Sunday, November 1, 2026

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...

ACKNOWLEDGMENT

***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--for all its flaws---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)

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; GO HERE

AND DON'T FORGET THE SURVEY! GO TO EverythingCroton: 2026 CROTON POLICE ADVISORY COMMITTEE COMMUNITY SURVEY

SCHOOL STUFF:

***DEFENDING EDUCATION V. CROTON HARMON SCHOOL DISTRICT: As many of you know by now, the new court date is 11/4; THERE'S TALK (many assorted  speculations) OF A SETTLEMENT--given certain recent events, who knows; see a recap more or less here

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MOVING ALONG:

GARY EISINGER FOR LYNN DLABOLA; GO TO EverythingCroton: MARY LYNN DLABOLA FOR VOICE OF CROTON

***PIGEON LAW PAUSED! GO HERE

***LETTER, ROBERT WHITING ENDORSES WATKINS; GO HERE

***FORMER MAYORS ENDORSE WATKINS; GO HERE

***MURTAUGH ENDORSES WATKINS; GO TO EverythingCroton: MURTAUGH ENDORSES WATKINS

***GINGOLD ENDORSES DLABOLA AND WATKINS; GO TO EverythingCroton: JOEL GINGOLD ENDORSES DLABOLA AND WATKINS

***TAVERN FOR SALE; GO HERE

***JAFFERY DRAMA, GAZETTE AND MORE; GO HERE  AND 


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

***VINTAGE CROTON HALLOWEEN! LOTS OF ASSORTED YEARS AND PHOTOS! 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

*** 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 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

***VINTAGE CROTON, THE MODEL TRAIN STORE KNOWN AS THE ROUNDHOUSE; GO TO EverythingCroton: MORE ON CROTON'S MODEL TRAIN STORE KNOWN AS THE ROUNDHOUSE I

***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

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


***A WORD FROM CROTON EMS; LOSAP BENEFIT; GO TO EverythingCroton: FROM CROTON EMS---ABOUT THAT LOSAP BENEFIT...

***When New York Threw a Party for Croton Water; GO HERE

***VETERANS DAY AT THE CROTON YACHT CLUB: EverythingCroton: CROTON YACHT CLUB - 2026 VETERANS DAY PRESS RELEASE

***JOHN SARCONE AND NEWSMAX; GO TO EverythingCroton: JOHN SARCONE TO NEWSMAX--NY BLOCKING DOJ VOTER CHECKS

ALI JAFFERY DRAMA

Have disabled comments regarding the Ali Jaffery Elise Lentz Gazette letter and Harry Chapin water give-away incident (it's all discussed here)---let it suffice to that these were comments that were anonymous, "odd in tone", and the claims could not be verified.

BUT there were additional claims that there was never any JAFFERY LIP BALM GIVEAWAY. Here it is.