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Wednesday, April 13, 2011

04/13/11 Police: Teens Responsible for 3 Car Break-Ins and more from Port Chester Patch

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April 13, 2011

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Police: Teens Responsible for 3 Car Break-Ins

Nik Bonopartis | Apr 13, 2011 | 0 Comments

imageThe teens were caught after the owner of one car spotted them taking his jacket.

Lawn Ornament Thieves Target 'Fashionable Lions'

Nik Bonopartis | Apr 12, 2011 | 0 Comments

imageFour stone lions have gone missing from Port Chester lawns in the past several weeks.

PC Man Lights Cigar, Sticks Around After DWI Accident

Nik Bonopartis | Apr 12, 2011 | 0 Comments

imageDiogene Mattiello told police he didn't believe he was drunk after the Willett Avenue crash.

Daily PatchCast: Pearl River Man Killed in Motorcycle Accident, Peace Pilgrimage from Peekskill to Yorktown

Satta Sarmah and Sean Roach | Apr 12, 2011 | 0 Comments

imageA roundup of the region's major developments for Tuesday, April 12.

Things to Do

9:30am

The Westchester County Board of Ethics Meeting

The Westchester County Board of Ethics Meeting.

04/13/11 Today In History: Tiger Woods


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Tuesday, April 12, 2011

04/13/11 WCBS Rolls Into Town As The Local Rag Of Port Chester Fails To Update It's So-Called News Website For Four Days In A Roll

Clueless Westmore News Readers Are Always The Last To Know What's Going On In Port Chester.


Why Wont Westmore Snooze Publisher Richard Abel Get Off His Butt And Cover Some Breaking News For A Change?


It Seems Like Richard And Jananne Abel Just Copy What's The Journal News Once A Week.


Lazy Richard "Low Teck" Abel Has Got To Learn How To Update The Westmore Snooze Website Everyday Like The New Port Chester Patch News Website.


Richard" My Daddy Gave Me This Newspaper After He Forgot To Pay Over 100 Rye Town Property Tax Bills" Abel Wouldn't Know A Breaking News Story If It Came Up And Slapped Him In The Face.

Thank Goodness, That WCBS Reporter Catherine Cioffi Is Willing To Come Up To Port Chester And Show The Dim Witted Publisher Of The Westmore Snooze How It Is Done.

Port Chester Group Fights Ex-Ice Cream Truck Selling Cigarettes


PORT CHESTER, N.Y. (WCBS 880) - An old ice cream truck parked at the side of a Sonoco gas station at the border of Port Chester and Connecticut has many residents smoking mad.

The truck no longer plays that beloved jingle and is stripped of its colorful stickers displaying everyone’s favorite warm weather treats.
Instead of selling soft serve ice cream dipped in sprinkles this truck sells cigarettes at Connecticut prices.
New York smokers are saving but some Port Chester parents are fuming.
“Clearly children have an affinity towards ice cream trucks,” says Council of Community Services Executive Director Daniel Lipka. “It’s clearly not what we want our kids to be seeing.”
“Our issue is really about the influence that tobacco and alcohol have on this community especially on young people and that certainly isn’t the message that we want our community to be about,” Lipka said.
Meanwhile, the gas station owner tells WCBS 880 reporter Catherine Cioffi that he had no idea an old ice cream truck would cause so many problems.
“I believe it’s against the law to advertise cigarettes directly to children and this taken in context is doing exactly that,” Lipka said.
The Port Chester Cares Community Coalition has been looking into the dangers of putting tobacco and kid-friendly products together.
The gas station owner said he’ll be replacing the truck as soon as possible.
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04/13/11 Have You Seen The Rye Town Roundup News Blog?

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Photo: The Rye Town Office Building At !0 Pearl Street In Port Chester, NY

The Town Of Rye is a separate municipality from the city of Rye. The town of Rye (often referred to as "Rye Town") contains two villages and a portion of a third - Port Chester and Rye Brook - along with the Rye Neck section of Mamaroneck (the remainder of the village is in the town of Mamaroneck). These villages comprise the entire area of the town.




Port Chester residents help elect the Town Supervisor and the town council members.

Currently the Town Supervisor is ...

Joseph Carvin

The Town Council members are...

William Villanova
David Gelfarb
Michele Mendicino
Robert Nioras

The town of Rye has a population was 43,880 at in the 2000 census.

According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of 7.4 square miles , of which, 7.0 square miles of it is land and 0.5 square miles of it is water.

The Town of Rye operates two parks.

