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AVIATION STAKEHOLDERS INVITED TO AIR ISSUES ON FUTURE OPERATIONS OF WESTCHESTER COUNTY AIRPORT

Posted on July 15, 2013 by John Bailey

WPCNR WESTCHESTER WINGS. From the Westchester Aviation Association. July 15, 2013:

The Westchester Aviation Association is informing all aviation pilots, aircraft owners and members to attend a public hearing on the future development of the Westchester County Airport at the Westchester County Center Wednesday, from 7 to 9 P.M.

According to Donna Greene, of the Westchester County Department of Communications the hearing is the beginning of the process for developing a new master plan for the county airport. She said it is a first step in the process of addressing current and future Westchester aviation operations to bring airport issues into the 21st Century, since the last master plan was created in 1987, 26 years ago.

The Westchester Aviation Association statement to its members says:

If continued access to Westchester County Airport (HPN) is important to you as either a General Aviation or Business Aircraft user, then your attendance at the Westchester County Airport Master Plan hearing on July 17th. is critical.
This may be your only chance to affect the outcome of the HPN Master Plan and more importantly, the survival of a viable Runway 11/29.
Please attend this meeting and give your opinion. Your participation will make a difference and we appreciate any help and support.
If you have any additional question please contact John Johnston, WAA President at: 917 817-392, or Milt Hobbs WAA Vice President at: 914 289-4861.

Ms. Greene told WPCNR she is unaware of any specific issues involving runway 11/29 of any nature. She said she was going to have an internal briefing on it at 3 P.M.

Notice of Public Hearing

The Westchester County Department of Public Works and Transportation will hold a public meeting on July 17, 2013 from 7:00 to 9:00 p.m. at the Westchester County Center on the Westchester County Airport Master Plan process being conducted in accordance with the requirements of Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) guidance.

The Master Plan process is now in the information gathering stage and this meeting will introduce the public to the process.

Attendance at the July 17th meeting is encouraged as the public’s participation in the process will be valuable to help guide the preparation of the Airport Master Plan.

Click here for more information on the Westchester County website

WHITE PLAINS WEEK FOR JULY 12 NOW ONLINE!

Posted on July 12, 2013 by John Bailey

PETER KATZ, JOHN BAILE AND JIM BENEROFE REPORTING

PETER KATZ, JOHN BAILEY AND JIM BENEROFE REPORTING TONIGHT ON

CASS CIBELLI AND THE REPUBLICAN SLATE.

THE OAKLAND BAY BRIDGE DELAY.

POLICE OVERTIME BLOATS–CITY SHOOTS SELF IN FOOT.

THE REBELLION ON THE GREENWAY– SECESSION NEXT?

THE BEFORE I DIE BOARD.

AND MORE!

SEE THE ALL NIGHT NEWS BOYS–MORE ALIVE THAN LIVE AND LOCAL.

ON THE INTERNET AT

www.whiteplainsweek.com

IMPORTANT: In this week’s program, the Claudia Murphy who is running for Common Council on the Republican Common Council Slate was confused with another person, due to the Republican Party failure to provide background information as requested by e-mail and telephone by the producers a week ago.

Claudia Murphy is the owner of Happy Paws Pet Sitting, Treasurer for the Carhart neighborhood association, and president of the Live Oaks condominium board of managers. She was very active in the fight against the proposed detox center on Dekalb Avenue and quite vocal at the public hearings regarding this project.

Letter from Cass Cibelli: Taxes Outrageous. Mayor has lost his way.

Posted on July 11, 2013 by John Bailey

Dear Mr. Bailey,

What an honor it is to have been nominated to run for mayor of White Plains. Moreover, my running mates, Anne Marie Encarnacao, Claudia Murphy and Carlo Albanese, respectively, each brings a unique White Plains’ experience while clearly unifying on an indelible message:

White Plains can no longer function under one party rule. Our ticket has independent minded men and women, democrats and republicans alike; each uniquely qualified to lead. A true bi-partisan ticket!

At the turn of the century, my wife Patricia and I chose to settle and raise our family here because there was a sense of hope; a sense that economically we could live here and grow. Well, we’re certainly living here and growing now with two beautiful grade school children.

That our taxes grow just as our children do is outrageous.

Leadership is borne out of vision and vision is focused when input to that vision is honest and trustworthy.

Currently, my opponent, Mayor Tom Roach, nevertheless a gentleman, has lost his way.

He relies on his party patrons to sustain him, to guide him and fails to map out the future of the City.

Yet, when we look around, growth has stalled, shoppers are leaving in numbers and morale amongst police, fire fighters and DPW workers is at an all time low. I know this for a fact because we talk.

When we’re mayor, fiscal responsibility will be the first order. Depts will not spend their budgets down like DPW currently does.

DPW spends its entire budget in the 3rd quarter, recently squandering $200,000 on unneccessary curbing and an acre of trees!

Between this and a confounding $300,000 on a bike lane to nowhere, Mayor Roach wasted $500,000. And this is only the beginning. People lost their jobs at DPW. It doesn’t have to be this way.

Another $20,000 to survey the Greenway! We have people in our government who do such work as part of their jobs! There’s more.

The purpose here is to say thank you for trusting us with this honor to bring a campaign to the people that is framed in trust, honesty and competence. We plan to campaign on our merits and vision, where every citizen, every neighborhood matters.

My promise as Mayor is to offer citizens a monthly forum to address the mayor and commissioners on the citizens’ turf, without the limits currently imposed at City Hall.

The People’s Forum shall open the doors to government and render an elected body who is accountable to the people; not an elected body which currently is smug, entitled and aloof leaving an inaccessible path to City Hall.

My best regards,

Cass V. Cibelli

Candidate for Mayor

County Clerk: Jump in Foreclosures a Wake-Up Call for Homeowners to Get Help

Posted on July 11, 2013 by John Bailey

WPCNR REAL ESTATE NEWS. July 11, 2013:

Timothy Idoni, Westchester County Clerk, told WPCNR that his office announcement of the rise in new foreclosure filings the first six months of the year did consist of many filings of what he called “clean paper foreclosures” on homes previously served with foreclosure notices which were invalidated for incomplete paperwork by 2011 government rulings stopping banks’ practices of “robo-signings” which started a wave of attempted foreclosures in 2008-9.

However, in his talking with the county court about the new foreclosure notices, Idoni said there were quite a few new foreclosures, too, not just reservings. He said the intent of his announcement was to urge homeowners on verge of foreclosure, served with foreclosure notices to seek help from organizations like Westchester Residential Opportunities who could advise them how to work out arrangements to keep their homes.

Idoni did not have a ratio of how many fresh foreclosure filings there were as opposed to filings involving previous attempts at foreclosure.