas Krempe. By the time they arrived all the people in the businesses had already evacuated, Bykowski said. Climbing the stairs, he found a woman with her baby coming down and escorted them out of the building.

Josabel Carcamo, who lives in the apartment building with his wife, said he was at work when the fire started. He said his wife escaped the fire uninjured, but declined to provide further details on the incident.

Carcamo and his wife will be among the four families staying at the Carver Center until they find permanent shelter, said Carolyn Sherwin, a spokesperson for the Red Cross.

Sherwin said the organization “will work with all the families through the recovery process."

The Red Cross will provide the families with financial assistance to replace items lost in the fire. The organization will also use referrals from outside agencies to find them apartments, Sherwin said.

She said mental health volunteers are available to help the families cope with the aftermath of the fire.

The families are already getting offers for places to stay, Sherwin said. Two of the women who lost their apartments will be staying with friends while they look for a permanent place to live.

Anyone interested in donating to the families can visit http://www.westchestercounty.redcross.org or call 914-946-6500.


PORT CHESTER ROUNDUP UPDATE:

Sources tell Port Chester Roundup that Former Westmore News Columnist And Port Chester Planning Board Member Bart "My Downtown Office Had No CO" Didden Is At The Scene.

Apparently, Bart "My Downtown Office Had No CO" Didden was checking on the status of one of his expensive campaign signs which was on the side of the mixed use building that was engulfed in flames.

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03/01/11 Port Chester Fire Update: This Just In From The Journal News - Where Is The Westmore News?

Fire in shops, apartments on Port Chester's Midland Avenue

PHOTO: Port Chester firefighters battle a 4-alarm fire that destroyed businesses and apartments on Midland Avenue in Port Chester today. / Frank Becerra Jr./The Journal News

.... Port Chester Fire Chief Kevin McFadden said there was no immediate indication of the cause of the fire, or where it started.

"We're just trying to contain the fire at this time," he said.

One firefighter had been taken to Greenwich Hospital as of 4 p.m. for treatment of smoke inhalation, the chief said.

Port Chester Trustee John Branca said he was helping out behind the counter at "DaDa" Radice candy and newspaper shop next to Cafe Roma when someone ran in to tell them to call 911 because there was smoke coming from Harbor Marine.

Police Officer John Bykowski, one of two officers first on the scene, said "everybody seemed to be out of the building" when he arrived.

He said he entered the burning building and assisted a young woman with a baby as she was coming down the stairs.

The two officers went upstairs and knocked on some doors before the smoke overcame them. They left through a fire escape...

....Daniel Radice, 79, longtime owner of "DaDa" Radice, was in his house behind the store when the fire broke out and got out safely after seeing the smoke.

"It could be worse. Nobody got hurt. That's the main thing," Radice said as he watched the firefighting efforts from a parking lot across the street. Radice's store was engulfed in smoke and water spray, but it was unclear how much damage it sustained.

Others were gathered in the parking lots of Midland Plaza shopping center across the street and the Home Depot down the block watching the firefighters pour water onto the blaze from ladders and a truck.

Mayor Dennis Pilla said the four-family building had been inspected in November and the owners were informed it needed exit signs, smoke detectors and emergency lighting. It passed inspection in January after the items were corrected, he said.

COMMENT:

Former Westmore News columnist and Port Chester Planning Board Member Bart "My Downtown Office Had No CO" Didden seems to be keeping a low profile, However, Port Chester Roundup will try and get a response about the fre from the infamous downtown building code lawbreaker.

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