Crawford Park: The park sits on 35.6 acres (144,000 m2) in the Village of Rye Brook. It contains soccer fields, a pavilion area, softball field, open fields, a playground, and the mansion.

Rye Town Park/Oakland Beach: The park is located along Forest Avenue in the City of Rye on sixty two acres of grasslands, forests, open fields, duck pond, and beach. It is next to Playland Park on the Long Island Sound

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04/12/11 The Raw Port Chester News Feed

News Reports About Port Chester, NY
Greenwich man planning to move showboat to Mamaroneck
Greenwich Time
Billy Frenz, of Glenville, stands on the upper deck of his Showboat, which is moored in the Byram River at Port Chester, NY, on Wednesday, March 9, 2011. Frenz hopes to move his showboat to Mamaroneck, NY, where it will serve as a jazz bar on that ...
Budget Workshop: Trustees to Talk Building, Code Enforcement and Planning Tonight
Patch.com
Should Port Chester make steep cuts to services or restructure some of its long-term debt to balance this year's budget? Those are just two of the options available to the Board of Trustees in a lean budget year, when a still-sluggish economy, ...
NY Gas Station Sells Cheap Smokes From Ice Cream Truck On CT Side Of Property
Gothamist
The Port Chester, NY Sunoco station has its pumps in Greenwich, CT. And though the cigarette tax is $3 in Connecticut, the 4th highest in the country, it's easier to stomach than NY'c $4.35 cigarette tax. A Stamford resident knowingly told NBC ...

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A District-Wide Art Party Makes History Come Alive this Wednesday
Patch.com
Students of the Port Chester School District will trade their daily lectures for a festival of performing and visual arts this Wednesday in honor of National Arts in the Schools Day. The event is sponsored by the Port Chester Council for the Arts to ...
GO NOW: Tasty getaways
New York Post (blog)
Get just that over in workaday Port Chester, home to one of the lesser-known Batali/Bastianich efforts, the smartly renovated Tarry Lodge . This historic roadhouse just steps from the Connecticut line is now one of the best spots in the suburbs for a ...

New York Post (blog)

Blog Posts About Port Chester, NY
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Julio Monterroso (Port Chester, N.Y.), Denise Ortega (Denver, Colo.), Julia Rueckert (Southport, Conn.), Suman Sarker (Bronx, N.Y.), Nicole Schilder ( Clinton, N.Y.) and Alicia Specht (North Andover, Mass.). ...
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04/12/11 District-Wide Art Party Makes History Come Alive this Wednesday and more from Port Chester Patch

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April 12, 2011

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A District-Wide Art Party Makes History Come Alive this Wednesday

Christine Loughran | Apr 12, 2011 | 0 Comments

imageAt National Arts in the Schools Day, kids will learn a little something they may not have in their social studies class.

Budget Workshop: Trustees to Talk Building, Code Enforcement and Planning Tonight

Nik Bonopartis | Apr 11, 2011 | 3 Comments

imageTrustees have offered a range of abstract solutions aimed at eliminating – or reducing – the proposed 14.7 percent tax rate increase.

Opinion

One With Everything: Why I Love the Pizza at Clino's

Peter Gerstenzang | Apr 12, 2011 | 0 Comments

imageThere's powerful magic at work in the dough and cheese!

Things to Do

8:30am

The Westchester Municipal Planning Federation Board

The Westchester Municipal Planning Federation Board meeting.

9:00am

PTO Today 2011 Parent Group Expo

via County Center: PTO Today helps parent leaders make schools great. Parent Teacher Group Expos are interactive, informative and …

04/12/11 Today In History: Yuri Gagarin


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Monday, April 11, 2011

04/11/11 This Week's School Highlights: Science Projects, an Art Festival and Budget Adoption and more from Port Chester Patch

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April 11, 2011

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This Week's School Highlights: Science Projects, an Art Festival and Budget Adoption

Christine Loughran | Apr 11, 2011 | 0 Comments

imageStudents have a busy week ahead with concerts, dance performances and a science fair, while the budget process in Port Chester moves ahead.

Don't Become A Victim of 'Dirty Dozen' Tax Scams

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imageIRS offers tips to get you ready for April 18 tax deadline.

Thousands Participate in Nanuet Relays

Maria Mirakaj Brownsell | Apr 10, 2011 | 0 Comments

imageKicking off at 9 a.m. on Saturday, teams from schools all over the Hudson Valley got together for several races and events.

