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In Focus
— local news discussion on issues in the lower Hudson valley
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Recovery Talk
— recovery from illness, addiction, trauma, domestic
violence, and more; interviews with people in recovery as well as
professionals in the field
Having a problem hearing our online audio?
Note: Weekly
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online listening shortly after their initial on-air broadcast,
normally Tuesday evening or Wednesday.
IN FOCUS
WDFH's local public affairs discussion program,
hosted by Jane Botticelli and Vinny Cohan, with guest
Gary Cahill, publisher and reporter for The Gazette in
Croton-on-Hudson.
Enter the following address into your podcatching
software to subscribe to the In Focus podcast (the
subscription is free):
http://wdfh.org/infocus.xml
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hosted this week by Vinny Cohan
The first phase of the $2.5 million project to reduce
flooding at the Croton-Harmon Metro North parking lot is expected to be
completed later this week, freeing the approximately 600 spaces that
have been unavailable during the construction work. These
spaces will be gravel-surfaced for 2-3 months to allow for proper
settling, and then surfaced with asphalt in the final phase of work.
Ossining Town Justice Francesca Connolly has been
nominated by Governor Paterson to fill a vacancy on the New York State
Supreme Court. Justice Connolly's nomination
will require confirmation by the State Senate. New
York State Supreme Court Justices are elected to 14-year terms, and
Justice Connolly has indicated her intention to run for election in
November.
The Croton-on-Hudson
Village Board of Trustees will review the suitability of the location of
its new Wednesday Farmers Market at South Riverside Avenue and Municipal
Place. Traffic in and around the location has
required the deployment of police personnel and created an unplanned
cost burden for the Village.
hosted this week by Vinny Cohan
Kicking off another season of local high school
graduations, the Briarcliff High School commencement ceremony took place
this past week, with a record senior class size of 185 students.
The Ossining Village and Town have established a new
Youth Court program for youthful first offenders who have been charged
with minor offenses. Forty-five Ossining High
School students completed an 11-week training program and have been
installed as court members. Youths aged 7 to
15 who are accused of qualifying minor first offenses will have the
option of having their case heard by the Youth Court as an alternative
to Family Court in White Plains. A similar
program has been in place in nearby Yorktown Heights for three years.
Construction of a new 140-foot cell tower has begin at
the Croton Harmon Metro North Station south parking lot.
The tower is expected to improved chronically
troublesome cell phone coverage in Croton-on-Hudson
and Ossining. Tower completion is expected in
July.
hosted this week by Jane Botticelli
We report on this
weekend's Ossining Village Fair, which was well attended.
Scarborough won approval to decrease future density by
upzoning 480 acres to 2-acre zoning.
An Ossining woman was a grand prize winner ($10,000)
at the Stop and Shop fundraiser for cancer
care and research.
Croton will begin its summer Riverfront Concert Series
at Senasqua Park on Friday at 7:00 pm.
hosted this week by Vinny Cohan
As part of the ongoing celebration of the 400th
anniversary of Henry Hudson's discovery of the
river that now bears his name, a flotilla of ships, including a replica
of Henry Hudson's Half Moon, sailed upriver on Sunday and passed
Briarcliff, Ossining, and Croton-on-Hudson.
Hundreds of spectators lined the shore to
witness the event, during which the Half Moon approached Croton Landing
and traded mock cannon fire with the Croton Yacht Club.
Also on this week's edition, the
Village of Briarcliff Manor recently approved a new set of water rates
for the village. The rates will utilize a
sliding scale that puts more of the cost burden on the heaviest
consumers of water, who will see rates increase by over 40%.
Lastly, we look ahead and preview the upcoming 29th
Annual Ossining Village Fair, which will be held on Saturday, June 13.
RECOVERY TALK
WDFH's pioneering program about resilience in
recovery from illness, addiction, trauma, and more, hosted by Robyn
Leary.
Enter the following address into your podcatching
software to subscribe to the Recovery Talk podcast (the
subscription is free):
http://wdfh.org/recoverytalk.xml
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Chemical dependency treatment in the
LGBT community
Stepping Stone of San Diego is nationally
recognized as a model treatment center for the lesbian, gay, bisexual,
and transgender communities. On this edition
of Recovery Talk, Robyn Leary talks with John de Miranda, Chief
Executive Officer of Stepping Stone, San Diego, about the special
challenges associated with providing chemical dependency treatment to
these too often stigmatized communities.
Hand-made drugs that work
for a lot of people
Phil Altman is the boss and pharmacist at Healthy Choice
Apothecary in Chappaqua, NY. These days,
since the arrival of the Clintons, it’s a very
tony address, but rather than drinking coffee at Starbucks, Altman is
customizing medications; it’s called “compounding.” On
this edition of Recovery Talk, Robyn
Leary walks the walk with a pharmacist who is a pioneer in the field of
bio-identical hormone replacement for men and women.
Tune in: this pharmacist is not just counting pills.
Crack cocaine will kill you
— and if it doesn’t,
it will bring you down to the ground
John H. was kind of an ordinary Joe until he got
strung-out on crack. He’s not a teenager or
even close, but he lost everything to what was in a glass pipe.
Tune in — it’s a
fascinating profile of how you sink and how you swim.
Beginning as a free clinic housed in a church basement,
The Open Door Family Medical Centers have evolved into federally
qualified nonprofit health centers.
The Open Door has cared for Westchester County’s most
vulnerable residents for over 37 years. On
this edition of Recovery Talk, Robyn Leary’s guest is Pamela
Ferrari, a nurse and an administrator at the Open Door,
whose energy has been instrumental in driving such important health
initiatives as improving prenatal care, improving the medical treatment
of HIV-positive patients,
and, for other patients, routine screenings for breast, colon,
and cervical cancer.
Tune in and get an ear full of what it takes to get and
stay healthy.
Midnight Run documentary
(2006), also broadcast nationally on the Pacifica program Sprouts
and on other community radio stations in the US.
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