SOME QUICK NEWS BITES FROM YOUR LOCAL HOUSES OF WORSHP

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The weekly Wednesday feature----and now some QUICK news bites from your local houses of worship and more--BUT FIRST:

BROTHER JACKS' (HOLY NAME) PREACHING MINISTRY BLOG; SAINT BONAVENURE; GO TO Br Jack's Preaching Ministry: St Bonaventure

AND TWO VIA TOM FARANDA'S FOLLY--HEAVEN IN STONE AND GLASS; GO TO Film Trailer – “Heaven in Stone and Glass” – Tom Faranda's Folly

AND FATHER FIDELIS 25TH ANNIVERSARY OF HIS ORDINATION--GO TO Recent celebration: Fr. Fidelis 25th anniversary ordination party. – Tom Faranda's Folly

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HOLY NAME OF MARY:

Summer Outreach with the Capuchins Teens from HNM parish will be attending the Capuchin Family Ministry's mission trips. Mary McAndrew, Brendan McAndrew, Chloe Marino, John Marino, and Juliet Sarcone will be traveling to Harlan, Kentucky to experience the Capuchin Appalachian Mission. Caitlin Rittinger and Isabelle Pepperney will attend a Summer Outreach Week in Wappinger Falls. The Capuchin Family Ministries ask for each member to raise funds so the Capuchins can buy the necessary supplies they will need. If anyone can donate even a little, it will help out very much. EverythingCroton: CAN YOU HELP--SUMMER OUTREACH WITH THE CAPUCHINS-HOLY NAME OF MARY

SUMMMERFEST PHOTOS: THE KNIGHTS ARE HERE; THE CHURCH WOMEN BAKERS ARE HERE AND THE RESPECT LIFE TABLE WOMEN ARE HERE

THANK YOU HOLY NAME MUSIC MINISTRY; GO TO EverythingCroton: THANK YOU TO ALL OUR HOLY NAME OF MARY MUSIC MINISTRY VOLUNTEERS.

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TEMPLE ISRAEL OF NORTHERN WESTCHESTER

8/13 SISTERHOOD, COCKTAILS AT THE LAKE; GO TO EverythingCroton: COCKTAILS AT THE LAKE WITH SISTERHOOD OFFSITE

TEMPLE ISRAEL CHOIR IN THE NEWS! 
EverythingCroton: CHOIR OF TEMPLE ISRAEL OF NORTHERN WESTCHESTER TO PERFORM AT NATIONAL CHORAL FESTIVAL

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OUR SAVIOUR LUTHERAN

THE LATEST NEWS AT News postings – Our Saviour Lutheran Church

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ST. AUGUSTINE PARISH AND SCHOOL

ST AUGUSTINE SCHOOL SUMMER CAMP; GO TO EverythingCroton: ST. AUGUSTINE SCHOOL SUMMER CAMP INFO AND REGISTRATION

FESTIVAL SWEEPSTAKES; GO TO EverythingCroton: REMINDER---ST. AUGUSTINE'S 49TH FESTIVAL SWEEPSTAKES

CONGRATULATIONS SALUTORIAN AND VALEDICTORIAN ST. AUGUSTINE SCHOOL; GO TO EverythingCroton: CONGRATULATIONS ST. AUGUSTINE SCHOOL VALECTORIAN ABIGAIL BRATT AND SALUTORIAN BIANCA BARROS

ST. AUGUSTINE SCHOOL CLASS OF 2026 GRADUATES AND AWARDS! GO TO EverythingCroton: CLASS OF 2026 ST. AUGUSTINE SCHOOL GRADUATES & AWARDS

ARCHBISHOP HICKS RECEIVES HIS PALLIUM FROM POPE LEO; GO TO EverythingCroton: VIA ST. AUGUSTINE PARISH--ARCHBISHOP HICKS RECEIVES HIS PALLIUM FROM POPE LEO

