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FROM THE CROTON.NEWS SITE--9/10/26 CROTON-HARMON OPENS SCHOOL WITH TIGHTER DEVICE LIMITS AND NEW PHONE PROCEDURES

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FROM THE CROTON.NEWS SITE--9/10/26 CROTON-HARMON OPENS SCHOOL WITH TIGHTER DEVICE LIMITS AND NEW PHONE PROCEDURES



Croton-Harmon began the school year with tighter classroom-device limits and revised high-school phone procedures. September 3 reports offered early impressions, while a new advisory committee will examine technology and learning.

Sep 10, 2026 ·By Matthew Broudy

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...the latest Croton Crafts and Commerce news (with a smattering of other local events too)---just 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 DON'T FORGET--9/26 CROTON OKTOBERFEST Calendar • Oktoberfest

AND 9/26 EXPERIENCE THE REVOLUTION OSSIING 250; GO TO EverythingCroton: OSSINING 250, EXPERIENCE THE REVOLUTION!

AND THE CROTON ROTARY CAR SHOW 9/27; GO TO EverythingCroton: JUST A REMINDER---9/27--CROTON AUTO SHOW

NEW YORK SEX ED LESSONS INCLUDE HITLER, LADY GAGA--AND INACCURATE CLAIMS, REPORT FINDS

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Sent in by a younger reader--who promises more. We shall see.



Adolf Hitler and Napoleon Bonaparte had syphilis. Having sex before marriage makes you more likely to cheat on your future spouse. Taking birth control pills increases your risk of contracting a sexually transmitted infection. Lady Gaga, Tina Fey, and Robert Pattinson have all chosen abstinence. If a teenager is preoccupied by sex, they might be a rapist.

These are just some of the things New York students are learning in their schools’ sexual education classes, according to a new report released Wednesday by the New York Civil Liberties Union.  Researchers reviewed sex ed curricula used by 50 school districts across the state in the 2023–24 school year and found that more than one third contained medically inaccurate or misleading information. MORE AT From Hitler to Lady Gaga: Inside New York’s Sex Ed Classes

BISHOP FULTON SHEEN TO BE BEATIFIED FIRST STEP TOWARDS A SAINT TOMORROW

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For Catholics, some exciting news---Bishop Fulton Sheen is made a saint tomorrow!

A reader adds: He was a warrior! See the bulletin write up about him (click on the image). He was an “influencer” before people even heard of this related to media. Go Bishop Fulton Sheen!

There is also this Pope Leo Calls Catholics to Follow Fulton Sheen’s Example | Shalom World News

and
Fulton Sheen: The Church Is For Imperfect People

AND HOW TO WATCH How to... - St. Francis & St. Clare Roman Catholic Parish | Facebook

FORMER TRUSTEE NICHOLSON-- PERSONNEL APPOINTMENT PICKED BY RIVER JOURNAL

More at Village of Croton-on-Hudson Announces Personnel Appointment - River Journal Online - News for Tarrytown, Sleepy Hollow, Irvington, Ossining, Briarcliff Manor, Croton-on-Hudson, Cortlandt and Peekskill

HUMP DAY YADA YADA YADA

SOCIAL MEDIA STUFF: Keeping it brief---lots of chatter about what's being billed as a "faux process" regarding The Nicholson Job affair---and on one page anyone having an issue with any of it--being condemned as just another "Republican operative" or "partisan politics". Just not going there---but on another page some of the twenty plus folks who thought they had a genuine shot at the position, might....bets are being taken on who the Mayor will appoint to the empty seat---"will it be recycling time----or whoever isn't elected as long as".......moving along...

The usual chatter about the village being essentially divided--one area gets pigeon and pot-free-zones and parks---the other multi family housing, lots of ADUs, affordable, whatever, and cannabis retail. People being asked to "wake up and vote"

School stuff: Chatter and excitement about the school district moving away from young IPAD use---chatter and excitement about the landmark en banc Defending Education event---the case revival process has been kickstarted, and Judge Seibel is expected to issue a scheduling order or call a conference in the near future to set deadlines for the district's formal Answer and the plaintiff’s renewed motion...yada yada yada

Lots of very positive chatter about the Fox Elkof Patterson sign ceremony, Ed Riely, and everyone who participated and/or contributed to make it a memorable event.

