EXCLUSIVE!
THE POWER STORY
THE PUSH FOR RETURN TO FOSSIL FUELS AND EFFECT ON RENEWABLE ENERGY GROWTH
SUSTAINABLE WESTCHESTER PROGRAM DIRECTOR DAN WELSH ON
FUTURE FIXED RATES FOR SUSTAINABLE WESTCHESTER COMMUNITIES INCLUDING WHITE PLAINS AND THE PUSH FOR RETURN TO FOSSIL FUELS AND NATURAL GAS EXPANSION
WILL RENEWABLE ENERGY SOLAR, WIND, WATER POWER CONTINUE TO GROW
| MEXICAN NATIONAL EXTRADITED TO NY AND ARRAIGNED ON 2008 INDICTMENT CHARGING RAPE AND SEXUAL ASSAULT WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. – Westchester County District Attorney Susan Cacace announced today that a Mexican national, who has been a fugitive from justice since his 2008 indictment on rape and sexual assault charges, was apprehended by the Mexican authorities, extradited to Westchester County and arraigned in County Court Monday afternoon.
Galo Herrera, 52, was arraigned before County Court Judge Sheralyn Pulver and remanded to the custody of the Westchester County Department of Correction pending further proceedings. He pleaded not guilty to all of the charges. DA Cacace said: “Justice has no expiration date. The defendant’s horrendous conduct, as alleged in the indictment, is no less shocking nearly two decades later. I am grateful to our law enforcement partners in Mexico and the U.S. who brought Mr. Herrera to answer for these charges. This multi-jurisdictional effort exemplifies my commitment to working with any and all agency partners in furtherance of community safety.” In 2008, Herrera was indicted on one count of Predatory Sexual Assault Against a Child, a class A-II felony, two counts of Rape in the First Degree, a class B felony, and three counts of Endangering the Welfare of a Child, a class A misdemeanor. Between December 2006 and January 2007, the defendant is alleged to have forcibly raped a young girl who was under the age of 13 years old. Herrera fled the jurisdiction before he could be apprehended on these charges. The case is being investigated by the Mount Vernon Police Department, the Westchester DA’s Office and the Federal Bureau of Investigation. The Westchester County Department of Labs and Research and the New York State Police Crime Lab were utilized in the course of the investigation. |
CARDINAL TIMOTHY DOLAN CELEBRATING THE 75TH ANNIVERSARY OF ARCHBISHOP STEPINAC HIGH SCHOOL SEPTEMBER 19, 2022, IN WHITE PLAINS NEW YORK USA. HIS EMINANCE WILL LEAD THIS YEAR’S ST. PATRICK’S DAY PARADE. (WPCNR PHOTO)
On Saturday, March 8, the City of White Plains will be wearing green for the 26th Annual St. Patrick’s Day Parade.
Parade Co-Chairs, John Martin, Beth O’Keeffe Cleary, Declan Farrell and Brian Mahon, have announced the selection of His Eminence, Timothy Cardinal Dolan, as the Grand Marshal.
The parade will begin promptly at noon at the intersection of Mamaroneck Avenue and Livingston Avenue and proceed up Mamaroneck Avenue to Main Street, ending in front of City Hall.
This year, in addition to our traditional Aides, we have selected David Walsh, born in Ballina, County Mayo, Ireland, and longtime White Plains resident as Special Aide to the Grand Marshal.
In addition, Colleen Wall and Westchester County Police Officer Vincent Finnegan, Jr., have been selected as the first ever, Rising Lad and Lassie. They represent the under 30-age group.
Aides this year are Paul Thomas, Jed Dorney, White Plains Firefighter Thomas Devine IV, Nancy Ryan Tirone, Elizabeth Doherty DiLullo and Caroline Molloy.
The White Plains Parade celebrates the contributions of the Irish people to humankind through their rich culture and music, their indomitable spirit, and their legendary warmth and humor.
This year’s event will feature 20 marching bands, over 12 floats and numerous community groups and organizations. For further information, please visit https://www.wpsaintpatricksdayparade.com/.
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Flu activity is finally starting to recede. What a year it has been!
New York City leads the Northeast region with an outpatient influenza-like illness (ILI) rate of 10.6%.
Massachusetts is not far behind at 10.2%, though this is a big decrease from 11.8% in the previous week. Emergency department visits stand at 8.3%, a drop of 1.8 percentage points from the previous week.
As a reminder, outpatient ILI is the percentage of visits to the doctor that are for fever and cough or sore throat. The emergency department metric is the percentage of visits to the ED that are for influenza.
New Hampshire follows with an outpatient ILI rate of 10.0%, down from 10.9% last week. The state shows the highest emergency department visit percentage in the region at 9.5%, though this represents a 0.6 percentage point decrease from the previous week.
Maine is third highest in the region with an outpatient ILI rate of 8.8%, a notable increase from 6.8% the previous week. Emergency department visits are at 7.2%, one of the few states showing an increase (+0.5 percentage points) in ED visits week-over-week.
New Jersey and Rhode Island have moderate activity levels, with outpatient ILI rates of 7.9% (down from 10.2%) and 6.8% (stable from 6.9%) respectively. Emergency department visits in New Jersey decreased by 2.0 percentage points to 6.9%, while Rhode Island’s ED visits fell by 1.5 percentage points to 4.5%.
The largest states in the region have lower activity. Connecticut reports an outpatient ILI rate of 6.2% (down from 6.8%) with a hospitalization rate of 11.6 per 100,000, representing a significant decrease of 10.6 per 100,000 from the previous week. New York state shows an outpatient ILI rate of 6.0% (stable from 6.1%) with a hospitalization rate of 14.3 per 100,000, down 2.3 from the previous week. Pennsylvania reports the region’s lowest outpatient ILI rate at 4.9% (down slightly from 5.1%), with ED visits decreasing by 0.8 percentage points to 7.3%.
There is quite a bit of variation in Covid-19 activity across the Northeast. While wastewater activity has decreased to low levels in the region as a whole, it remains quite high in several states. Severe illness remains fairly low-to-moderate across much of the region.
Wastewater activity is high and decreasing in New Jersey, Connecticut, and holding steady in Pennsylvania. In Massachusetts, activity has rebounded to high levels.
However, wastewater activity has dropped to moderate levels in Maine, Vermont, and Rhode Island, and continues to be very low and stable in New York. (Insufficient data for New Hampshire.)
ED visits are low (<1.5%) and decreased or stable across the region.
Hospitalizations are low in Maine (1.9 hospitalizations per 100,000 people) and have decreased to fairly low levels in Rhode Island (3.2), New Jersey (3.2), and Connecticut (4.1). New York held steady at a moderate 4.0. Hospitalizations remain high in Pennsylvania (8.5), but are on the decline. (Hospitalization data was not available this week for Vermont, New Hampshire, and Massachusetts.)
RSV activity is low and declining in the Northeast, with all states reporting that well under 1% of visits to the emergency department are for RSV. I expect activity to remain low until next fall.
A few common causes of colds are at or nearing their high points for the season.
Human coronaviruses look to be nearing a peak, roughly consistent with peaks the past several years tending to fall in February-March. Human metapneumovirus also is at its highest point so far this season.
This brutal norovirus season continues. Test positivity decreased slightly to 19.1% this week. Rates have been oscillating between ~15-22% since mid-December and I expect rates to remain quite elevated for the next several weeks, much to my – and I expect your – disappointment.
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Source: CDC
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