Hits: 0 WPCNR WATCH ON THE RIVER. From Caren Halbfinger, the Westchester County Department of Health. December 4, 2012 (EDITED): The advisory cautioning against contact with the Hudson River in Westchester was lifted today by the Westchester County Department of Health. … Continue reading
Hits: 0 WPCNR THE RECOVERY REPORT. Special to WPCNR. December 3, 2012: According to Nathan Custer, spokesperson for FEMA, in a statement to WPCNR this morning, 242,947 survivors have registered with FEMA in the 13 counties in New York for which Individual Assistance … Continue reading
Hits: 0WPCNR COUNTY CLARION-LEDGER. By John F. Bailey. November 29, 2012 UPDATED 11:25 A.M E.S.T.: Teamsters Local 813 is picketing the White Plains garbage transfer station on Brockway Place this morning. City of White Plains Sanitation Truck being waved off … Continue reading
Hits: 0WPCNR WATCH ON THE RIVER. By John F. Bailey. November 27 UPDATED November 28, 1:50 A.M. E.S.T.: The Yonkers Water Treatment Plant is still pouring 80 to 100 Million gallons of below E.P.A. standard effluent into the Hudson River, … Continue reading
Hits: 0WPCNR LABOR NEWS. From the NY State Department of Labor. November 27, 2012: For the 12-month period ending in October 2012, private sector employment in the Hudson Valley Region increased 9,400 or 1.3 percent. Employment gains were strongest … Continue reading
Hits: 0WPCNR ROVING PHOTOGRAPHER. Thanksgiving Portfolio: On this Thanksgiving, let us remember the band of hardy intrepid souls who crossed an ocean in a boat no more bigger than a large Chris Craft and settled in an unforgiving landscape and … Continue reading
Hits: 0Everything has to be just right She gets out her cook books the previous night. Makes copious notes putting together the special day That remembers the passings of our lives’ way. The little dynamo proceeds not to be … Continue reading
Hits: 0WPCNR NEWS COMMENT. By John F. Bailey. November 22, 2012 (Originally published in 2001): Someone made a big mistake this year. No one in official America noticed that Thanksgiving, traditionally falling on the fourth Thursday in November, coincides with … Continue reading
Hits: 0 WPCNR D.A. REPORT. From the Office of the Westchester District Attorney. November 21,2012: Westchester County District Attorney Janet DiFiore announced today that Vickram Bedi (DOB 07/02/74) of 38 Hollow Oak Road, Chappaqua, New York and Datalink Computer … Continue reading
Hits: 0WPCNR THE POWER NEWS. November 21, 2012: The Department of Social Services of Westchester County did not have to find either temporary or permanent housing for anyone as a result of Hurricane Sandy, the Westchester County Police reported to … Continue reading