Archive for May, 2011
Village of Mamaroneck’s Memorial Day parade honors those that died in service to the country • 05.30.11
The Navy Band Northeast makes its way down Mamaroneck Ave. as they take part in the annual Village of Mamaroneck Memorial Day parade today. The Navy Band Northeast serves throughout an eleven-state Northeast region. Photo by Seth Harrison
View a gallery of photos from Memorial Day events throughout the Lower Hudson region at Lohud.com. Also find coverage of the day’s events in tomorrow’s edition of The Journal News.
Jazz night in Pelham to benefit MS research. • 05.30.11
Lola’s Tea House in Pelham will host an evening of jazz to raise money for multiple sclerosis research on Thursday, June 2. There will be two one-hour sets by the Triad jazz guitar trio, at 7 p.m. and 8 p.m.; suggested donation is $10. Donations support the Accelerated Cure Project, which funds MS research. The tea house is at 130 5th Avenue in Pelham.
Class A Track Championships • 05.28.11
New Rochelle’s Jeremy Burke won the 400-meter hurdles at the Section 1 Class A championships at Suffern Middle School.
Memorial Day ceremony at African-American cemetery in Rye • 05.28.11
Rye resident Donna Seward looks at the tombstones in the African-American cemetery adjacent to the Greenwood Union Cemetery, where she has members of her family; the Brown family, buried, after a Memorial Day ceremony, May 28, 2011 in Rye. It is believed that 119 African-Americans are buried at the cemetery, including 22 veterans. In 2010 the Town of Rye formed an Ad Hoc Committee, made up of representatives from the town, the NAACP, Building Community Bridges and the American Legion Post #93, to help restore the town-owned cemetery. ( Tania Savayan / The Journal News )
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West Harrison resident to receive NYPD’s second-highest honor • 05.27.11
NEW YORK — Police Officer Bobby Salerno of West Harrison was promoted to the rank of detective Friday, more than a year after being shot three times while on duty in the Bronx.
The promotion, from patrol officer, comes just over two weeks before Salerno is to receive the Combat Cross, the New York Police Department’s second highest honor, at a June 14 ceremony at police headquarters in Lower Manhattan, he said. The award recognizes “courage and heroism during personal combat with an armed adversary,” according to the NYPD’s website.
Just two weeks ago, Salerno was one of 30 law enforcement officers honored at a White House Rose Garden ceremony recognizing 2010’s “top cops” who survived gun battles, rescued people from burning buildings and completed important investigations, including the case of the Times Square bomber.
“I’m very proud,” Salerno, 26, said Friday of the recent honors. “A lot of hard work and determination paid off.”
Salerno was shot by Santiago Urena, 57, while responding with three other members of the NYPD to a March 22, 2010, domestic abuse call at a Bronx housing complex. One bullet hit Salerno’s sciatic nerve in his right leg and two bullets passed through his lower abdomen. His bullet-resistant vest stopped a fourth bullet from entering his chest. Salerno was able to return the fire, and Urena was killed in the gun battle with the four officers. Salerno spent months recovering, returning to light duty in November and full duty only last month.
As a detective, Salerno said he’ll now be investigating cases ranging from “low-level harassment to homicides” in the 47th Precinct in the north Bronx.
PHOTO: New York Police Officer Bobby Salerno of West Harrison poses with his brother, Joe, left, his dad, also Joe, and mother, Sherri, earlier this month at a White House Rose Garden ceremony recognizing him as one of the nation’s “top cops’’ of 2010. (TJN photo archive)
Iona Prep Graduation • 05.27.11
Irina Honczarenko (cq) fixes the gown of her son, Mykola Honczarenko, before the Iona Prep graduation, May 26, 2011. ( Carucha L. Meuse/ The Journal News )
New Rochelle Democrats announce slate for fall election • 05.27.11
With local district lines officially redrawn, the New Rochelle Democratic Committee met last night to pick its endorsed candidates for the fall election. No candidate was named for District 2, however the committee may find a candidate for that seat before the filing date.
The candidates are:
Mayor: Incumbent Noam Bramson
City Council District 1: Roberto Lopez, who previously served on the council from 2004 to 2007
City Council District 3: Jared Rice, who won a special election in 2010 to fill the remainder of the term of James Stowe
City Council District 4: Ivar Hyden, owner of the Backstreet Gallery and chairperson of the New Rochelle Municipal Arts Commission
City Council District 5: Barry Fertel, councilman since 2006
City Council District 6: Lawyer Shari Gold-Rackman
The mayor and council each serve four-year terms.
Sound Shore police blotter: fraudulent prescription arrest, municipal car boot stolen, men choking women and more • 05.27.11
Weaver Street: Police accused a Mamaroneck town man of repeatedly striking his girlfriend in the face in the parking lot behind The Gap at 9:30 p.m. May 25. John J. Westfall, 20, of 23 Weaver St. was charged with misdemeanor assault. The 20-year-old Mamaroneck village victim had a cut lip, police said.
Hawthorne Road: The rear driver-side window of a vehicle parked on the street was smashed between 11 a.m. and 4 p.m. May 25.
Boston Post Road: A 30-year-old Mount Vernon man experiencing back pain was taken to Sound Shore Medical Center after a left-turn collision at 6:16 p.m. May 25. The 49-year-old Yonkers man driving the other car was not injured. No one was cited. The cars collided as one was exiting a gas station onto the Boston Post Road.
Abendroth Place: A tablet, laptop computer and two digital cameras, altogether worth $1,700, were stolen from an apartment during the day May 26. The building’s front door and the apartment door had been forced open. This and the Central Avenue burglaries during the same time frame are not believed to be related, police said.
Opinion Roundup: Rob Astorino and Tallman Mountain State Park’s pool • 05.27.11
Good Friday afternoon. Here’s a glance at opinion content published today in The Journal News:
Rob Astorino’s appointees: Editorial
We comment on a special report from staff writer Gerald McKinstry that documented raises and promotions given by the administration of Westchester County Executive Rob Astorino to supporters who are county employees. We write:
This week’s report on the big-dollar pay boosts to Westchester County government staff will not surprise taxpayers who are mindful of the real world: the political spoils system lives on, notwithstanding the recession and sky-high property taxes. Who gets what, and how much, though, might stick in the craw of taxpayers who have been rooting for Rob Astorino, who was elected on a platform of thrift and frugality, and continues to sound those themes. He hasn’t exactly slain the political-payout monster either, despite making significant gains in downsizing the government. …(more…)
Barbecue Monday to honor late New Rochelle woman • 05.27.11
A free cook-out at Wilson Woods pool in Mount Vernon on Monday starting at 1 p.m. will honor the late Quaneesha Jackson of New Rochelle, who died of kidney failure at age 32. In the New Rochelle community she had been a member of the PopWarner Youth Tackle League, the New Rochelle Boys and Girls club, and Remington Flyers and most recently had worked on the campaign of Councilman Jared Rice. The event, which runs until 8 p.m., will feature entertainment and speeches. Friends and family are also working to establish a scholarship in her name.
“She was a role model for so many children and such a inspiration to them being sick in and out of the hospital but never quit,” DeLoise Jackson wrote in an email.
