WHITE PLAINS CITIZENETREPORTER SETS RECORD VISITS FOR YEAR 7,017,658 VISITS! 2,098,003 VISITORS MADE 6 VISITS A DAY EVERY DAY. 63,330 UNIQUE VISITORS MADE 133,730 VISITS IN DECEMBER. WPCNR AVERAGED 17,284 VISITORS A WEEK, VISITING 31,270 TIMES.

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WPCNR County Clarion-Ledger. From the Westchester County Department of Communications. May 1, 2018:

Westchester County Executive George Latimer visited First Village Coffee in Ossining today in recognition of National Small Business Week. Every year since 1963, the President of the United States has issued a proclamation announcing National Small Business Week, which recognizes the critical contributions of America’s entrepreneurs and small business owners.

At First Village Coffee, Latimer was joined by Co-Owner and Operator Luis Corena, Ossining Village Mayor Victoria Gearity, Ossining Town Supervisor Dana Levenberg, representatives of the Ossining Chamber Commerce and other small business advocates.

Latimer said: “When you see the restoration of American downtowns, you are seeing it driven by small business. Westchester takes pride in its major corporations, but it’s the small businesses of the County that employee a vast majority of our residents. Somewhere along the line a person like Luis makes a decision to make an investment – and he and his family made an investment here in Ossining. They had an idea for a business that could be successful, that employs individuals and creates a profit. We hope that he, and all others like him, will be successful and know they have a partner in Westchester County Government.”

(Editor’s Note:) Speaking on the air this morning, Mr. Latimer offered a strategy on what downtown small businesses needed to do. On WVOX Radio, 1460 AM, on his regular weekly radio appearance, this morning on the Bob Morrone Good Morning Westchester morning show, Mr. Latimer said it was important that small downtown businesses, connect more with their customers, build reasons for them to keep coming back, improve customer service and promote competitive convenience on line or through deliveries, for example, to compete with online services, and aggressively promote their online presence. He stressed that communities needed to promote the uniqueness of their downtowns to respond to the competition small businesses are facing. He noted restaurants are key components of a successful downtown retail environment.

Gearity said: “We are thrilled to see residents of Ossining recognizing there is an opportunity to open a small business here in our community – and who better than someone who really knows what their neighbors are looking for and what will succeed here.”

First Village Coffee is owned by Luis and Kathryn Corena and serves as a classic, yet unique, coffeehouse and social hub where locals and destination seekers alike enjoy specialty coffee and teas, pastries, art, music, community, and ambience.

The full press conference can be viewed HERE.

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WPCNR STAGE DOOR. Theatre After-Review By John F. Bailey. April 30, 2018:

It was a “home run” roar Saturday Night I’d never heard attending Broadway shows over the last 50 years.

Louder than Phantom, Louder than Hamilton, it was the roar Yankee Stadium gave last Thursday on Gary Sanchez’s 3-run game winning homer in the bottom of the ninth.

After the hot blooded, get-in-your-soul, get-you-swayin-in-your-seats, mirrors-and-lights-dazzlin, back-beat-jerkin’, sinuous-incandescent-shoulder-dipping, booty-swingin’, twerkin’, can’t-stop-moving discosteria  Hot Stuff as Hamilton’s and A Bronx Tale’s Ariana DeBose delivering Donna Summer’s signature hit, followed back to back with the last Donna summer hit, Last Dance, the crowd erupted with no polite bravos, or whoops, the mostly white audience roared at the top of their voices and roared and roared and roared. No obligatory standing ovation this was a roaring tribute to the near perfect music that revolutionized pop music in the Nixon-Ford-Carter years

Summer, the Donna Summer “jukebox musical,” (as Broadway snoots call it), has no boring moments; puts out the use-you, cheat-you, use-you-up music business of the 70s and brings the diva Donna Summer back to the bigger-than-life glamour figure she was and is again as LaChanze, Storm Lever and Ms. DeBose play the disco diva at different ages: Lever as the young teen growing up in Boston; Ms. DeBose in Ms. Summer’s height of her music popularity and LaChanze in the last twenty years of her life.

Call this a tribute show, a “Jukebox Musical,” but it is a lot more.

The musicians duplicate and enhance the Summer sound perfectly and more, with that big base disco beat that you remember, only better with none of the monotone of the old recordings. Their laying in the background of the signature seductive synthesizer swizzles holds the audience rapt. The relentless bases  make your heart beat keeping with the big beat, giving a cutting edge to the startling emotions in the voices  Summer’s three divas.

You get it all in Summer: the harrowing incidents in her personal life  leading to the songs she sang that became smashes because people white and black identified with them. You get the romances; the toughness of Ms. Summer taking on the record business and winning. It’s great inside stuff simplified — lifting naturally into the Summer hits her life experience created.

