mamaroneck review 10-17-2014

October 17, 2014 | Vol. 2, Number 41 | www.mamaroneckreview.com

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By JACKSON CHENStaff Writer

After several attempts to deter pushing public com-ments down the agenda, trust-ees Ilissa Miller and Leon Potok are pledging, along-side Democratic runningmate Dave Finch to return the com-munications to the board to the beginning of Board of Trust-ees meetings.

If successful in the Novem-ber elections, the Democrats said the first order of business upon taking office as a new majority would be to change

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back the meeting order. Potok, who voted against the meeting order change on the Sept. 22 meeting, said that the current order discourages pub-lic participation and comment. After a 3 to 2 vote at that meet-

ing, a resolution was officially passed pushing the communi-cations to the board portion of the meetings further down the agenda to follow old and new business items. Some resi-dents were outraged by the de-cision because they felt it was an attempt to stifle their input and participation by prioritiz-ing village business.

“The communications to the board are meant for mem-bers of the public to talk to us about anything, any type of complaint or issue they have that they think we ought to be aware of,” Potok said. “It’s as

simple as having them come in for fifteen minutes and having their views heard. Now, peo-ple have potentially no way of knowing if the meeting will be a two, three, or four hour meeting.”

On the other hand, Deputy Mayor Louis Santoro, a Re-publican who initially pro-posed the idea of moving the public comment portion of the meetings at a work session, defended the resolution that was passed to that effect.

Santoro said the purpose of

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By AliNA SuriElStaff Writer

One of the issues on the ta-ble at the Oct. 8 Village of Ma-maroneck trustees debate, was the hotly contested changes to the veto power of the Harbor and Coastal Zone Manage-ment Commission. In May, the board voted to reduce the commission’s authority to ad-visory over village develop-ment projects and legislation, although the volunteer board is still able to veto projects proposed by residents and oth-er private entities.

The issue is a contentious one in the village because of recent divides within the Vil-lage Board of Trustees. While some believe that the commis-sion had too much power for an appointed board, many oth-ers believed that, as experts on the subject, the board should at least be able to have a say in development on the waterfront to preserve the character of the village and protect the eco-sys-tem in the Long Island Sound.

It is commonly thought that the result of this vote, in which current Trustee Andres Ber-mudez Hallstrom, a Democrat, voted in line with the Repub-lican administration of Mayor Norman Rosenblum and Dep-uty Mayor Lou Santoro to re-duce the authority of the com-mission, was one of the cata-lysts for the Democrats not en-dorsing Bermudez Hallstrom’s re-election by leaving him off the party’s ticket.

In the debate on Wednesday at the Mamaroneck Town Cen-

ter, the issue was evenly divid-ed along party lines.

Republican candidates Maggie-Leigh O’Neill, Ste-fanie Lividini, and Michael Ianniello all believed that di-minishing the role of the har-bor coastal commission was the right move.

“I do not think that a board of people who are appointed should have more power than a legislative branch,” O’Neill, 26, said.

Lividini, 28, and Ianni-ello, 59, took more moderate stances, with both stating that although they believe that the opinion of the harbor coastal commission should still hold some weight in village mat-ters, the Board of Trustees should have the final say.

Budget cuts were confront-ed in the debate as well, as moderator Lindsay Feinberg inquired what cuts each candi-date would make to stay under the tax levy increase limit set forth by the state back in 2011.

The village’s 2014-2015 budget increased the tax rate by 2.5 percent, an amount which translates into a $106 dollar increase to the average homeowner’s taxes in the vil-lage. This results in a tax levy increase of 2.3 percent, which, while being the smallest in-crease in four years, was still above the state mandated cap limit of 1.48 percent.

Although running on op-posing tickets, Democratic in-cumbent Trustee Ilissa Miller and Lividini both focused on

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Westchester on high alert after Ebola scareBy JOHN BrANdi

Staff Writer

Westchester County may have dodged the Ebola bullet for now, after a patient was admitted to Phelps Memo-rial Hospital and tested nega-tive on Oct. 8, but those in the health field remain split on whether the county is prepared to deal with such an outbreak.

The patient, whose name has not been disclosed, came in contact with someone from Liberia and was admitted to the hospital located in Sleepy Hollow on Oct. 7 with symp-toms such as a high fever.

Westchester County Depart-ment of Health officials proac-tively pounced and looked to extinguish any concern among Westchester residents.

County Health Commis-sioner Dr. Sherlita Amler made it clear that Westchester was fully prepared to deal with Ebola and that dealing with these types of communicable diseases is in the job descrip-tion for these agencies.

“I think we are as ready as possible,” Amler said. “You never know what will come your way, but communicable disease is our bread and but-ter—it’s what we do.”

Others felt the hysteria was simply an overreaction.

Tarrytown-resident Amar-ree Wade, of Tarrytown, said he was initially worried a botu the spread of Ebola following the concern of a potential case in Westchester, but he believes it may have been all hype.

Rye Brook resident Nikki Weiss said she’s hopeful that a solution will be found, but in the meantime, life goes on.

“Of course I’m afraid, but it’s like any other epidemic—they’ll figure it out,” Weiss said. “What are you going to do, live your life in fear?”

The Ebola virus disease was first discovered in 1976 and is a severe and often fatal illness. The current outbreak in West Africa, particularly the areas of Sierra Leone, Guinea, Li-beria and Senegal, began in December 2013 and national

and world health organizations are calling this the largest and most severe outbreak since the virus’ inception.

Without early supportive care, the mortality rate is cur-rently 71 percent, as of press time.

The virus was thought be introduced to humans via fruit bats. Human-to-human con-tact is spread through broken skin or mucous membranes from blood, secretions, organs or other bodily fluids of the infected or off contaminated material such as bedding and clothing.

To cut the virus at its source, Westchester County Executive Rob Astorino, a Republican, on Oct. 7 called on President Barack Obama to order the Federal Aviation Administra-tion to halt flights from Ebola-stricken regions.

“New York and the federal government have an obligation to do what they can—to do what’s in their power—to mit-igate against harm. God help us if Ebola comes to New York

The Ebola virus has come into the forefront of attention as it begins to spread outside of the West African region. Photo courtesy Wikipedia

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because we didn’t want to of-fend. If we err here, it must be on the side of caution,” Astori-no said.

There are no direct flights from Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea to the U.S., but five air-ports have started screenings, as of last week, of passengers flying in from this region.

As of press time, the county has had 11 inquiries from resi-dents to the health department, including the Phelps case, over the virus since August, accord-ing to Astorino.

To test the preparedness plans that are in place, the county executive urged medi-cal facilities and staff to call

in any Ebola leads to ensure that the system is ready to deal with an outbreak if or when the time comes.

Regardless, some in the medical profession feel it is only a matter of time until Eb-ola spreads into Westchester and that staff knowledge and available equipment to deal with the virus are lacking.

Dr. Harish Moorjani, an infectious disease specialist at Westchester Medical Cen-ter and also Phelps Memo-rial, said it’s not a matter of ‘if’ it comes to the county, but ‘when.’ Moorjani said be-cause our economy is a global economy, we have become interconnected with each oth-er. Also, New York is home to two heavily used airports, which Moorjani said must see at least 115 potentially infect-ed people coming in on a dai-ly basis from where the virus originated.

