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Tuesday, October 23, 2007

10/23/07 - Finally Lazy Liz Sadler Catches Up To The True Blue Conservative. But Where Is The Hopelessly Biased We$tmore $nooze?


Lazy Liz Sadler must have fallen asleep while typing the story about how Joe "The Harvard Educated Fool" Carvin and other Republican Operatives used the Hopelessly Biased We$tmore $nooze to engage in unfair campgain tatics.

You Won't Read About This In The Hopelessly Biased Rag Known As The We$tmore $nooze.....

HEADLINE:

Better Late Than Never - The "TRUE" Story Finally Comes Out

The True Conservative Was Right All Along.





Joe "The Harvard Educated Fool" Carvin Is Lying To The Voters With His Unfair Campgain Tactics


STORY:




Source: THE JOURNAL NEWS / LOHUD.com


Reporter: LAZY LIZ SADLER (esadler@lohud.com or 914-694-3525)

Dateline: RYE TOWN


Town Republicans distributed an unfair campaign flier and made unsubstantiated accusations in a newspaper opinion letter, the county Fair Campaign Practices Committee has ruled....


.....Morabito said the complaints he filed with the committee were among many untruths lodged by the Republican campaign.


"We could have done a lot more than this, but I only gave them the most egregious complaints," Morabito said. "This campaign from the start is exaggerated and has explored various ways to get the message across without being held liable. … We just go to the point where we said enough is enough, and that's why we filed."


BUT AS USUAL LAZY LIZ SADLER DID NOT GET ALL OF STORY.


THE WESTCHESTER COUNTY FAIR CAMPAIGN PRACTICES COMMITTEE FOUND THAT JOE "THE HARVARD EDUCATED FOOL" CARVIN AND HIS REPUBLICAN HAD USED UNFAIR CAMPGAIN PRACTICES THREE TIMES.


LAZY LIZ SADLER MUST HAVE GOTTEN TIRED WRITTING HER STORY, BECAUSE SHE ONLY REPORTED ON TWO OF JOE "THE HARVARD EDUCATED FOOL" CARVIN'S UNFAIR CAMPGAIN PRACTICES.


TO GET THE FULL STORY YOU WILL HAVE TO VISIT THE WESTCHESTER COUNTY FAIR CAMPAIGN PRACTICES COMMITTEE WEBSITE YOUR SELF OR YOU CAN READ ABOUT...



UNFAIR CAMPAGIN PRACTICE #1 HERE AT PORT CHESTER ROUND UP



10/21/07 - Independent Committe Says The True Blue Conservative Is Right And Joe "The Harvard Educated Fool" Is A Liar.


UNFAIR CAMPAGIN PRACTICE #2 HERE AT PORT CHESTER ROUND UP


10/22/07 - Independent Committe Says The True Blue Conservative Is Right And Joe "The Harvard Educated Fool" Is A Liar #2



UNFAIR CAMPAGIN PRACTICE #3 HERE AT PORT CHESTER ROUND UP




10/22/07 - Independent Committe Says The True Blue Conservative Is Right And Joe "The Harvard Educated Fool" Is A Liar #3


Month after month Port Chester Roundup been exposing the lies that Bernie "I Forgot To Pay Over 100 Property Tax Bills" Abel and Joe "The Harvard Educated Fool" Carvin have been Spreading.


08/04/07 - Joe "The Harvard Educated Liar" Carvin Gets An Award For His Vicious $100,000 Lie. Shame On Joe Carvin


08/29/07 - Is Supervisor Wanna Be Joe "The Harvard Educated Fool" Afraid That A Hardworking Port Chester Landscaper Is Going To Sue The Pants Off Him?





09/05/07 - It Is Getting Annoying - We$tmore $nooze Parrot Joe Carvin Just Can't Stop Repeating The Lies In Bernie Abel's Town Crier Column


First Port Chester Roundup Reported That Joe Carvin Was Lying and Using Unfair Campgain Practices In Order To Fool The Voters Of Port Chester.


Then The Westchester established the Westchester Fair Campaign Practices Committee Reported To You.


Then Finally Lazy Liz Sadler At The Journal News Reported Part Of The Story To You.



