Monday, November 9, 2026

FROM ONE OF THE PARENTS FORUMS---WESTCHESTER KIDSOUTANDABOUT PRIVATE & ALTERNATIVE SCHOOLS NEWSLETTER 2026

 

Dear KidsOutAndabout.com readers: Are you or a friend considering private or alternative school for your kids? Our annual special-edition newsletter is here to help with the research!  GO TO Westchester-area private and alternative schools - 2026

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MONDAY YADA YADA YADA

Many of us are not on social media but we often get to hear about it and are sometimes sent screenshots or interesting links. 

And while some of us took the weekend off to read a good book or work on Christmas lights while the weather is still forgiving, Monday's mail was positively packed:

*********On one of the private parents' forums there's been some lively--sustained----and occasionally humorous commentary---about Artificial Intelligence-----and lots of praise for the new Croton.News AI site too.  One article in particular has gotten quite the work-out----and continues to trigger much good natured conversation when it provided "a short history of tech fears".  It's worth another read: How many of these do you remember? AI Hysteria: Is the Sky Really Falling? | Psychology Today

Oh and much discussion about Google, AI and schools: Google will block search access for schools that ban AI use - CBS News

*******Apparently there was a re-watch of the August podcast involving the great Alex Berenson and Emily Kopp; these two are considered true investigative journalists and if you are ever in the mood: EverythingCroton: THAT PODCAST--THE GREAT ALEX BERENSON AND EMILY KOPP TALK COVID, LAB LEAKS, AND TONY FAUCI

******On one of the veterans forums, there's much talk about 12/12 Army Navy game Army To Pay Homage To Over 100-Year-Old Infantry Division With Football Uniforms That Scream America | The Daily Caller

*****A lot of chatter about the county ballot screw-up but little hope for accountability, transparency, yada yada yada......

*****Much more but Monday calls......
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OBITUARY AND SERVICE INFO FOR HANNAH VIOLET CALVERT

A Mass of Christian Burial will take place at Holy Name of Mary Church, 110 Grand St, Croton-on-Hudson, NY 10520, US, on November 14, 2026, from 10:00 am to 11:00 am. Hannah Calvert Obituary - Croton-On-Hudson, NY

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TEAM PROFILE---QUITE A FEW CROTON NAMES ON THIS LIST--ALL-STAR NORTHERN WESTCHESTER OUTLAWS 14U 2027 SPRING/SUMMER BASEBALL

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TEAM PROFILE---QUITE A FEW CROTON NAMES ON THIS LIST--ALL-STAR NORTHERN WESTCHESTER OUTLAWS 14U 2027 SPRING/SUMMER BASEBALL---SEE MORE AT Northern Westchester Outlaws 14u 2027 Team Profile | All-Star Sports Academy


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THANKSGIVING SIDE DISHES BY SPECIAL REQUEST

UPDATED IN 2026---A few readers have written that they have the turkey and ham covered for the big event---and enough for a few bottles of good wine--BUT---they need help with keeping the sides tasty AND economical.

You're bound to find SOMETHING from THE PRUDENT PENNY PINCHER...From green bean casseroles to easy vegetable sides, there are plenty of the best thanksgiving side dishes to choose from. FOR 200 OF THE BEST THANKSGIVING SIDE DISHES -- CLICK HERE.

AND HERE'S ANOTHER: 10 CHEAP THANKSGIVING SIDES THAT WILL IMPRESS THE IN-LAWS; CLICK HERE....

But we love love love THE ACORN SQUASH WITH CRANBERRY STUFFING FROM TASTE OF HOME; GO TO https://www.tasteofhome.com/recipes/acorn-squash-with-cranberry-stuffing/?keycode=ZPIN1112

Also from FAMILY CHRISTMAS ONLINE DOT COM (TM), more great side dishes:

Henrietta's Cranberry Salad, my mother's favorite recipe for cranberries; it has become a favorite of many other families. It can also be prepared days, or even weeks ahead and frozen if necessary - a big help at the holidays.

Black Bean Salad, a festive treat for any time of the year.

