She was 93.
Sunday, April 3, 2022
ESTELLE HARRIS, THE NAGGING MRS. CONSTANZA, DIES AT 93
IN THE NEWS: WESTCHESTER OFFERS FREE TUITION TO BOOST VOLUNTEER EMS, FIRE RANKS
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IN THE NEWS: WESTCHESTER OFFERS FREE TUITION TO BOOST VOLUNTEER EMS, FIRE RANKS
It’s no secret that volunteer fire departments and ambulance corps
face significant challenges in attracting new members to bolster their
ranks. Now, Westchester County has introduced a new incentive to entice
community members, particularly young adults, to serve their communities
and address a shortage of volunteers that has reached crisis
proportions. MORE AT https://www.theexaminernews.com/wchester-offers-tuition-program-to-increase-volunteer-fire-ems-ranks/
IT'S AMERICAN CIRCUS DAY... PLUS SOME CROTON VINTAGE CIRCUS POSTINGS & MORE
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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.
In honor of today's "AMERICAN CIRCUS DAY"--read more about it here----a collection of assorted "Croton Circus" and more links....see below.
P.S. Click on the photo to see a fabulous reproduction of a vintage poster from The Cornelia Cotton Gallery (long since sold but preserved here forever! 111 Grand Street, 271-6802)
And if circuses in any form give you the vapors (CANCEL CULTURE COMES FOR DUMBO), now's the time to just move along please:
--1957, THE HUNT BROS. CIRCUS COMES TO CROTON; more here
--1962, CROTON DAY CAMP CIRCUS; more here
--FROM
2014, THE ANTIQUE SCHOENHUT CIRCUS ON DISPLAY AT CONEY ISLAND, ALSO
COURTESY OF SERIOUSTOYZ, READ AND SEE MORE HERE
Saturday, April 2, 2022
SERVICES FOR LAWRENCE S. BUCK
A visitation for Lawrence will be held Wednesday, April 6, 2022 from 4:00 PM to 8:00 PM at Edward F carter Funeral Home, 41 Grand Street, Croton-on-Hudson, NY 10520. A graveside service will occur Thursday, April 7, 2022 at 11:00 AM at Bethel Cemetery, Old Post Rd S & Cleveland Dr, Croton on Hudson, New York.
Fond memories and expressions of sympathy may be shared at www.efcarterfuneralhome.com for the Buck family.
PHOTO ALBUM, ORCHID & ELM, COURTESY OF SUBURBAN GUIDES
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PHOTO ALBUM, ORCHID & ELM, COURTESY OF SUBURBAN GUIDES---SEE IT AND READ MORE HERE.
ABOUT THOSE DIVERSITY, INCLUSION MANDATES: CALIFORNIA'S DIVERSITY MANDATE FOR CORPORATIONS RULED UNCONSTITUTIONAL
A California judge ruled that the state's diversity law requiring corporations to have racial minorities or members of the LGBTQ+ community serve on their board of directors was unconstitutional. The judge, who handed down the ruling Friday, concluded that the law violated California's constitutional equal protection clause, according to a summary judgment granted to Judicial Watch, a conservative legal group that filed a permanent injunction against the measure. Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton said in a statement to The Associated Press that the decision "declared unconstitutional one of the most blatant and significant attacks in the modern era on constitutional prohibitions against discrimination."
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IN THE NEWS - MSN, MORE ABOUT FAUCI AND THAT VANITY FAIR EXPOSE--INVESTIGATORS CLAIM THAT FAUCI SHUT DOWN ALL COVID-19 LAB LEAK THEORIES
Investigators claim Fauci shut down all COVID-19 lab leak theories---America's coronavirus tsar, Dr. Anthony Fauci, silenced any discussion about COVID being caused by a lab leak - and not through animal-to-human transmission - after helping a controversial scientist get millions in federal funding to study bats, a Vanity Fair investigation has revealed.
Analyzing more than 100,000 leaked documents, the magazine claimed that Fauci's approval of Peter Daszak helped his nonprofit, EcoHealth Alliance, an organization dedicated to shielding society from emerging infectious diseases, to develop the COVID-19 virus in a laboratory in China. They also claim researchers associated with the Wuhan Institute of Virology, including Daszak, tried to hide evidence about the pandemic’s early spread as lab leak hypotheses began to emerge.
