Friday, December 27, 2024

2024 OUR SAVIOUR LUTHERAN CHRISTMAS FAIR -- THANK YOU

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2024 OUR SAVIOUR LUTHERAN CHRISTMAS FAIR -- THANK YOU - Thanks to all who made our annual Christmas Fair on December 7 such a great success. We raised over $5000, including a matching gift from a generous donor. We will donate thirty percent of this divided between Padres Hispanos of Ossining and Hudson Link for Higher Education in Prison.

2024 INTERIOR NATIVITY AT HOLY NAME OF MARY

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Click on the photo for a glimpse of the interior Nativity at Holy Name of Mary.  These are large and artistically rendered pieces in the Italian-ate tradition.  For more about Holy Name of Mary, visit Holy Name of Mary - Croton-on-Hudson, NY

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IN THE NEWS--SPY BOSSES 'SILENCED' DEFENSE DEPT, FBI SCIENTISTS, FROM BRIEFING BIDEN ON COVID LAB LEAK EVIDENCE, TWO SOURCES

Spy chiefs “silenced” researchers in the Defense Department and FBI who discovered strong evidence that COVID-19 most likely leaked from a Chinese lab, The Post has learned.

As a result, their findings were kept out of an August 2021 report to President Biden on the origins of the global pandemic.

That report concluded that the virus behind COVID “was probably not genetically engineered. After the pandemic erupted in Wuhan, China, three scientists from the Defense Intelligence Agency began trying to figure out exactly where it came from — whether SARS-CoV-2 jumped from bats into humans, or whether the virus was man-made and came from a lab accident. The “zoonotic origin” theory was backed by powerful members of the public health establishment, including Dr. Anthony Fauci, and questions about a possible “lab leak” were repeatedly dismissed as a conspiracy theory.he analysis was conducted by John Hardham, Robert Cutlip and Jean-Paul Chretien, three scientists in the Defense Intelligence Agency’s National Center for Medical Intelligence, which is tasked with examining potential biological weapons threats and dangerous infectious diseases.

Among their damning findings:
--The COVID virus contained a feature allowing for easier transmission to humans that was constructed in a manner similar to that described in a years-old Chinese study
--A Chinese military researcher applied for a patent for a COVID-19 vaccine just weeks after the virus was first sequenced in 2020. (He later died after falling from the infamous Wuhan Institute of Virology’s roof, according to US investigators.)
--WIV researchers worked with US researchers who trained them to construct viruses without leaving a trace of them being engineered.

Rather than amplifying these findings, they were all but ignored as Director of National Intelligence Avril Haines was preparing her report on COVID origins — which Biden ordered in May 2021.Spy bosses 'silenced' Defense Department, FBI scientists from briefing Biden on COVID lab leak evidence

BY SPECIAL REQUEST AT THE EVERYTHING CROTON MAILBOX: 1949 HAPPY NEW YEAR CROTON TURNING THE CORNER 1948

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BY SPECIAL REQUEST--1949 - HAPPY NEW YEAR CROTON - courtesy of the outstanding archives maintained by the volunteers of THE CROTON HISTORICAL SOCIETY. Click on the images below.








SO MANY END OF YEAR REQUESTS AT THE MAILBOX FOR THE CROTON SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL!

Finally getting around to answering the last of these Shakespeare festival requests with apologies for the delay!

******A reader is trying to find some video for the 1970's production of 'THE BOYFRIEND".

REPONSE: NO VIDEO but there is this: AUDIO, THE BOYFRIEND, 1977, CROTON SHAKESPEARE PRODUCTION; MORE HERE

******A reader is trying to a find a Peter Strauss article and we believe it is this one: CROTON'S PETER STRAUSS AS WILL SHAKESPEARE 1970; go to EverythingCroton: 1970, CROTON'S PETER STRAUSS AS WILL SHAKESPEARE

*****A reader is trying to find this production but had the spelling wrong: 1967, CROTON'S SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL, THE FANTASTICKS; go to EverythingCroton: 1967, CROTON SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL, THE FANTASTICKS

*****A reader is trying to find the 1982 production of HAMLET; not 1982 but there is 1983 at 
EverythingCroton: 1983 HAMLET, CROTON SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL

*****A reader is trying to find a musical she attended with her mother but fell asleep during the production; it is believed, from the description provided, that it was BRIGADOON, 1983; go to 
EverythingCroton: 1983 CROTON SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL PRODUCTION OF BRIGADOON

Thursday, December 26, 2024

WESTCHESTER COUNTY SEASONAL PARK RANGERS APPLICATIONS BEING TAKEN

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WESTCHESTER COUNTY SEASONAL PARK RANGERS WANTED; GO TO WCPD / Seasonal Park Rangers - Town of Cortlandt, NY News

IOWA DISTRICT NO LONGER ABLE TO PUNISH STUDENTS FOR "MISGENDERING" CLASSMATES

FROM THE PARENTS DEFENDING EDUCATION FB PAGE---2024 Recap: Parents Defending Education's lawsuit against Linn-Mar Community School District ends in a settlement agreement that ends the use of a speech-silencing policy that punished students who "misgender" others.