THAT SHOULD DO IT FOR THE SIDE DISHES---NOW ON TO DESSERTS AND TABLESCAPES! GO TO EverythingCroton: THANKSGIVING HOLIDAY DESSERTS THAT WON'T BREAK THE BUDGET

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LOUD BASS-DRIVEN "STRANGE MUSIC", POSSIBLE CAR RADIO

Getting reports of what's is being described as "loud, bass-driven" "strange music"---moving---a possible car radio on full blast. It's best, for whatever it is worth, to phone this into the village and get it on record.
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WHAT's NEW AT SOME OF OUR FAVORITE CROTON (AND NON-CROTON) BLOGS

Happy Monday----and now our regular weekly feature......

WHAT's NEW AT SOME OF OUR FAVORITE CROTON (AND NON-CROTON) BLOGS

You may not always agree but it's always interesting... click on the links below.

NINE FROM TOM FARANDA'S FOLLY--on a new platform:

***European population crisis
***MAPLE RUM OLD FASHIONED; GO HERE

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IN CASE YOU MISSED IT --AN OLDIE BUT GOODIE FROM THE CROTON HISTORICAL SOCIETY BLOG!  FROM 1894---1894 American Canoe Association Croton Point Meet — Croton Historical Society

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FROM BROTHER JACK'S PREACHING MINISTRY, HOLY NAME OF MARY:  Br Jack's Preaching Ministry: Dedication of the Lateran Basilica

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TWO FROM WESTCHESTERBLOGGER: 


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THREE FROM ETHICS ALARMS--THIS GUY OFTEN HITS THEM RIGHT OUTTA THE BALLPARK:


FROM EPHEMERAL NEW YORK:  An elegy for a row of pre-Civil War wood cottages eclipsed and then erased by Gilded Age Fifth Avenue--GO HERE

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SIX FROM GRANDMA'S VINTAGE RECIPES:

---RAISED DOUGHNUTS; GO HERE
---SPICE CAKE WITH BROILED FROSTING; GO TO Grandma's Vintage Recipes: SPICE CAKE WITH BROILED FROSTING
---DIXIE PEACHY PRALINE PIE; GO TO Grandma's Vintage Recipes: DIXIE PEACHY PRALINE PIE

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EIGHT FROM EUROPEAN FILM STAR POSTCARDS:

---EL BRENDEL; GO HERE
---DIRK BOGARDE; GO HERE
---COLETTE MARCHAND; CLICK HERE
---L'arzigogolo (1924); CLICK HERE
---HEDWIGA REICHER; GO HERE

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FROM WESTERNS ALL'ITALIANA, .Westerns...All'Italiana!: Little Known Spaghetti Western Actors ~ Steve Emerson

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ICYMI - YOUR EVERYTHING CROTON WEEKEND NEWS RECAP AND VINTAGE CROTON TOO

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IN CASE YOU MISSED IT:

YOUR EVERYTHING CROTON WEEKEND NEWS RECAP AND VINTAGE CROTON TOO...

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Sunday, November 8, 2026

FROM THE YONKERS CONTINGENT--NOLAN WILL NOT CONCEDE

From County Legislator James Nolan:

ELECTION DAY BALLOT UPDATE – DISTRICT 15

After three long days of personally observing the ballot count, all ballots in District 15 have now been counted. Following a massive countywide voting machine shutdown on Election Day, I have serious concerns about what took place, and the timing of these failures raises questions that demand answers. I am being told that I lost by 260 votes. The truth is the election wasn’t only stolen from me but it was stolen from you.   MORE AT Westchester Legislator Nolan Will Not Concede: "The Election was stolen from me and from you" | Yonkers Times
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MAILBOX QUESTIONS---4

A reader wanted to give everyone a heads up: "I am sometimes gifted a NY Times "gift" article link. However, they do require you to create a free account in order to read it. If you are not a fan of the paper having your info, you may want to skip these or use a different email...."

Response: Thank you.

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A reader says: Been trying to remember the name of a short-lived retail shop that specialized in high end home goods. It was where "Treasures and Tales" was for a time.