While the report is not conclusive in how the pandemic was started, the magazine provides evidence that Daszak was aware the gain-of-function research his organization conducted was 'risky' and that he neglected to provide transparency about his projects to the U.S. government, as promised.
And the VANITY FAIR ARTICLE ITSELF:
The paper Bloom had written—known as a preprint, because it had yet to be peer-reviewed or published—contained sensitive revelations about the National Institutes of Health, the federal agency that oversees biomedical research. In the interests of transparency, he wanted Fauci, who helms an NIH subagency, the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), to see it ahead of time. Under ordinary circumstances, the preprint might have sparked a respectful exchange of views. But this was no ordinary preprint, and no ordinary moment.
More than a year into the pandemic, the genesis of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, was still a mystery. Most scientists believed that it had made the leap from bats to humans naturally, via an intermediary species, most likely at a market in Wuhan, China, where live wild animals were slaughtered and sold. But a growing contingent were asking if it could have originated inside a nearby laboratory that is known to have conducted risky coronavirus research funded in part by the United States. As speculation, sober and otherwise, swirled, the NIH was being bombarded by Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuits. Fauci himself needed a security detail, owing to death threats from conspiracy theorists who believed he was covering up some dark secret.
Bloom’s paper was the product of detective work he’d undertaken after noticing that a number of early SARS-CoV-2 genomic sequences mentioned in a published paper from China had somehow vanished without a trace. The sequences, which map the nucleotides that give a virus its unique genetic identity, are key to tracking when the virus emerged and how it might have evolved. In Bloom’s view, their disappearance raised the possibility that the Chinese government might be trying to hide evidence about the pandemic’s early spread. Piecing together clues, Bloom established that the NIH itself had deleted the sequences from its own archive at the request of researchers in Wuhan. Now, he was hoping Fauci and his boss, NIH director Francis Collins, could help him identify other deleted sequences that might shed light on the mystery. READ THE LENGTHY AND DETAILED ARTICLE FROM VANITY FAIR AT https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2022/03/the-virus-hunting-nonprofit-at-the-center-of-the-lab-leak-controversy
Friday, April 1, 2022
NORDICA PARKING ISSUES AND MUCH MORE ON THE 4/4/ BOARD OF TRUSTEES AGENDA
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NORDICA PARKING ISSUES AND MORE ON THE 4/4/ BOARD OF TRUSTEES AGENDA---RESIDENTS WHO HAVE CONCERNS THAT THEY WILL BE UNABLE TO drive to this area to park and swim should address their concerns to the board.
Also on the agenda, Sustainable Westchester, Arbor day, solar canopies at the parking lot, more parking issues on Benedict, pot shops etc. etc. etc.
SEE THE ENTIRE AGENDA AT https://play.champds.com/crotononhudsonny/event/756
ALL THINGS COOKERY, KITCHEN & TABLE #49... EASTER SIDE DISHES, KETO, VEGAN, AND TRADITIONAL OPTIONS---AND SOME ECONOMICAL OPTIONS TOO
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Announcing ALL THINGS COOKERY, KITCHEN & TABLE #49...a new series here at the blog for all you cooking enthusiasts out there---recipes, tips, local shopping, interesting links....we'll keep it light and joyful...when possible....click on the photos and links.
FOLLOWING UP OUR EASTER MAIN COURSE POST (SEE THAT HERE), we now present.......ALL THINGS COOKERY, KITCHEN & TABLE #49... EASTER SIDE DISHES, KETO, VEGAN, AND TRADITIONAL OPTIONS---AND SOME ECONOMICAL OPTIONS TOO.
The news is in---it's not good--- A key inflation metric monitored by the Federal Reserve soared 6.4 percent in February compared to a year ago, reaching a new 40-year high. The latest price surge, which effected the price of fuel, groceries and other consumer essentials, represents the largest year-over-year increase since January 1982...MORE FROM THE NATIONAL REVIEW HERE.
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We love setting a pretty holiday table---and when you can still do it well and economically, that's even better.
