10/15/09 The New Rochelle Briefing

• Beyond the Multiplex: Oct. 16-22
  posted on October 16, 2009 05:32:12 am
  ... at Living Room Theaters THANHOUSER SILENT FILMS Between 1909 and 1917, before Hollywood became Hollywood, New Rochelle, N.Y.-based Thanhouser Co. produced more than 1,000 silent films, many of them critically and financially popular (one, a 1913 ...
• Waste-Oil Tanker Truck Rolls Over At Exit 11 Median
  posted on October 16, 2009 05:06:38 am
  ... delays in the area during the evening rush on October 8. State police said that trucker Noel T. Hann, 60, of New Rochelle, N.Y., was driving the 1991 Peterbilt tanker truck on the Exit 11 off-ramp, about 1,000 feet southeast of the ramp's ...
• $95.4 million plan to fix Westchester roads, infrastructure
  posted on October 16, 2009 04:48:37 am
  ... $24.1 million for various roads and bridge repairs, including Warburton Avenue in Hastings, Weaver Street in New Rochelle, Old Post Road in Rye and June Road in North Salem. • $8.8 million to repair Sprain Ridge Pool in Yonkers and $3 million ...
• Spano Releases Proposed Capital Project Budget for 2010 Proposal...
  posted on October 16, 2009 02:32:34 am
  ... to repair various roads and bridges in the county, including Warburton Avenue in Hastings, Weaver Street in New Rochelle, Old Post Road in Rye and June Road in North Salem. $8.8 million for rehabilitation of the Sprain Ridge Pool in Yonkers and $3 ...
• Iona College to Dedicate Ryan Library, One of the Most Advanced...
  posted on October 15, 2009 03:00:00 pm
  ... the main campus entrance on North Avenue. Brother Liguori recommended to architect Anthony Pucillo of New Rochelle, that this be accomplished by changing the location of the library's new entrance to face North Street which runs parallel to the ...
• KAHN-LENROW
  posted on October 15, 2009 07:00:00 am
  David and Natalie Lenrow of Merion Station, and Roger and Pam Kahn of New Rochelle, N.Y., announce the marriage of their children, Sara Alyse Lenrow and Scott Daniel Kahn.
• The Minister of Defense
  posted on October 16, 2009 12:07:09 am
  ... "I think if someone sees me let up on a hit like that, then they'll maybe let up in a drill or something," the New Rochelle, N.Y. native said. "But if the freshmen see me putting a hard hit on someone, that kind of forces them to step their game ...
• Medical Center hosts 9/11-related event
  posted on October 15, 2009 03:00:00 pm
  NEW ROCHELLE: Sound Shore Medical Center of Westchester's Emergency Department director, [0x07]Joseph Ponticiello, received a gift in celebration of 'First [0x07]Responders on 9/11 2001' during a Sept.
• Bank leader honored for community work
  posted on October 15, 2009 03:00:00 pm
  NEW ROCHELLE: Signature Bank's president and chief executive officer Joseph J. DePaolo, was named corporate leader of 2009 by the New Rochelle Police Foundation.
• Library celebrates [0x07]new computer center
  posted on October 15, 2009 03:00:00 pm
  NEW ROCHELLE: A new computer center was recently dedicated at the New Rochelle Public Library.
• New Rochelle woman interns at JFK center
  posted on October 15, 2009 03:00:00 pm
  The John. F. Kennedy Center for Performing Arts in Washington, D.C., has selected Gabrielle Young, of New Rochelle, for its prestigious internship program this fall as part of the Kennedy Center Institute for Arts Management.
• College talk to focus on museum education
  posted on October 15, 2009 03:00:00 pm
  NEW ROCHELLE: The College of New Rochelle School of Arts & Sciences Art Department will present a lecture by Kent Lydecker, 'Museum Education: Celebrating the Past & Building the Future.' It will take place at 6:45 p.m. Oct.
• New Rochelle Library plans day trip, Garden Club exhibit
  posted on October 15, 2009 03:00:00 pm
  NEW ROCHELLE: The following events are being planned at the New Rochelle Public Library.
• City's Arts Fest set for Oct. 17 and 18
  posted on October 15, 2009 03:00:00 pm
  NEW ROCHELLE: The New Rochelle Arts Fest will be held on Oct. 17 and 18 and will feature art exhibits, live music, food, performances, shopping and a chance to visit the new artist spaces on Main Street.
• Donate old cell phone to aid violence victims
  posted on October 15, 2009 03:00:00 pm
  ... are disposed of in an environmentally sound manner. Local Coldwell Banker offices in Larchmont, Rye and New Rochelle will be collecting the phones through the end of year. For locations and numbers, visit www.coldwellbanker.com. For more ...
• Author Cynthia Ozick kicks off The Big Read in New Rochelle
  posted on October 15, 2009 03:00:00 pm
  Cynthia Ozick's roof is under construction. The noise is an unwelcome distraction for Ozick, 81, whose novels, short stories, essays and literary criticism have been produced in the same New Rochelle home since 1966 - all written in longhand, and most composed in the dark of night, she says, when the world is quiet and hers alone.
• Who's Alan Frumin and why might he shape US health reform?
  posted on October 15, 2009 11:52:58 am
  ... people in the world know the Senate well enough to do the job. Frumin, the current parliamentarian, grew up in New Rochelle, N.Y. He graduated from Colgate University in Hamilton, N.Y., with a double major in economics and political science, and ...
• Running Rabbis Go the Distance - 26 Miles - To Raise Money for Charities
  posted on October 15, 2009 09:44:55 am
  ... 26.2 miles as they are teaching Torah," Salth said. Weiner, 34, senior rabbi at New York's Temple Israel of New Rochelle, said he hopes the group will become trans-denominational, but so far only Reform rabbis and rabbinical and cantorial students ...
• Big Wall St. Bonuses Create Anger On Main St.
  posted on October 15, 2009 06:30:04 am
  ... tanked and $10 billion more than Wall Streeters made in the boom year 2007. "I feel it's ridiculous!" said New Rochelle resident Valerie Makras. The big paydays come months after many banks and financial firms took bailout money to survive when ...
• Sun., Oct. 25
  posted on October 15, 2009 06:25:31 am
  ... Seits will lead a performance of jazz and Broadway hits at 3:15 p.m. at Willow Towers, 355 Pelham Road, in New Rochelle. The show features Rhea Linda, a vocalist, also from Riverdale, and Geisha Otero, Tom Kraczyk and Jean Young. The set lists ...