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Ryan Feeley of Rye works with Badger Swim Club coach John Collins at the Badger Swim Club complex in Larchmont July 28, 2010. At right, Feeley works out. His club team coach John Collins, thinks he has potential to add his name to the list of local Olympic swimmers, all of whom he’s coached. Feeley will compete in the upcoming 2010 Conoco Phillips National Championships in Irvine, California. View an online gallery photos and an upcoming article on LoHud.com on Feeley and the Badger Swim Club.

Numerous items were stolen from six cars parked in front of homes on three neighboring streets between Monday night and early Wednesday morning, New Rochelle police said.

Several other cars had been rummaged through but nothing was stolen from those cars, New Rochelle police Capt. Joseph Schaller said.

All of the cars had been left unlocked.

The thefts took place on Weyman Avenue, Beattie Lane and Brady Avenue. The items taken included an iPod, small amounts of cash, jewelry, a computer game, and a digital camera.

She may be half fish, but Ariel, Disney’s little mermaid, has had nearly as many lives as a cat.

She was the focus of a 1989 feature film, a TV series, a 2008 Broadway musical and enough merchandising to make Miley Cyrus blush.

The story of the mermaid who dreams to be part of the human world takes another big step on Friday in Tarrytown when Random Farms Kids’ Theater presents “The Little Mermaid Junior,” the musical distilled from Broadway’s 2 hours and 40 minutes to something closer to 75 minutes.

Westchester County Executive Rob Astorino, who recently passed the six-month mark in office, appears in an Editorial Spotlight interview at 2 p.m. today on LoHud.com. Astorino has been trying to marshal public and political support for budget cuts, financial concessions from union workers and a host of other changes in how the county does business.

He also is obliged to build 750 units of affordable housing, under a consent decree that he neither had a hand in crafting nor supports.

To view the LIVE interview, go to www.lohud.com/editorialspotlight; to submit a question, engage the CoverItLive feature on the right side of your screen.

This is a busy weekend for summer-theater festivals, those shows that appear every late summer, populated by youngsters home from college or awaiting another school year. Below this is a sampling of theater offerings across the Lower Hudson Valley in the next few weekends, in Rockland, Putnam and Westchester counties…

A three-performance day?

Saturday is shaping up as one of those days that theater kids in Croton will be talking about for years to come.

“Remember back in 2010 when we did two performances of ‘Rent’ and one performance of ‘The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged)’ in one day?” they might say. “That was a crazy day.”

Crazy.

On Tuesday, the Editorial Board hosted an Editorial Spotlight panel on drunken driving. The discussion, one year since Diane Schuler’s drunken, wrong-way crash on the Taconic River Parkway claimed eight lives, focused on what has transpired in the time since. Here’s a highlight reel:

To watch the entire hour-long session, navigate to lohud.com/editorialspotlight and select the video from the on-demand menu.