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 MAIN STREET JOURNAL.From Benjamin Boykin, County Legislator, District 5. March 22, 2022:
The City of White Plains and the White Plains Business Improvement District (WP BID) have secured “Harriet Tubman – The Journey to Freedom” sculpture for display in White Plains.
The sculpture will be placed in Renaissance Plaza (aka Fountain Park) for public viewing from April 1 through June 30. This location in the heart of downtown White Plains ensures the sculpture will have high visibility and will be easily accessible to the public.
The City and the WP BID will create and promote a calendar of programs and events to highlight the sculpture’s presence. This calendar will include City and BID-sponsored events, as well as a number of programs and events sponsored by community organizations, such as:
An outdoor showing of the Movie, Harriet, on Court Street on Saturday, May 21
A tribute concert to Harriet Tubman in Renaissance Plaza on Wednesday, June 22 featuring the Sounds of A&R aka SOAR, an evening of Soul, R& B, Gospel and Jazz
The annual Juneteenth Parade and Festival sponsored by the White Plains Juneteenth Heritage Committee on Saturday, June 11
The 9 foot high, 2,400 lb. bronze sculpture was created by artist Wesley Wofford of North Carolina. Originally commissioned for a private client, the sculpture has more recently been made available to the public and has traveled to a number of locations around the United States.
Frank Cavaliere. (Photo Credit, McHoul Funeral Home, Inc.)
WPCNR MILESTONES.From Greenburgh Town Supervisor Paul Feiner. March 21,2022:
The Town of Greenburgh has created a GoFundMe page to support the children of Frank Cavaliere. The page is at: https://www.gofundme.com/f/cavalierechildren
Donations may also be mailed to “LISA CAVALIERE” and mail to: GreenburghPolice Department, c/o Jared Rosenberg, 188 Tarrytown Road, White Plains, NY 10607. Make checks payable to “LISA CAVALIERE”.
Frank was a dedicated and well-liked Greenburgh Police dispatcher for almost 29 years. He passed away on February 5, 2022 due to Covid.
Because of the overwhelming number of department members out sick due to the Omicron variant of Covid-19, Dispatcher Cavaliere filled in for an additional 8 tours between December 25th and 31st, for a total of 57.25 extra hours in overtime.
During this time dispatcher Cavaliere was exposed to employees who had subsequently tested positive for Covid-19.
Frank has two children, his daughter Ashley (14) and son Zackary (11). He loved listening to Ashley sing and play keyboard, and he loved playing and watching football with Zackary. On his days off from work he would do Bible study with his family. Frank loved God with all of his heart.
The last text Frank sent to his wife before being placed on the ventilator read: “Remember how the true God works. James 1:16-18 and John 1:13.”
Funds raised will be used to support the children. His wife Lisa will oversee the donations to make sure that every dollar raised will be put to good use for them, and to help pay for future education expenses.
Frank was a dedicated public servant.
As a police dispatcher he made sure that those who needed services of our Greenburgh police department received them. His efforts saved many lives. He was always available to help the police when they needed his assistance – in the two weeks before becoming ill with Covid he worked well over 100 hours, pulling double shifts most days, and sometimes averaging only four hours of sleep.
He lived an hour away from work. But, always put the town and our residents first. On December 31st he returned home from work and was coughing violently. He was admitted into the hospital on January 8th, and placed on a ventilator on January 23rd. His kidneys failed on January 25th, and on February 5th at 9:30 P.M., he entered the kingdom of Heaven.
Frank always put others first. He put his own life at risk to work during this pandemic.
He took calls from others who were affected by Covid who may have survived the virus that ultimately took his life. He did so to support his children and to make sure all their needs were met. He is no longer here to do this.
Please show your appreciation by making a donation to Frank’s family so his children can have a good life. We also hope that his family (wife and children) will be comforted knowing how much Frank meant to the Greenburgh community.
WPCNR CORONA VIRUS MONITOR.From the New York State Coronavirus Tracker. Analysis by John F. Bailey. March 20, 2022:
In the second week back from the winter vacation, the traditional time those who can take short vacations, and students socialize, Westchester County new infections of covid rose to 890 new persons testing positive during the week of March 13 to Saturday March 19.
This figure is up 53% from the 582 new infections March 6 to 12. Prior to last week, Westchester had diminished new cases 10 consecutive weeks.
The 890 new persons testing positive for covid meant that Westchester averaged 127 new persons a day testing positive last week. Two weeks ago, Westchester reported 754 cases for the week of February 27 to March.
Those 754 cases spread new covid cases to 1 and a half other persons by Saturday the 19th ( 890 divided by 754).
At this rate, Covid is slightly gaining in infecting. It may not be more contagious, or maybe it is, or maybe the relaxed atmosphere — more socialization by young persons on vacations from school, or relaxed socializing by adult in restaurants, due to March Madness. There is always the possibility that this will not continue and start to go down again. It had better do that.
The spread is far more ominous in New York City five boroughs where all five combined to raise covid new positive infections 38% in a week!
From the second week when masks were declared not mandatory, March 6 to March 13, 4,740 new positives were reported in the entire city, an average of 677 a day. That week New York City was experiencing new infections for the 7 days, of 381, 393, 634, 883,669,1,087 and 693 already rising
Last week from March 13 to 19 the covid surge continued to spread across the city. Last week, 6,526 persons were infected with covid a 38% increase in the five boroughs of New York from March 13 to March 19. This compared to the 4,470 the previous week, (the second week of returning to schools in New York City in an approved maskless school system) . The infection rate in New York City (all 5 boroughs) was 932 new cases a day compared to 677 a day two weeks ago.
Since no demographics are being released on infections, there is no way to tell whether infections are coming from the schools, the 20-somethings, 30-somethings, 40-somethings, or older-somethings. That would be important for Mayor Eric Adams to know. I am sure this is known to the authorities, but the public should know, too.
The Nassau-Suffolk counties are not as infected with new covid cases, so it is a mystery where the new cases are coming from. Nassau and Suffolk Counties have infection rates of 2% and 1.7% average, and averaging about 200 cases a day, compared to hundreds of cases in each county in February this year and thousands of cases in each county in January of this year. The present rise is not covid carelessness in Nassau and Suffolk Counties this time.
In the Westchester County Mid-Hudson Region, Ulster County had more cases than Westchester County, 198 to Westchester 102.
Westchester averaged 127 new covid positives a day for 7 days. Rockland 34 day, Orange—22 per day, Ulster County, 42 new covid cases a day; Dutchess County, 21 a day , Sullivan 2 a day, Putnam and Putnam 8 a day.
Nassau County averaged 126 new covid positives a day and Suffolk County 98.