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ASBURY METHODIST

ICYMI; HAS A NEW WEBSITE; GO TO EverythingCroton: ICYMI---ASBURY METHODIST HAS A NEW WEBSITE

ASBURY HAS A NEW PASTOR EverythingCroton: INTRODUCING ASBURY METHODIST'S NEW PASTOR

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ST. AUGUSTINE EPISCOPAL

THEIR CHOIR EverythingCroton: ST. AUGUSTINE EPISCOPAL CHURCH CHOIR FOR DEBBIE RAMSEY

AND SEE THEIR FULL WORSHIP SCHEDULE HERE

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MOVING ALONG:

*VIDEO, CATHOLIC WIVES 9 Hollywood Stars You Had No Idea Married Devout Catholic Wives

*PRAYERS FOR DJ DANIEL; GO TO EverythingCroton: DJ DANIEL---AN UPDATE

*GREAT SITE; ISRAEL REALTIME; GO TO EverythingCroton: ISRAEL REALTIME

*FOR THOSE WHO WISH TO CONTRIBUTE TO THE IDF; We also have residents with family serving in the IDF; for those who would like to donate there: EverythingCroton: FRIENDS OF THE IDF

*THE UNTOLD STORY: EverythingCroton: VIDEO--THE UNTOLD STORY OF MILITARY PRIESTS ON THE FRONT LINE

*THE MASS GRAVE HOAX, CANADA; GO TO EverythingCroton: O CANADA....THE "MASS GRAVE HOAX IS FALLING APART...WHO WILL ANSWER FOR THE BURNT CHURCHES? THE GLOBE AND MAIL ISSUES A DEFICIENT APOLOGY

*UPCOMING EVENTS AT FAITH LUTHERAN; GO TO Events

*WEBSITE FOR THE REFORMED CHURCH OF CORTLANDTOWN; CLICK HERE

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*EverythingCroton: A RATHER INTERESTING LOCAL CATHOLIC INSTAGRAM PAGE

*PRAYERS FOR OUR MILITARY; GO TO EverythingCroton: PRAYERS FOR OUR MILITARY...

BY SPECIAL REQUEST---FIRST AMENDMENT TEXT

Had a request for the text of the first amendment; her you go:

The First Amendment is a foundational part of the U.S. Constitution (ratified in 1791) that prevents the government from restricting fundamental human rights. It protects five core freedoms: religion, speech, the press, assembly, and petition.

You can read the full text of the First Amendment below:

"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances."

Here's a deep dive: Five ways the First Amendment protects your speech – and three ways it does not - ACLU of DC

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NEW YORK VS. THE NUNS

FROM the latest Uniting NYS Newsletter; read it all at the link and as for Dominican Sisters of Hawthorne....click on the image. The press release is at Office of Public Affairs | Justice Department Sues State of New York for Requiring Catholic Nursing Facilities to House Men with Women | United States Department of Justice

UPDATED ROAD RESURFACING SCHEDULE

Due to inclement weather last week, the paving contractor has had to revise the schedule for milling and paving Cleveland Drive, Old Post Road South, Gerstein Street and Wood Road. Work will now begin on Tuesday, July 14, per the below schedule.

TOWN OF CORTLANDT 7/23--GRATEFUL BRO (GRATEFUL DEAD & BEYOND)

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TOWN OF CORTLANDT 7/23--GRATEFUL BRO (GRATEFUL DEAD & BEYOND)

Summer Concert and Movie Series Schedule - Town of Cortlandt, NY News

IN THE NEWS---UN ADMITS THE OBVIOUS: IT'S HAMAS, NOT ISRAEL, THAT IS STARVING GAZANS

Excerpt: Over at Turtle Bay, everyone’s favorite useless global organization just came to a shocking — shocking! — realization: Hamas is blocking humanitarian aid into Gaza.

“Humanitarian workers were forced to halt food distribution after armed personnel affiliated with the de facto authorities forcibly entered the Abu Rashid food distribution point in Jabalia, North Gaza,” read a statement from Dr. Ramiz Alakbarov, the UN’s Deputy Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process, who spearheads humanitarian efforts in the Gaza Strip. MORE AT UN admits obvious: It's Hamas, not Israel, that is starving Gazans

CHOIR OF TEMPLE ISRAEL OF NORTHERN WESTCHESTER TO PERFORM AT NATIONAL CHORAL FESTIVAL

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Hallel B’Shir, the adult choir of Temple Israel of Northern Westchester, will perform at the North American Jewish Choral Festival on August 3 in Stamford, Connecticut.

