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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
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IN FOCUS
WDFH's local public affairs discussion program,
hosted by Jane Botticelli and Vinny Cohan, with regular
guest Gary Cahill, publisher and reporter of The Gazette in
Croton-on-Hudson.
Enter the following address into your podcatching
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hosted this
week by Jane Botticelli
The famous author James Patterson
recently spoke at the Ossining Public Library.
The program was geared for young
adults, but the large crowd in attendance was mainly adult fans of the
author.
An Ossining woman, Rita Many, has launched a petition
drive to get enough signatures to force the Village of Ossining to hold
a referendum on the dissolution of Village government.
Ms. Many appears to have the support of Assemblywoman Sandy Galef,
who wants to "push" Ossining to come up with a plan to consolidate
services and avoid waste and duplication of functions.
A 9/11 Memorial Committee has been formed in the Town of
Cortlandt to plan for the 10th anniversary of the tragedy.
hosted this
week by Vinny Cohan
Based on unofficial calculations, The "Sankofa Weekend"
on August 6-8 in Ossining drew far more than
the 400 visitors anticipated by event organizers. The
highly successful homecoming event for members of the Ossining African-American
community included a dinner dance at the Sing Sing Correctional
Facility's Quality of Work Life building, two cookouts, a Sunday morning
worship service at Star of Bethlehem Missionary Baptist Church, and
entertainment at Market Square in downtown Ossining.
Bestselling author James Patterson will be coming to the
Ossining Public Library on Saturday, August 21, at 1
p.m. He will
appear in the Budarz Theater and will be discussing his books for young
adults. Tickets are sold out for this event.
The Town of Ossining will hold Town Hall meetings on
Thursday, August 26, and Monday, September 13, at 7:30 p.m.
at the Anne M. Dorner Middle School to discuss two options for providing
police services to the unincorporated area of the Town of Ossining.
The two proposals under Town Council
evaluation one by Westchester County and one from the Village of
Ossining are available on the
Town of Ossining website. Both proposals
suggest ways to save town taxpayer money through consolidation of police
services for the unincorporated area of Ossining.
The Village of Croton-on-Hudson
will hold a public hearing on Tuesday, September 7, to discuss a
proposed Village Code change that would allow bow hunting of deer on
three properties within the village limits
the Hudson National Golf Course, the Jane E. Lytle Memorial Arboretum,
and Van Cortlandt Manor. If approved, bow
hunting would be permitted from October 16 to December 31 for hunters
who have passed proficiency testing. The
measure is meant to help reduce the local deer population density, which
is currently estimated to be 8-10 times greater than the level needed
for long-term protection of local woodlands and flora.
hosted this
week by Vinny Cohan
The village of Croton-on-Hudson
is preparing to move ahead with a plan to employ "River Rangers" to
patrol the Croton River beginning in late May 2011 and continuing
through the summer until early September. The
purposes of the patrol will be to address
complaints of unlawful conduct along the river and to reduce unsafe
practices such as illegal swimming.
There has been one drowning in the Croton River each summer season for
the past few years.
The Sam Oitice Heroes Remembered Memorial was unveiled
at Peekskill's Riverfront Green on Saturday,
July 24. Mr. Oitice was a volunteer member of
the Peekskill Fire Department and a New York
City firefighter who died on September 11, 2001. The
memorial is dedicated to emergency services workers who died on that
day. It was funded through a $125,000
state grant along with $75,000 in private
donations. Another $50,000 is sought to
complete the project. Donations can be sent
to the Sam Oitice Heroes Remembered Memorial, P.O. Box 294, Peekskill, N.Y.
10566.
The environmental education and preservation
organization Riverkeeper is moving this week into its
new headquarters south of the Main Street overpass in Ossining.
The organization was formerly located in Tarrytown.
Riverkeeper's river patrol boat will also be relocated to
Ossining, where it will be docked at the nearby Westerly Marina.
Croton Deputy Fire Chief Richard Nagle has raised
concerns about the lack of an evacuation plan for Croton Point Park.
Given the significant number of events in the
park that draw large numbers of people and the real risk of
weather-related emergencies, such as a tornado, Deputy Chief Nagle
raised the concern last week to the Croton Village Board.
He mentioned next weekend's annual Ecuadorian
Festival, with 10,000 expected visitors, as a case in point.
Any disaster plan for the Westchester County-run
park would need to be a collaborative effort between
the village, the county, and possibly state agencies.
hosted this
week by Jane Botticelli
A Briarcliff pharmacist who operates Prescription Plus
in the Chilmark shopping center raised concerns about a proposed CVS
coming to the shopping center. Others
have expressed concerns about traffic and noise in the busy area off
Pleasantville Road.
Entergy, the company that owns
the Indian Point nuclear power plant, has been
ordered to install cooling towers by the state DEC.
The company is appealing this decision.
Its 20 year license is up for renewal.
Con Edison no longer wants to be in charge of "Railroad
Pond" in the Town of Cortlandt for liability reasons, so the Town of
Cortlandt has proposed taking it over, if Con Ed will agree to fix a dam
that controls the water there.
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
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week of 8/23/2010
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Hope and significance sometimes emerge out of illness
Edie Hand is a three-time cancer survivor
who devotes her life to the encouragement of
others in need. She has
starred in national television commercials and
daytime soaps and has hosted numerous national radio and television
shows. Together with Dr. J. Patrick
Daugherty, an oncologist, The Unexpected Gift was born.
On this edition of Recovery Talk,
Robyn Leary explores the depth of personal recovery from profound
illness.
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week of 8/16/2010
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The science of
addiction (encore presentation)
Dr. Carlton Erikson
discusses his latest book, The Science of Addiction From Neurobiolgy
to Treatment. Dr. Erickson, a prominent educator at the University of
Texas at Austin College of Pharmacology in Texas, is one of the first
scientists to delineate and explain the distinction between substance
abuse and chemical dependency.
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week of 8/2/2010
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HIV/AIDS and its societal causes
(encore presentation)
The new HIV/AIDS epidemic will go largely ignored and
cost many more millions of lives unless we transcend the taboo of
talking about sexual behavior, poverty, race,
and communities characterized by incarceration.
As Director of New York State Policy at the Legal Action
Center, Tracie Gardner is the lobbyist for people in the criminal
justice system living with and without HIV/AIDS and the communities
fighting discrimination and stigma. Tune in this week as Robyn Leary
investigates new projects such as Alternatives to Incarceration and the
Womens Initiative to Stop HIV/AIDS why they work, reduce crime, and
save money. Learn too about what you can do to help stop the new
HIV/AIDS epidemic now sweeping the country, which is concentrated in the
population of girls and young women 14 to 19 years of age.
What? Theres no normal?
Egad!
Besides being an out-of-the-box thinker, J.
P. Harpignies is a writer, editor, conference producer,
and long term grassroots environmental
activist. He said as a youth
that he had a gut feeling something was wrong in modern life,
that all was not as sane or tidy as it seemed. In
a former life, he served as program director at the New York Open
Center, the largest urban holistic learning institution in the nation.
For over 20 years, Mr. Harpignies has been a member of
the Bioneers, the largest and most diverse independent eco-themed
enclave in the nation. On this edition of
Recovery Talk, Robyn Leary explores what Mr. Harpignies calls the
myth of a dominant morality. In his
latest book, Delusions of Normality: Sanity, Drugs, Sex, Money and
Beliefs in America, he takes on each subject and proves that we are
all freaks in a word, that deviancy is the
norm. Tune in for some brain food.
Midnight Run documentary
(2006), also broadcast nationally on the Pacifica program Sprouts
and on other community radio stations in the U.S.
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