NEWS FROM FORMER CROTON RESIDENT SUSAN KONIG & WILLOWSTREET PRESS

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NEW FROM FORMER CROTON RESIDENT SUSAN KONIG & WILLOWSTREET PRESS: 

Willow Street Press proudly announces a hilarious new motherhood book 

MEAN MOMMY

by Comic KERRI LOUISE - Mother's Day 2016

READ AND SEE MORE HERE  

http://www.willowstreetpress.com/

HUFF POST - WANT MORE WIND ENERGY INVESTMENT? KILL EAGLES...

U.S. wildlife managers on Wednesday again proposed granting 30-year permits to wind farms that would forgive them for thousands of eagle deaths expected during that time frame from collisions of the birds with turbines, towers and electrical wires.  The proposed rule, like one struck down by a federal judge last year, would greatly extend the current five-year time frame in the permits required under U.S. law for the “incidental take” of eagles, including those killed by obstacles erected in their habitat.

Wind energy companies have pressed the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to lengthen the terms of the eagle permits, saying a five-year duration left too much uncertainty and hampered investment in the burgeoning renewable power industry. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/wind-farms-permits-kill-eagles_us_572b49d4e4b016f37894c858

CONGRATULATIONS SUSAN RYKOWSKI, CROTON ROTARY STUDENT OF THE MONTH

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AND NOW A WORD FROM THE CROTON ROTARY: Student of the Month, Susan Rykowski joined us today at our weekly luncheon. Pictured with CHHS Advisor, Dan Delaney and Village Engineer, Dan O'Connor, Susan shared her interests, her CHOOSE experience and many accomplishments with us. Congratulations, Susan! Click on the link http://bit.ly/1NkvIUD

COACH DON DAUBNEY

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As many of you know, Don Daubney has coached Croton Harmon High School basketball for many many years. Please take a moment to read a note from Doris Daubney, re-printed here with permission:

Well, my husband Don and I are in a state of shock. He just walked into the house after having a meeting with the new in his first year Athletic Director Tom Cunningham at Croton Harmon High School, who at the end of basketball season had given Don an extremely favorable review as the jv basketball coach only to be told now that he was not putting his name in for being hired next year. The reason he was told was because he had allowed 2 boys from the 8 th grade to play up after their approval from the school doctor this year on the jv team.

The school policy apparently allows a student to play up only one level and Mr. Cunningham was told by the Superintendent of Schools, Mr. Fuhrman if he submitted Don's name for the job next year the school board would deny his appointment based on the decision to play up two boys.

Don has been a coach in the school district for many years. He has held the JV basketball position for the last 17 years always with a positive, favorable review from the previous athletic directors as well.

It seems that there are several others, the superintendent, the High School Principal and the Athletic Director who have been overlooking this policy and we have to feel that possibly age discrimination could be a factor? .."there is much more to this story. Why have they overlooked it and now suddenly decide to make an example of it. Should they not have any accountability? What is the real story here. We may never know!

Doris Daubney

Story Developing. Will keep you posted. FYI THERE'S A SCHOOL BOARD MEETING ON MAY 5TH AT CHHS 7:30 PM IN THE COMMUNITY ROOM

ONLINE PETITION http://www.thepetitionsite.com/424/229/047/bring-back-coach-daubney...a-town-legend./

The following contact info for the school board is being placed on all the FB pages relating to these events; however I am removing the home tel. #'s.

Giuseppina Miller (President)
giuseppina.miller@chufsd.org

Iris Cross-Bugliosi (Vice President)
iris.bugliosi@chufsd.org

Patrice Davidson patrice.davidson@chufsd.org 

Joshua Diamond joshua.diamond@chufsd.org

Todd Freebern todd.freebern@chufsd.org

Andrea Furey andrea.furey@chufsd.org 6/30/18

Neal Haber neal.haber@chufsd.org

UPDATED 5/5 - MANY RESIDENTS INDICATE THAT THEY HAVE EMAILED THE SCHOOL BOARD

and MR. FUHRMAN  Edward.Fuhrman@CHUFSD.Org

LIFE MAGAZINE PHOTOGRAPHER YALE JOEL, THE CROTON CONNECTION JUNE 1981

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COURTESY OF THE OUTSTANDING ARCHIVES MAINTAINED BY THE CROTON HISTORICAL SOCIETY, A LOOK BACK AT LIFE MAGAZINE PHOTOGRAPHER YALE JOEL, THE CROTON CONNECTION. Click on the photos below. 

2016 GOD SQUAD LENDS A HAND 2 CROTON SENIORS @ ANNUAL SPRING CLEANING + PHOTOS

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE - God Squad lends a hand to Croton seniors at 3rd Annual Spring Cleaning

Croton-on-Hudson, New York (April 30, 2016) – Holy Name of Mary’s youth group, “God Squad,” cleaned gutters and windows, set up patios, raked and weeded yards, and turned over community gardens in preparation for Spring planting, as part of its 3rd annual “Spring Cleaning” initiative.  God Squad has been providing this service each fall and spring for the senior citizens of its parish community.

The Spring Cleaning that took place on Saturday included 8 homes in the Croton community and over 30 student and parent volunteers, according to Holy Name of Mary Youth Minister, Carl Barnes. The Spring and Fall Cleaning events provide teenagers throughout Croton an opportunity to satisfy their community service hours for their Churches or Temple as well as graduation requirements.  This service project is open to anyone in the local community.