But Why Hasn't The Hopelessly Biased Rag Known As The We$tmore $nooze Reported That Joe The Harvard Educated Fool" Carvin and his Rye Town Republican Operatives distributed an unfair campaign flier and made false and unsubstantiated lies in the We$tmore $nooze, as reported by Port Chester Roundup And The County Fair Campaign Practices Committee?
Did I Hear Somebody Say.....
That We$tmore $nooze founder, Bernie "I Forgot To Pay Over 100 Property Tax Bills" Abel Was Taken To Court By Rye Town, Because He Did Not Pay All Of His School And Property Taxes.
Call 939-6864 Today And Tell Bernie "I Forgot To Pay Over 100 Property Tax Bills" Abel To Cancel Your Subscription To The Hopelessly Biased Rag Known As The We$tmore $nooze.
Bernie And Richard Abel's Vendetta Against The Town Needs To Stop NOW !!!!
IT IS TIME FOR BERNIE TO PAY HIS DAMN TAXES AND MOVE ON.
Port Chester has had enough of Abel's Fables In The We$tmore $nooze.

10/23/07 - Port Chester Thanksgiving Day 5k Turkey Trot






16 hours ago by Mark




Yes, there are several races in the area during the thanksgiving holiday including a 5K in Port Chester on Thanksgiving Day, a 5 miler across the river in Rockland County on the same day, and on Saturday an event that includes a 3 miler ...




10/23/07 - Village of Mamaroneck Wants To Be More Like Port Chester



Village of Mamaroneck replaces legal team in Jewish school case.



MAMARONECK - After losing a federal appeal last week in a case against an Orthodox Jewish School, the village said yesterday that it is consulting with a new law firm on how to proceed.
"We approach every case with the intention of winning and that doesn't always happen," Mayor Phil Trifiletti said. "This was a very complicated case."



Last week, the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals upheld a lower court decision that the village zoning board violated a land-use law against religious discrimination in turning down the Westchester Day School's expansion project. Trifiletti said law firm Thacher Proffitt and Wood would no longer handle the case....



... The board adopted a resolution yesterday 5-0 creating a staff attorney position.
"It's time to fix a wheel that's been broken for a very long time," Trustee Toni Pergola Ryan said.



A salary has not been set for the position, but Murphy said a safe estimate would be$160,000. The figure was based on what Port Chester, a neighboring village with a similar makeup to Mamaroneck, pays its attorney. Murphy added the attorney could also require ...



Full story: http://www.thejournalnews.com/apps/pb...

10/23/07 - Port Chester Based USA Bank cited for violations




Fred A. DeCaro Jr., chairman and chief executive officer of the Port Chester-based USA Bank.






Banking regulators ordered USA Bank in Port Chester to stop violations of state banking regulations and address problems that have included inadequate management, staffing and training.




The state Banking Department said "unsafe and unsound banking practices" were discovered during a joint examination of the bank performed by representatives from the banking department and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp.




USA Bank, which opened in December 2005 with a single branch in Port Chester and whose stock became publicly traded last year, is one of the newest financial institutions in Westchester County.




Yet the Banking Department said it found USA Bank was operating with poor management oversight, a poorly qualified staff and inadequate audit processes. Other problems cited by regulators included the lack of a comprehensive strategic plan and budget; inadequate training programs for the board, management and staff; insufficient information technology procedures; and inadequate policies to meet federal information security standards...

Full story: http://www.thejournalnews.com/apps/pb... -

Monday, October 22, 2007

10/22/07 Chow Hound Review - Glorious Goat at a Port Chester Taqueria




A gorgeous goat taco promises further greatness on the menu at Los Paisanos.



Goatiness sings out loud and clear in big pieces of tender, long-cooked meat. Chopped onion and cilantro and thick, fiery salsa verde complete this superb authentic taco. Carnitas, though not as good, is also worth a try—richly flavorful, if not as moist and succulent as it could be.



Expect gracious but English-challenged service and one of the more divey settings on Port Chester’s diverse Latin American scene, marked only by a hand-drawn sign.



Los Paisanos 118 Westchester Avenue (near E. Broadway), Port Chester, NY

Full story: http://www.chow.com/digest/4031

10/22/07 - Rockland BOCES brings in a dentist on wheels for on-site student dental care



Nancy MacRobbie has seen her share of children in pain over her years as a school nurse, but children with tooth pain seemed to be cropping up more and more in her office at the Hilltop School in Nyack.....


... of a push to what is called a full-service school. Administrators studied several schools - including one in Port Chester and one in Vermont - that offered a range of clinics for families who for one reason or another didn't have access to health ...


Full story: http://www.thejournalnews.com/apps/pb... -

10/22/07 - Independent Committe Says The True Blue Conservative Is Right And Joe "The Harvard Educated Fool" Is A Liar #3


Listen here you little Harvard Educated Fool. Don't pee on my leg and tell me it's raining. Everyone in Port Chester knows that you lied about the $100.000.


