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Dear Editor,
In today’s world, it seems easier than ever to divide ourselves by politics, opinions and differences. What I appreciate most about John Campobasso is that he refuses to see people through...
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9/18/26
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Dear Editor,
Yorktown Supervisor Ed Lachterman has proven himself as a highly effective, pragmatic leader who utilizes his substantial business experience to deliver fair and honest government — always putting what he...
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9/18/26
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A few weeks ago, millions of phones across Australia suddenly began blaring simultaneously.
It wasn’t a cyberattack or a malfunction. Australia was testing a new emergency warning system designed to alert people to fires, floods, tsunamis and...
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BY RABBI YEHUDA HEBER
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9/18/26
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After the first few days of kindergarten, I walked myself to school and so did most of the other kids.
It was rather far from my home, and in today’s world would have definitely been a school bus ride. My teacher at Ruggles Street School in...
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BY MARILYN PELLINI
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9/18/26
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I’ve been around music for most of my life, and I’ve always believed there was something about actually playing music that was good for you.
Not listening to it. Not...
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BY DUKE COVONE
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9/18/26
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After years of technological advancement, I am prepared to declare that humanity’s greatest invention is not the printing press, the automobile or the internet.
It is the swim-up bar.
We stayed for six nights at the Hilton Cancún Mar Caribe, an...
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BY BRETT FREEMAN
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By Supervisor Robert Scorrano
September 11, 2001, began as a beautiful, clear blue-sky morning in New York City.
I was working in Midtown Manhattan when the calls started coming in. A broker said a plane had hit the World Trade Center. We...
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BY ROBERT SCORRANO
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9/11/26
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This past July, our Chamber staff and Chairman Justin Wingenroth went to the Association of Chamber of Commerce Executives Annual Convention in New Orleans prepared to discuss how a small chamber can make a larger impression online.
We returned...
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BY CAROLE VOISEY
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9/11/26
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In 2017, natural gas supplied 40% of New York’s energy.
By 2022, according to the most recent information available form the New York Independent System Operator (NYISO), more than 50% of the state’s energy was derived from natural gas. As for...
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BY SERGIO ESPOSITO
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9/4/26
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Dear Editor,
In a time when nearly every public issue is quickly sorted into red or blue boxes, it is worth remembering an important distinction: nonpartisan does not mean apolitical.
The League of Women Voters is a...
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9/4/26
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As a lifelong Yorktown resident, I have watched our community change and grow. Now, as a member of the Town Board, I see municipal government from another perspective. One thing...
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BY PATRICK MURPHY
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9/4/26
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When I was a child, the rules of responsibility were fairly simple. If you broke a neighbor’s window, you were expected to admit what you had done and pay for the repair....
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BY JAMES MARTORANO
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9/4/26
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Life is no day at the beach, sometimes even when you spend a day at the beach.
But here at our home away from home in Ocean City, Md., it's only 15 minutes away. And the beach is clean, free and enticing. I schlepped so much stuff from the car I...
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BY RICK MELÉN
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9/4/26
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Dear Editor,
After reading Supervisor Ed Lachterman's August 6 Yorktown News article, “A Tragedy That Demands Hard Questions,” I felt compelled to offer the perspective of someone who spent 31 years as a correction officer.
I watched the old system work, and...
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9/4/26
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Over the past several months, as I've been out and about in Yorktown — at local events, small businesses and in everyday conversations — one issue keeps coming up: the cost of energy.
People don't raise it in abstract policy terms. They talk...
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Dear Editor,
On Aug. 19 I received in my mailbox a flyer from State Sen. Peter Harckham titled “Delivering for Westchester" and “Securing Vital State Funding for Westchester.”
The following bulleted points were...
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9/4/26
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Dear Editor,
Jann Mirchandani touts various safety concerns ("Safety basics shouldn't be optional," Aug. 6, Page 28), yet doesn’t necessarily have any answers to what she perceives to be a problem.
I have...
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9/4/26
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There are few things more rewarding as an educator than watching a young child discover something for the very first time.
A question. A new friendship. A book they cannot put down. The confidence to raise their hand and share an idea. These...
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BY DR. KAREN GAGLIARDI
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9/4/26
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Dear Editor,
In response to Councilwoman Susan Siegel’s opinion column in the Aug. 6 issue ("Bike & E-bike safety need the Town Board's attention," Page 26), I am wholeheartedly in favor of some common sense...
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9/4/26
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Dear Editor,
If you live in Yorktown and drive, you are now experiencing being stuck waiting for a few lights to change in what can only be called new development generated traffic.
Contrary to the...
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9/4/26
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