Treasuring the Moments When Kids Say the Cutest Things

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Susan Konig | Apr 11, 2011 | 0 Comments

imageIn kindergarten-speak, "that's why" has replaced "because." Confused? That's why it doesn't make sense!

Things to Do

10:00am

Nominate a local hero!

The American Red Cross in Westchester County is searching for ordinary individuals who have committed extraordinary acts of heroism…

11:00am

'Mommy Mondays' at the Voracious Reader

imageThe Voracious Reader hosts 'Mommy Mondays' weekly at 11 a.m. New moms and their babies (18 months and under) are invited to gather …

04/11/11 The Raw Port Chester News Feed

News Reports About Port Chester, NY


This Just In ......

Rye Celebrates 54th Annual Little League Parade
Patch.com
The Port Chester, Rye, and Rye Brook Emergency Medical Services, Rye Recreation, and sponsors of many of the teams also participated in the parade. Several families attended, including Cardinals little league player Jack Brodwolf and his father and ...

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Police: $4k in Jewelry Missing from Port Chester Gold Exchange ...
Almost $4000 in valuables was stolen from a Port Chester bullion sell emporium this week, military said. The 55-year-old owners of Gold X Change called ...
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04/11/11 Port Chester Topix Message Board: This Week's School Highlights: Science Projects, an Art Festival and Budget Adoption

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Port Chester - News April 11, 2011


This Week's School Highlights: Science Projects, an Art Festival and Budget Adoption (Patch)
Students have a busy week ahead with concerts, dance performances and a science fair, while the budget process in Port Chester moves ahead.
MeghanVanBrookandStefanStankevich (Daily Record)
Dan and Candy Von Brook of Florham Park announce the engagement of their daughter, Meghan Von Brook, and Stefan Stankevich, both of Port Chester, N.Y. He is the son of Richard and Ellen Stankevich of Meriden, Conn.

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04/11/11 Take A Moment And Check Out The News Roundup Media News Blog - Rye Town Roundup

From Rye Town Roundup: 04/11/11 Gary Zuckerman And His Buddies Have A Record Of Coming Up With Very Simple Wrong Answers To Complicated Questions

Rye Brook Resident Gary "It's A Slam Dunk" Zuckerman's Simple Wrong Answers Almost Always End Up Costing Taxpayers Huge Amounts Of Money.

Everyone in Port Chester And Rye Brook Remembers When Gary Zuckerman And His Buddies Came Up With The Dim Witted Idea Of Hiring A Private Company From Arizona To Be The Rye Brook Fire Department.

Gary Zuckerman told Rye Brook residents that everything looked good on paper. Rye Brook would tell the Port Chester Volunteer Fire Fighters to take a hike and then "privatize" the villages fire protection services. Everything went great till that big ole house in Rye Brook burned to the grown.

Rye Brook residents then wanted to tar and feather Gary Zuckerman and his buddies when they found up that their required escrow account payments went through the roof.

Later other Rye Brook residents, had to clean up the mess that Gary Zuckerman and his buddies created, by putting their tails between their legs and asking for a new fire service contract from the village of Port Chester.

STOP THE PRESSES !!!!

Rye Town Taxpayer's Are Going To Pay Through The Nose, Now That Gary Zuckerman Has A New Very Simple Wrong Answer For A Complex Issue.....

03/23/11 Rye Town Supervisor Joe Carvin Should Issue His Own Pink Slip

Rye Town Supervisor Joe Carvin has a goofy plan to dissolve the 350 year old Town of Rye.

Joe "The Harvard Educated Fool" Carvin wants to eliminate the small amount of the $3.6 million budget, that the 8,000 some properties in Rye Brook support.

The Harvard Educated Fool wants the tiny village of Rye Brook to collect it's own taxes taxes, conducts it's own property assessments and pay to maintain all of crawford park and possibly have to pay more to access the Rye Town Park Beach.

But the Harvard Educated Fool wants the little village of Rye Brook to set up it's own court system.

Joe Carvin failed to mention that the village of Rye Brook will need to hie about 18 full time unionized employees and several part time people.

Currently the village of Rye Brook pays less than two million something million in non-union salaries and benefits. And most of that cost is picked up by Port Chester.

Mr. Carvin, a manager at Altima Partners, a London-based hedge loot management firm, that has become the latest hedge fund manager that needed to build up its in-house legal capability.

Recently, Altima Partners made headlines when its legal chief Ursula Newmanjumped from the ship of rats and went to another firm..

Clueless Joe Carvin has flushed $50,000 in tax dollars down the toilet studying " What do the hard working nonunion employees of the town of Rye do?"