You Will Not Read This In The Hopelessly Biased Rag Known As The We$tmore $nooze. But The 1,172 Current Visitors To Port Chester Roundup Know That...

The
WESTCHESTER COUNTY FAIR CAMPAIGN PRACTICES COMMITTEE


Which Is An Independent Body that was established by the Westchester Fair Campaign Practices Committee as a separate and independent entity. The League plays no role in the Committee's deliberations or decisions; the League does provide support services and administers the funding. The Committee is comprised of community leaders who represent a wide range of public interests and are recognized as being independent and fair minded. Members representing recognized political parties serve ex-officio without vote; they contribute political perspective and experience to the discussion.

The WESTCHESTER COUNTY FAIR CAMPAIGN PRACTICES COMMITTEE has ruled that

An Opinion letter, Mr. Carvin wrote about a $100,000 war chest was not true.


Finding: UNFAIR

In August The True Blue Conservative and Port Chester Roundup said the same thing.The single family homeowner's of Port Chester are not stupid they already know that Carvin is being a Parrot for the Vindictive Bernie "I Forgot To Pay Over 100 Property Tax Bills" Abel


Please Look Take A Look At This Link......




Also please take a look at this NY STATE BOARD OF ELECTIONS LINK for the RYE TOWN DEMOCRATIC COMMITTEE.....




Joe ""The Harvard Educated Fool" Carvin And The Westmore News Are Vicious Liars Who Think They Can Trick The Voters Of Port Chester.

10/22/07 - Independent Committe Says The True Blue Conservative Is Right And Joe "The Harvard Educated Fool" Is A Liar #2

Supervisor Wanna Be Joe Carvin And His Republican Operatives Have Used Unfair Campaign Tactics In The Hopelessly Biased Westmore News

You Will Not Read This In The Hopelessly Biased Rag Known As The We$tmore $nooze. But The 1,172 Current Visitors To Port Chester Roundup
Know That...
The
WESTCHESTER COUNTY FAIR CAMPAIGN PRACTICES COMMITTEE


Which Is An Independent Body that is funded by a grant from the Westchester Community Foundation.The Westchester Community Foundation (WCF) is a non-profit community endowment for the benefit of Westchester County. Its mission is to develop and manage philanthropic resources, and to distribute them in a way that is responsive to donor interests and community needs. The Foundation actively promotes charitable giving on behalf of the area's non-profit organizations. WCF is a division of the New York Community Trust, the largest community foundation in the country with assets of approximately two billion dollars.

An Opinion letter of Mr. Carvins to the Westmore News where Mr. Carvin states everyone knows that in order to do business with the Town of Rye you need to be prepared to contribute to the jobs for the boys machine was unfair.
Finding: UNFAIR

On September 5th The True Blue Conservative and Port Chester Roundup said the same thing.
The single family home owner's of Port Chester are not stupid they already know that Carvin is being a Parrot for the Vindictive Bernie "I Forgot To Pay Over 100 Property Tax Bills" Abel

Please Take A look At This Link

09/05/07 - It Is Getting Annoying - We$tmore $nooze Parrot Joe Carvin Just Can't Stop Repeating The Lies In Bernie Abel's Town Crier Column


Also Take A Look At This August 29th Link


08/29/07 - Is Supervisor Wanna Be Joe "The Harvard Educated Fool" Afraid That A Hardworking Port Chester Landscaper Is Going To Sue The Pants Off Him?


Both Posts Clearly Document the Vicious Lies and Heinous Slander That Joe "The Harvard Educated Fool" Carvin and the Hopelessly Biased We$tmore $nooze Have Used Against The Men And Women That Work For The Town Of Rye.

Sunday, October 21, 2007

10/21/07 - Independent Committe Says The True Blue Conservative Is Right And Joe "The Harvard Educated Fool" Is A Liar.



You Will Not Read This In The Hopelessly Biased Rag Known As The We$tmore $nooze. But The 1,172 Current Visitors To Port Chester Roundup
Know That...
The


Which Is An Independent Body that has these outstanding Westchester Citizens

Stephanie Sarnoff, Chair

Milton Hoffman, Vice Chair

Miriam Cohen, Coordinator

LaRuth Gray

Susan Guma


Ruth Hinerfeld

Burton M. Leiser

Robert Peterson

Ernest Prince

Susan Schwarz

Evelyn M. Stock

And Also Has Represenitives From The

Republican Party
Democratic Party
Independence Party
Conservative Party
Working Families Party

This Committee is comprised of community leaders who represent a wide range of public interests and are recognized as being independent and fair minded. Members representing recognized political parties serve ex-officio without vote; they contribute political perspective and experience to the discussion.