“The Fall and Spring Cleaning events were originally set up to bridge the generation gap between our young adults and the senior citizens of our local community,” according to Mr. Barnes.  “This is also a great way to help our local seniors with household chores that many of us take for granted, maintain their independence and in some cases allow our seniors stay in their homes for as long as possible,” he continued.  “I have noticed in the 3 short years that we have been offering this service, that some of our seniors have moved on to assisted living facilities, and we just want to be able to help them with their homes for as long as we can,” he declared.

Contact: Carl Barnes - Holy Name of Mary, Youth Minister   
Carlbarnes12@gmail.com (914) 263-3111

(Click on the photos below.)

HOUSING MONITOR SAYS SUE CROTON ON HUDSON & OTHERS FOR EXCLUSIONARY ZONING AND BLOCKING INTEGRATION

Two residents have sent the following article and link to Everything Croton. One is very confused because they remember a congratulatory letter in 2014 from Trustee Gallelli saying that the Wiegman administration had essentially worked hard to get Croton OFF the HUD list of communities that allegedly practice "exclusionary zoning". The monitor/HUD defines exclusionary zoning as limitations on the number of bedrooms that can be created in mixed use/other housing, AND OTHER PROVISIONS in the re-drafted Harmon re-zoning law etc. (the Wiegman admministration)

Ms. Gallelli's 2014 letter was "flawed" however; you can read why here https://www.facebook.com/notes/croton-united/croton-united-member-roseann-schuylers-letter-to-the-editor-oct-2-2014/354568408033530

IN THE MEANTIME, HERE IS TODAY'S LOHUD ARTICLE: MONITOR - SUE 7 COMMUNITIES BLOCKING INTEGRATION

LOHUD: Westchester County's own studies have continually said there is no exclusionary zoning in its municipalities.

The federal government should consider suing seven predominantly white municipalities in Westchester County whose zoning blocks construction of racially integrated housing, a court-appointed housing monitor said in his latest report.

Johnson, of the New York City law firm Debevoise and Plimpton, is overseeing the implementation of a 2009 legal settlement in which Westchester agreed to build or obtain 750 units of affordable housing in 31 of its richest and whitest communities and take other steps to encourage fair housing in the region. Croton-on-Hudson, Harrison, Lewisboro, Pelham Manor, Larchmont, North Castle and Rye Brook should face litigation from the U.S. Department of Justice if they don’t change their zoning codes, attorney James E. Johnson said in a report filed late last week. READ MORE HERE http://www.lohud.com/story/news/local/westchester/2016/05/02/monitor-biennial-report/83819508/ 

WILL KEEP YOU POSTED.....

AUDREY GABRIELSEN HAS PASSED AWAY; SERVICE INFORMATION & OBITUARY

Very sad news. Long time Croton resident Audrey Gabrielsen has passed away:

Audrey Gabrielsen passed away on Saturday April 30th, 2016 at the age of 84. She is survived by her sons Peter and his wife Doreen, Kenneth and his wife LeeAnn, Cliff and his wife Susan and four wonderful grandchildren Adam, Christine, Michael and Christopher...She was born in Bay Ridge Brooklyn, a predominantly Norwegian neighborhood in 1931. Audrey took great pride in her 100% Norwegian genealogy and traditions and passed this on to her sons and grandchildren. She was a member of the Luther League and graduated from Bay Ridge High School and Union College of Nursing. She met John in Bay Ridge and they were married June 6th, 1954 when he returned from his military tour in the Korean War. They lived as newlyweds in Brooklyn but eventually moved to Croton in 1959 and Audrey lived out her life in the town that she loved. 

Click on the link for the complete obit; visitation/wake and funeral info as well:  http://obits.dignitymemorial.com/dignity-memorial/obituary.aspx?n=Audrey-Gabrielsen&lc=7336&pid=179847545&mid=6911062

IT TAKES MORE THAN A LITTLE RAIN TO STOP THE HNMMS BAKE AND PLANT SALE!

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On Sunday May 1st, neither rain nor a damp chill in the air stopped the women at the Holy Name of Mary Montessori School Plant and Bake Sale! Click on the photos. PS--the brownies were very good!

For more about HNMS, visit their FB page at https://www.facebook.com/HolyNameOfMaryMontessoriSchool

THIS MONTH IN CROTON-ON-HUDSON, MAY 1981

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BY SPECIAL REQUEST AND LONG OVER-DUE(!), THIS MONTH IN MAY 1981. Courtesy as always of the outstanding archives maintained by The Croton Historical Society. Click on the images below. 

Can't get enough Croton in the 80's? You may also enjoy http://everythingcroton.blogspot.com/2015/12/those-awesome-80s-top-3-most-read-2015.html

DILLON O'KEEFE'S LATEST MURAL @ FRANKI'S GRILL

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Have you seen Dillon O'Keefe's latest mural--it's an "homage to Croton"--and you'll find it gracing the wall of Franki's Grill in the historical upper village.  Click on the photo.

For more about Franki's Grill, visit http://www.frankisgrillcroton.com/

To see more of Dillon's work (and yes he's the son of Chris and Susan O'Keefe of BAKEDBYSUSAN.COM fame), click on the link here:

http://everythingcroton.blogspot.com/2015/02/more-from-dillon-okeefe.html 
and here http://everythingcroton.blogspot.com/2014/12/dillon-okeefe-frankis-grill-in-croton.html