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  • In Focus — local news discussion on issues in the lower Hudson valley

  • 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 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 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 software to subscribe to the Recovery Talk podcast (the subscription is free):

http://wdfh.org/recoverytalk.xml

More podcasting info

  • week of 8/23/2010 — listen now

    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.

     

  • week of 8/16/2010 — listen now

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.

  • week of 8/2/2010 — listen now

    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 Women’s 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?  There’s 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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