The Lunt-Fontanne Theatre soul was awarkended, and the classic theatre walls seemed to sway to the Summer magic.

It’s a concert. It’s a fast-moving story, a love story, a family story, that moves you and keeps you moving through the songs of our lives and is relevant for the young of today and the old who were young yesterday:

Summer keeps you moving through the songs of our lives:  I Feel Love, Love to Love You Baby, White Boys (you will love this one), MacArthur Park,  Heaven Knows,  Bad Girls, She Works Hard for the Money (Treat her right, very #MeToo), Unconditional Love, Stamp Your Feet. The hits just keep on comin’.

Travelin ‘ to New Yawk City? You want to see something that when you hit the street after it’s over you feel pumped, good, and feel 28, and are still moving to the music? Wanting to pull out your old white John Travolta suit, or get fitted for a sequined, tight-as-night gown with décolletage divine and stilettos ? Call up your Ticket-mon.

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THE WHITE PLAINS WEEK TEAM

ON THE INTERNET INSTANTLY

FROM TIMBUCTU TO SAMARKAND

PANMUNJOM TO PEORIA

FROM WHITE PLAINS NY USA

AT THESE LINKS

THE MAYER VICTORY & REPUBLICAN ABSTINENCE

INSIDE THE MAYER STORM

GERYMANDERED  DISTRICT 37 SHORTCHANGES WHITE PLAINS

JIM BENEROFE ON THE YMCA CLOSING

MILLER HOUSE GETS A MAKE OVER FINALLY

 WHITE PLAINS STUDENTS OPTING OUT OF ENGLISH LANGUAGE ASSESSMENTS DECLINES–MAJORITY IN MIDDLE SCHOOL, ELEMENTARIES LESS

GREEN ENERGY OPTION 8 CENTS A KILOWATT HOUR TO JAN 1

NEW PALTZ SOLAR POWER INSURANCE

GOVERNOR CUOMO ISSUES DEFIES ICE RAIDS

MELANIA TRUMP’S STATE DINNER TASTEFUL HIT

THE NORTH WHITE PLAINS RAILROAD STATION POTENTIAL FOR RESIDENTIAL

COMEY SELLS A LOT OF BOOKS, 

KIM JUNG-UN’S ART OF THE DEAL

JIM BENEROFE ON THE BEAUTY OF PACED, STAGGERED RESIDENTIAL DEVELOPMENTS

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From the George Latimer My Westchester Newsletter. Click on BOLDFACE HEADLINES  to read the commentary. Note: the testimony to the Public Service Commission is a link to a Lohud story about the event.

Miller House to be Revitalized County Executive George Latimer announces a plan to revitalize the historic Elijah Miller House site in North White Plains.

From the George Latimer My Westchester Newsletter. Click on “Mille

	Westchester- Opportunity Knocks CE Moderates 10th New York City Real Estate Expo at the New York Hilton, Promoting Westchester as a Business Destination.
	CE Testifies on Storm Response Latimer testifies to the New York State Department of Public Service on the utility company response to Westchester’s winter storms.
	DSS Honored at CWLA Conference Westchester County DSS Receives National Honors at 2018 Child Welfare League of America Conference in Washington, DC.
	Latimer Sits Down with FiOS1 News The CE discusses how he is attacking critical issues facing the County, including Westchester County Airport and Rye Playland.
	Operation Prom Dress and Tux Drive County Executive George Latimer announces 14th Annual Operation Prom, helping to make dreams a reality for High School students.

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SHELLEY MAYER ELECTED STATE SENATOR 

WPCNR CAMPAIGN 2018. From the Westchester County Board of Elections. April 24, 2018 UPDATED 10:50 PM EDT:

As of 10:15 Tuesday evening, Shelley Mayer the Democratic Assemblywoman has won election to complete the rest of former State Senator George Latimer’s term in the State Senate District 37.

She joins Andrea Stewart-Cousins as White Plains other Senator (District 35).

As of 10:50 P.M., Mayer  has 24,238 votes to Julie Killian’s 17,793 votes, the plurality sustaining Ms. Mayer’s 58% to 42% margin with 87% of election districts reporting.

In the other Special Election this evening, the Democratic candidate, Terry Clements holds a 53% to 47% margin in the race to fill former County Legislator James Maisano’s former County Legislative District 11 seat.

Ms. Clements apparent victory barring a surge of Freeman votes would give the Democratic Party 13 seats on the Westchester County Legislature, to 3 seats for Republicans, and 1 Conservative.

Clements currently has 2,481 votes to James Freeman’s 2,163 votes with 91% of the vote counted.

Both Mayer and Clements (if Clements prevails, and she seems headed that way) would have to run again in November to secure their seats.