However, Moorjani disagreed with banning flights and called that policy “too restrictive.” He said it wouldn’t make sense be-cause Ebola is not an airborne


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Letters to the Editor

To the Editor,The following is an open to Village of Mamaroneck Zoning Board of Appeals.I am writing about the new fence at the beach at Harbor Island Park because I do not understand

how the Village of Mamaroneck could construct such an ugly, jerry-rigged fence with no oversight by any of our boards and commissions.

We, as village residents, are required to go through a rigorous review by our board to put up any fence on our property. Harbor Island Park is our property. However, in this case, three members of the Board of Trustees took it upon themselves to vote in favor of putting up this atrocity. It was presented and voted on in one night, the April 28 board meeting. The general public had no way to provide meaningful input.

A natural body of water does not need to be fenced. As a resident since 1975, I am appalled and deeply saddened. I walk in the park all winter and

look forward to that view, now obliterated by something that looks like broken-down junk seen from a window on a Metro-North train going through the Bronx.

Why would a village on the Long Island Sound spend thousands of taxpayer dollars to obliterate its million dollar view of Long Island Sound?

Katherine Desmond,Mamaroneck

Why was this new fence allowed?Some facts about public commentTo the Editor,The irony is, when myself and Mayor Rosenblum were first elected and we opened up meetings

for public comment on all agenda items. The complaint was it would make the meetings chaotic. Now, the naysayers are complaining that the agenda should be second to the main purpose of any Board of Trustees meeting, which is the agenda items.

Note the following:1. All agenda items still allow for public comment.2. General public comment became subsequent to finishing the village agenda items.3. The past three meetings when this new policy was tried and adopted, the abstract and new busi-

ness portion was completed in 30 minutes.4. At the work session, when it was discussed and the consensus of the five members of the Board

of Trustees was that it was going to be tried, it was then Trustee Potok said for one meeting. At no time during the initial discussion and consensus of the board was going to be tried for one meeting

5. As stated at the last Board of Trustees meeting, I am willing to have one or two nights a month for a resident comment meeting were all Village of Mamaroneck residents can come to address the board about anything they want.

New York State law does not require public comment during agenda items and also is limited during public hearings, which is exactly what the five-member board under Mayor Savolt instituted.

However, Mayor Rosenblum and I changed that meeting procedure and the public participation is allowed on all portions of the meeting.

The complaints we are witnessing now, ironically, are from the same faction that complained when Mayor Rosenblum opened up the meetings.

The democratic process is alive and well at Village of Mamaroneck Board of Trustees meetings, and the last thing we want to see is abuse of the democratic process and a lack of improvement to the meeting process for personal agendas over the best interests for all residents and businesses.

Louis N. Santoro,Village of Mamaroneck deputy mayor


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Q: Mamaroneck is a tight knit com-munity with many residents who are actively involved in local issues. Which of these issues do you believe are the most important?

A: I have a feeling that the real underlying issue is the way that the Board of Trustees meetings are run. It tends to permeate not only how deci-sions are made, but what de-cisions are made. We’ve seen the police called on a [public] speaker twice. The speaker was not disruptive, not threat-ening, the speaker was just talking too long on a subject [the mayor] didn’t like. The real issue is how the board is run. We need to maintain the friendly village that does things in a civil, respectful way that respects the input of even the people you don’t like or talk too long.

Q: A lot of the discussion on develop-ment in the village centers on poten-tial for financial growth versus envi-ronmental concerns, especially when speaking of development in the Marine

Recreation zone for private clubs along the Long Island Sound. Where do you stand on this issue?

A: Well, there’s no choice. They have to be balanced; it’s just the question of where the balance lies. I don’t have the conceived notions of what is the right decision that balanc-es the environmental impact to the rights to develop property within zoning regulations.

Q: Similarly, Transit Oriented Develop-ment in Mamaroneck has some resi-dents concerned about the character of the village changing, with higher levels of traffic and less parking resources available. How would you deal with this, if elected?

A: We have disparate interests here. You have people who have nonconforming and flood prone housing that still don’t want to lose their housing. There are huge problems in that area. But it’s going to take an open respectful and probably heart-wringing process as people have to deal with their fears about how it’s going to affect

them. I think we have to be very careful about enforcing codes that affect people’s lives and their families.

Q: In the most recent Board of Trustees meeting, the board voted to change the order of the agenda to allow communi-cations to the board to follow all of the old and new business. Do you think this will stifle public participation?

A: As far as I’m concerned, it’s blatantly an attempt to stifle. The people who speak tend to disagree and disagreement doesn’t make certain people happy. But, we need people in the village and we shouldn’t stifle the ones who disagree. When I talk to a group, I would say don’t hesitate to ask me a question. You may think your question is not important, but I can assure you that if you’re thinking of a question, four others are thinking your question. What has happened by shifting it to the end of the meeting is it has stifled the

Dave FinchAge: 72StAtuS: ChallengerPoliticAl exPerience: NoneYeArS in the villAge: Owned a home in the village for 40 years, 10 of which owned a home, but didn’t live in the village. Eight of those 10, lived in Larchmont, and two in Indonesia.occuPAtion: RetiredPArtY AFFiliAtion: DemocratenDorSementS: Democratic PartyFAmilY: Wife Leslie, daughter Jennifer, son-in-law Michael, granddaughter MaleecommunitY involvement: Longtime LMC-TV camera man, all-around volunteer for At Home on the Sound, board of treasure at United Nations Association, Westchester Chapter, member of an assessment committee for The United Way

Dave Finch. Photo/Alina Suriel

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Q. Mamaroneck is a tight knit com-munity with many residents who are actively involved in local issues. Which of these issues do you believe are the most important?

A. I definitely think that flood-ing is still our most impor-tant issue. We have the Army Corps. Of Engineers project in our forefront and I’ve been hearing about it a lot on my boards over the years because I still remember in 2007, and I remember this as the date it started, because Mamaroneck got really slammed in the past 7 and-a-half years. I still re-member seven years ago get-ting off I-95 on North Barry and Mamaroneck Avenue and seeing the Army with their tanker trucks there. That is an image I will never forget.

Q. A lot of the discussion on develop-ment in the village centers on poten-tial for financial growth versus envi-ronmental concerns, especially when speaking of development in the Marine Recreation zone for private clubs along the Long Island Sound. Where do you stand on this issue?

A. While I am in favor of de-

velopment, I don’t mean put super stores and malls and giant buildings along the waterfront or in any area that it would be an eyesore and not belong. I think we need to be cautious, we need to be smart about what we’re putting in where, and to go along with any of the zoning and codes as long as we adhere to being smart about it. And as long as we are sensitive to the nature, the environment around the water and sensitive to our neighbors.

Q. Similarly, Transit Oriented Develop-ment in Mamaroneck has some resi-dents concerned about the character of the village changing, with higher levels of traffic and less parking resources available. How would you deal with this, if elected?

A. To put up residential con-dominiums or building for younger people to be able to stay in the village is very ap-pealing because with the price of homes, who can stay now? And the price of taxes, who can stay? We need to keep our people able to live there too, and in order to do that we’re going to have to give a little,

and with this TOD study I think it’ll help us give a little and...listen, parking is always going to be our problem. There are worse problems to have. It means that people are coming. It means that we’re filling up, so it’s a good problem to have.

