WHITE PLAINS CITIZENETREPORTER SETS RECORD VISITS FOR YEAR 7,017,658 VISITS! 2,098,003 VISITORS MADE 6 VISITS A DAY EVERY DAY. 63,330 UNIQUE VISITORS MADE 133,730 VISITS IN DECEMBER. WPCNR AVERAGED 17,284 VISITORS A WEEK, VISITING 31,270 TIMES.

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WPCNR CAMPAIGN 2012 11:25 P.M. November 6, 2012 UPDATED 1l:47 P.M. E.S.T. November 7, 2012:

David Buchwald issued this statement this morning to WPCNR, thanking the voters of the 93rd Assembly District for his victory over Robert Castelli:

David Buchwald clinches Assembly Seat. Photograph shows Mr. Buchwald appearing on White Plains Week, the city news roundup show last Friday.

Westchester County unofficial Board of  Elections results early Wednesday morning showed White Plains David Buchwald adding to his vote margin over incumbent Robert Castelli to 2,532 votes for the Assembly District 93 Seat with 88% of districts reporting.

As reported by WPCNR early this morning. Mr. Buchwald unofficially has defeated Robert Castelli for the 93rd Assembly District seat.

This morning Barry Caro, Mr. Buchwald’s Campaign Manager confirmed to WPCNR that according to their numbers, Mr. Castelli does not have enough districts outstanding to overcome the Buchwald margin . Mr. Caro in a written statement wrote WPCNR:

White Plains Councilman David Buchwald leading Mr. Castelli 22,532 votes (53%) to 20,073 when returns stopped being counted by the Board of Elections for the night at 12:45 A.M. has clinched the 93rd District Assembly Seat. A Republican source confided to WPCNR at 1 A.M. Wednesday they did not see Mr. Castelli overcoming the margin with the districts that are left last night and this morning Buchwald’s Campaign Manager confirmed that.

In the White Plains State Senate District 37, Assemblyman George Latimer (shown here at his last debate  with Robert Cohen) has stretched his margin to 8,091 votes over Mr. Cohen, 47,862 to 39,771 with 81% of the vote counted and appears to have kept the Suzi Oppenheimer seat in the Democratic column.

In the other White Plains Assembly District (88) Amy Paulin will go back to Albany for another two year term, as she is unopposed. In the White Plains Senate District 35, Andrea Stewart-Cousins will return to the capitol, too, as she was also unopposed.

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WPCNR THE POWER NEWS. From a White Plains CitizeNetReporter. November 6, 2012 UPDATED 11 A.M. E.D.T.:

Coordination between Con Ed and its out of town utility partners continue to experience coordination problems at least in White Plains.They are ready to splice and dice and connect, but at least one contingent of angels from Georgia and North Carolina assigned to power up Ogden Avenue in the heart of the Highlands this morning lost valuable time (over an hour) awaiting a Con Ed man to supervise the operation.

The Good Samaratans from the south arrived at 7:30 A.M. according to our correspondent and did not pull out until 10:30 A.M., a three-hour delay of valuable daylight in the face of a forecast of more heavy weather coming in.

Our Highlands correspondent and Observer reports that a convoy of power restoration crews (from Townsend power in Georgia) were lined up on Ogden Avenue in the Highlands at 8:15 A.M., ready to work to power up the street, but, as observed yesterday by our correspondent, they awaited a Con Ed supervisor. Our observer reports their Con Edison “guide” has not arrived yet.

An hour later, at 9:15 A.M. when this picture was taken by WPCNR, they were still waiting “to be told where to go,” said one Townsend electrical worker  from Georgia to WPCNR, which interviewed him while sitting in the cab of his truck. Of course, this may be an isolated incident of delay in assigning crews.

Our correspondent says the crews were not standing around, he reports “they’re ready to work, but they’re awaiting the Con Ed man with a map to tell them what to do.”

Our correspondent checked back in with WPCNR at 11 A.M. and told WPCNR News the power team finally pulled out at 10:30 A.M.– a three hour delay. He had been told by crewmembers they had been sitting since 7:30 A.M.

Fairway Drive– 10 A.M. This morning.

Richbell 10 A.M. this morning

As of 11:15 A.M., 3,768 White Plainsians remained to be restored with approximately 200 reconnected overnight.