"that a Republican Party flyer stating that the 2007 New York State Comptrollers report is a devastating indictment of the corrupt hiring and contracting practices of the Morabito-controlled Rye Town board is unfair as the report does not use the word corrupt."

Finding: UNFAIR
On September 5th The True Blue Conservative and Port Chester Roundup said the same thing.

The single family homeowner's of Port Chester are not stupid they already know that Carvin is being a Parrot for the Vindictive Bernie "I Forgot To Pay Over 100 Property Tax Bills" Abel


All the WESTCHESTER COUNTY FAIR CAMPAIGN PRACTICES COMMITTEE had to do was read this post in the Port Chester Roundup and they would have learned that Joe "The Harvard Educated Fool" Carvin is knowingly lying to the residents of Port Chester.
Here Is The Port Chester Roundup Link From September 5th exposing Bernie Abel and Joe Carvin's lying and unfair campgain practices: http://portchesterroundup.blogspot.com/2007/09/090507-joe-carvin-is-bernie-abels.html
Here is the October 22 link for the WCFCPC: http://www.watpa.org/lwv/fcpc/fcpc.html
Call 939-6864 and tell the Vindictive Bernie Abel to cancel your subscription to the hopelessly biased rag known as the We$tmore $nooze

10/21/07 - Obituary - Singer Teresa Brewer


Singer Teresa Brewer established herself as a big voice in a petite package with the novelty hit "Music! Music! Music!" in the 1950s.




Teresa Brewer, 76, a bold-voiced singer whose novelty hit "Music! Music! Music!" established her as a jukebox favorite in the 1950s and secured her four-decade career performing in nightclubs and on Las Vegas stages, died Oct. 17 at her home in New Rochelle, N.Y. She had progressive supranuclear palsy, a brain disorder.


Ms. Brewer was a veteran radio performer at 19, when "Music! Music! Music!" became a pop-chart smash in 1950 with its bouncy Dixieland-ensemble backup and command to "put another nickel in, in the nickelodeon."


After a period of similar fare, she won over audiences as a balladeer singing "Till I Waltz Again With You" (which reportedly sold more than 1.4 million copies), "Let Me Go, Lover" and "A Sweet Old-Fashioned Girl."


Her voice was startlingly brassy for a 5-foot-2, 100-pound singer, and the disparity prompted jokes. Referring to a brash nightclub performer, entertainer Bing Crosby joked that Ms. Brewer was the "Sophie Tucker of the Girl Scouts." Time magazine called Ms. Brewer "a topnotch singer with a voice somewhere between a blowtorch and a cello."


A striking brunette -- later a blond -- she was cast as a star of the musical western film "Those Redheads from Seattle" (1953) and was a mainstay of television variety shows for several years.....


....She was credited as co-author of several songs, including "I Love Mickey," a novelty tune she recorded with New York Yankees center-fielder Mickey Mantle in 1956.


Her first marriage, to William Monahan, ended in divorce. Thiele, whom she married in 1972, died in 1996.


Survivors include four children from her first marriage, Kathleen Monahan-Granzen of Rye Brook, N.Y., Susan M. Dorot of White Plains, N.Y., Megan Ahearn of Port Chester, N.Y., and Michelle McCann of New Rochelle; a stepson, Bob Thiele Jr. of California; a brother; four grandsons; and five great-grandchildren.




ALSO:


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theresa brewer from lisie‘s Blog

10/22/07 - Weekend Port Chester Sports Report

Yesterday's Section 1 Coaches Invitational results
Journal News
... (NR) 375; 16. Rye (R) 438; 17. Kennedy (JFK) 445; 18. Pleasantville (Pv) 450; 19. Putnam Valley (PV) 482; 20. Port Chester (PC) 590; 21. Harrison (H) 603; 22. North Salem (NS) 605. Individuals - 1. Andrew Gelston (WP) 17:06.76; 2. Chris ...


Westchester/Putnam notebook: Salesian winning despite big losses
Journal News
... as he called it. 'We have good character guys and some great athletes.' Midfielders Tom Manz of the Bronx and Port Chester's Sebastian Zambrano have helped Salesian outscore its opponents by a 22-5 margin through its first eight games. Although ...


Local women turn on The Power again
Journal News
PORT CHESTER - On a recent morning at Sound Shore Indoor tennis, one group of players stood out.