Q. In the most recent Village Board of Trustees meeting, the board voted to change the order of the agenda to hear communications to the board after all of the old and new business has been settled. Do you think this will stifle pub-lic participation? Explain.

A. The good thing is that the public has a chance to speak. For prior administrations, they didn’t have a chance to speak. It wasn’t until Mayor Rosen-blum and Deputy Santoro were elected to office that the pub-lic was actually given the op-portunity to make comments. That’s what I think a lot of people are forgetting. I don’t think it’s going to stifle par-ticipation at all, but if I was on the board, and when I am on the board, if this continues to be an issue I would seri-

Stefanie lividiniAge: 28StAtuS: ChallengerPoliticAl exPerience: NoneYeArS in the villAge: Seven-and-a-half yearsoccuPAtion: Consultant for a financial servicePArtY AFFiliAtion: Registered Democrat, running as a RepublicanenDorSementS: Republican, Conservative and Independence partiesFAmilY: Two younger brothers, mother works as an accountant on Mamaroneck AvenuecommunitY involvement: Volunteer on Mamaroneck Budget Committee, Traffic Commission, treasurer of Palmer Terrace Co-op board.

Stefanie Lividini. Photo/Alina Suriel

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By AliNA SuriElStaff Writer

Residents of the Town of Mamaroneck will find it easier to get information about their community with the launch of the municipality’s new website.

The site went live late last month and includes brand new features which make it easier to navigate. A “Resident Ser-vices” tab on the front page takes users to a menu of the town’s most vital pages, re-ducing the amount of time spent clicking through unnec-essary pages by connecting citizens directly to information which pertains to their con-cerns. A townwide calendar makes certain that fundraisers and events do not conflict with other functions or gatherings.

The streamlined methods of delivery are not the only no-table modifications.

A new page explaining the town’s sustainability efforts works to bring the populace information on how to get in-volved. The page is in its in-fancy and will be developed

Town website modernizedas time goes on, but currently, it contains links to the super-visor’s email address and the town environmental informa-tion page on Facebook. These are meant to direct interested parties to outlets which will allow them to actively partici-pate in sustainability initiatives alongside elected officials.

Most involved with the implementation of the new site agree that it will be an im-portant resource to adapt the town to increasingly digital surroundings.

Town Supervisor Nancy Seligson, a Democrat, said the change was a necessary shift.

“We needed more flex-ibility in the website, it was becoming more and more a communication tool,” she said. “When towns first cre-ated websites they were very rudimentary, and now, more and more they are the primary source of information.”

Stephen Altieri, the town administrator, told the Review that the focus of implement-ing the new website was to strengthen lines of communi-

cation between residents and town officials, comparing the services to New York City’s 311 hotline.

“We will be able to access inquiries easier and it’ll also be easier to get out informa-tion,” said Altieri. “It’s a great communication tool for the town, so it does make our jobs a little easier.”

The site’s update had been on the town’s agenda since earlier this year, with town officials signing a contract with a website provider in February. According to Al-tieri, the previous site, al-though functional was out-dated and representative of the technology available five or six years ago.

“It wasn’t a problem, but it’s like when you buy a new computer and it’s faster and gives you more information,” he said.

Sustainability Coordina-tor Andrea Grenadier, who also serves as assistant to the town supervisor, will now also oversee the new website as well. Her new duties include,

making sure all information on the website is up to date, contacting those responsible for replacing old information flagged for removal, and deal-ing internally with questions of town officials on how to use the site.

The Town of Mamaroneck’s new website is more functional after undergoing a complete overhaul. Photo courtesy townofmamaroneck.org

“I think that in today’s day and age it’s really important to have an open government and this website really allows for an open and honest, better form of governance overall,” said Grenadier said. “You can see your elected official

when you go on the website and it helps make an impor-tant connection.”

The town’s website can still be accessed at townofmama-roneck.org.

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communications to the board.

Q: Are you concerned with the admin-istrative leadership in Village Hall due to recent missteps by the managerial staff, i.e. Jefferson Ave Bridge’s ongoing repairs, numerous lawsuits against the village and instability in the Building Department?

A: This is inside baseball; I haven’t been close enough to the game to really assess what’s going on. It’s well known that the village depart-ments do a lot of local hiring. The people who are hired are inevitably related to other people who are already hired. I don’t know if they have an-nual performance reviews and performance against what standard. I get the impres-sion that the village manager has not been able to be inde-pendent and strong enough to withstand interferences. I do not know this for a fact, but it is the kind of situation where it weakens the strength of the village manager when his department heads and em-

ployees go to Fourth of July parties with each others’ fami-lies. That’s not a true corporate structure where the boss is in charge. I think that goes to the part of the essence of this am-bivalence within the way the village is managed.

Q: What do you think are some of the advantages and disadvantages of your status as the Democratic newcomer in this election?

A: I’m the newbie, that’s the disadvantage. When Leon [Potok] or Ilissa [Miller] ask questions, they talk from in-side baseball. They were there at the game, they know the details, they know who said what to whom and what was passed. I don’t know these, so I’m coming up from a learning curve. Theoretically, I could bring a fresh view, I have my own view and our back-grounds are divergent and that tends to influence the precon-ceived notions that we bring. My international background does, I hope, give an innate sensitivity to what has been the village’s biggest strength

and biggest weakness: diver-sity. People don’t want to talk about the weakness of diver-sity, but there is.

Q: What are some of the downsides of diversity?

A: When you have a common cultural, social, maybe reli-gious background, your con-cerns and interests are within a fairly narrow box, but when you add the diversity, it be-comes huge. So it’s harder to have these conversations when often assumptions you might make about what the other person’s interests are, are wrong. How could I really appreciate the fears of a fam-ily that has lived for years in housing that doesn’t conform to code? It’d be presumptu-ous of me to say I really un-derstand it; that makes the dialogue very difficult. The downside of diversity is it makes the conversation much more difficult and the matters have to be dealt with much more sensitively.

-Reporting by Jackson Chen

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ously consider people’s reac-tions and opinions on this. The goal of the meeting, and what people don’t always realize, is to get through the agenda, so the Board of Trustees should be able to do that.

Q. Are you concerned with the admin-istrative leadership in Village Hall due to recent missteps by the managerial staff. ie Jefferson Ave Bridge ongoing repairs, numerous lawsuits against the village and the instability of the Build-ing Department?

A. On the side of the building department, you know, I said this at the debate, too, I wasn’t privy to any personnel issues that were had beforehand. Things were brought up by the Democratic Party to have con-sultants come in to perform an assessment. I don’t think that’s necessary. I couldn’t disagree with that more. I think paying a consultant is just frivolously

spending money, and why should we spend more money for someone else, who lives someplace else, who knows other people, to come in and to have to pay for a learning curve, if we ever get up that curve, to try and give us some form of an assessment on our village. I disagree with that. I think if we were going to do an assessment, and there should be an assessment for all department heads, not just the Building Department, I think it would help to do a lot, and to make sure what we need is being accomplished on an efficient basis. But I think those people who should be doing the assessments are the people within our four walls in Mamaroneck and the lo-cal people who work for us. I think we are the ones who know ourselves better, know our employees better and know our village better. So, I don’t see a reason to throw

money at people who don’t know us, for no reason.