Hallel B’Shir — Hebrew for “Praise in Song” — has been a fixture of the festival since 2019 and is the only synagogue-affiliated choir to perform at the festival every single year; the other ensembles featured in the festival’s evening concerts are independent community groups not tied to a congregation. Since its debut appearance, Hallel B’Shir has grown into one of the festival’s most anticipated performing ensembles. MORE AT Choir of Temple Israel of Northern Westchester to Perform at National Choral Festival - River Journal Online - News for Tarrytown, Sleepy Hollow, Irvington, Ossining, Briarcliff Manor, Croton-on-Hudson, Cortlandt and Peekskill

AGENDA 7/15--BD OF TRUSTEES, CROTON RE-CERTIFIES AS A "PRO-HOUSING" COMMUNITY, TOWN PROPOSED OMNIBUS ZONING TEXT, TREE INVENTORY, T-MOBILE AND MUCH MORE

Something for everyone on this one---a very full agenda

GO TO 

Board of Trustees

MORE ON KERRI GREENRIDGE

The author of an acclaimed book about slavery is crying racism after her writing came under scrutiny by scholars for questionable assertions and sloppy sourcing.Kerri Greenidge’s 2022 book “The Grimkes,” which tells the story of a prominent South Carolina slaveholder family who later played a role in the abolitionist movement, was lauded by critics and won the American Historical Association’s Joan Kelly Memorial Prize.

But skepticism grew as her prose came under the microscope by historians and scholars, including Myra Glenn, an author and retired American history professor at Elmira College. MORE AT Historian says it’s racist to question her — after book about slavery pulled from shelves over inaccuracies

MONDAY PROPERTIES IN THE NEWS

Pair of 27-story residential towers in Rosslyn gets nod from Planning Commission | ARLnow.com

Monday Properties has made several recent major project updates, corporate expansions, and strategic property acquisitions. Here is one of them 

VIRGINIA OUTSIDE OF DC----Rosslyn Redevelopment Approvals (July 2026) Planning Commission Nod: On July 6, 2026, the Arlington Planning Commission unanimously backed Monday Properties' redevelopment plan for 1400 Key Blvd and 1401 Wilson Blvd. The updated proposal replaces two vacant office towers with two 27-story mixed-use residential towers. It will bring 831 residential units and 29,000 square feet of retail space, including a grocery store, to the area.

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ICYMI---CLOSER TO HOME---June 16, 2026

CROTON-ON-HUDSON, N.Y. — JLL has arranged a $19.5 million loan for the refinancing of a 118,991-square-foot industrial building in Croton-on-Hudson, located north of New York City in Westchester County. The single-tenant building at 1 Half Moon Bay Drive, which was fully leased at the time of the loan closing, was purpose-built for tire distribution in 1995 and features a clear height of 29 feet, 10 dock doors and two drive-in doors. READ MORE AT EverythingCroton: MONDAY PROPERTIES!

TOWN OF CORTLANDT SENIOR CITIZEN & VETERANS RECOGNITION DAY PICNIC

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TOWN OF CORTLANDT SENIOR CITIZEN & VETERANS RECOGNITION DAY PICNIC

CLICK ON THE IMAGE OR VISIT:

Senior Citizen and Veteran Recognition Picnic: Tuesday, August 18 - Town of Cortlandt, NY News

GEE ABOUT THOSE "EXPERTS" AND THEIR INFLATION PREDICTIONS, TRUMP, DOOM, GLOOM, WHATTYA' KNOW....

Inflation posted the biggest one-month drop since April 2020. June Inflation Report Crushes ‘Experts’ Predictions, Biggest Win in Over Five Years--MORE AT June Inflation Report Crushes ‘Experts’ Predictions, Biggest Win in Over Five Years

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