READ AND SEE MORE FROM THE NATIONAL REVIEW AT Iowa District Can't Punish Students for 'Misgendering' Classmates | National Review

IT'S BOXING DAY---ST. STEPHEN'S DAY--(OBSERVED PRIMARILY IN THE U.K.)---BUT IT'S ALSO NATIONAL CANDY CANE DAY

Yes---Happy Boxing Day--but also.....It's National Candy Cane Day!  We loved everything about this circa 1920 Christmas candy store photo from Liz--and yes, that is a GIANT candy cane the little girl is holding. There are more in various sizes hanging in the window on the left. Click on the photo.


And here's a fabulous video from Logan's Candies---here they are making candy canes by hand.  What an art form! Go to Homeowners With Zip Codes Starting With 12 or 13 Need To Watch This

And check this out! (5588) Turn Candy Canes Into Hearts! ❤️❤️ - YouTube

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---EverythingCroton: PART ONE--OUR FAVORITE CHRISTMAS POSTS FROM COLLECTING CANDY DOT COM
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---EverythingCroton: AS PROMISED, HERE'S PART TWO--SOME OF OUR FAVORITE CHRISTMAS POSTS FROM COLLECTING CANDY DOT COM

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VINTAGE CROTON 1983, NEW YEAR'S EVE AT ELMER SUDS BY SPECIAL REQUEST

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VINTAGE CROTON 1983, NEW YEAR'S EVE AT ELMER SUDS--by special request--A reader has fond memories of meeting her future husband at Elmers and spending many a New Year's Eve there.  And so for JJ and Duke, this one is for you: a 1983 New Year's Eve ad...Click on the photo courtesy of the outstanding archives maintained by the Croton Historical Society volunteers. Read more about ELMER SUDS grand opening in 1983 here.

The site was most recently home to JUSTIN THYME (SEE THE ROTARY FAREWELL PHOTOS HERE), re-opened as The Black Rock Kitchen/Cafe---and closed a few years ago.

OSSINING & CORTLANDT STUDENTS HELP STEPINAC CAPTURE CHSAA BOWLING CHAMPIONSHIP

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On Monday, December 16, Archbishop Stepinac High School’s Varsity Bowling Team clinched the CHSAA Manhattan-Bronx Championship by defeating Fordham Prep. The team went undefeated in the regular season for the second consecutive year, solidifying their dominance and earning back-to-back championship titles.

The championship-winning team was comprised of four standout student-athletes: seniors Brandon Phillip Linares of Yonkers and Andrew Soto of Ossining, sophomore Maxx Minichino of Cortlandt, and freshman Josiah Gold of Yonkers.  READ AND SEE MORE AT Ossining & Cortlandt Students Help Stepinac High School Capture CHSAA Bowling Championship - River Journal Online - News for Tarrytown, Sleepy Hollow, Irvington, Ossining, Briarcliff Manor, Croton-on-Hudson, Cortlandt and Peekskill

BY SPECIAL REQUEST---1944, A RED CROSS CHRISTMAS GREETING TO THE NEIGHBORS IN CROTON

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A little tidbit from The Croton-on-Hudson News, December 7, 1944 which literally crumbled on the way to the scanner. We did a lot to bring it back--and think the message was worth saving...

A Red Cross Christmas Greeting to the Neighbors in Croton. Click on the scan. (Mrs. Benjamin Griff, Mrs. Frank Grant, Mrs. Krolich) 

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1945, A CROTON CHRISTMAS AT THE LOCAL CHURCHES  https://everythingcroton.blogspot.com/2020/12/1945-croton-christmas-at-local-churches.html

ST. AUGUSTINE PARISH--THANK YOU GIRL SCOUT TROOP #2294 FOR HOSTING 2024 "BREAKFAST WITH SANTA"

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St. Augustine Parish - Ossining, New York-- A very special “THANK YOU” to our Girl Scout Troop #2294 for hosting this year’s “Breakfast with Santa” on Sunday, December 15th. A good time was had by all who attend ed. The Girl Scouts look forward to seeing all of you at their breakfast next year.

SOME CROTON BITS AND PIECES DURING THE WORLD WAR ONE YEARS, 1914-1918

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SOME CROTON BITS AND PIECES DURING THE WORLD WAR 1 YEARS, 1914-1918--CLICK ON THE IMAGES BELOW. There's suffrage issues, Croton Point, the Gardiner estate, an article about a "Patriot's Garden" by Harmon's Sophie Irene Loeb, Holbrook Blinn and other notables of "The Croton Aero Club", a robbery at the post office, etc.

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BACK ONLINE--AND BY SPECIAL REQUEST: A LITTLE HUDSON VALLEY CATTLEMEN HISTORY

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AND NOW FOR A LITTLE HUDSON VALLEY CATTLEMEN HISTORY---1927--there's John C. Gillespie of Croton and Charles V. Phelps at the Point....and more. Click on the photo, courtesy of an Everything Croton Elve....