WPCNR, at  10 A.M. observed action in full swing in hardhit Gedney Farms.

An overnight dispatch from Con Edison issued at 11 P.M. last night  reported the company has restored electric service to more than 846,000 customers, or nearly 87 percent of all those who lost their power from Hurricane Sandy’s fury.

In Westchester County, the company reported 56,000 customers out of service, while approximately 170,000 customers have had their service restored.

Approximately 127,000 customers were without electricity, out of an estimated 960,000 affected. That includes approximately 2,000 out in Manhattan, 28,000 in Queens, 22,000 in Brooklyn, 13,000 in Staten Island, and 6,000 in the Bronx.

Con Edison expects to restore the vast majority of those affected by Hurricane Sandy by the weekend.

While Con Edison continues to return electricity to customers since Hurricane Sandy moved out, the company is monitoring the Nor’easter forecast for Wednesday. The expected high winds and heavy rains could delay restorations and may cause additional outages.

Here is the latest real-time county connection report by location from Consolidated Edison as of 11:15 A.M. Election Day:

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WPCNR THE POWER NEWS From Paul Feiner, Town Supervisor, Greenburgh. November 5, 2012:

There are now 6,350 Con Ed customers out of power in Greenburgh—down from over 9000 after the storm.  Con Ed has assigned 8 crews to the town today and a muni crew. There may be additional crews in the area that are not reporting to the command center.The crews will be working near schools – trying to restore power to all schools  (they are also polling places).  People who live near schools will probably benefit from the power restoration.

Con Ed has assigned a liaison to the town – someone who works at our command center. The liaison resides in the town of Greenburgh. He is also without power and has been without power for the entire week.   Con Ed has their own priority system. The town does not determine the order of the power restoration.   The Con Ed liaison is also frustrated by the lack of power in his house.

WE NEED MORE CREWS.  One of the major reasons why power is still out in many homes is because Con Ed gave Westchester communities only token help until this weekend. They had assigned most of their crews to NYC first. I have written to the NYS Public Service Commission asking them to investigate the restoration efforts. Can’t understand why Con Ed doesn’t hire retirees, licensed electricians who work for the state. Can’t understand why different crews can’t work around the clock. I’m as upset and as frustrated as everyone else –and aggravated because people, especially the elderly and disabled are suffering.

The library is open tonight till 9 PM in Greenburgh.

The Theodore Young Community Center is open 24 hours a day –as an overnight shelter. THANK YOU, CERT team for volunteering.

We have house angels offering to help out – and to provide housing in their homes. E mail me if you’re interested. pfeiner@greenburghny.com.

Paul Feiner

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WPCNR THE POWER NEWS. November 4, 2012 6 P.M. E.S.T.:

As dusk shrouded White Plains ushering in another cold night, at the 5 o’clock hour, Con Edison reported some progress on Sunday in trimming the Westchester County outages to 84,680 customers as of 5:50 P.M. 

In White Plains the customers suffering a 7th straight day has been cut to 6,932 from 7,318 as of 10 A.M. this morning. There were some houses with power along North Street south of Ridgeway, but homes on the east side of lower North Street were Dark. Mayor has confirmed as of midday Con Ed is still providing only one cut-and-clear crew.

In his daily Update issued  via telephone at 12 noon Sunday, Mayor Thomas Roach told residents gasoline continued to be delivered throughout the city and that the supply chain is in place. (Editor’s Note: 90 cars were lined up on the Hutchinson River Parkway Northbound at 5:15 to get gas the Hutch Mobil, and another 70 were lined up southbound…though this could be panic buyying.). Many residuents, the Mayor said received restoration of power yesterday, and many more should receive it today, he said.

He said “restoration began Friday, more than a dozen crews with approximately 35 bucket trucks have been assigned to White Plains outages today, similar number as yesterday. 110 streets have been cleared of gblockages (as of noon Sunday), 27 remain(ed) all involving wires requiring the presence of Con Ed., They still have provided only one cut and clear crew. (This was as of noon, Sunday.)

The Con Edison Numbers as of 6 P.M. E.S.T.:

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WPCNR THE POWER NEWS. An E-Mail from a Highlands Resident. November 4, 2012. 8:30 A.M.:

With Con Edison reporting 7,318 White Plains customers still out of power this morning, a Highlands resident wrote this e-mail to WPCNR: