08/20/09 The New Rochelle Briefing

Comprehensive News Feed for New Rochelle, NY.

• Sound Shore board has two members elected
  posted on August 20, 2009 03:00:00 pm
  NEW ROCHELLE: Robert P. Balachandran and Richard C. Gay have been elected to Sound Shore Medical Center's Board of Governors.
• Westchester launches program to control deer population
  posted on August 20, 2009 03:00:00 pm
  ... public during the fall, county parks spokesman Peter Tartaglia said. Anti-bowhunting advocate Mel Lederman of New Rochelle, who said he has attended music concerts at Ladson Park, objected to the program because of animal cruelty. 'I feel it is an ...
• Maccabi swimmers pool their talents
  posted on August 20, 2009 03:00:00 pm
  ... in the Maccabi Games because they were in his backyard and because, well, his parents wanted him to, but the New Rochelle swimmer is glad he's part of the experience. 'This kind of makes you think,' Itzkowitz said. 'There aren't a lot of Jewish ...
• Monroe College gives students close-up look at criminal justice system
  posted on August 20, 2009 03:00:00 pm
  ... such as extracting drugs from blood samples and performing DNA tests. Monroe College offers the program at its New Rochelle campus, bringing in police, forensic and legal experts to teach the students. Throughout the course, the students are taken ...
• Westchester briefing
  posted on August 20, 2009 03:00:00 pm
  NEW ROCHELLE: The victim of a midday robbery Tuesday remains hospitalized with a fractured skull, police said.
• Library to host career counseling program
  posted on August 20, 2009 03:00:00 pm
  NEW ROCHELLE: WEBS Career and Educational Counseling Service will be offering a free eight-week career counseling program at the New Rochelle Public Library this fall.
• Library to return to regular hours Sept. 12
  posted on August 20, 2009 03:00:00 pm
  NEW ROCHELLE: Both the Main Library and the Huguenot Children's Library will be closed on Labor Day weekend, Sept.
• NRPL unveils its Big Read schedule
  posted on August 20, 2009 03:00:00 pm
  NEW ROCHELLE: The New Rochelle Public Library has been selected to receive a $20,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Arts to host The Big Read in New Rochelle, which will focus on 'The Shawl,' by author and New Rochelle resident Cynthia Ozick.
• House tour to benefit medical center
  posted on August 20, 2009 03:00:00 pm
  NEW ROCHELLE: The 12th Annual Accent on New Rochelle House Tour, taking place from 11:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Oct.
• Crash takes out New Rochelle traffic light
  posted on August 20, 2009 03:00:00 pm
  NEW ROCHELLE - A one-car crash has knocked out the traffic light at the intersection of North Avenue and Quaker Ridge Road in New Rochelle.
• CBS News pioneer Don Hewitt reshaped coverage
  posted on August 20, 2009 11:44:18 am
  ... of pancreatic cancer. His journalism career began as a high-schooler working for the local weekly paper in New Rochelle, N.Y. At 20, he became a World War II correspondent. After joining CBS in the late 1940s, he directed TV's first network ...
• Don Hewitt: A life in news for a man who shaped TV
  posted on August 20, 2009 07:51:16 am
  ... meant to Hewitt was, freedom to tell stories the way he thought viewers wanted them told. He was a kid from New Rochelle, N.Y., who had formed a love for news as well as a regular-guy bond with the "Lions and Rotarians and schoolteachers and hard ...
• CBS News pioneer Don Hewitt dies
  posted on August 20, 2009 06:38:05 am
  ... meant to Hewitt was, freedom to tell stories the way he thought viewers wanted them told. He was a kid from New Rochelle, N.Y., who had formed a love for news as well as a regular-guy bond with the "Lions and Rotarians and schoolteachers and hard ...
• '60 Minutes' creator and TV news pioneer Don Hewitt dies at 86
  posted on August 20, 2009 04:52:56 am
  ... a way to make a profit, he lamented, rather than to cover the news. Hewitt was born in New York and grew up in New Rochelle . He dropped out of NYU after one year to become a copy boy at the Herald Tribune. He joined the Merchant Marine in 1942 and ...
• '60 Minutes' creator Don Hewitt dies at 86
  posted on August 20, 2009 03:50:00 am
  ... debate between John F. Kennedy and Richard Nixon in 1960. Hewitt was born in Manhattan and grew up in New Rochelle. His first foray into journalism was as a school correspondent for The Standard Star in New Rochelle. Later, he worked as a copy boy ...
• Joan A. Donnelly, Morristown
  posted on August 20, 2009 01:07:29 am
  ... Ogdensburg on January 16, 1934 to the late Gerald and Eileen Finch Donnelly. She graduated from the College of New Rochelle and completed graduate work at Southern Illinois University, the University of San Diego Program in Guadalajara, Oxford, the ...
• New York Home Textiles Market Week announces best new product winners
  posted on August 19, 2009 05:03:00 am
  ... Dash & Albert (Pittsfield, Mass.) for its Zipper Rug, wool hand-woven zipper rug Finalist: V.P. Designs (New Rochelle, N.Y.) for its Chantilly Tablecloth Gift Finalist: Scents and Feel (Miami) for its Fouta Collection The Best New Product Award ...
• Internal affairs investigates Yonkers cop shooting
  posted on August 09, 2009 03:00:00 pm
  ... also underway by the Westchester County District Attorney's Office. The wounded suspect, James Overmars, 21, of New Rochelle, sustained a gunshot wound to his leg. HEAR today's news on MidHudsonRadio.com , the Hudson Valley's only Internet radio ...
• 'Humiliated' New Rochelle woman shuts egg stand
  posted on August 18, 2009 05:44:01 pm
  Susan Beshar-Dedona said she has closed down a farm stand in front of her house because of the sudden attention it has been receiving.
• Former Rye city manager plans to sue for severance
  posted on August 17, 2009 03:00:00 pm
  ... instructions and communicate with council members. Shew retired May 1 after being removed from his duties. New Rochelle attorney Robert David Goodstein, who is representing Shew, said Shew was "constructively discharged," even though the council ...