Q. You are a registered Democrat, but are running on the Republican ticket for this election. Can you explain what was behind that decision?

A. We’re the Village of Mama-roneck, we’re not the United States of America. I’m not making capital punishment decisions or abortion rights. I’m not there. I’m worried about Mamaroneck, so I don’t think that whether you’re a Democrat, Republican or anything in between, I don’t think that form of politics re-ally has a place in local gov-ernment. I think local govern-ment is what’s best for your town and village, leave all that other stuff to the bigger guys. I couldn’t be happier to run [with] who I’m running with, on the ticket that I’m running on.

-Reporting by Alina Suriel

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Murder, Madness, Mayhem and PoeAs the month of October

looms close, one must con-sider that Halloween is right around the corner. In Westches-ter County, this can only mean that we will be visited once again by the spirit of Edgar Al-lan Poe. Such a visitation would not be possible were it not for the willingness of Frank Con-nelly, a reference librarian at the Larchmont Public Library, to allow Edgar to enter his mind and body such that Poe assumes full control of Connelly’s being.

This is set to happen again this year on Thursday, Oct. 30, commencing at 7 p.m., of all places in the Larchmont Pub-lic Library. At that hour, Frank Connelly will stand stock still, look up to the skies, take a deep breath and when he again opens his eyes to look upon the audience, it will be Edgar Al-lan Poe gazing at them.

As frightening as it may seem for the mind and body of a living person to suddenly be inhabited by one long dead, consider that Poe’s sole purpose in the exchange is to subjugate fear and mayhem on an other-

wise unsuspecting public. Poe’s stories are etched into the clas-sic American lexicon of litera-ture with many of those works deeply themed in the macabre. Poe could write about murder in such detail that one could mistakenly think Poe had com-mitted such acts himself, while not the case Poe with such de-tails will scare the wits out of anyone who attends, even the most steady of adults.

Throughout many of his sto-ries it would be easy to assume that the author suffered from a dark madness of his own mak-ing Poe was indeed quite sane, however, public readings of his stories, especially when read one day before Halloween, have been known to create a mayhem unlike any other

To even begin to understand the how and why of Poe’s annu-al occupation of Connelly, one must consider the contrasts and similarities between those of Poe and those of Connelly. Both Poe and Connelly were born in the United States, though miles from each other. While Poe was born in the year 1809,

Connelly’s actual date of birth is shrouded in mystery. The li-brary has an archival collection of photography featuring Con-nelly dating back to the Ameri-can Civil War, however the au-thenticity of this collection has never been confirmed. Poe was one of the earliest practitioners of the short story while Con-nelly has spent years advocat-ing for a shorter workweek. Poe was the first American writer to actually earn a living from his writings and Connelly, after re-searching the quality of life that Poe was able to afford, decided to become a librarian.

Yet for all of this, Connelly and Poe appear to be on reason-ably good terms. Connelly will-ingly gives up his countenance and Poe eagerly takes over. Though Poe could write about murder in the greatest detail and bring readers willingly into the realm of the macabre, Connelly eschews violence and would far rather spend his waking hours laughing at a good joke. De-spite the reasonably friendly relationship, Connelly reports that he is glad that Poe only vis-

its once per year. “If Ed were to visit more frequently, I fear that he would become like the bad relative who never leaves. And because there’s only so much room in the inn I would not like to clean up after him”, said Connelly.

For this year’s program, Poe and Connelly will read “The Cask of Amontillado,” “The

Masque of the Red Death,” “The Tell-Tale Heart” and “Annabelle Lee.”

Frank Connelly’s annual channeling of Edgar Allan Poe has fast become one of the pre-mier celebrations of Halloween in Westchester County. Sure, Sleepy Hollow has its Ichabod Crane and Croton-on-Hudson has its annual Blaze. Neither

of those events can boast of the supernatural taking over of a lo-cal, living reference librarian. Frank Connelly as Edgar Allan Poe is an event for adults not to be missed.

For more information about this or any of the other pro-grams offered by the Larch-mont Public Library, visit larch-montlibrary.org. (Submitted)


Collected at the Village of Mamaroneck Police Department on Friday, Oct. 10 at 4:45 p.m.

Sept. 10At 1:50 a.m., a party was arrested on Halstead Avenue and transported to police headquarters for driving while their insurance was suspended.

Sept. 11Police responded at 10:50 p.m. to a report of a dispute on Waverly Avenue between two Hispanic males, one possibly carrying a gun. The parties were gone on arrival.

Sept. 13At 9:22 p.m., police responded to a report of a minor hit and run on Waverly Avenue. The caller said that an unknown vehicle knocked off the mirrors of two vehicles and fled northbound on Mamaroneck Avenue. Police were unable to find the vehicle after canvassing the area.

Sept. 17Police called for EMS and the fire department after responding to a 7:10 p.m. vehicular accident call involving a pedestrian on Palmer Court. An 18-year-old female was trapped under a vehicle and later taken to the hospital with abdominal injuries.

Sept. 22A call was made to police at 7:25 a.m. about an unknown person who entered a property on Mamaroneck Avenue and took construction tools valuing around $2,800.

Sept. 23Police responded to a call made at 10:04 a.m. on Halstead Avenue about an unknown person stealing landscaping equipment valued around $1,600.

Oct. 3At 9:24 p.m., a police officer arrested a 31-year-old male from Staten Island, who was driving on Mamaroneck Avenue while intoxicated and without a license.

Oct. 4Police responded to a call at 7:39 a.m. about an unknown person entering a location on Cove Road and crashing a maintenance cart into a fence, damaging both in the process. The incident is currently under investigation by police.

Police arrived to East Boston Post Road at 9:54 p.m. to respond to a call of a dispute between two employees. A 26-year-old male was arrested and charged with assault in the third degree for striking a 46-year-old male in the face and causing a laceration. The defendant was released on recognizance, but due back in village court on Oct. 9.

Oct. 8Police responded to a call at 9:31 p.m. on Wood Street about a residential burglary. It is currently under investigation by police.

virus. Moorjani said it would be wrong to isolate ourselves now and “turn our backs on those who are dying” in Africa.

“Someone shows up with a fever, flu—it’s going to hap-pen—the question is, ‘is it a real case?’ and second, ‘are the hospitals prepared?,’” Moorjani said. “I think the [Centers for Disease Control] has not done enough in this situation and [it has] not taken the input of local hospitals and individual situa-tions [into consideration.]”

Moorjani said he isn’t wor-ried about the medical system, as that will remain in place. But he is concerned about the

staff and the lack of education that’s available on the virus. Moorjani said the CDC has to correct some of its missteps and distribute to staff at medi-cal facilities more comprehen-sive information.

Moorjani is hosting a pub-lic forum on Ebola, after press time, at Phelps Memorial Hos-pital auditorium on Friday, Oct. 17 at 8 a.m.

Zenei Cortez, vice president for the National Nurses United union, said a nationwide sur-vey, conducted last month, polled nurses from the union’s 185,000 members, across 750 facilities in about 46 states to see if they were prepared to deal with an outbreak. It

found that, by and large, 70 percent of nurses reported that there was no open dialogue or education about the virus and 30 percent reported that they lacked the equipment, such as goggles and face shields, at their facility to deal with an outbreak.