Roundup: North Rockland defeats Poughkeepsie 3-0; Tappan Zee defeats...
Journal News
... 14 of 27 passes for 186 yards. R. J. Medeo had a 53-yard touchdown run for the Bobcats. Spring Valley 16, Port Chester 13: At Port Chester, the Tigers' Mike Braithwaite caught a 30-yard touchdown pass from Jeff Volcey, who also scored on a ...


Yesterday's Section 1 Coaches Invitational results
The Patent Trader
... (NR) 375; 16. Rye (R) 438; 17. Kennedy (JFK) 445; 18. Pleasantville (Pv) 450; 19. Putnam Valley (PV) 482; 20. Port Chester (PC) 590; 21. Harrison (H) 603; 22. North Salem (NS) 605. Individuals - 1. Andrew Gelston (WP) 17:06.76; 2. Chris Mezias (HG) ...


Francella's round not yet complete
The Journal News
Port Chester's Meaghan Francella played her second round early today in the LPGA's Hana Bank KOLON Championship in Kyeongbook, South Korea.


Football playoffs move into the spotlight
The Journal News
... 3 p.m. Chaminade at Mount St. Michael, 1:30 p.m. Nyack at Our Lady of Lourdes, 1:30 p.m. Spring Valley at Port Chester, 1:30 p.m. Eastchester at Harrison, 1:30 p.m. Clarkstown North at Clarkstown South, 1:30 p.m. Lincoln at Saunders, 1:30 p.m. New ...

10/22/07 - Why is Blackwater, a privatizied militia, currently facing legal scrutiny for various massacres in Iraq, training Port Chester Police Dept.


Blackwater Mercenary at New Orleans Residence




Blackwater is also planning to establish regional training centers in Potrero, California and Mount Carroll, Illinois, billed as Blackwater West and Blackwater North, respectively.


These training centers, in addition to Blackwater's Lodge and Training Center in Moyock, North Carolina -- Blackwater East -- and a possible fourth rumored to be slated for the Pacific Northwest -- Blackwater Northwest -- may result in the establishment of a network of Blackwater-trained police, sheriffs, and other police units around the country.


Given Blackwater's Dismal record on Human rights and Brutality, this spells trouble for civilian control of police and paramilitary forces in the United States, from major metropolitan areas to small rural towns.




Will Port Chester Police officers who have been trained in Blackwater techniques transition from "Protect and serve" to "Kill them All, God will find his own".


Here are some of the courses offered to local Police departments..



Who on the previous 7 - 0 Republican Port Chester Republican Board approved or knew about Port Chester being involved with Blackwater.


Everyone is against corrupt cops, bad government contractors, killer mercenaries, scummy nepotism and lame scumbag lawmakers, but...


How in the heck did Port Chester Police Department and Blackwater get together.


Nobody knows who brought Blackwater to Port Chester.


But a few people around Port Chester have been playing Six Degrees Of Separation.


One chain of connections goes like this.


The Port Chester Chief Of Police has to admit that he knows Aldo "The Patronage Boy" Vitagliano ***.


Now Aldo "The Patronage Boy" Vitagliano *** is always taking over the Capitol Theatre, because he is heavily involved in ponzi like soap selling scheme know as Amway.


Now the Amway co-founder is Richard DeVos.


Now Mr. DeVos's daughter in law's maiden name was Elizabeth "Betsy" Prince.


Sister Of Erik Prince the founder, Chairman and CEO of Blackwater.




ALSO:


Blackwater CEO Erik Prince defends guards

The head of Blackwater USA on Sunday rejected a mounting series of reports suggesting the private contractor's security guards opened fire on innocent Iraqi civilians last month....

....Survivors told FBI investigators Blackwater guards shot at civilians presenting no threat. Video Watch a Blackwater witness describe his account »


The first U.S. soldiers to arrive on the scene after the incident told military investigators they found no evidence contractors were fired upon, a source familiar with a preliminary U.S. military report told CNN.


The soldiers found evidence suggesting the guards fired on cars attempting to leave and found weapon casings on the scene matching only those used by U.S. military and contractors, the military source said.....


**** Note About Aldo "The Patronage Boy" Vitagliano


Yes it is true that Aldo "The Patronage Boy" Vitagliano is an Amway salesman.


Who in their right mind is going to hire an Amway salesman to be their lawyer?


Now you know why Aldo needs so much patronage from Port Chester.


This is just one mans opinion. I could be wrong.


Maybe its a good thing that Blackwater is involved with the Port Chester Police Department.


Maybe its a good idea to hire a lawyer that sells over priced soap on the side.


Please use the comment link below to tell me what you think.

