Monday, August 17, 2026
SARCONE, SWANSON---AFGHAN NATIONAL PLEADS GUILTY TO ILLEGAL RE-ENTRY
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ALBANY, NEW YORK – Khan Afsar Ahmadzai, age 30, of Kabul, Afghanistan pleaded guilty to illegal re-entry into the United States and was immediately sentenced.
The announcement was made by First Assistant United States Attorney John A. Sarcone III, and U.S. Border Patrol's Swanton Sector Acting Chief Richard J. Fortunato.
As part of his guilty plea, Khan Afsar Ahmadzai admitted that on June 3, 2026, he entered the United States from Canada by walking across the international boundary near Champlain, New York, avoiding United States Immigration and Customs inspection. Khan Afsar Ahmadzai was subsequently apprehended by United States Border Patrol Agents.
First Assistant U.S. Attorney John Sarcone said, “This defendant has repeatedly attempted to violate U.S. immigration laws...more at Northern District of New York | Afghan National Pleads Guilty to Illegal Re-Entry | United States Department of Justice
ALBANY, NEW YORK – Khan Afsar Ahmadzai, age 30, of Kabul, Afghanistan pleaded guilty to illegal re-entry into the United States and was immediately sentenced.
The announcement was made by First Assistant United States Attorney John A. Sarcone III, and U.S. Border Patrol's Swanton Sector Acting Chief Richard J. Fortunato.
As part of his guilty plea, Khan Afsar Ahmadzai admitted that on June 3, 2026, he entered the United States from Canada by walking across the international boundary near Champlain, New York, avoiding United States Immigration and Customs inspection. Khan Afsar Ahmadzai was subsequently apprehended by United States Border Patrol Agents.
First Assistant U.S. Attorney John Sarcone said, “This defendant has repeatedly attempted to violate U.S. immigration laws...more at Northern District of New York | Afghan National Pleads Guilty to Illegal Re-Entry | United States Department of Justice
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THE TOWN OF CORTLANDT'S 250TH CELEBRATIONS CONTINUE---9/18 HAMILTON & HOPS
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Join the Town of Cortlandt for a special fall evening at the Cortlandt Waterfront Park as we continue celebrating America’s 250th! Hamilton & Hops will be host Captain Lawrence Brewing Company with great local brews on tap, while we enjoy a special showing of Hamilton the musical on the big screen. Bring your friends, grab a drink, settle in by the waterfront, and celebrate history, community, and a great night together. Come for the hops, stay for Hamilton! Facebook
Join the Town of Cortlandt for a special fall evening at the Cortlandt Waterfront Park as we continue celebrating America’s 250th! Hamilton & Hops will be host Captain Lawrence Brewing Company with great local brews on tap, while we enjoy a special showing of Hamilton the musical on the big screen. Bring your friends, grab a drink, settle in by the waterfront, and celebrate history, community, and a great night together. Come for the hops, stay for Hamilton! Facebook
REMINDER 8/17 MIDNIGHT DEADLINE - BOE AD HOC COMMITTEE ON TECNOLOGY SURVEY
REMINDER 8/17 MIDNIGHT DEADLINE - BOE AD HOC COMMITTEE ON TECNOLOGY SURVEY
Survey can be found here:
ONCE AGAIN----WHAT DOES IT MEAN EXACTLY---THAT CROTON IS A "PRO-HOUSING COMMUNITY"
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UPCOMING LAWLER CONLEY DEBATES
There seems to be some online "confusion" about upcoming debates and whether Conley has agreed to same. Congressman Lawler has posted the following on his website. Click on the image. There's more available at News - Mike Lawler for Congress
FINAL DAYS AT ROW 13 WINES
It has been a great experience getting to know all of our wonderful customers and friends, we will miss all of you! My 50 years working in the wine and spirits business has been a blast, I want to thank all of you for contributing to the good times.
Best wishes to everyone!
Cheers!
John Wood
Row 13 Wines 914-271-6614
PETE SEEGER AND HIS FOLKIE FAMILY
A READER passed along this TRAVALANCHE article on Pete Seeger. It's very detailed and includes much you may not have known.
READ MORE AT Pete Seeger and His Folkie Family – (Travalanche)
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HAD A REQUEST FOR THE 2007 GALLELLI , KANE, & WEIGMAN KATZ ACQUISITION ANNOUNCEMENT LETTER---WHAT THEY TOLD US THEN VERSUS WHAT YOU SEE NOW ON MAPLE STREET
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HAD A REQUEST FOR THE 2007 GALLELLI , KANE, & WEIGMAN KATZ ACQUISITION ANNOUNCEMENT LETTER---WHAT THEY TOLD US THEN VERSUS WHAT YOU SEE NOW ON MAPLE STREET--click on the image.
DRAW YOUR OWN CONCLUSIONS ABOUT WHAT POSSIBLY LIES AHEAD.
TRULY WORTH A SUBSCRIPTION---DOUGLAS MURRAY---THE TRAGEDY OF JASON ARDAY
The Front Page Monday, 08.17.2026
It’s Monday, August 17. This is The Front Page, your daily window into the world of The Free Press—and our take on the world at large. Today: What if we could control hurricanes? Seth Dillon on the unintended winner of the free-speech wars. Jed Rubenfeld on Luigi Mangione’s legal escape hatch. And much more.
But first: The tragedy of Jason Arday. DOUGLAS MURRAY
On Friday, Jason Arday, the British academic who had been celebrated as the University of Cambridge’s youngest black professor, was found dead in his London home at the age of 41, in what is widely believed to have been a suicide. He had resigned days earlier, after being engulfed by scandal over allegations that he had fabricated elements of his personal story and plagiarized portions of his academic work. His memoir, Great and Unfortunate Things, had been published that same week.
“If Jason Arday were a white middle-class academic,” wrote Zarah Sultana, a left-wing Member of Parliament in the UK, “he would not have been hounded by the British press in the way he was.”
Meanwhile, in the U.S., Ibram X. Kendi, the prolific purveyor of “antiracism” who rose to fame during the racial reckoning of 2020, wrote an essay titled: “The Media Lynched Jason Arday.”
In his essay today, Douglas Murray argues that this is “manifestly, sinisterly untrue.” It was not reporters who failed Arday, but the people who elevated him to a position for which he was unsuited. In reading Great and Unfortunate Things, Douglas found “a terrible list of people purportedly telling him what a godlike force he is.”
Elsewhere in our pages, Yuan Yi Zhu wrote about the people who had to lose for Arday to win—deserving scholars passed over as Cambridge promoted a man whose work went unscrutinized, while academics who dared to challenge him were threatened. Meanwhile, John McWhorter examined how Arday’s appointment was itself a form of racism—a culture so eager to laud a black academic that it never asked whether his work merited the praise.
“It seems clear by now that Arday had a deluded sense of himself,” writes Douglas today. “The question is whether the delusions came more from himself or from the countless flatterers he met throughout his life.” Read Douglas Murray: The Tragedy of Jason Arday
—The Editors
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