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)
WPCNR COUNTY CLARION-LEDGER.From the Westchester County Department of Communications. May 5, 2022:
Westchester County Executive George Latimer is reintroducing a community engagement program, On the Horizon, to hear from the public on the future of Westchester County Airport.
In February 2020, Latimer first launched the Program to support the Master Plan Supplement for Westchester County Airport.
After the COVID-19 pandemic put the project on hold for more than two years, Latimer is once again opening up a County-wide discussion to listen to the concerns of residents, community organizations, the business community, environmental activists and more. Together, Latimer is hoping to create a new vision for Westchester County Airport.
Latimer said: “Westchester County Airport is just one project that unfortunately came to a screeching halt with the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, but my administration is committed to completing a thorough evaluation of airport operations and its impacts, and a robust community engagement program.
“Whether you use the Airport to fly with your family to Florida, to pick up your parents who are visiting for the winter, or you use the Airport for business travel, we need to hear from you. Our goal is to engage everyone the Airport touches – our homeowners, business community, environmental groups, community organizations and more – a balance I am confident we can achieve. We look forward to having the public be an integral part of this process moving forward, and together, we will ensure the Airport evolves as a valuable, transportation resource.”
The Master Plan Supplement Community Engagement Program, called On the Horizon, includes a series of public events such as town halls. The Master Plan Supplement will focus on analysis of the Airport with respect to the physical condition of the Airport property, buildings and infrastructure, additional analysis of noise and environmental impacts and the local and regional economic impact of the airport. This analysis will be used to develop a vision for the Airport in the future.
The On the HorizonTown Halls on Westchester County Airport are as follows:
Tuesday, May 24 at 6 p.m.
Elisabeth Haub School of Law at Pace University
78 N. Broadway, White Plains, NY 10603
Thursday, June 2 at 6 p.m.
Manhattanville College
2900 Purchase St, Purchase, NY 10577
Thursday, June 9 at 6 p.m.
Mercy College
555 Broadway, Dobbs Ferry, NY 10522
Director of Economic Development Bridget Gibbons said: “The Airport plays a significant role in the economic development of the County. This Master Plan Supplement and the feedback from the business community will be vital in shaping a vibrant economic landscape in Westchester County in the years to come.”
Director of Energy Conservation and Sustainability Peter McCartt said: “Westchester County understands the importance of protecting the environmental resources surrounding the Airport. We look forward to developing a deeper understanding on how to continue balancing Airport operations and environmental concerns in the future through the Master Plan Supplement and Community Engagement Program.”
BULLETIN: NEW PERSONS TESTING POSITIVE FOR COVID INCREASED 40% TO 471 IN WESTCHESTER COUNTY YESTERDAY MAY 3 WITH 471 TESTING POSITIVE FOR COVID OF 5,476 TESTING. INFECTION RATE 8.5% ON LIMITED TESTING. THIS WEEK SO FAR MAY 1, 2, 3: 1,003 CASES.
WPCNR COVID DAILY.Statistics from the NY Covid Tracker. Observations & Analysis by John F. Bailey. May 4, 2022:
Sunday and Monday produced 251 and 281 new covid cases of 6,218 tests conducted in Westchester County (266 NEW CASES A day) indicating a pattern of increasingly growing infections now at the beginning of weeks.
The infections then as the pattern of the WPCNR COVID LOG BOOK FOR APRIL shows over the last three weeks grow swiftly Wednesday Thursday and Friday as more persons test and discover they have covid.
Why the public choosees to self-test, or come in for a test is unclear.
Do they have symptoms? Are they going to travel? Go to a party? Why test? Are they unvaccinated? Are they vaccinated with one dose? Or if you are fully vaccinated plus a booster, why test at all? When I felt I was exposed to persons who got covid, I got tested and crossed our fingers.
The assumption I make, and it is strictly my opinion is those who have symptoms from activity on weekends with persons , perhaps this means a fast fast fast ability of covid variants to spread and infect.
But let us not kid ourselves. I am not a doctor and I do not have the statistics that should be being kept on every positive-reported person daily. The question is does the medical leaders in counties across NY really want to know what can shed light on this spread. Privacy laws applying to health matters cannot take precedence, here. Information must be gathered to see if the incubation period of the posse of covid variants is the same (10 to 14 days) or is faster.
Where are the answers to the obvious questions we need to know about persons testing positive.
Those questions are, in my opinion, and I am not a doctor, just a reporter trying to help.
