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Sunday, July 17, 2011

07/17/11 The Raw Port Chester News Feed

News Reports About Port Chester, NY
Walkers go the distance for Ward Summer Learning Camp in Rye
The Journal News | LoHud.com
Washington, a special education teacher at Port Chester Middle School, was among the parents and students who took a few hours out of their Saturday to raise money for the summer camp. They walked 2 miles from Christ's Church to Playland Amusement Park ...
JOHN R. DECARLO
Times Herald-Record
John R. DeCarlo, a resident of Washingtonville, formerly of Port Chester, died July 14, 2011. He was 60. He was born March 20, 1951 in Port Chester to the late Salvatore and Jeanette Kalen DeCarlo. He graduated from Port Chester High School in 1969 and ...
Local Engineer Opens Cell Phone Repair Shop in Hastings
Patch.com
An electrical engineer by trade, Ho has owned similar repair shops in Elmsford and Port Chester. Years ago, he operated out of the same space he's in now in Hastings as a mortgage broker. Ho sells phones without contracts, refurbishes phones, ...

A Recently Updated Web Page About Port Chester, NY
Port Chester-Rye Union Free School District
Park Avenue Elementary School. Dr. Amanda Santos-Olson, OASIS Program Coordinator. 75 Park Avenue Port Chester, NY 10573 asantosolson@ portchesterschools.org ...
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07/17/11 Hot Summer, Hot Peppers, Help Needed and more from Port Chester Patch


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Hot Summer, Hot Peppers, Help Needed

Katie Ryan O'Connor | Jul 16, 2011 | 5 Comments

imageWhat would you do with a bumper crop of jalapeno peppers?

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Saturday, July 16, 2011

07/16/11 Port Chester Taxi Driver Skeptical On Reform And More At The Port Chester Topix News Message Board

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Port Chester Taxi Driver Skeptical On Reform
Port Chester Taxi Driver Skeptical On Reform (The Daily Port Chester)
Taxi driver Lida Escobar sat in her beige Lincoln Town Car, happy to have a parking spot along Westchester Avenue, but she's afraid it could get even harder to find a spot.

Closed For A Month: Downtown Fire Devastates Local Businesses (Patch)
Port Chester firefighters knocked down last week's blaze at a Main Street building within minutes, but the fallout continues for those impacted by the fire.

07/16/11 The Raw Port Chester News Feed

News Reports About Port Chester, NY
Beating The Heat at Port Chester's Library
Patch.com
Still, I spent a few hours at the Port Chester Reading Room the other day and had a very good time. I went through the new DVDs, looked up my family tree online and rifled through US Weekly. I didn't actually read any books. But I sat awfully close to ...
Last Chance to See 'Company' Tonight at Crawford Park Mansion
Patch.com
The musical, staged by the Port Chester Council for the Arts, will end its three-night run tonight. Next week it's "Bye, Bye Birdie," but tonight actors and audience members will wave farewell to "Company." The local stage version of the Stephen ...
MTA seeks to develop properties
Westfair Online
The buildings, in Port Chester, Peekskill, Ossining and Tarrytown, have been gradually phased out of use as fewer people wait for trains in stations or require the in-station ticket counters. Currently three are occupied only by a morning coffee stand, ...
Closed For A Month: Downtown Fire Devastates Local Businesses
Patch.com
The business, which caters to locals and commuters, has been closed since a fire last Thursday. Port Chester firefighters knocked down last week's blaze at a Main Street building within minutes, but the fallout continues for those impacted by the fire. ...
Marathon Swimmers Complete Their Trek
New York Times
Mr. Barra; John Humenik, of Manhattan; and Tobey-Anne Saracino, of Port Chester, NY, clawed on. Mr. Humenik slipped under the bridge's shadow eight hours after the start. The kayaker by Ms. Saracino's side wagered $5 she couldn't make it. ...