Response---You can only mean WAKE ROBIN; they had some gorgeous things: EverythingCroton: SOME PHOTOS FROM THE UPPER VILLAGE HOLIDAY SHOP HOP

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A reader says: Wasn't there a "doll hospital" here? In the little pink house on Grand?

Response: Not a doll hospital per se but......EverythingCroton: VINTAGE CROTON ADS, 1990'S, PAT VAILLANCOURT DOLLS

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Anything new on disgraced CDC scientist Paul Thorsen?

Response:  The last we have is from August. EverythingCroton: FORMER CDC SCIENTIST ACCUSED OF STEALING $1M IN GRANT MONEY BACK IN THE US

EverythingCroton: FORMER CDC SCIENTIST ACCUSED OF STEALING $1M IN GRANT MONEY BACK IN THE US

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My neighbor says for a time there were some folks/experts/medical people(?????) who claimed that Covid was spread by leaf blowers????? I don't remember this insanity.  A "Croton Urban Legend"??????

Response: The less said here the better.  But we made sure to get it on record thanks to Paul and Jeremy at the time.  For your amusement: EverythingCroton: CORONAVIRUS UPDATE 4/7 FROM THE VILLAGE--TEMPORARY BAN OF LEAF BLOWERS ETC.

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THE LATEST FROM THE 914 SUBSTACK---NIMBY VERSE---OH NO, CELL TOWERS, PIGEONS, YADA YADA YADA

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Editor’s note:
As this is an exercise in recording our region’s most popular oral tradition, our poetry editor—in converting these spoken words to print—is responsible for the spoken-word poems’ titles, punctuation, and layout. If you are aware of other pieces of emotive property-value-preserving language, please immediately message us here on Substack, and we will endeavor to enshrine them here. MORE AT NIMBY Verse - by 914Editor - The 914
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IF YOU'RE LOOKING FOR...

The latest Croton Crafts and Commerce news (with a smattering of other local events too), then visit the CROTON CRAFTS AND COMMERCE FB PAGE.It's a public page and you needn't be on FB to view the content. Often updated in real time too! Go to Croton Crafts and Commerce | Facebook

And the Croton Crafts and Commerce page has news about The Blue Pig, Melita's, MEXTOGO, Devotion Studio, Croton River Artisans Gallery, YUKA'S LATIN FUSION, Feed the Birds, 105-Twenty, Franki's, THE CROTON GRILLE, LA CATRINA, Robbin's, Apple Farm, BAKED BY SUSAN, MEXTOGO, Croton Mini Deli, Deprez, The Tavern at Croton Landing, MONDAYS GIFTS, Raga, Barre-on-Hudson, Cloth & Curate, and more.


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SARCONE ETAL...WATERLIET MAN SENTENCED TO 10 YEARS ON FENTANYL SALE CHARGES

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WATERVLIET, N.Y. (NEWS10) — The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of New York (USAO) announced that Eric Hines of Watervliet was sentenced on November 4 in a drug sale case. Hines, 28, will now serve 10 years in federal prison......“I thank the Special Agents at the DEA for their steadfast pursuit to track down and remove those who seek to profit from selling deadly substances in our community,” First Assistant U.S. Attorney John Sarcone III stated. “This prosecution is part of our continued commitment to those in the Northern District of New York to fight fentanyl from flowing onto our streets and bring to justice the dealers who push this poison.” MORE AT Watervliet man sentenced to 10 years on fentanyl sale charges
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YOUR EVERYTHING CROTON WEEKEND NEWS RECAP AND VINTAGE CROTON TOO

Welcome to Everything Croton, a collection of all things Croton--our history, our homes, our issues, our businesses, our schools, our houses of worship--in short, EVERYTHING CROTON.

YOUR EVERYTHING CROTON WEEKEND NEWS RECAP AND VINTAGE CROTON TOO---AS ALWAYS, ITEMS IN ITALICS OR GREEN PRINT SHOULD GET SPECIAL ATTENTION---BUT FIRST...