The only way to fight the obviously growing spread is to know how people are getting infected, why people think they might be positive, what their activities were, their ages, especially school children 5 to 18, and we know the infections in the schools are growing rapidly the last two weeks, and how sick did all persons get. In the matter of growing hospitalizations, obviously the covid infections for those hospitalized were serious. I would say the public needs to know who is getting really sick from this disease now being touted by officials as “people are not getting as sick from it.”
Questions we need to know about the new positives, I believe should be:
What were your activities the last few days?
When did you first experience symptoms, if you did ?
Why did you think you needed to be tested?
How many people did you encounter and where did you encounter them? (So contact tracing can be resumed, if no longer being done, in fact we do not know if contract tracing of the new positives the last 5 weeks of which there have been 9,632 in Westchester County alone.
Were you vaccinated? How many doses? Fully vaccinated? Fully vaccinated with one booster? No vaccinations? If child were they fully vaccinated, one shot, or no vaccinations at all.
Hospitalized, how serious and why?
Is this the second time you have caught covid?
That way you can establish a pattern of what is causing this spread. We the public need to told the truth about what is happening to cause 2,000 new infections a week in this county.
Since most persons testing are doing it at home with a more reliable test, or at a pharmacy or pop-up spot should be being closely monitored to answer questions like the ones that come to my mind as a rational reporter, if these questions are asked and info being collected we should be told the patterns.
If this information is known and is being collected and analyzed the intelligence and patterns that can be determined from these infections should not be suppressed. Medical experts information to public officials on the state of the disease effects on various segments and demographics of the now 5th Wave rolling in for a month should not be held back.
Let us assume that it is not being held back.
That would mean these questions I as a complete amateur are not being asked.
If this pandemic is now being judged over and we are opening up everything: restaurants, concerts, parades, beaches, and promoting and this is the effort of political leaders to promote that it is safe out there, let us hope 10,000 in a month in this county alone is just due persons refusing to vaccinate.
But if the leaders and health officials are wrong.
So far the laissez faire approach to socializing, masking mingling and staging giant events is not working. 10,000 cases in 5 weeks tells you that.
Through yesterday 19 Westchester Towns and Cities has over 100 cases the last two weeks and averaged 398 new cases daily, roughly paralleling the 4,615 new cases in Westchester the last two weeks. The spread of the infections are in the North, South East and West sections of the county. The highest infections are in the cities, but Peekskill and Port Chester each have less than 100 cases, 80 each while White Plains has 312 cases, Mount Vernon, 287, New Rochelle 399 and Yonkers, 692.
AROUND THE COUNTY, TOWN BY TOWN, CITY BY CITY TWO WEEKS OF OVER 100 ACTIVE CASES RANKED MAY 2, 2022
YONKERS 692 ACTIVE CASES 43 DAILY CASES
NEW ROCHELLE 399
GREENBURGH 318 ACTIVE CASES 26 DAILY CASES
WHITE PLAINS 312 ACTIVE CASES 24 NEW A DAY
MOUNT VERNON 287 ACTIVE CASES 12 NEW A DAY
NORTH CASTLE & NEW CASTLE 249 ACTIVE CASES 24 NEW CASES DAILY
YORKTOWN 241 ACTIVE CASES 12 NEW CASES A DAY
MOUNT PLEASANT 211 ACTIVE CASES, 23 NEW CASES DAILY
CORTLANDT 203 ACTIVE CASES, 27 NEW DAILY CASES
MAMARONECK TOWN, VILLAGE, LARCHMONT 197 ACTIVE CASES 11 NEW DAILY
HARRISON 149 ACTIVE CASES, 6 DAILY
SCARSDALE 134 ACTIVE CASES 15 DAILY NEW CASES
SLEEPY HOLLOW AND TARRYTOWN 138 ACTIVE CASES 10 DAILY
SOMERS 120 ACTIVE CASES, 10 A DAY
BEDFORD 129 ACTIVE CASES 11 NEW CASES DAILY
Through Monday, the 9 counties surrounding New York City reported 1,575 new cases of covid, which is 65% of the separate totals of all of New York Cty (2,437). Infections in the Mid-Hudson region show Westchester the leading county in the Mid-Hudson while Orange, Rockland, Dutchess and Ulster Counties increased each day. Nassau and Suffolk counties are growing. The total infection rate for the Mid-Hudson region is 10.5% of 6,219 tests administered in the 7 Mid-Hud counties. Theoretically to show you how significant low test numbers are, if 12,000 had been tested throughout the Mid-Hudson region instead of 6,000 you may very well would have found 3,250 positives which would be more positives than all five boroughs of New York City Monday
The infection rate of the small testing quantities is as important as the actual infection rate percentage, but it does give you a picture of how many more persons may be out there, walking around positive, but not testing themselves or coming in for a test.
