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Vassar Grad Meryl Steep Racks Up 20th Oscar Nomination
POUGHKEEPSIE, N.Y. – Believe it or not, actress Meryl Streep wasn’t all that interested in serious theater until she trod the boards as a student at Vassar College in Poughkeepsie.
Streep, who just picked up her 20th Academy Awards nomination for her role as the splendiferously off-key amateur opera singer and socialite Florence Foster Jenkins, had performed in many plays while in high school in Bernardsville, N.J., where she grew up. (Mary Louise Streep, as she was known then, was born in Summit, N.J.)
But it wasn’t until she was cast in 1969 as the lead in “Miss Julie,” a dark drama by Au…
Pamela Macrae Bermingham, 89, Former Longtime Rye Resident
RYE, N.Y. -- Pamela Anne (Macrae) Bermingham, a former longtime Rye resident, died Sunday, Jan. 15, in Essex, Conn. She was 89.
Bermingham, who was known as Pam, was born on Sept. 19, 1927, in New York City to Anne McCrory Hinton and John Macrae, Jr.
She grew up in Scarsdale where she attended Edgemont Union Free School before graduating from Oldfields School, a private high school, in 1945.
She married Eldredge Langstaff Bermingham, who was known as Woolly, in 1950. The couple and their six children lived in Rye, then Sewickley, Pa., and finally South Londonderry, Vt.
Bermingham was an a…
Former Greenwich Woman Who Stole $700K From Employer Gets 4 Years In Prison
GREENWICH, CONN. -- A former Greenwich woman has been sentenced to four years behind bars for stealing hundreds of thousands of dollars from her former employer and others, prosecutors said.
Debra Biagi, 50, who pleaded guilty in August to one count of wire fraud, was sentenced Friday, Jan. 20, by U.S. District Judge Jeffrey Alker Meyer in New Haven, according to Deirdre M. Daly, U.S. attorney for Connecticut.
Biagi had been employed by HB Nitkin Group of Greenwich, a privately owned real estate management and development firm.
As an assistant to the company’s chairman, Biagi was responsib…
Sweet! Valentine's Day Bake-Off To Help North Salem Ambulance Corps
NORTH SALEM, N.Y. -- Bakers, judges and tasters, sharpen your sweet tooths; the North Salem Volunteer Ambulance’s Valentine Cookie Competition is about to begin.
Well, actually, you still have plenty of time to shop for cinnamon, flour, chocolate and sprinkles; the bake-off isn’t going down until Sunday, Feb. 12.
Contestants will be able to show off their own creations, or trot out old family favorites, but even if you’re not a baker, there’s plenty of fun to be had.
Everyone, not just North Salem residents, can sample, and judge, the goodies from 12 noon to 3 p.m. at the ambulance corps b…
Mahopac Couple's Brainchild Helps Soldiers Overseas, Unites Community
CARMEL, N.Y. – Eye drops, batteries, toilet paper; these are little things in life that most of us take for granted, say Mahopac residents Jim and Patty Rathschmidt.
But for the men and women serving overseas, like their son Luke, they’re hard-to-get luxuries.
The younger Rathschmidt, a member of the Army’s 82nd Airborne Division, was deployed from Fort Bragg in North Carolina to Iraq in 2007.
His parents started sending him little care packages, which he happily shared with his comrades. But, he still felt badly for the soldiers who had no family at home.
“It’s not like getting your own,…