10/21/07 - Home sales in Port Chester crash to 20-year low




Port Chester Area homes sales sank to a two-decade low in September, as tighter lending standards walloped an already-declining market.

Port Chester Realtors have said it was the slowest September that anyone can remember.

Port Chester has suffered month after month of declining sales.

The credit crunch hit with a vengeance in mid-August, as lenders backed away from jumbo loans - those over $350,000. Since home sales typically take about 30 days to close, the fallout hit the September sales data. Tighter standards for jumbos had a particular impact in the Port Chester Area, where, by necessity, most home mortgages are jumbos.

Port Chester median price also been has been hurt by the 13 1/2% School Tax Increase.

But with reckless Hedge Funds causing a credit crunch. It has made it harder and more expensive for potential Port Chester residents to get a larger mortgage, that is needed in Port Chester.


When you combine the price difference (for jumbos) with the restrictions in underwriting guidelines, and the massive school tax increase, that was a triple whammy that has devastated the Port Chester Real Estate market.

Goldie Solomon has repeatedly said that "All levels of Government need to reduce taxes, because we are headed for a recession."

Westchester County, Port Chester Public Schools, Blind Brook Schools, The Village Of Port Chester and the Village Of Rye Brook have all increased taxes the last two years.

The Town of Rye is one of a few Westchester governmental and school bodies that has reduced taxes this year.

The Town Of Rye is the only Westchester governmental or school body that has reduced taxes two years in a row.

ALSO:






Rye Town Supervisor Wanna Be Joe "The Harvard Educated Fool" Carvin explains how the hedge fund mess is going to cause Port Chester housing prices to decline.


This is just one man's opinion. I could be wrong.

I wold like to hear what other Port Chester Businesses, Realtors and Residents think about the pending Port Chester home sales falling sharply.






Why isn't the hopelesslly biased We$tmore $nooze reporting on the fact that Port Chester home buyers have struggled to get loans?


Why hasn't the hopelessly biased We$tmore $nooze reported that the outrageous 13 1/2% School Tax increase has helped cause a dire Port Chester Housing Market that will get worse?

10/21/07 - Port Chester woman critically hurt in I-84 collision in Southeast


SOUTHEAST - A Port Chester woman was in critical condition yesterday at Danbury Hospital after her sport utility vehicle collided with a tractor-trailer on Interstate 84, state police said.
Police initially said the crash appeared to involve a fatality but this afternoon said that Cheryl M. Bagdan, 52, was in critical condition after the 8:30 a.m. accident.


Investigator Ricky Peets said Bagdan was merging from Interstate 684 onto eastbound Interstate 84 when she apparently lost control of her 2004 GMC Yukon on the ramp, which curves sharply. The car continued onto I-84, where it was struck by a 2002 Volvo tractor-trailer driven by William T. Laffey of Pittsburgh, 32, which was in the left lane.


Laffey was not injured but Bagdan had to be extricated from her car......

Full story: http://www.thejournalnews.com/apps/pb...

10/21/07 - Talkin' Trash: Reduce And Rejoice. It's About Time That We Started Doing Stories On The Port Chester Trash Problem.


I received an email about the trash problem in Port Chester.

The email read as follows......

hey. just wanted to say great job on the roundup.

just wondering if ever think of running a story on the terrible port chester trash. how every wednesday port chester has more trash then the towns and villages around.its because of the overcrowding in houses. no one in port chester ever does anything about it. all the high power "officials" worry about themselves.never have they down anything for this town but raise the damn taxes.

PS- its great reading the roundup online and not paying!! keep up the great work!!


This person is 100% Correct.


I know the current administration and village manager has taken steps to try and solve the problem, but in my opinion they have not done enough.

In fact, I think the current trash plans are too punitive to the single family homeowners.

I personally think the problem is mostly with the multi-family and commercial property owners.

The trash problem is easy to measure.

All one has to do is look at the monthly weight totals at the dump and compare it to the year before.

The Village Manager and the elected officials are either reducing the trash costs or they are not.

All one has to do is go through the commercial district and see the abuse that goes on.

On Mill Street you will see car parts and several bumpers put to the curb for free pickup.

On Westchester Avenue, you will see file cabinets, desks and other office equipment put on the curb for free pick up.

Plus you have illegal multi-family houses putting out trash for two, three and four families.

However, these illegal multi-family houses are paying taxes for one family unit.

The single family homeowners of Port Chester are subsidising the trash pick up of commercial and illegal multi-family units.

All this is doing is increasing the profit margins of commercial businesses and property owners.