Bots, the latest derangement on that particular day, and anonymous facebook posters dominate two local pages. Most folks seem to have stopped caring.  It is after all, Autumn in the Hudson Valley....

SIGH....ANOTHER DAY....ANOTHER WHATEVER....."PALESTINIAN RACHEL DOLEZAL"

The spiraling madness continues...read more at A Philadelphia teacher has admitted to lying about having Palestinian heritage after activists exposed her as a wealthy white woman.

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CROTON SENIOR CLUB--FUN FRIDAY 9/25 WEAR YOUR CLUB SHIRTS

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CROTON SENIOR CLUB--FUN FRIDAY 9/25 WEAR YOUR CLUB SHIRTS

Morning all,

Sure feels like fall has arrived this morning. The Blaze is this Thursday night and you should be receiving an email with your ticket instructions. If you cannot print them contact Joanna. We meet in the



Social hour begins at 11 with the meeting to follow at 12.
There is a possibility that Bob may have something up his sleeve...

THERE WILL BE CAKE as we celebrate the 90th birthday of Molly Parrish!

Cropsey, trip has one spot left and we will discuss sign-up and details for 10/22.

Rita and Mary will be collecting for the Fall Celebration at Franco Martini, 10/16. Members $10 Guests $20

After all the cake and parties maybe we should exercise for one entire meeting!




Bring a joke or funny story and smile,

El Presidente and Bob

MAILBOX QUESTIONS -- 21 COOK

 

A few days ago, your editor stumbled upon this item---and have since received two additional inquiries from readers who have done the same....it's a resolution dated July 21, 2026 conveying 21 Cook Lane to the village from the Town.  Haven't a clue about this and can't spend any time on it.  Instead, I am crowdsourcing the request for info. Drop me a line or comment if you know anything.

Here is the link: Microsoft Word - RESOLUTION-Conveyance of 21 Cook Lane to Croton-171-2026

NEW YORK STATE NOW SAYS, IN WRITING, THAT CLOSING INDIAN POINT RAISED EMISSIONS

Is anyone truly surprised? Read more from The Yonkers Times at https://yonkerstimes.com/new-york-state-now-says-in-writing-that-closing-indian-point-raised-emissions/

STATEMENT OF ED RIELY--9/21/26 HISTORICAL MARKER DEDICATION

STATEMENT OF ED RIELEY (AND PROGRAM) AT THE 9/21 DEDICATION OF THE HISTORICAL MARKER FOR JOHN PATTERSON. CLICK ON THE IMAGES FOR THE EVENT PROGRAM. ADDITIONAL PHOTOS FROM THE CEREMONY ARE HERE  - THERE WILL BE AN ADDITIONAL POST THIS WEEK ABOUT THE BETHEL CHAPEL.

WELCOME Thank you for coming here today to help us dedicate this Historical Marker in honor of John Patterson, a humble man, one of our forefathers, a brave man. He risked his life and risked his personal freedom for our liberties our country’s independence. We know about him mostly from his US Government Revolutionary War Pension Applications of April 1818 and September 1820, which required Affidavits, References, and Assets Lists. Between 1777 and 1780, we can track the activities of his Continental Regiment, the 2nd New York, to know where he was and what he was doing militarily. His Commander, Colonel Philip Van Cortlandt, wrote a book about it. In addition to those sources a disabled lawyer named John MacDonald turned amateur historian began interviewing surviving Revolutionary War Veterans in the 1840s. 

MacDonald interviewed John Patterson twice. John Patterson was in his nineties when he was interviewed. His memory and clarity of mind was truly exceptionally for his advanced age. Let me read you some of his interview. 