New York Times
Transit authority considers eliminating Old Greenwich route
Greenwich Time
Cutting Route 24B will help make up the expected shortfall in federal revenue and preserve bus service in Stamford, including Route 11, that travels along the Post Road in Greenwich to Port Chester, NY Lee said the Post Road route and Route 41 to ...
Cooking up deals
Westfair Online
This list does not include municipal departments engaged in business attraction or retention, as well as IDAs in Mount Vernon, Mount Pleasant, New Rochelle, Peekskill, Port Chester and Yonkers. At a July 7 press conference organized by the Business ...

A Recently Updated Web Page About Port Chester, NY
Taco Truck in Port Chester - New York State ...
I noticed a food truck with a Mexican flag last week and tried it this week. They have about 7 different kinds of Tacos and a special on the menu boar.
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Tuesday, June 28, 2011

06/28/11 The Raw Port Chester News Feed

News Reports About Port Chester, NY
Port Chester Detective Spots Stamford Man Sipping Beer While Driving
Patch.com
By Nik Bonopartis

A Stamford man is due back in court after a detective spotted him drinking beer at an intersection in Port Chester last week. Jose Giovanni Gomez, 44, was stopped at a red light at the intersection ...
Port Chester Woman Dubbed 'A Rising Star' For Public Activism
Patch.com
From Peru to Port Chester, Blanca Lopez has accumulated life experience and a resume that earned her recognition by the Business Council of Westchester. By Rosanne Luis

Blanca Lopez recognized as "rising star" by local ...
Graduation Round-Up: Class of 2011
Patch.com
Couldn't make it to the postponed graduation ceremony at Port Chester High School? Check out coverage from Port Chester Patch. Port Chester High School's seniors graduated under sunny skies in an outdoor ceremony this weekend. ...
Store Damaged When Driver Backs Car through Front Door; Police Investigate Thefts
Patch.com
Leach L. Morgan of 39 Parker St., Port Chester, NY was issued a summons for unsafe backing in connection with the 11:30 am accident that left the store shuttered by plywood and a building department declaration the building was unsafe. ...
Question: Best Time For Fireworks?
Patch.com
By Zach Oliva

Fireworks explode in the sky during the Independence Day celebration at Port Chester High School July 4, 2010. The Fourth of July festivities in Harrison never seem to disappoint. ...
'This Village Is Ass Backwards': Trustee Shocked by Building Department Records
Patch.com
That's raised the anger of people who live in Port Chester and have suffered through more than two decades of corruption before the current administration under Mayor Dennis Pilla brought in outsiders -- including Code Enforcement Director Christopher ...

Blog Posts About Port Chester, NY
Port Chester anti-drug campaign: Let's do dinner | Sound Shore
By Leah Rae
Port Chester families are being encouraged to go out for dinner and conversation this summer as part of an anti-drug initiative that works through the.
Sound Shore
Bridging language and culture divides in baseball | The LoHud ...
By Jake Thomases
I called around to Sleepy Hollow, to North Rockland, to Port Chester, and others. The language and culture divide existed at some of them, though not as distinctly as at Yonkers. In an article in today's paper, I detail what I found out ...
The LoHud Baseball Blog

Recently Updated Web Pages About Port Chester, NY
Port Chester deli manager, former firefighter, uses CPR to save ...
PORT CHESTER — Saving lives isn't common for most supermarket deli managers, but Jim Cusumano is an exception.
www.lohud.com/.../Port-Chester-deli-manager-former-firefigh...
YouTube - 2007 Mitsubishi Galant - Port Chester NY
http://www.everycarlisted.com/19047-Nissan-City-of-Port-Chester Phone: 888-450- 4921 Year: 2007 Make: Mitsubishi Model: Galant Trim: ES ...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hw5v0SUB8IQ
Port Chester, NY - Public Notice - Public Hearing - Alternate Side ...
PUBLIC NOTICE is hereby given that the Board of Trustees of the Village of Port Chester, New York, will hold a PUBLIC HEARING on Tuesday, July 5, 2.
www.portchesterny.com/pages/...News/017402C8-000F8513

Port Chester's So Called "Local News Paper", The "Westmore Snooze" Hasn't Updated It's Web Site For Over Four Days

Could Someone Please Go Over By The Train Station .....