--------ELECTION RESULTS AND MUCH GENERAL DISGUST OVER THE COUNTY SCREW-UPS AND RESULTS QUESTIONING--not much to be done about it croton.news — Croton-on-Hudson, NY

AND LOSAP BENEFIT PASSED; GO HERE

YADA YADA YADA ON SOCIAL MEDIA:

***MUCH GRATITUDE TO BOB ANDERSON FOR HIS LETTER ON DISBANDING THE IDEA COMMITTEE AND PRAISING PETE TSAGARAKIS; GO HERE

***Much discussion about the importance of the FOIL process--and how without it, the public would be operating blind much of the time---case in point: the IDEA Committee minutes/tapes. (Here'e Jessica Dieckman's and Paul Steinberg's letters)

AND IN WAKE OF THE SCANDALS, KAYLA BLACK IS THE NEW CHAIR 

***SOME AMUSING MEMES ON MEASLES AND BIRD FLU, as well as what's known as "long Covid" but you'll have to find these for yourselves as some---while clever---are a bit vulgar.

***CONGRATULATIONS! A NEW RECORD FOR OUR FRIENDS AT EFSP; GO HERE

HAPPY EVENTS!

***One of the most popular posts--STILL-----for those with a numbers fetish---has been the PHOTOS COFFEE WITH A COP AT SKYVIEW; (more on a new EVERYTHING CROTON blog viewership record another day)----FOR PHOTOS, GO HERE

AND DON'T FORGET THE SURVEY! GO HERE

SCHOOL STUFF:

***DEFENDING EDUCATION V. CROTON HARMON SCHOOL DISTRICT: As many of you know by now, the new court date is 12/8; THERE'S TALK (POSSIBLE SETTLEMENT, content unknown of course. Will try to stay on top of this---it helps that we're cued into a few of the private parents forums that are very actively engaged.)

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***PIGEON LAW PAUSED! GO HERE

***GUADALUPAN JUBILEE YEAR; GO TO EverythingCroton: GUADALUPAN JUBILEE YEAR

***LITHIUM BATTERY FIRES! GO HERE

***VINTAGE CROTON 1933, AMELIA EARHART, THE CROTON CONNECTION; GO HERE

***MORE ON THAT "HISTORIC EXTRADITION" ALEXANDER SUVOROV---SARCONE: MAN PLOTTED TO SELL U.S. TECH TO RUSSIA; GO HERE

***POSSIBLE NEW COMMUNITY FORUM; GO TO EverythingCroton: CROTON COMMUNITY FORUM

***VINTAGE CROTON THANKSGIVING 1983; GO HERE

***REQUEST FOR INFO: CROTON LANDING FB PAGE, a "community-type" facebook page--GO TO https://www.facebook.com › groups › crotonlanding) - pls note: It's a PRIVATE page and you must seek administrator membership approval. 

***VERY HANDY---FROM THE CROTON NEWS AI SITE---CROTON, ON VIDEO; GO HERE

***WINKLER'S VINTAGE CROTON 1965; GO HERE


***FROM THE CROTON NEWS AI SITE 9/20 SUSTAINABILITY COMMITTEE MEETING--THERE'S ALSO A LINK TO POTENTIAL PROPERTIES BEING SCREENED FOR INCLUSION IN WHAT WAS THE OCTOBER BESS PLANNED RFP; click here

****JOHN McKEON ---THOUGHTS ON THE HIGH DENSITY INITIATIVE COMPOUNDING THE PROPERTY TAX DISPARITY IN CROTON-ON-HUDSON; GO HERE

***FROM THE MAILBOX, 2026 SENIOR AWARDS BANQUET, FLYOVER, HOW MUCH PEEKSKILL GETS FROM ALL ITS CANNABIS BUSINESSES; GO HERE

***CROTON IS "PRO-HOUSING"--WHAT DOES THAT MEAN? SEE HERE

***VINTAGE CROTON 1970, PERRY LIPKIN, GO HERE

***POT SHOPS: THE PLACES THAT OPTED OUT; WE DIDN'T; GO HERE


***HOW MANY POT SHOPS ARE THERE CURRENTLY IN WESTCHESTER; GO TO EverythingCroton: SO HOW MANY POT SHOPS ARE THERE IN WESTCHESTER?


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