Recounting a long skirmish with a Tory raiding party east of White Plains, “We were not encamped but scouting about the country and living in the woods…..We went out with twenty, and two were taken prisoners…Captain Sackett and his brother…They (the Loyalists) were a little more than two hours attacking us. The field of contest was a little east of the Blind Brook and General Thomas’ saw mill, on the south side of the road between Purchase Street and King Street opposite the White Plains Road……Captains Kipp and Holmes (the Tory leaders) called upon us to surrender, promising us quarter, Mosier (our Lieutenant) refused…Kipp had recently taken me prisoner….I was confined in Morrisania and New York….Kipp insulted me.....‘there’s another black rascal who has been a prisoner’….I left my ranks and bayoneted him…..our Prince Sackett stood firm, but he was a little afraid of the bullets….I, on the contrary, had no such fear about me.” The elderly Patterson then proceeds to identify by name, for the written record, all twenty of the men in this small company. Remarkable! Almost all these names can found and cross checked on the State Enrollment Lists.

We should comment on the way Patterson’s name is spelled, how it appears on official documents, and monuments, and what he had to say about it. In unit records, he is listed in at least three (3) different fighting units: the 1st Westchester Militia Regiment, the 2nd New York Regiment, Continental Line, and Pawling’s Regiment of Nine Month Levies, the latter being full time militiamen who can be sent anywhere they are needed. His name is spelled differently in unit listings in order: John Peterson, John Patterson, and John Peterson. His Pension Documents record his name as John Patterson, and in every personal interview he makes a point of say “my real name is John Patterson. However his monuments and posterity preserve his name as John Peterson.

HE LIVED A VERY LONG LIFE. He was 72 when in 1818 he applied for his Federal Pension of $8 dollars a month. He was in his LATE NINETIES when he was interviewed by Lawyer MacDonald. He had lived through the War of Independence and the founding of the United States Government, the adoption of the Constitution, the War of 1812, the Mexican War, the Erie Canal, the invention of Steamships, Railroads, and the Telegraph. And, he lived to see Emancipation adopted in New York, his state, and half of the other states in the Union. He died at age 104.

ADDRESS THE SECOND SIGN ISSUE, The Pomeroy Foundation, finding Sylvanus Tomkins, and the Village adopting the Patriot Burial Project Sign.

WHY DID OUR LEGIONNAIRES ADOPT HIS PROJECT? If you were a local boy, you knew something about his legend, we heard the stories and they were exciting. When we looked more deeply into his Revolutionary War experiences, it was more extensive than we imagined. As we discussed this project we felt a special connection to this old veteran, and enthusiastically adopted his cause. With research, we found that he had a lot more to tell us about himself, his comrades, and his times. He had some common experiences we could strongly relate to him even though we were separated by centuries. Bill Tuttle and others saw this right away. When he gave the Sign Project his blessing, we moved ahead with it immediately.

WE FOUND MORE ABOUT JOHN PATTERSON with the help of some historians who showed us where to look: Marc Cheshire, Croton Historian, got his Pension Records, John Curran, of the Peekskill Historical Society, showed us “New York in the Revolution” the definitive list of New York’s RevWar Veterans, and Catalina Hannan, of Historic Hudson Valley, gave us four volumes of The Van Cortlandt Papers, most noteworthy, “The Revolutionary War Memoir” of Colonel Philip Van Cortlandt, edited by Jacob Judd. Philip Van Cortlandt commanded John Peterson’s regiment, the 2nd New York and knew him personally. Philip Van Cortlandt served in the military throughout the War. Philip Van Cortlandt wrote the reference letter that helped to secure Patterson his Pension.

HARD SERVICE AND A HARD LIFE. John Patterson was not a young man when the War started. He was 30 years old in 1776, and was 37 years old when it ended. Because of the Militia System it was very likely he spent the entire War in some level of Military Service, well beyond his documented four years of full time Military Service. He may have spent four more years as a militiaman in this hotly contested County.