  • And Wake Up Westmore News Publisher Richard Able
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    Read Port Chester News Online

06/28/11 'This Village Is Ass Backwards': Trustee Shocked by Building Department Records and more from Port Chester Patch


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June 28, 2011

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'This Village Is Ass Backwards': Trustee Shocked by Building Department Records

Nik Bonopartis | Jun 27, 2011 | 8 Comments

imageTrustee Sam Terenzi says it's "criminal" to use village resources on cleaning up decades of disorganized paper records, recommends outsourcing.

Police: Hundreds of Soccer Fans Took to Streets Following Mexico Victory

Nik Bonopartis | Jun 27, 2011 | 0 Comments

imagePolice closed Westchester Avenue for about an hour following Mexico's 4-2 victory over the U.S. national team.

Graduation Round-Up: Class of 2011

| Jun 27, 2011 | 0 Comments

imageCouldn't make it to the postponed graduation ceremony at Port Chester High School? Check out coverage from Port Chester Patch.

Police: Detective Spotted Stamford Man Sipping Beer While Driving

Nik Bonopartis | Jun 27, 2011 | 0 Comments

imageJose Giovanni Gomez, 44, was charged with felony DWAI because he has a previous DWI conviction from last year.

Port Chester Woman Dubbed 'A Rising Star' For Public Activism

Rosanne Luis | Jun 27, 2011 | 10 Comments

imageFrom Peru to Port Chester, Blanca Lopez has accumulated life experience and a resume that earned her recognition by the Business Council of Westchester.

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Miss Westchester/Miss Hudson Valley Teen Applications Due July 31

| Jun 27, 2011

imageThe 2012 Miss Westchester Pageants will have an added feature this year: the 2012 Miss Hudson Valley and Miss Hudson Valley Teen …

06/28/11 New Today in The Daily Port Chester

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Port Chester Soup Kitchen Serves Day Laborers
by Ryan Villarreal | 06/28/11
PORT CHESTER, N.Y.  -- The cost of food is a major expense for day laborer Elias Rojas, but for five days during the week he can get a free meal at the Holy Rosary Soup Kitchen."I like the food and the people," said Rojas, speaking in Spanish. "There are good people here."Rojas, 33, came to
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Five Questions For A Port Chester Retiree
by Ryan Villarreal | 06/28/11
Teddy Bambace, 71, was born and raised in Port Chester. He worked for the village's sanitation department for 35 years and retired in 1996. The Daily Port Chester sat down with Bambace to ask him five questions about his hometown. Q: What do you like most about living in Port Chester? A: "I worked
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Who's Hiring in Port Chester?
by Ryan Villarreal | 06/27/11
Weekly job listings for Port Chester: • Unlimited 1 Adjustment LLC seeks a full-time administrative assistant. • Peruvian restaurant needs a bilingual (Spanish and English) bartender. • Warehouse is hiring forklift driver. • Wine and liquor store needs someone for part-time stock

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Officer in Pace Student Death Sues Liquor Store
by Robert Michelin | 06/27/11
PLEASANTVILLE, N.Y. - A police officer who shot and killed a Pace University student last fall is suing a Briarcliff liquor store, claiming the alcohol the underage man allegedly bought there caused the incident. Pleasantville Police Officer Aaron Hess filed a lawsuit Monday against Briarcliff
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Westchester: New York's Intellectual Capital?
by Sarina Trangle | 06/27/11
WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. -- The county's Economic Development Office director Laurence Gottlieb has spent the past year campaigning against the reputation that Westchester is merely a county of wealth. Gottlieb is in the process of trademarking and reintroducing Westchester County as "New York's
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Port Chester High Valedictorian Loves Animals
by Ryan Villarreal | 06/27/11
PORT CHESTER, N.Y. -- When Brittany Abel goes on to Cornell University in August, she will have to leave behind her two dogs, a leopard gecko and a corn snake along with her two parents. "I have as many pets as my parents will let me," said Abel, who plans to major in animal science and perhaps
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06/28/11 In the News: Los Angeles Dodgers


