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Six candidates have filed petitions seeking two open seats on the New Rochelle school board. The seats each carry five-year terms. Running are Naomi Brickel, Robert Cox, Salvador Fernandez, Colin Thomas, Peter O’Keeffe and Rachel Relkin.

Bo Kemp and Gregory Varian are running for library board.

An earlier version of this post listed all eight as school board candidates.

“Notes for Japan” will be held at SUNY Purchase Sunday to raise money for Japanese earthquake and tsunami relief efforts.

The show features members of the Purchase College Conservatory of Music faculty and guest artists at 2 p.m. May 1 at the Purchase College Performing Arts Center.

The first part of the concert will feature performances of classical music by Ransom Wilson, Julia Lichten and Bradley Brookshire performing Sonata in G Major by J.S. Bach. Paul Ostrovsky will perform Beethoven’s 32 Variations in C minor; Steven Lubin will perform Scherzo #2 by Chopin; Ayako Oshima and Mariko Furukawa will play Adagio and Allegro for Clarinet and Piano by Ernest Chausson; and Kaori Satoe will perform two Italian songs and three Japanese songs with Hugh Murphy.

The second part of the program will include jazz, soul and popular music performed by the New York Men’s Choir, Jim McElwaine and Joe Ferry presenting A Song for Japan; and Toshiko Akiyoshi, Lew Tabackin performing Quartet.

“Notes for Japan” is one of a number of events organized by Purchase students to raise awareness and help the victims through a non-profit organization Save Japan at Purchase College. The concert producer is Toshiyuki Shibata. The students have already planned and participated in various fundraising events on campus. All funds from this concert will be donated to the Japanese Chamber of Commerce and industry of NY for distribution to Japanese charities.

Tickets are $30, students $15. Contact the box office at 914-251-6200 or www.artscenter.org.

Yale’s a capella group, the Spizzwinks, will perform this weekend at the Jay Heritage Center.

Many of John Jay’s descendants attended Yale as did several close Jay family friends including Rye resident, James Fenimore Cooper.

Since 1914, the signature of a Yale Spizziwinks concert is perfect harmony, infectious enthusiasm, creative choreography and engaging wit. They have performed at Carnegie Hall and the White House. Favorite songs include “No Regrets,” “Grapevine,” “Shenandoah,” “Somebody to Love,” and “Moon River.” Reservations recommended.

The concert will be held at 4 p.m. May 1 at the Jay Herritage Center, 210 Boston Post Road, Rye.

It is appropriate for all ages and is free for Jay Heritage Center members and their families or $10 per person for non-members. Children 10 and under are free. Refreshments will be served. For more information, call the Jay Heritage Center at (914) 698-9275 or visit www.jaycenter.org.

The YWCA’s “Stand Against Racism” campaign is coming to the Jay Heritage Center in Rye on Friday morning with a talk by Sana Butler, author of the book “Sugar of the Crop: My Journey to Find the Children of Slaves.”

Butler is a freelance reporter and special correspondent with Newsweek International. The event starts at 8:30 a.m. in the 1907 Carriage House, 210 Boston Post Road. The center is the boyhood home of John Jay, a leader in the anti-slavery movement of the 18th and 19th centuries.

State Sen. Suzi Oppenheimer, D-Mamaroneck, plans to attend the event and join in a Stand Against Racism pledge – a commitment to “a lifetime of promoting peace, justice, freedom and dignity for all people in our community and our world.”

Larchmont
North Avenue: Cable wires were reported cut April 18 on the exterior of a business. No residences were affected.
Chatsworth Avenue: A $375 bicycle was stolen from the bicycle rack in Lot 3 on April 19.
Railroad Way: A Mamaroneck village woman reported that her wallet and cell phone were stolen from her purse when she left it unattended briefly at the Cellar Bar at 4 a.m. April 22.

Mamaroneck town
Boston Post Road: A White Plains woman violated an order of protection by calling a Mamaroneck town man while she was making a court appearance April 21 for a previous violation of the order. Police said Jessica L. Spista, 22 and of 12 Pleasant Ave., called the man in front of the police matron at 11:25 a.m. She was charged with first and second-degree criminal contempt, a felony and misdemeanor, as a result of the latest incident. She was in court for a bail hearing on an arrest from April 17 for violating the same order on that day, court records indicate. Bail was set at $1,000.

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The Larchmont Chamber of Commerce presents “A Taste of Larchmont” on May 15 through May 22. The first annual Restaurant Week features prix fix menus and specials from over 20 participating restaurants, delis and cafes. Larchmont’s Restaurant Week kicks off on the same day as the Larchmont Historical Society’s popular House Tour event. The House Tour, in its 30th year, is featuring homes in the Pinebrook section of Larchmont. Tickets to the House Tour may be purchased at http://larchmonthistory.org/. For more information on Restaurant Week, visit the Chamber website (http://larchmontchamber.com/)

— Via guest blogger Lynda LaMonte Garmong

Students, faculty, staff, and alumnae/i from The College of New Rochelle recently spent their spring break doing a week of service for people in need. The College’s annual PLUNGE took them to Ecuador for the week of March 20-27 to work with Rostro de Cristo, a Volunteer & Retreat Program of the Catholic church based in Duran, Ecuador, near Guayaquil.

School spokesman John Coyne writes, “As volunteers with Rostro de Cristo, they participated in a variety of projects that included construction, working in child daycare centers, and a medical dispensary, going on medical visits, and educational awareness programs about health concerns, especially Hansen’s disease and HIV prevention…. Fourteen members comprised the 2011 PLUNGE team: nine students and five faculty/staff members. Accompanying the students was Helen Wolf, Director of Campus Ministry, Silvana Bajana, Director of Purchasing and CNR alumna, Jennifer Lakin, Campus Minister and CNR alumna, Margaret McAlvanah, Clinical Instructor, School of Nursing, Pearl Sullivan, Coordinator of Retention, School of New Resources Co-Op City Campus and CNR alumna.”

Shown above is CNR’s  School of Nursing student Suzanne Mariano tutoring one of the younger students in an afterschool program the group visited. Photo courtesy of CNR.

Rye High School students in the Animal Welfare Club recently donated $1,000 to the New Rochelle Humane Society. The money was raised by selling handmade bracelets and earrings with silver & gold plated charms, which will continue to be sold in school and online at http://www.etsy.com/shop/PAUSEforPAWS?ref=pr_shop. The photo from advisor Marion Considine, at left, shows, students L-R Katie Bouton, Allison Chesneau, Catie McLaughlin, Hannah Swank and Amanda McLaughlin with (front, holding check) shelter representative Ashley DiDomizio.

The Westchester County Board of Legislators recently approved a bond issue to secure $1.2 million for emergency repairs to the Glen Island Bridge, according to Legislator Jim Maisano (R, New Rochelle).

The $1.2 million will be used to complete the first phase of a complete rehabilitation of the drawbridge, which serves as the access point to Glen Island Park. The repairs include fixes for the sidewalks and curbs, structural steel work on the curb supports, and rail and other supports for the bridge, Maisano said.

As staff writer Dwight R. Worley reported today, 53 of Westchester, Rockland and Putnam’s public school districts have proposed spending a combined $4.5 billion 2011-12, an increase of about 2 percent, according to new data from the state. Should voters approve all of those budgets, tax levies would rise by 2.6 percent to $3.6 billion, $90 million more than 2010-11.

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