Yet the Village Of Port Chester wants to get tough with single family homeowners.

This is just not fair.

This is just one mans opinion, and I could be wrong.

Personally, I would like to hear what other Port Chester residents and businesses think about the trash problem in Port Chester.

Please use the link below to comment to this posting.

Friday, October 19, 2007

10/19/07 - Joe "The Harvard Educated Fool" Carvin Explains How Greedy Hedge Fund Guys Have Made The Real Estate Market And Economy Collapse





Dear Port Chester Residents,

I know many of you are distressed about how greedy hedge fund guys have made foolish and risky sub-prime mortgage investments that have caused your house to loose value.

Worse yet some Port Chester residents have been forced into bankruptcy, because of the hedge fund mess.

Please don't blame me or my greedy hedge fund friends. It is your own damn fault for taking that hedge fund backed subprime loan.

But don't worry about my investments or me, because the Federal Reserve Chairman is going to use your tax dollars to bail out the subprime mortgage and hedge fund industry.

You might lose your house, but us hedge fund guys wont lose a dime. Remember rank has privilege. Beside I and the Federal Reserve Chairman expect you to pick your self up by the boot straps.

Now many of you have accused me of being insensitive and unconcerned about what was happened to the Port Chester Real Estate Market.

So I am going to put down all of these copies of the Town Crier that I always read from and speak to you off the cuff.

I know that this will make Bernie "I Forgot To Pay Over 100 Property Tax Bills" Abel mad, but I want to try and make you think that I feel your pain.

Besides, I am really getting tired of repeating the Town Crier lies month after month after month.

As you know a hedge fund guy like myself uses a proprietary investing tool, that I like to call a dart board.

Last month the dart landed on
international gold investments.

Once the dart has chosen the asset class I like to use a unique digital computer investment model.

Unfortunately, the digital computer investment model was not as unique as I thought. It looks like all of us "
Harvard Educated Fools" were given the same digital computer model in Economics 101.

Basically, thousands of "Harvard Educated Fools" like myself are using the same dice. At "Harvard we were told that the technical term for this a "Crowed Trade.

You may also hear the guys down at Vinny's Lunch refer to it as "Climbing On A Bandwagon Headed For A Brick Wall".

It sort of reminds you of my campaign to be the Rye Town Stupidvisor.

Any how, back to that digital computer model that us hedge fund guys used to create the subprime mortgage disaster that is destroying the Port Chester real estate market.

Basically, As our alpha generation collapses, our beta has turned negative, our delta hedging has gone toxic and, trust me, you do not want to hear about our gamma.

Hopefully, You can appreciate that accurate pricing is essential for evaluating my investment strategies. This has proven to be extremely challenging in recent days. Previously, I have relied on Bob, the sales guy USA Bank on Irving Avenue.

Bob assured me the securities were still worth 100 percent of face value, so everything was cool. Bob sold the collateralized debt obligations me in the first place, so he knows what he’s talking about.

Bob, however, appears to have had a nervous breakdown, judging by the maniacal laughter that greeted my requests for price verification this week.

I therefore decided to implement an in-house valuation report, using a technique the Abel's And The Westmore News like to call “making things up,”

However, this proved unsatisfactory.

Currently, all of the portfolios I manage are undergoing a rigorous screening known as “crossing my fingers and praying that we don’t have to try and find a bid in this market.”

This is supplemented by a cross-market statistical analysis originally developed by the U.S. military called “don’t ask, don’t tell.”This “unmarking-to-unmarket” procedure has been the benchmark for the hedge-fund industry for the past, ooh, few weeks.

I have, of course, been in touch with the rating companies to update our default-probability scenarios, particularly on the AAA rated investments I own. They recommended a forecasting method using stochastics to regress the drift-to-downgrade timescales for the past 100 years and throw them forward for the next five minutes.

The technical term for this is “induction,”though those of you of a less quantitative bent may know it as“making a wild ass guess.”

I am very pleased to report that, contrary to what current market prices might suggest, all of our houses will continue to have some value. Provided, that is, the future performance of the underlying collateral is identical to its history.

Otherwise, the credit rating companies and Realtors say our homes are likely to be reclassified as “toast.”

Personally, I have also been checking on my back-up credit lines with my friends in the investment-banking world. As soon as they return my calls, I’ll be able to update you on my emergency liquidity position.

Please Don't worry, I am sure more credit is available.

On the business side of my life, some of my investors have written to me asking for their money back, citing clauses in my fund documentation called redemption rights.

Frankly, I never expected you to actually read that prospectus, which came prepackaged when I bought the Microsoft-Hedge-Fund-Guy-Software.

