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Coming In Out Of The Cold: Ossining Opens Emergency Winter Shelter OSSINING, N.Y. -- An Ossining coalition will be providing homeless folks with a safe and warm place to stay overnight and a bite to eat this winter. Several local interfaith groups partnered last year on a three-week pilot program. This year, the Emergency Shelter Project will run for 10 weeks, and possible longer, said Karen D’Attore, executive director of the Interfaith Council for Action Housing Network, an Ossining-based nonprofit agency. Like other communities facing challenging times, Ossining is no stranger to homelessness and poverty. The very low apartment vacancy rate has driven …

by Carol Reif

12/13/2016

Lifestyle

Need Spiritual Healing? North Haledon Center May Have The Answers NORTH HALEDON, N.J. – Who knew there could be a place in North Haledon where you could not only get your bikini line waxed and your aching hammies massaged, but have your chakras cleared and a conversation with your beloved late granny at practically the same time? KG Divine Wellness & Beauty in North Haledon is owned and operated by Franklin Lakes resident, transplanted Londoner and true-believer Anita Mahi. Mahi, who moved to the U.S. with her husband about 16 years ago, started out as an “esthetician,” or skin-care specialist, working from home and at spas. Her own personal spiritua…

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12/13/2016

Neighbors

Youngsters Find Four-Pawed Reading Buddy At Shelton Bookstore SHELTON, Conn. -- Any adult who has had to speak in public knows how paralyzingly stressful it can be. But imagine how nerve-racking it is for a little kid, who is just learning to read, and has to do it aloud in front of classmates? Now imagine instead an audience of one, a “listener” who is non-judgmental, patient and who will give you his paw. If he has soft fur, a wet nose and a goofy smile -- that would be Ollie, a certified therapy dog. “It’s a lot better to read in front of someone who loves you, unconditionally,” says Dorothy Sim-Broder of Written Words Bookstore in Shelton. Ollie …

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12/13/2016

News

No Tax Hike In County Budget Approved By Westchester Legislators WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. -- One little bit of good news for Westchesterites in 2017: County taxes won’t be going up and its workforce won’t be reduced. The Board of Legislators voted 10-7 Monday to pass a $1.8 billion operating plan. It needed nine votes to pass. It was the seventh budget in a row that didn’t raise taxes, the county said. No county jobs will be cut under the plan. In fact, it actually adds six positions to the Westchester County Police Department and four engineering positions to the Department of Public Works. The coalition of 10 legislators that voted for the budget consisted…

by Carol Reif

12/12/2016

Neighbors

Hasbrouck Heights' Frank Sinatra Would Have Turned 101 On Monday HASBROUCK HEIGHTS, N.J. -- Happy Birthday to Hasbrouck Heights’s Frank Sinatra! Ol’ Blue Eyes would have been 101 years old Monday. The iconic singer and Hoboken native passed away in 1998 at the age of 82. Francis Albert Sinatra lived in the “Heights” in Bergen County from 1941 to 1944 with his first wife, Nancy (Barbado) and oldest daughter, Nancy. (He was married a total of four times and had half-a-dozen love affairs besides.) The couple had two other children: Tina and Frank Jr. Sinatra started his musical career in the swing era with bandleaders such as Tommy Dorsey and Harry James…

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12/12/2016

Schools

Peekskill Students, Parents, Others Stand Up For School Funding PEEKSKILL, N.Y. -- A contingent of Peekskill students, parents and educators have hand-delivered a stack of letters to Sen. Terrence Murphy’s Yorktown office asking the state to cough up millions in school aid. The advocates are demanding that Gov. Andrew Cuomo unfreeze the state’s Foundation Aid and phase in the $11 million that the school district is owed. They are also asking that the formula that determines the amount of aid the district gets be recalculated. The letter-writing campaign was timed, advocates said, to coincide with Cuomo’s drafting of the state’s education budget for the…

by Carol Reif

12/12/2016

Events

Meet Singer Bobby Rydell At Tell-All Book Signing In Northvale NORTHVALE, N.J. – Bobby Rydell was riding high in the 1960s and comes back on Tuesday for a Northvale book signing. The 70-something singer spills the details of his turbulent life in his new book “Bobby Rydell ~ Teen Idol on the Rocks: A Tale of Second Chances.” Rydell will sign copies of his book at at 6 p.m. on Dec. 13 at Greetings, a store located at 271G Livingston St. Rydell penned the autobiography with the help of Grammy Award winning guitarist, music producer and author Allan Slutsky. It was put out by Doctor Licks Publishing. (Dr. Licks is Slutsky’s pen name.) Born Robert Louis…

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12/12/2016

News

White Plains Forum Explores Resisting ICE, Deportations, Registration WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. – A free community forum on immigration issues will be held Wednesday, Dec. 14, in White Plains. The event open to the public and is organized by Hudson Valley Community Coalition and WESPAC and co-sponsored by Community Voices Heard, LatinoJustice and the Westchester Coalition against Islamophobia. It starts at 6 p.m. with networking and light refreshments. The panel discussion starts at 6:30 p.m. It will be held at the White Plains Presbyterian Church, 39 North Broadway. Spanish language translation will be provided. (Se proporcionará traducción en Español) Mayra Hid…

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12/12/2016

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Holiday Drives Top Briarcliff Village Manager's Report BRIARCLIFF MANOR, N.Y. -- Briarcliff police and firefighters are conducting several drives to collect warm clothing and toys for local families in need this holiday season. Village Manager Philip E. Zegarelli noted in his latest report that the Police Benevolent Association is accepting new or gently used winter coats and new, unwrapped toys at police headquarters, 1111 Pleasantville Road at any time through Friday, Dec. 16. The toys will be distributed to patients at the Maria Fareri Children’s Hospital at the Westchester Medical Center in Valhalla, Zegarelli said. The Briarcliff Manor Fi…

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12/12/2016

Sports

Goal! Bergen, Passaic Teams Don Uniforms Created By Pompton Lakes Couple POMPTON LAKES, N.J. – There probably isn’t a more aptly named sporting goods store than Home Field Advantage in Pompton Lakes. Owner Steve Colombo, who grew up in the Passiac County borough, has many fond childhood memories of going to buy baseball bats, gloves and other sports equipment from a shop run by the Abramowitz family. “They were there forever,” Colombo says, adding that it left a big gap in the community when the store eventually closed. Fast forward to about 14 years ago: Colombo was, he says, “a corporate guy” but the stress of running a major baking company was starting to ge…

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12/12/2016

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