Caren Halbfinger, West-chester’s director of public health information and com-munication, and Dr. Ada Huang, deputy commissioner of the Westchester health de-partment and disease control, could not be reached for com-ment, as of press time.

-with reporting by Marissa Penn


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By JOHN BrANdiStaff Writer

Although both candidates in the state Senate’s 37th Dis-trict race agree that Common Core is a failed policy, neither one will now be running on the recently created Stop Common Core Party line.

The Republican challeng-er, Joseph Dillon, has been dropped from the line after many signatures on his petition were deemed invalid.

The line was launched ear-lier this year by Republican County Executive Rob Astori-no in an attempt to gain another line for Republicans to run on.

According to Brian Hegt, campaign manager for state Sen. George Latimer, the line was also created to capitalize on voter anger over the state’s rollout of stricter, nationalized education standards. Although, an initiative pushed within New York by Gov. Andrew Cuomo, a Democrat, Latimer has been opposed to Common Core since its rollout back in 2010.

The Common Core State Standards Initiative is a na-tional, educational initiative that details what students in kindergarten through grade 12 should know in English and mathematics at the end of each grade. New York, along with 43 other states, agreed to adopt Common Core in 2010 to be eligible for grant money under President Obama’s Race to the Top.

Dillon, in his first foray at elected office, collected well over the 3,000 signatures need-ed to be placed on the ballot line, but the campaign of his opponent, Sen. Latimer, a Rye Democrat, charged that most of the signatures were invalid. Latimer’s camp claimed some signatures looked “printed on” and some came from residents outside the 37th district, which Dillon is running for.

The Westchester County Board of Elections shared this conclusion and subsequently dropped Dillon, 48, from the party line on Sept. 17.

Hegt said upon inspection of the Dillon petitions, some-thing seemed off.

“[The signatures] were clearly gathered in a way not properly explained to the vot-ers,” Hegt said. “The real prob-lems was with volume two, [It

Dillon bounced from minor party line

was] 124 pages, 90 of them witnessed by two people. It didn’t feel as if it was legiti-mate work.”

Hegt said usually “hundreds of people” bear witness to peti-tions, and he said that was the case for their petitions for the Democratic line.

Dillon’s camp said the pe-tition efforts started late in the summer, when usually the process takes months. T.J. McCormack, a spokesper-son for the Dillon campaign, said the candidate was play-ing catch up from the start. “We realized there were issues with the situation that weren’t going to be remedied with boots on the ground,” McCor-mack said. “The smart and expedient thing was to drop the whole pursuit.”

Dillon did not finalize his Republican candidacy for state office until July 18, on the last day he was legally eligible to do so, leaving him far behind his opponent on the campaign front.

Dillon will still appear on the general election ballot on the Republican, Conservative and Independence Party lines.

Dillon’s camp still charges that Latimer, 60, is responsible for the “bad policy” by pay-ing “lip service” against Com-mon Core. Latimer serves as a member on the Senate Educa-tion Committee.

Despite the Dillon camp’s claims, Latimer crossed the aisle to vote with Republicans to reject Common Core for New York by trying to block the re-nomination of Board of Regents members who were responsible for the implemen-

tation of the program. McCormack said Dillon has

his own ideas for educational reform in New York and it starts with teachers “no longer being victims” of nationalized standards of Washington. It starts with funding, McCor-mack said, and what is ear-marked for education should be kept for education.

“A prerequisite for resusci-tating the American dream in New York is fixing the educa-tion system in New York for all children,” Dillon said. “I will be tenacious and results ori-ented on behalf of Westchester students and teachers, certain-ly more so than anyone who currently reps us in Albany.” Despite opponents, both can-didates echoed the same idea on how the problems are best left to local school officials.

Hegt said Latimer wants the decision-making for standards to be kept at the local level, as school districts know best with what they’re dealing with in terms of educational shortfalls. “The underperforming districts have issues they know how to deal with,” Hegt said.

Latimer could have run on the Stop Common Core Party line, but didn’t because he felt it would only politicize the issue, Hegt said.


Joseph Dillon, the Republican candidate in the race for the 37th Senate district seat, was dropped from the Stop Common Core Party line after his opponent, Democratic incumbent Sen. George Latimer, charged that his petitions were invalid. Photo/John Brandi

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meetings is to conduct village business.

“We should conduct vil-lage business first, and then listen to the residents. We’re not censoring anyone, they still get to talk,” he said. As an alternative, the deputy mayor informally suggested holding a monthly meeting solely focused on communica-tions to the board during its last meeting on Oct. 7. Santoro said he will repeat this suggestion at a work session on Oct. 20.

“It’s a public comment night,” said Santoro. “There might be more receptive peo-ple coming when they know there’s one night for them. Even if we get one or two people, it’ll be a night where people can address the board.” Potok said he was against San-toro’s latest proposal because he has not seen why the public comment night would be any

plEdgE from page 1 more beneficial than revert-ing back to the past practice of the previous five years and having a segment for com-munications at the beginning of the meetings. “We only have four Mondays a month to meet, when exactly would he propose to add that additional meeting?” the trustee said. Republican trustee candi-date Stefanie Lividini said she will not support the pledge by Democrats, and instead was in support of Santoro’s idea of a public comment night

“I think it’s a great idea for once a month,” said Li-vidini. “This way every-one would know it was public comment night and they can plan accordingly.” Prior to the Norman Rosen-blum and Lou Santoro admin-istration, there weren’t any public comments. If the public really has that much of an is-sue with changing the order, then I think it’s something to

review when I’m elected.” In contrast to Santoro’s sug-gestion, Potok motioned to add an item to the agenda to reconsider changing the meet-ing order again and also re-open the debate to another public hearing. The motion failed after it didn’t receive majority support. The vote, as expected, went along party lines with Republicans Rosen-blum and Santoro opposing Democrats Potok and Miller. But Trustee Andres Bermu-dez Hallstrom, a Democrat, chose not to vote and instead abstained.

The defeat doesn’t seem to be deterring Miller and Potok, who said they will continue to make motions to revisit chang-ing the me-eting order.

Republican trustee candi-date Michael Ianniello could not be reached for comment as of press time.


Democratic trustees Ilissa Miller and Leon Potok, center, and fellow runningmate Dave Finch pledged to move public comments to the village board back to the beginning of meetings, if they win the November elections. File photo

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Playland season productiveBy CHriS EBErHArT

Staff Writer

Playland is trending up-wards in both revenue and at-tendance over last year.

After years of declining numbers, Playland’s attendance jumped from 390,069 in 2013 to 467,948 in 2014, a 20 per-cent increase, and revenue in-creased from $7.1 million to $8.8 million, about a 24 per-cent increase.

Westchester County Depu-ty Parks Commissioner Peter Tartaglia said, by the end of the year, Playland is expected to bring in at least $9 million in revenue. The operating ex-pense of the park is $12.5 mil-lion, which includes approxi-mately $3 million in debt prin-cipal and interest payments. Excluding debt payments, Playland’s operating budget is about $9.5 million.

Tartaglia said much of the success in 2014 was due to “excellent” weather and spe-cial promotions.

“The weather in 2013 was not good. There were a lot of washed out weekends and heat waves where it was just too hot for people to walk around the park,” Tartaglia said. “But this year, we had a mild sum-mer with sunny days, especial-ly on the weekends.”

