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

REMINDER 8/17 MIDNIGHT DEADLINE - BOE AD HOC COMMITTEE ON TECNOLOGY SURVEY

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REMINDER 8/17 MIDNIGHT DEADLINE - BOE AD HOC COMMITTEE ON TECNOLOGY SURVEY

Survey can be found here:

Community Survey on Technology Use in Schools

ONCE AGAIN----WHAT DOES IT MEAN EXACTLY---THAT CROTON IS A "PRO-HOUSING COMMUNITY"

And once again, there seems to be some genuine confusion---actually outright inaccurate information--- being posted online--about what Croton's status as a 'PRO-HOUSING COMMUNITY" actually means--and what one can expect as a result.

And so, one more time: EverythingCroton: FROM THE MAILBOX--WHAT DOES IT MEAN EXACTLY---THAT CROTON IS A "PRO-HOUSING COMMUNITY"

ROPE RESCUE HELPS MAN AFTER MEDICAL EMERGENCY AT CROTON POINT PARK

More at News 12 | Hudson Valley | Rope Rescue Helps Save Man After Medical Emergency At Croton Point Park

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

This is it! This will be our final WOOD ON WINE newsletter. Maureen and I are retiring! These are our last days at Row 13 Wines. If you have a chance, please stop by this week to say goodbye, we would love to see everyone. As our final farewell, we will offer for one last time our fantastic 20% discount on any case (12 bottles) of wine in the store.

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

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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)

YOU MAY ALSO ENJOY: EverythingCroton: 1963 LEE HAYS, THE WEAVERS, WASHINGTON DC

TOMATO SOUP RECALL--SOLD AT WALMART

Via Lohud; go to Tomato soup sold at Walmart recalled over possible listeria

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.

HAD A REQUEST FOR THE 2025 PRELIMINARY WASTEWATER ENGINEERING REPORT---425 S. RIVERSIDE

Sharing here as well. You can find it at  Microsoft Word - Sewer Report-20251223

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

FOLLOW-UP TO THE GLORIA SWANSON FASHION--"FOREVER YOUNG"--POST

A reader recently mentioned that her mother was a devotee of GLORIA SWANSON'S FOREVER YOUNG CLOTHING LINE. Naturally we were intrigued given the Swanson Croton connection. You can read the original article here.

She's sent along some print ads, all from 1957, for your viewing pleasure. Click on the images.

ABOUT THAT CROTON SCHOOLS $3.2 MILLION SOLAR PLAN---FROM THE NEW "CROTON.NEWS" SITE

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Honeywell asked the Board of Education to approve a $3,170,000 solar-and-ventilation contract by late August to capture a $981,000 federal payment before incentives expire. Trustees also adopted the annual district safety plan and next year's board goals after a sharp debate over whether to promise to rebuild trust. READ MUCH MORE AT Croton Schools Weigh $3.2 Million Solar Plan With $981,000 in Federal Money at Stake — Croton-on-Hudson, NY

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

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YOUR EVERYTHING CROTON WEEKEND NEWS RECAP AND VINTAGE CROTON TOO can be found at EverythingCroton: YOUR EVERYTHING CROTON WEEKEND NEWS RECAP AND VINTAGE CROTON TOO