I certainly have no idea what all those long words mean.

I have filed your letters in a special drawer in the filing cabinet marked “trash” for now.

Do you have any idea how much trouble you all would be in if I actually sold this stuff in the market today? At these crazy prices? Fuhgeddaboudit. You’ll thank me later.

Speaking of crazy prices, I know you’ll be thrilled to learn that I have been sending out invitations to a bunch of rich guys like Bruno "Spot Zone" Gioffre and Gary "I Made Over A Million Bucks At Horton School" Gianfrancesco.

I am asking Bruno "Spot Zone" Gioffre and Gary " I Made Over Million Bucks At Horton School" Gianfrancesco to participate in this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.

I also have calls out to Aldo "The Patronage Boy" Vitagliano and the Rye City Republican Chairman Anthony "I Only Got 3/4 Of A Million Dollars Of Tax Money" Pisonere.

But this is not a rescue. Do not even think the word rescue. This is an opportunity. Not a rescue. An opportunity.

In fact, I think this is such a fantastic opportunity, I have agreed to forgo my usual management fee, and I will only take half my usual slice of the profits. Provided there are any profits to slice.

You, of course, are absolutely invited to participate in this offer by sending me any extra money that you have laying around your house.

Since, the Town Of Rye has cut taxes two years in a row you may want to send those savings to me.

Finally, a word for all of you who have been kind enough to inquire about my personal financial situation. I am relieved to report that my directors and officers insurance is fully paid up.

Furthermore, my fancy sports car was paid out of the 2 percent fee I levied when you wrote your first check to me, so I will still be able to trundle into the parking lot each morning in an open-necked shirt to ignore your telephone calls and e-mails.

Plus, If you are foolish enough to vote for me in November, I will be able to draft a resolution with Port Chester Republican Chairman Billy Vilanova that will allow the Town Of Rye to invest in my hedge fund. Right now we are investing in
Tajik Gold mines.

Yours,

Joe "
The Harvard Educated Fool" Carvin


Your Local Neighborhood Hedge-Fund Guy.

10/19/07 - Police Blotter - Port Chester teen accused of stealing his grandmother's purse, buying drugs


A teenager taken in by his grandmother has returned the favor by stealing her purse and buying drugs, Port Chester police said.


Steven Martin Rivera, 16, recently moved into his grandmother's 5 Grove St. home after being released from a juvenile detention center, police said. At 10:30 a.m. yesterday, the Port Chester woman reported that her grandson and handbag - including $2,000 in cash and her credit cards - were both missing.....

10/19/07 - Police Blotter - Cops: Harrison man arrested after screaming at Port Chester tow truck company


A 36-year-old Harrison man was arrested after screaming at a tow truck driver who refused to release his impounded car last night, police said.


... after refusing to calm down in front of Hannigan's Towing on Bulkley Avenue, said Lt. Jim Ladeairous, Port Chester Police. The car had been impounded for having a suspended registration and outstanding parking tickets, police said. "He was screaming ...

10/19/07 - Community Health Fair To Be Held In Port Chester


Open Door Family Medical Centers and partners from the community will host a Community Health Fair on Saturday October 27.


... host a Community Health Fair on Saturday October 27. The free day-long event will take place at Open Door's Port Chester office, 5 Grace Church Street from 10am-2pm and is open to the public. Among the participating partner organizations are The ...

Wednesday, October 17, 2007

10/17/07 - Transportation group sees bus rapid transit as the way to go


Here are some interesting figures about commuting patterns on the Tappan Zee Bridge.


On an average weekday, 65 percent of Westchester-bound commuters on the bridge come from Rockland (52 percent) and Orange (13 percent) counties.


Just a little over a half (51 percent) end their trips in Westchester while an additional 10 percent head to Connecticut.


About 3 out of 10 drivers (28 percent) go to New York City, with more than half of those trips ending in the Bronx.....


... the DOT to take a leading role to promote transit-oriented development in the 30 miles between Suffern and Port Chester to boost ridership by getting people out of their cars. The project team is expected to choose an alternative sometime next ...



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A new report, "Getting Up to Speed: A Case for Bus Rapid Transit and Transit-Oriented Development in the Tappan Zee/I-287 Corridor," evaluates the various transit options being considered by the Tappan Zee Bridge/I-287 project team and argues that bus rapid transit, combined with a transit-oriented development strategy, would do the most to reduce congestion along the 30-mile I-287 corridor. The full report can be found on the Tri-State Transportation Campaign's Web site at http://www.tstc.org/.


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