The only major washout was Friday, July 4, which is considered the busiest day of

the summer season, but Tarta-glia said there was still a small crowd that night.

“We just lost the day crowd,” he said.

Tartaglia also specifically mentioned the reduced en-trance fee promotion, which lowered the typical entrance fees of $30 for non-Westches-ter residents or $25 for county residents to $15. He said, this promotion ran last year but only on Tuesdays and Thurs-days to pick up business on the slowest days of the year. This year, however, the pro-motion ran on most weekends and special days, according to Tartaglia, and drew customers.

But despite the good for-tune, capital improvements and upgrades at the park are much needed.

“We did well this year, but Playland needs help. The park needs to reinvent for the 21st century,” Tartaglia said. “We need dollars for infrastructure and new rides…It has taken longer than people would’ve liked, but it’s a matter of doing it once, and doing it right even if that means we need to listen to more voices. It will be well worth it in the end.”

County officials await a con-

sultant’s report, which is ex-pected to be completed in No-vember, before moving forward with any plans for the park for next year.

The consultant, Dan Bie-derman, a renowned developer known largely for his rede-velopment of Byrant Park in New York City, was hired in June, shortly after Republican County Executive Rob Astori-no’s choice to run and renovate Playland, Sustainalbe Playland, Inc., withdrew its proposal amidst a turf war with the City of Rye over jurisdictional is-sues, backlash from neighbors of the park and criticism from members of the Westchester County Board of Legislators.

In September, the Board of Legislators listened to the renovation plans for Playland from Central Amusements and Standard Amusements, runners-up to the 2010 se-lection of SPI. But county Legislator Peter Harckham, a Somers Democrat who chairs the board’s subcommittee vetting the two proposals, said Playland is in a holding pattern until Biederman re-leases his report.


HUD takes issue with monitor’s reportanalysis.

“An analysis of impedi-ments indentifies barriers to fair housing choice and would not contain determinations that purport to absolve municipali-ties of liability under the Fair Housing Act…These determi-nations are beyond the scope of the analysis of impediments and have a chilling effect on

potential claimants under the Fair Housing Act,” HUD said in its letter to Johnson.

In response, Johnson said the analysis is not the final step nor is it binding.

“[HUD’s] letter appears to misunderstand the purpose of the [Huntington] report…In so doing, [HUD’s] letter seeks to create an issue where there is none. The monitor has repeatedly acknowledged that he cannot bind the parties and has not undertaken to do so,” Johnson said in a letter to HUD dated Sept. 26.

In Johnon’s defense, Kaplow-itz called the monitor the “only neutral entity” in the process, and said the monitor’s re-port does absolve those 25 identified communities of fu-ture lawsuits under the 2009 settlement.

“HUD cannot keep forev-er and ever a microscope on these communities, and say under the 2009 housing settle-ment, that communities are forever and ever potentially in defiance of the law,” the chairman said. “I push back in the strongest terms. We are protective of those communi-ties…When they do the right thing, they need to be cleared of any problems. That’s only reasonable and fair.”

Johnson believes HUD’s letter was not reviewed by the federal Department of Justice and is asking for a “considered, unified voice” from the federal government, including HUD and the DOJ. He wants this done before setting a dead-line for the six municipalities named in the report as hav-ing exclusionary zoning to meet with him to make zoning

changes in order to come off the list.

Johnson set a deadline of Oct. 20 for the federal gov-ernment before he moves the settlement forward.

The beginnings of the settle-ment date back to 2009, when former Democratic County Executive Andy Spano agreed to affordable housing terms—

rather than face the potential of a costly lawsuit— with HUD to build 750 units in the county over a seven-year pe-riod, complete an analysis of impediments and promote fair housing practices.

But there have been twists and turns in the plot, with the Astorino administration grow-ing frustrated with HUD and refusing to cooperate. The county executive’s adminis-tration has submitted eight analyses of impediments to HUD, all of which said there is no exclusionary zoning in Westchester.

But all eight have been re-jected. Astorino, who took of-fice in 2010, said it’s because HUD wants the county to find exclusionary zoning, while HUD said the analyses have been incomplete.

Despite the disagreement, the analysis of impediments “must be deemed acceptable by HUD,” as outlined in the settlement, and since none of the analyses have been deemed acceptable to date, HUD said the county is not in compliance and therefore, has withheld millions of dollars in federal grant money.

Earlier this year, the county lost a 2011 grant worth $7.2 million. Now the 2012, 2013 and 2014 grant money—worth a combined $15.6 mil-lion and earmarked for afford-able housing and revitalizing low-income neighborhoods—has been lost and reallocated by the federal government be-fore the start of the new fed-eral fiscal year, which began on Oct. 1.


By CHriS EBErHArT Staff Writer

In an ironic plot twist in the Westchester County affordable housing saga, the federal hous-ing monitor appointed to over-see the 2009 settlement, now finds himself at odds with the federal Department of Housing and Urban Development.

Because of ongoing grid-lock at the county level be-tween the Republican admin-istration of County Execu-tive Rob Astorino and HUD, the chairman of the Board of Legislators Chairman Mi-chael Kaplowitz, a Yorktown Democrat, spearheaded nego-tiations with the federal moni-tor Jim Johnson, and the two developed a working relation-ship. Johnson did the legisla-tors a favor by agreeing to do a Huntington analysis on behalf of Westchester government, which determines if there is exclusionary zoning in a given area based on race. The Astori-no administration previously submitted three Huntington analyses, all of which were deemed incomplete by HUD.

Johnson’s analysis was re-leased to the public on Sept. 8, and since then, HUD and the monitor have exchanged let-ters filled with jagged words that needled at each other over the analysis. The analy-sis completed by Johnson, an attorney from Debevoise and Plimton who was tasked with overseeing implementation of the 2009 affordable housing settlement, said there were six of 31 communities under the settlement that have exclu-sionary zoning based on the Huntington test; the remaining 25 do not.

But HUD claimed John-son’s analysis goes beyond the analysis of impediments, a review of the barriers affect-ing the development of afford-able housing, by stating that the remaining 25 communities do not have evidence of exclu-sionary. HUD told Johnson to remove those parts from his

“HUD cannot keep forever and ever a microscope on these com-munities and say under the 2009 housing settlement, that communities

are forever and ever potentially in defiance of the law.” –wESTCHESTEr COuNTy BOArd Of lEgiSlATOrS CHAirMAN MiCHAEl KAplOwiTz, over Hud’s concerns regarding the 2009 affordable housing settlement

2013 2014 Increase

Revenue $7.1M $8.8M $1.7M Increase/24%

Attendance 390,069 467,948 77,879 Increase/20%

“INSIDE THE NUMBERS”

Rye Playland had a bounce back year with its 2014 campaign. Amidst all the hoopla surrounding the amusement park’s potential redevelopment, it benefited from strong weather and increase in marketing. File photo


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By MAriSSA pENN Staff Writer

This Halloween marks the 10th anniversary of the cel-ebrated Great Jack O’ Lantern Blaze in Croton-on-Hudson, one of Westchester’s most pop-ular seasonal activities for all ages. It also marks the fifth an-niversary of Horseman’s Hol-low, the haunted experience in Sleepy Hollow.

They’re just some of the fes-tivities that spring up around the county in anticipation of Halloween.

