THE WORLD READS WHITE PLAINS CITIZENETREPORTER — 8,324,077 VISITS IN ONE YEAR | 2,905,611 VISITORS VISIT 8,324,077 TIMES 3 TIMES EVERY DAY IN ONE YEAR. HIGHEST ACTIVITY IN WPCNR HISTORY.White PlainsCitizeNetReporter lifted its worldwide visits from unique visitors to wpcnr.com to 8,324,077,a 1,306,419 increase in visits in one year from 7,017,658 visits to the site last year which covers White Plains and Westchester County. The 8,324,077 visits were made by 2,005,611 unique visitors who visited wpcnr an average of 3 visits a day. ON JULY 20- -2026 visitors have accessed wpcnr and made 3,072 visits an average of 1.6 visits. In the last week 33,495 individual vistors made 54,458 visits, averaging 1.6 visits. In the last month, 152,940 visitors recorded 229,338 visits (1.5 visits)

White Plains Cable Ch. 76 Goes Dark Mysteriously from 7:30 to 9 PM

Posted on March 21, 2008 by John Bailey

WPCNR MEDIA WIRE. March 21, 2008 UPDATED 9:04 PM: White Plains Public Access Television is dark tonight, at least on the Cablevision cablecast on Channel 76,. The evening’s schedule is not being cablecast for unexplained reasons. White Plains Week, the city roundup show was not shown and neither was the program at 8 PM. Only a black screen was visible with no audio. Viewers can, however view tonight’s White Plains Week on the internet at the website www.whiteplainsweek.com.

Continuous monitoring by a WPCNR staffer Friday found regular programming with audio did not return until 9 PM. Because the program schedule is cablecast by a computer, the mysterious glitch which has occurred frequently over the last year, which management had reported corrected to WPCNR has returned.

Pollak Chooses Not to Run Again for School Board.

Posted on March 21, 2008 by John Bailey

WPCNR SCHOOL DAYS. March 21, 2008: William Pollak, a member of the White Plains Board of Education since 2002, (when he was elected with Marie Valentin, in public response to the Board of Education’s secret ouster of popular Superintendent of Schools Saul Yanofsky, that was not disclosed to the city for six months), has announced to the media he has decided not to run for a third term. Rosemarie Eller whose seat is also expiring has decided to run again for a second three year term. Interested citizens wishing to run for Mr. Pollak’s vacant seat or Ms. Eller’s have until April 30 to file petitions (with 100 signatures) with Michele Schoenfeld, the School District clerk, to get on the May ballot.

Sonny Katz, Beloved City Marshal, Restauranteur, Raconteur, Showman Departs

Posted on March 21, 2008 by John Bailey

WPCNR Legacies of White Plains. March 21, 2008: Seymour L. “Sonny” Katz, City Marshal of White Plains for more than 37 years, died March 21, 2008, at his home in White Plains. He was 86 years old, and remained active in his municipal position.

Sonny Katz

1921-2008

Seymour L. “Sonny” Katz, City Marshal of White Plains for more than 37 years, died March 21, 2008, at his home in White Plains. He was 86 years old, and remained active in his municipal position.

Mr. Katz was born on June 11, 1921, in Port Chester, NY, son of Joseph and Dora Katz. He attended public school in Port Chester and was a graduate of Port Chester High School.

He served in World War II as a staff sergeant in the Army Air Corps. He was sent to the Pacific Theater of war, including the Philippines and, at the conclusion of the war, Japan. Although one of his assigned tasks was as an aircraft gunner, he most enjoyed his role as a performer for the troops, singing with an Army “big band.”

Sonny married Constance of White Plains and they had four children: Susan; Michael; Ronnie; and, Debbie.

With his wife and father-in-law, Sonny operated Harry’s Luncheonette on Main St., in White Plains for many years. Sonny also was employed at Yonkers Raceway.

In the time when the cold war still was an international issue, Sonny assumed a position with the Department of Civil Defense and Emergency Planning for the City of White Plains. He subsequently was appointed as City Marshal, and served in that position during the administrations of eight Mayors.

Sonny previously served on the Board of Directors of the Hebrew Institute.

He was a founding member of the Board of Directors of Westco Productions, the non-profit professional theater company based in White Plains. The Sonny Katz Scholarship Fund, named in his honor by Westco, has been providing scholarship funds to assist high school graduates from White Plains and Port Chester with their college studies of the performing arts.

Sonny is survived by his wife Constance, all four of his children, six grandchildren and two great grandchildren.

The funeral will be held Monday, March 24 at 10 A.M. at The Hebrew Institute of White Plains, 20 Greenridge Avenue.

Donations may be made in memory of Sonny to Westco Productions’ Sonny Katz Scholarship Fund, or The Hebrew Institute of White Plains.

Covering the Obama/Pastor Story

Posted on March 20, 2008 by John Bailey

WPCNR MR. & MRS. & MS. WHITE PLAINS POLL. March 20, 2008: We have had five nights of All-Obama and the Pastor-All the Time coverage on the news networks. Do the viewers of the news feel this story deserves as much coverage as the news networks have been giving it? Indicate your feelings in the new poll at the right.