In 1776, 1782, and 1792 Congress provided PENSIONS to DISABLED, BROKEN, SICK, and WOUNDED Revolutionary Veterans. If you could qualify for a Service Connected and DISABLED you got half pay. The lack of dependable Rations, the Hard Daily Chores of Military Life, Inadequate Clothing, inadequate shelter, operating Adverse Weather took a HEAVY TOLL every soldier. In a typical campaign of that time, a soldier might March or Trek hundreds of miles on foot, ford rivers, build fortifications, fight the enemy, suffer injury and debilitating illnesses that sap ones strength, and RUIN THEIR HEALTH.

DETAIL THE SULLIVAN CAMPAIGN in describing HARD SERVICE. On a New Jersey retreat one veteran described the remnant of the Washington’s Army as one made up of Old Men and Boys, and “for a while you could follow the Army by the trail of blood their feet made in the snow”. TIRED and WORN OUT it’s not surprising that John Patterson reported in 1820, that he

“……….is of indigent circumstances, ….….by occupation a laborer. He has a wife who is a cripple having lost one arm. She is fifty-six years of age. He has six children who he maintains from his labor which together with aid from the government in his Pension heretofore received has enabled him to afford himself and family a scanty support. That aid being now cut off, he is unable to support his family, without the aid of private charity. He is now more infirm of body, being subject fits and that he has no other evidence but what is annexed to his original application. That he is inscribed on the pension list roll of the New York Agency at eight dollars per month and that his certificate is numbered 2172.”

Did he get his 1818 Pension reinstated after the Pension Review of 1820? Did he qualify for the FULL PAY Pension of 1828 that was available to all surviving Revolutionary Veterans regardless of Rank? I don’t know? Was he the John Peterson who got 330 acres of land and a $1500 Mortgage from the Van Cortlandt’s in 1830? We will have to research for that LATE happy development in John’s life.

The Bounty System, sign up CASH Bonuses and Land Grants. As system that goes back to Roman Times.

PROBABLY LOOKED FORWARD THE FIGHTING (looked forwarded) the sickness in camp, the accidents

THEY WALKED EVERYWHERE boats on the Hudson, Mohawk, and the Chesapeake. Van Cortlandt rear guard with BOATS

More information about the road they built Easton to the Wyoming Valley

Fighting on the frontier, never stopped vicious battling there 

Even after the Sullivan Campaign 1777 Herkimer and Fort Stanwix

1778 Wyoming Valley Massacre and Cherry Valley Massacre. The June-October 1779 Sullivan Campaign destroyed 40 Villages in Central New York. Fighting more than the Iroquois: Mohawk, Senaca, Onieda, Onondaga, Cayuga, and after 1722, the Iroquoian-speaking Tuscarora. In Pennsylvania three of these — the Erie, the Susquehannock, and the Haudenosaunee spoke Iroquoian languages. While the Shawnee, Munsee, and Lenape (Delaware) spoke Algonquian languages. Joseph Brandt, was a Mohawk War Chief, Cornplanter, was a Senaca War Chief, and Fish Carrier, was a Cayuga War Chief. Attack on Wyoming Valley, PA lead by John Butler, the Attack on Cherry Valley lead by Walter Butler (son of John Butler) and Joseph Brandt.

Peterson & Moshier family united 

WE FOUND OUR SECOND REVWAR VETERAN TOMPKINS

Pomeroy Foundation Sign

WHERE HE FOUGHT: DESCRIBE THE MOHAWK Valley, Fort Stanwix, Wyoming Valley, Cherry Valley, the 3000 Palatine Germans !725), WHERE WAS the TREATY LINE! Settlers in the WEST how very MANY THERE WERE! AND HOW LARGE the TRYON COUNTY MILITIA WAS

CIVIL WAR: The Onieda and some of the Tuscaroras, DETAIL the other tribes

The TORIES: Joseph Brandt, Butler, William Johnson, other Johnson and the TWO Governors of Canada

SARATOGA: Its MANY NAMES: Freeman’s Farm, Stllwater, Bemis Heights

Describe New York Geography

How Did This Come About Unusual?