Carvin's bone headed move comes amid a state-wide push to consolidate more than 4,000 local municipalities in an effort to pare away layers of bureaucracy that drive up costs and taxes.

New York State is pushing for consolidation by folding villages, back up into towns or by combining villages and school districts, but the Harvard Educated Fool is going into the wrong direction by folding the Town into two separate villages.

And even though Joe "The Harvard Educated Fool" Carvin has spent $50,000, he still can't tell Rye Brook residents what he is going to do about unincorporated areas of the town like the Rye Neck section, which has it's own school system and is on the other side of the City Of Rye.

What is going to happen to Rye Neck?

Is the village of Rye Brook going to annex this area?

Will the village of Rye Brook now have to deal with three school districts instead of the current two school districts?

The problem is particularly acute in Westchester, Rockland and Nassau counties, all among the top 10 counties with the highest property taxes in the U.S., according to an analysis of Census data by the Tax Foundation.

This all sounds good to hear let's dissolve part of our government.

The current push has yet to yield any village or town consolidations.

Last year's New York State budget halved the state's $11.5 million appropriation to fund efficiency grants, and under the Governor's budget cutting ax next year's budget is likely to chop away at the remaining $5 million.

Dissolving local entities isn't easy.

Most Rye Brook residents are not interested in picking up the bulk of the $4.6 million Carvin Administration debt.

Every election year Joe "The Harvard Educated Fool" Carvin comes up with a dim witted plan that sounds good that sounds good in theroy, but won't work in the real world.

Remember three years ago, when Carvin had the birdbrained and silly solution that would have merged Port Chester, Rye Brook and everything into the City of Rye.

The City Of Rye split away from the town in 1942, because it did not want to be associated with Rye Brook and Port Chester.

Was Joe Carvin even around when both the Rye City and the Rye Brook police departments went nuts when Gary Zuckerman pushed to consolidate both police departments.

When push came to shove and all options were put on the table, the voters shot down Gary Zuckerman's unworkable idea.

Now we have a new Rye Town Supervisors election and Joe Carvin has a new dog and pony show: "I am garnering support for dissolving the Town of Rye."

Mr. Zuckerman, an attorney is feeding Joe Carvin this idea. The problem is that Zuckerman and Carvin are fiddling as Rye Town burns.

Now Zuckerman and Carvin want Rye Brook to hire a unionized employee and pay other unionized employees overtime to run Rye Brook elections.

And guess what?

That new election totally ran by and paid for by Rye Brook tax payers will include a new Rye Brook Village Judge who needs a unionized court clerk to handle tickets from the Rye Brook speed trap.

I wonder if a lawyer like Gary Zuckerman would be interested in being Rye Brook's first village judge. Maybe Zuckerman could hire his wife to be the new unionized court clerk, who will probably need a part time unionized assistant to help her with the paperwork.

Maybe Zuckerman has eye on taking over the $131,000 the town of Rye spent on legal expenses.

But Joe Carvin and Gary Zuckerman can find things to cut in order to fund this massive expansion of Rye Brook government.

Hey they could cut the $3,500 that the Town of Rye gives to veterans.

If Gary Zuckerman and Joe Carvin's idiotic plans sounds confusing, it's because it is.

Mr. Zuckerman, who has been angeling for he can profit by gutting of Rye Town for more than a decade.

But everytime Rye Brook taxpayers to study Zuckerman's ill informed proposals, they reject them.

Gary "Let's Make Rye Brook Government Huge" Zuckerman and Joe "The Harvard Educated Fool" Carvin just can't reasonably figure out what governments should provide and at what costs.

If someone offered Zuckerman and Carvin $50,000 to study folding all of Westchester County into Rye Brook, they would take the money in a New York minute and tell us it's the best idea since the pop up toaster.

The fact is that taxpayer funded study after taxpayer funded study has shown that savings are only going to come from merging village services with Port Chester or by combing the Port Chester and Blind Brook school districts.

And that's a bridge that Rye Brook is just not ready to cross yet.

Taxpayer study after taxpayer study has concluded that real savings would only come from dissolving the villages into the town.

Rye Brook taxes shot up exponentially after they formed a village to take over services already provided by Rye Town in the 1980's.

What ever happened to Joe Carvin's four year old election promise to bring the Rye Town tax rate to zero, by using his business expertise to run Rye Town off of the interest on tax payments.

It looks like it was just another one of the Harvard Educated Fools pie in the sky promises to Rye Brook taxpayers.


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