Sound Shore

The Pelham high school baseball team lost to Eastchester high school during game at Glover Field in Pelham.

Eastchester defeated Pelham 13-3 in a baseball game at Glover Field in Pelham April 29, 2010. ( Frank Becerra Jr. / The Journal News )

To see more photos from the game click here.

Hampshire Country Club has reached a deal on selling its 108-acre property and the town and village of Mamaroneck wasn’t the winning bidder.

A formal announcement of the sale is expected to come soon.

The private club in the affluent Orienta neighborhood along the shore closed in December because of declining membership. The 108-acre property has a marketed price tag of $14.9 million. The town and village have expressed interest in a joint purchase of the property but have gotten their bid rejected.

Club president Stan Brettschneider declined to comment.  Town and village officials said they were not aware a sale had been reached but were aware the club was more interested in competing offers.

“We heard they are working with someone that bid on the project but I don’t know if there’s been a closing or there’s still talks with another party,” town administrator Stephen Altieri said. “They have not called us back.”

He emphasized he is not aware a deal had been reached.

“I know obviously our bid was not selected, but I don’t know whether they have selected someone and if so where they are with that,” he said.

The club since its closure has been a frequent target for vandalism. Club officials have said in the past they wanted to move sooner rather than later on a deal to keep the property intact. That’s probably the main strike against the municipalities, which would have had to conduct hearings and take other steps for any property purchase.

I caught up with a group of peace marchers today who are on a very long walk from Vermont to the United Nations in New York. It’s one thing to wear a peace sign on your T-shirt or backpack, quite another to do this sort of thing.

The group turned up at All Souls Parish in Port Chester — to the surprise and delight of the pastor, Rev. Bruce Baker — in search of a place to break for lunch.

The march is the ninth annual “Walk for a New Spring,” organized by the Buddhist religious group Nipponzan Myohoji in Western Massachusetts. They left from Burlington, Vermont, on March 20 and will rally in Times Square Monday. The rally is timed with the United Nations’ review of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty.

The two Port Chester trustees with the longest tenure are stepping down in June. Bob Sorensen, who joined the village board in 2002, gave his thoughts here. Deputy Mayor Domenick Cicatelli, with six years as a trustee, says he wants to shift his attention to Albany — not by running for office, he said, but by joining the “anti-incumbent movements” under way.

As for the village: “It’s a real dynamic time to be in Port Chester right now — major, major changes,” he said. “And I think you’ve got to let new people with fresh ideas come in, and this is my way of contributing to that cause.”

There were some very young and very enthusiastic soccer players doing drills at Lyon Park in Port Chester today.

That’s 4-year-old Dylan Masi, enjoying Day 2 of the Super Soccer Stars program. Close on his heels are Reina Thalheimer, who turned 5 today, and Stephen Vumbacco, 4. Leading the drill was coach Brian Pinto. (more…)

The Rye High School crew team hits the Long Island Sound before sunrise in today’s Express.

In case you missed it, attorney general Andrew Cuomo filed a second lawsuit against state Sen. Pedro Espada over fraud allegations concerning his for not-for-profit.

There’s already been plenty of chatter about Espada allegedly spending $20,000 of the charity’s money on sushi or New Rochelle councilman Richard St. Paul working for him.

St. Paul provides legal work for both Espada’s Senate office and personal management company. What you might not know is Cuomo filed his first major inquiry into Espada’s charity activities back in January, a time when Senate payroll records indicate St. Paul was making $55,000 as Espada’s senate lawyer.

Shortly after the the January inquiry was filed, records indicate St. Paul started making $79,000 — a $24,000 raise. St. Paul said to the Journal News in the past that Espada’s investigation has nothing to do with him, but Cuomo doesn’t think so. He has subpoenaed pay information for St. Paul and nine other of Espada’s employees.

Supervisor Joan Walsh told residents in an online message yesterday that while water rates will increase 28 percent, the impact for homeowners will be less than the town’s average water bill.

The town’s average annual water bill is around $600, which includes offices, schools, golf courses and homes. The average home bill is actually between $300 and $400, meaning the rate hike will be about $72 to $112 per year. An average town bill would increase $168 this year.

Walsh also noted that the increase won’t be evenly distributed among the year’s four bills because it depends on which season you use the most water.

“I must point out that even with this increase our rates are still well below that charged by the United Water Company in New Rochelle, Port Chester and Rye,” she wrote.

Harrison school board candidates will make their best pitches to voters at the League of Women Voters debate on May 4.

Naomi Oppmann and Jason Schechter are competing for Robert Amato’s seat while incumbent Abby Mendelsohn is running for her own seat unopposed.

The debate will be at 7:30 p.m. at the Louis M. Klein Middle School, 50 Union Avenue. Call Lola Geiger at 914-939-7066 with questions.

Congress Street Park will be renamed Emilio Scatenato Park on Saturday.

Scatenato’s family owned and ran the Crotona Avenue Food Market for 80 years before Scatenato died last year at age 78.

Over the years the market became a popular hangout on Saturdays where friends and politicians would meet to chat over sausage.

His nephew, Glenn DeFaber, has been leading the effort to rename Congress Street park after the beloved butcher.

He has raised $3,500 and is looking for more for several park benches. Donors can send checks to Harrison Town Hall with Emilio Scatenato written in the memo line.

(Emilio Scatenato inside the Crotona Food Market in the 1960s.)