Both events are run by the Historic Hudson Valley, a non-profit educational organization that owns, restores, preserves, interprets and promotes his-toric landmarks of national significance within the Hudson Valley for the benefit and en-joyment of the public.

At the Great Jack O’ Lantern Blaze, located at 525 S. Riv-erside Ave., you can see more than 5,000 hand-carved and il-luminated jack-o-lanterns in a beautiful and elaborate walk-through experience.

“It’s not a performance and there are no things jumping out at you. We call it a ‘land art’ installation,” said Rob Sch-weitzer, director of marketing and public relations for His-toric Hudson Valley.

Continuing through Nov. 16

of this year, the Blaze brings fun and spookiness for everyone.

It takes place at Van Cort-landt Manor, a historic site and national landmark that was restored by Historic Hud-son Valley. The Van Cortlandts were one of New York’s most prominent families, who influ-enced many pressing political issues of the time, including Federalist and Anti-Federalist debates over the drafting of the constitution. The manor house, which is the main building vis-itors tour, was built sometime before 1732.

At the Blaze, participants can view the manor house lined with rows of elaborately carved and lit jack-o-lanterns

in a stunning, one-of-a-kind display.

In 2005, Michael Natiello, a professionally trained art-ist first began working on the Blaze. Now, the creative di-rector of the Blaze, Natiello originally started working for Historic Hudson Valley as a historical interpreter because of his passions for both history and art. It was Natiello that first developed the idea for the Blaze in concert with other staff members after having an “idea to do something differ-ent for Halloween,” he said.

Along with coming up with the creative framework for the vision, Natiello also did much of the artwork including the carvings himself, with the as-sistance of other staff.

Many of the displays at the Great Jack O’ Lantern Blaze are based on 18th century his-tory, which is the focus of Van Cortlandt Manor.

“There are pumpkins carved as if they were 18th century ceramics and a grandfather clock inspired from one in our collection,” said Natiello.

This year, a life-sized Head-less Horseman was also fea-tured in addition to a spider web made out of 106 pump-kins. There is even a special 10th anniversary cake to com-memorate the Blaze’s birth-day, which is made entirely out of jack-o-lanterns.

Putting on such an elabo-rate and sizable event takes a lot of hard work and prepara-tion. Contributors include vol-unteers like the girl scouts that come to help out the regular staff.

“I scoop and carve all of the pumpkins,” said James

Batts, an employee at the Blaze. “It’s a lot of work, but it’s great. What is there not to like; pumpkins and lights—it’s awesome.”

The Blaze grows every year. This year, it is projected that

115,000 visitors will take the tour. According to Schweitzer, the proceeds raised from the event go back into the Historic Hudson Valley’s educational and preservation programs.

Right down the road from the Great Jack O’ Lantern Blaze, just a few towns away, is Horseman’s Hollow in Sleepy Hollow. Taking place

at the historic Philipsburg Manor, located at 100 Conti-nental St., which is also a na-tional landmark and was once a working farm, Horseman’s Hollow is a 13-night interac-tive haunted attraction recom-mended for ages 10 and up.

It started in 2010 and began similarly to the Great Jack O’ Lantern Blaze—by Historic Hudson Valley staff thinking of new, innovative Hallow-een activity ideas. There was a lot of buzz about the Blaze, and word got around town that there needed to be something scary, like really scary, accord-

ing to Schweitzer. Yearly, the production draws

in huge crowds and anticipates 23,000 visitors this year.

“It’s really cool—it isn’t a generic chainsaws and people in masks haunted house,” Sch-weitzer said.

Horseman’s Hollow is set in the 1700s and all of the cos-tumes and props are period correct.

“It really has a Sleepy Hol-low feel to it,” Schweitzer said.

For both the Blaze and Hor- seman’s Hollow, tickets cost $20 for adults and $16 for children; on Saturdays, tick-ets are $25 for adults and $20 for children.


An elaborate 60-foot wide spider web containing 106 pumpkins.

A life-sized sculpture of the Headless Horsemen, Sleepy Hollow’s spookiest resident, made entirely out of jack-o-lanterns.

The manor house at Van Cortlandt Manor is lit up with bright jack-o-lanterns. Photos/Marissa Penn

A 10th anniversary birthday cake made entirely out of jack-o-lanterns at the Great Jack O’ Lantern Blaze in Croton-on-Hudson.


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Is experience worth it?

Pretty much everyone has heard the old adage that a pic-ture is worth a thousand words, but, did you know that experi-ence is worth a thousand pic-tures? Or a thousand dollars, or even more, when it comes to remodeling. In fact, some may say experience is priceless. This is especially true for those that have hired inexperienced con-tractors and found that their job had been done incorrectly or took much too much time to complete.

When people are thinking about remodeling I always ad-vise them to gather pictures of what they would like included in the plan, and to share those pictures with their designer/contractor. There is much less chance of miscommunica-tion when you can say, ‘here is a picture of what I like,’ as opposed to trying to describe something you saw, in a thou-sand words or less.

However, when you share these images with your de-signer, it’s only the prelimi-

nary step in the process. Now it falls on their shoulders to ad-vise whether or not these ideas are practical in your particular situation and, if so, make sure that they are constructed prop-erly. That’s where experience comes in. These decisions are best made by someone that has the requisite knowledge, skill and “know-how” which they have amassed after dealing with many similar situations over the years.

And, it’s not just for de-signing and building special things that you saw on Houzz.com or in Westchester Maga-zine or other similar sources. Experience is invaluable when remodeling older homes like we have in our locale. Most of the homes around us were built between the 1800’s and the 2000’s. Some of these homes were built before there were any building codes at all and you never know what you may run into. Similarly, many older homes had work done on them over the years by homeowners who did not follow standard building construction tech-niques. Common sense dictates that someone who has worked

on similar homes successfully will have a better grasp of what needs to be done and how to do it quickly and efficiently.

In Westchester, the Depart-ment of Consumer Affairs has conveniently included the year a company was licensed as a contractor at the end of their Home Improvement License number. A firm that has license number WC012345-H99 was granted their license in 1999; WC012346-H05 in 2005. Al-though this is not a completely accurate way of figuring out how long an individual has been working, an experienced contractor who worked for someone else may have just gone into business for himself, it is a handy way to see how long ago a company received their license and has been le-gally operating as a home im-provement contractor.

If you want your remodel-ing experience to be worth it, it’s worth hiring someone with experience to do it properly. Just do the math. A thousand words times a thousand pic-tures equals a million reasons to team up with a firm that has experience.

Word on the StreetWhat’s bothering you today?

“The weather—does it want to be

summer or fall?”

Hossain Ahmed, 39, New Rochelle

“People take love for granted.”

Michael Paul Liguori, 34, Port Chester

“The economy—it’s harder to get

employment at my age now. My baby will be

two years old and I just want to stay steady.”

Allen Jeffreys, 56, Bridgeport, Conn.

-Photos and reporting by Marissa Penn

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improving the efficiency of the municipal budget rather than choosing to cut munici-pal services. The village has often been criticized by resi-dents from both party denomi-nations for spending money inefficiently.

Miller, 42, mentioned the approximately $70,000 used to install the new 6-foot fence at the beach at Harbor Island Park, an expense she and her Democratic runningmate Trustee Leon Potok voted against back in April. The mo-tion was approved, however, by a 3 to 2 vote of the village board.