60 MILES The troops began to arrive at Easton early in May, 1779, and two regiments acting as pioneers at once began the construction of a road suitable for the passage of the army between Easton and Wyoming, a part of this road still known as Sullivan's road, extends from the Bush The army gathered in Easton to march north to the Wyoming Valley, then to upstate New York. No roads existed over the Pocono Mountains to transport an army north into Iroquois territory. Sullivan ordered the building of a road from Tannersville to the Wyoming Valley for his army to pass through swamps and heavily forested areas over the mountain. The road builders were 500 men strong, of the 2nd New York Regiment and the 5th New Jersey Regiment. The two regiments congregated at Learns Tavern (at today’s Tannersville) and set off on May 15-16 to transform a footpath into a crude road.

A rise in elevation from 883 feet to over 1,900 feet, densely forested areas, swamps, and the rocky terminal moraine of the Wisconsin Glacier made road building difficult. Upon completion of the first nine miles of road on May 23, 1779, the road builders created an encampment in today’s Tobyhanna Township. They named it Hungry Hill due to their lack of provisions. It was at this encampment where they buried a soldier, and where the current memorial stands today.

Alfred Mathew’s 1886 “History of Wayne, Pike and Monroe Counties, Pennsylvania” states:

“Soon after crossing Mud Run, they came to a knoll, or small round hill, and encamped, and sent back to Fort Penn (Stroudsburg) for provisions, and lay there several days making a road through a swamp at the northwestern base of the hill while waiting for provisions from Fort Penn. Sullivan named the two places respectively “Hungry Hill” and “Hell’s Kitchen.” While at Hungry Hill one of Sullivan’s soldiers died, and was buried by the side of the road, on the crest of the hill, and the grave is plainly to be seen by all passers, being indicated by the mound and a large stone at the head of the grave.”

Garrick M. Harding’s 1899 account in “The Sullivan Road” stated:

“A camp for the road builders was established here, some working Westerly still further on, and some finishing the parts intervening Easterly. While it was difficult to get sufficient supplies forward as fast as the needs of the men required, and hence a name — “Hungry Hill” — was given to the location. The name still lasts and will last always. It was here, too, that a fatal accident befell one of the soldiers- a falling tree killed him. His comrades buried him by the roadside at this top of the hill, and the grave today can be seen by the passer-by as plainly as when it was first made.”

The road to the Wyoming Valley (Wilkes-Barre) was completed on June 15. On Friday, June 18, 1779. Sullivan’s forces of more than 3,500 soldiers, 800 cattle, scores of horses, baggage and supply wagons, pack horses, cannon and gun carriages, broke camp in Easton. Using the newly constructed road, the army reached the Wyoming Valley on June 23.

FROM THE CROTON.NEWS AI SITE---CROTON'S RENT-RELIEF INCOME LIMIT RISES TO $75K AS 2 LOCAL LAWS TAKE EFFECT AND MORE

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Local Laws 10 and 11 of 2026 were filed with the New York Secretary of State on September 8 and took effect the same day. One raises the income limit for the village's senior-citizen and disabled-persons rent-relief programs from $50,000 to $75,000; the other redraws the list of sidewalks the village, not the adjoining owner, must clear of snow. Five more local laws are still only proposals. MORE AT Croton's rent-relief income limit rises to $75,000 as two local laws take effect — Croton-on-Hudson, NY

PRESIDENT TRUMP'S SPEECH BEFORE THE UN ON TUESDAY

EDITORIAL FROM THE NY POST ---click on the image for the results of a poll on rating the work of the UN--at least as of this morning; the editorial and link are below---the comments are stunning:

In his strong, clear speech at the United Nations, President Donald Trump took credit for his accomplishments abroad while slamming the world body’s dysfunction.

His UN addresses from the start have been top-notch statesmanship — and prophetic: The Germans laughed at his 2018 warning not to depend on Russian energy . . . until the tanks rolled into Ukraine in 2022.

On Tuesday he again held a clear mirror up to the all-talk, no-walk crowd — and if the UN fails to get the message, its days may be numbered. READ MORE AT Trump's warning to the United Nations hits the nail on the head