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Monday, June 27, 2011

06/27/11 The Raw Port Chester News Feed

News Reports About Port Chester, NY
Season in Review: Panas Baseball
Patch.com
21 Port Chester 7-3 in the opening round of the Section 1 Class A Tournament. Despite the loss, it was still a great year for a Panas squad that saw many of its players earn awards. Leading the way was all-section junior pitcher/3B-OF Brandon Cohall. ...
Yonkers coach helps knock down barriers
The Journal News | LoHud.com
North Rockland, Port Chester, Sleepy Hollow, East Ramapo and Yonkers are school districts that often have numerous Hispanics on the baseball team. First-year Port Chester coach John Cafaldo said most Hispanics on his team have been in the country for ...

A Recently Updated Web Page About Port Chester, NY
Brunch @ Bartaco in Port Chester - CT Bites - Restaurants, Recipes ...
The popular Port Chester taco joint owned by the Barcelona Group, has recently unleashed a brunch menu for Saturdays and Sundays that is a fitting extension ...
www.ctbites.com/home/.../brunch-bartaco-in-port-chester.html

06/27/11 Sound Shore Medical Center Hosts National Cancer Survivor Day Celebration and more from Port Chester Patch



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June 27, 2011

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Sound Shore Medical Center Hosts National Cancer Survivor Day Celebration

Stu Bayer | Jun 27, 2011 | 0 Comments

imageCancer survivors came together with families and staff to share their stories and celebrate life.

Coyote Ugly: Wild Animal Sightings Continue to Frustrate Homeowners

Jonann Brady | Jun 26, 2011 | 7 Comments

imageAre the coyote and wild animal populations actually growing though?

Gay Marriage Supporters Celebrate at White Plains City Hall

Ahmed Mori | Jun 26, 2011 | 1 Comment

imageThe LOFT marks the passage of New York's historic equality in marriage bill with a rally on the steps of City Hall.

06/27/11 New Today in The Daily Port Chester

What's Up in  The Daily Port Chester
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Westchester: New York's Intellectual Capital?
by Sarina Trangle | 06/27/11
WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. -- The county's Economic Development Office director Laurence Gottlieb has spent the past year campaigning against the reputation that Westchester is merely a county of wealth. Gottlieb is in the process of trademarking and reintroducing Westchester County as "New York's
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Suburban Dad: Facing the Fear of Middle School
by Marek Fuchs | 06/27/11
Hair pulling fights over basic tenets of modern child rearing—even if more figurative than literal—rarely break out at 4th grade graduation ceremonies, but I was treated to one recently. My son finished the 4th grade last week, with his school holding an approximation of a graduation ceremony, which
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Port Chester High Class Of 2011 Graduates
by Ryan Villarreal | 06/26/11
PORT CHESTER, N.Y. – Helena Lewis still remembers 15 years ago when the Port Chester Police's youth officer knocked on her front door asking to register her three-year old daughter Kelby for school. "I told him she was too young and he said it was never too early to register," said Lewis, sitting in
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Local Chef: Philip McGrath's Sparkling Engineer
by Philip McGrath | 06/25/11
Last night at the Iron Horse Grill I witnessed an act that any oenophile would think breached on heresy; a customer requested a glassful of ice and proceeded to pour the contents of her expensive bottle of white wine into the frozen tundra in her goblet. If the wine maker were there they surely
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Andy's Pure Foods in Rye Draws Fans From All Over
by Ryan Villarreal | 06/26/11
RYE, N.Y. – Gail Martin may live in Port Chester, renown for its variety of restaurants, but once in a while she comes to Andy's Pure Food in Rye for something a little more healthy. "There's nothing like this in Port Chester," said Martin. Andy's Pure Food specializes in salads freshly prepared
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