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PRESS RELEASE, CROTON HISTORICAL SOCIETY: ALICE LEIGHNER PHOTO ARCHIVE DONATED TO THE CROTON HISTORICAL SOCIETY
ALICE LEIGHNER PHOTO ARCHIVE DONATED TO THE CROTON HISTORICAL SOCIETY
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A large collection of 35mm photographic negatives, mostly taken for the Croton-Cortlandt News and the North County News in the 1970s and early 1980s, has been donated to the Croton Historical Society by the estate of Alice Leighner.
Leighner passed away February 16, 2022 in Meriden, Connecticut. She and her husband, Leslie, moved to Croton in 1969 and lived here until 1985. Alice graduated from Ohio Wesleyan University in 1962 with a BA in Journalism and received her MS degree in Journalism from Ohio University in 1967. In the 1970s she started writing for the Croton-Cortlandt News, later becoming the paper’s social editor and photographer.
In
addition to the negatives and related material, the donation included
framed photos she took of Pete Seeger and Aaron Copland, each inscribed
and signed by them to Alice.
Most
of the negatives have notes on the glassine sleeves or index cards,
indicating the subject matter of the photos. Cataloging, scanning and
archiving the collection will be a major undertaking. After an initial
assessment has been completed the Croton Historical Society will start a
campaign to raise funds to scan the negatives and convert them to
positive images so they can be shared with the public.
Tom
Simone, President of the Croton Historical Society, said, “We are
grateful to receive Alice’s treasure-trove of photographic images of
Croton. She was ‘the lady about town’ who captured so many local events
with her camera. This will be an incredible record of Croton-on-Hudson
during the 1970s and early 1980s."
Village
Historian Marc Cheshire said, “This is an important and exciting
donation. We suspect that many of Alice’s photos were never published
due to space limitations. She may have shot an entire roll of film of an
event, but only one photo was used.”
Founded
in 1972, the mission of the Croton Historical Society is to discover,
collect, preserve and share the rich history of the village of
Croton-on-Hudson. The society’s archival collection includes newspapers,
maps, photographs, yearbooks and one of the largest collections of
photographs and other material documenting the construction of the New
Croton Dam.
Photo captions:
Leighner Negatives.--A small portion of Alice Leighner’s 35mm photographic negatives, stored in glassine sleeves. Most sleeves contain multiple strips of negatives.
Leighner Copland Print--Photo of composer Aaron Copland by Alice Leighner. Copeland’s home on Washington Street in Cortlandt is now a National Historic Landmark.
Leighner Copland CCN 1-15-1981--The Copland photo as it appeared in the January 15, 1981 issue of the Croton-Cortlandt News.
Leighner Negatives.--A small portion of Alice Leighner’s 35mm photographic negatives, stored in glassine sleeves. Most sleeves contain multiple strips of negatives.
Leighner Copland Print--Photo of composer Aaron Copland by Alice Leighner. Copeland’s home on Washington Street in Cortlandt is now a National Historic Landmark.
Leighner Copland CCN 1-15-1981--The Copland photo as it appeared in the January 15, 1981 issue of the Croton-Cortlandt News.
FOR MORE ABOUT THE CROTON HSTORICAL SOCIETY:
Croton Historical Society
1 Van Wyck Street
Croton-on-Hudson, NY, 10520
Croton-on-Hudson, NY, 10520
Phone: 914-271-4574
Open Tuesdays, 10 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. or by appointment
Website: www.crotonhistoricalsociety.
Blog: crotonhistory.org
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IN THE NEWS: KEY INFLATION GAUGE REACHES 40 YEAR HIGH AS FUEL, FOOD PRICES SKYROCKET
A key inflation metric monitored by the Federal Reserve soared 6.4 percent in February compared to a a year ago, reaching a new 40-year high. The latest price surge, which effected the price of fuel, groceries and other consumer essentials, represents the largest year-over-year increase since January 1982, according to data released by the Commerce Department on Thursday. MORE FROM THE NATIONAL REVIEW HERE.
BY SPECIAL REQUEST: SOME PHOTOS FROM SUMMERFEST 2015
With Summerfest 2022 ON THE HORIZON (click here for the vendor call and additional info), there have been numerous requests for photos from Summerfests Past---here's some from 2015, all rights reserved.
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