Lividini, a registered Dem-ocrat running on the Republi-can slate, agreed with Miller’s notion of eliminating wasteful spending. A financial consul-tant by trade, she advocated for greater adherence to the budget in general but did not offer any specifics.

“I don’t think that mak-ing cuts is always the right answer,” she said. “You have to make due with what you have...making a cut is not nec-essarily more efficient. It’s just lessening your load, but you might still not be able to get that job done, or get it done properly.”

Each candidate agreed that

they would rather choose to raise revenue than make hard cuts.

Ianniello, O’Neill, Demo-cratic candidate Dave Finch, 72, and Potok, 63, all looked to transit oriented develop-ment in Mamaroneck’s com-mercial district to stimulate the economy in the area. In recent times the village has been conducting studies on how to best utilize the area in the commercial district around the Metro-North station, with proposals to expand parking resources and provide more affordable housing still in the works.

Potok saw potential revenue from property taxes as an im-portant asset to the village, and highlighted his involvement as an incumnbent trustee on ef-forts already put forth to de-velop the commercial district.

“The key is to focus on rev-enues in terms of property tax-es from new projects, [transit oriented development] is obvi-ously one example, the indus-trial area is another,” he said. “This board, in the last two years, has put together an in-dustrial area rezoning commit-tee in order to look at what the best strategy is for that area, and not just do it randomly.”

Ianniello, vice president

of a real estate development company and chairman of the village’s Planning Board, drew from his experiences as appointee to the village’s land use board to describe how the downtown area has been changing in recent times.

“I always take a look at the industrial area as the Planning Board chair,” Ianniello said. “People have noticed the in-flux of businesses to our vil-lage...we’re trying to bring a different revenue stream into the village.”

Finch, a retired banker, mentioned how small a margin of error the Board of Trustees has to change the budget, stat-ing that the majority of mu-nicipal funds are taken up by salaries and equipment repairs which elected officials have little control over.


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Democratic and Republican candidates sit on opposite sides of the TOM courthouse in a debate sponsored by the League of Women Voters.

18 • The MaMaroneck review • October 17, 2014 SPORTS

I found myself in an odd position on Saturday night.

I was pacing the New Ro-chelle sidelines, taking copi-ous notes after each play from scrimmage as the Huguenot football team did its best to defend a perfect record.

While that might not sound like anything out of the ordi-nary given my job description, it was the team across the field that was giving me an odd feel-ing in the pit of my stomach. My alma mater, Scarsdale.

I’ve been at the Review for a while now, and I’ve seen Scarsdale teams come into town in just about every sport. But for whatever reason—probably scheduling—I’d never covered a football game in which my beloved Raiders were the enemy.

As a community reporter, I can’t help but root for our lo-

A question of loyaltycal teams. Because of my job, I am heavily invested in the success of each of the eight schools in our coverage area; even Mamaroneck and New Rochelle, who were—at least when I donned the Maroon and White of Scarsdale—once my bitter rivals.

But heading into this week’s game, a battle of the undefeateds, I was inundat-ed with Facebook messages and emails from my Raider Football Alumni Group, in-spirational words from for-mer Scarsdaleans keen to see our hometown team continue to win as they embarked on what has been our school’s best football season of the last three decades.

So I headed to McKenna Field on Saturday with at least some part of me hoping that the Raiders acquitted them-selves well. I may not know the names on the team any-more; I’ve been out of high school so long that even my

friends’ younger brothers have come and gone, but many of the coaches that I grew up competing for are still patrol-ling the sidelines for Scars-dale, a heavy reminder of my own playing days.

As it turned out, the Hugue-nots had little problem with the Raiders. After the first half, there wasn’t much hope for a comeback. In terms of the story I was slated to write, that wasn’t a bad thing. But I couldn’t help but feel for the Raiders and their fans who have waited for so long to cheer for a champion.

After the game, I got a chance to reconnect with some of the old coaching staff—guys who have given their lives to the program for the last 20 years or so. It was a bittersweet moment, for sure, but also a chance for me to re-connect with some of the men who meant so much to me in my formative years.

And given their success this

year, I may have a chance to see the Raiders again this fall, in a potential first round play-off game against a Mama-roneck team that has risen to

prominence over the last few years.

If that day comes, it will un-doubtedly be a tough one for me. Do I root for my past? Or

for my present?I might have to call in sick.

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The Huguenot defense swarms a Scarsdale ball carrier on Oct. 11. Taking in a New Rochelle-Scarsdale football game proved an arduous task for Sports Editor Mike Smith. Photo/Bobby Begun

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By MiKE SMiTHSports Editor

Area fans were treated to a playoff appetizer of sorts on Oct. 12, when Rye Neck hosted Dobbs Ferry in what would serve as a preview of a first-round Class C matchup. If Sunday’s game is any indi-cation, the Panthers seem to have the Eagles’ number, com-ing away with a 33-7 win.

Rye Neck controlled the tempo from the opening kick-off, handing the Eagles their second loss of the season and all but securing home field ad-vantage for a playoff rematch scheduled for Oct. 25. Senior running back Dom Brescia led the way for the Panthers with 234 yards on the ground while quarterback Jake Se-vean ran for 116 yards and three scores and completed five passes for 60 yards on the afternoon. Pedro Cueto added another touchdown on a 21-yard scamper.

According to Sevean, it was the physical play of the Pan-thers’ line that paved the way for Rye Neck’s success.

“The line did amazing,” said Sevean. “They were com-ing off the ball hard, they got a great push from start to finish and that’s why we played the

way we did.”Sevean, returning from an

injury he sustained two weeks ago against Bronxville, took over as the Panthers’ quarter-back this week and shined on both sides of the ball, inter-cepting a Chris Cipriano pass in the fourth quarter to dash any hopes for a Dobbs Ferry comeback.

Rye Neck coach Nick Ianello

Rye Neck’s defense swarms a Dobbs Ferry ball carrier on Oct. 12. Photos/Mike Smith

has been pleased so far with Se-vean’s emergence as a threat un-der center.

“There’s not much you can say,” said Ianello. “He’s just a phenomenal athlete.”

Both teams came into the weekend at 4-1 on the sea-son, but the Panthers’ depth proved the difference on Sun-day. According to Ianello, this might have been the Black Hats best performance to date especially on the defensive side of the ball.

“Dobbs Ferry is a good team, a perennial state power,” he said. “In this day and age, not a lot of people play de-fense and we just keep trying to play defense and get better week to week.”

Rye Neck has one regular season game left on the sched-ule and will host a 2-4 Blind Brook team on Oct. 18. They will enter the Class C postsea-son as the No. 2 seed and look to follow the same template for success against the No. 3 seed Eagles once again.

“This was an important win for us,” said Sevean. “We’ve got Blind Brook next week, that’s a game we’ve got to win, and then we’ll come back and play [Dobbs Ferry] again, and hopefully we’ll do the same thing.”

CONTACT: [email protected] Sevean runs for a score against Dobbs Ferry on Oct. 12. Sevean found the end zone three times on the day en route to a 33-7 win.

Fullback Pedro Cueto finds open space against the Dobbs Ferry defense. Photos/Mike Smith

Senior Dom Brescia breaks a tackle against the Eagles on Oct. 12. Brescia rushed for 234 yards to lead the Panthers.

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