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on Purchase Street foregoing a decade-old bank moratorium in the process.

But the City Council in-cluded a three-month sunset clause when approving the legislation. The legislation ex-pired on Feb. 7.

As of Feb. 10, Mayor Joe Sack, a Republican, said there have been no discussions with Fareri, nor has an application for a special use permit been filed with the city’s Building Department.

“We created an opportunity, but they decided not to take advantage of it,” Sack said. “If they came to me and said

they needed an extension, we would have discussed it but they didn’t.”

The special legislation, which passed by a 5 to 1 one vote of the City Council, would’ve allowed a bank to occupy a portion of Fareri’s property, which currently con-sists of the Smoke Shop, on the corner of Elm Place and Purchase Street, Plush Blow, 53 Purchase St., and the for-mer location of Sundae Fun-day, 2 Elm Place.

Fareri purchased the prop-erty that houses those three lo-cations back in 2008.

The city’s bank moratorium

in its downtown business dis-trict dates back to 2005 and the administration of former May-or Steve Otis, a Democrat, when nine banks were in oper-ation and other Rye merchants complained that the overabun-dance of banks were raising rents of commercial space. Today, only seven banks exist in the downtown after the dis-solution of Washington Mutu-al and the merger of Bank of New York and Chase.

In an effort to save the Smoke Shop, the plan, which had been ironed out between

smoke shop continued on page 7

reforms continued on page 8

Legislation to save Smoke Shop expires

Cuomo pushes school reforms

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By ChrIs eBerhArTStaff Writer

The city council’s plan to save what some have termed as an iconic structure may have just gone up in smoke.

Last November, the Rye City Council passed legisla-tion that was intended to save the T.D.’s Rye Smoke Shop from closing its doors after 90-plus years in business. The legislation allowed the coun-cil to negotiate a special use permit with the property’s owner, John Fareri, of Fareri Associates, that would allow for a bank to lease out space

The Rye Golf Club is mulling over three operators to run its poolside snack bar this year. A decision is expected to be imminent. For story, see page 5. File photo

Snack Time


Armed with another four years in Albany, the governor is targeting teachers in his edu-cation reform policy.

And he’s offering more than $700 million to make it easier for school districts to “expedi-tiously but effectively remove failing teachers.”

In his State of the State ad-dress, presented on Jan. 21, New York State Gov. Andrew Cuomo, a Democrat, proposed his education reforms that would impose stricter teacher evaluations and extend the required period of time for teachers to earn tenure. He said the idea behind his pro-posed reforms is to “make it easier, fairer and faster to remove ineffective teachers from the classroom.”

Cuomo said 98.7 percent of high school teachers were rat-ed as “effective” according to the current teacher evaluation system, yet only 38 percent of high school students are col-lege ready. Additionally, 99 percent of third to eighth grade teachers were rated as “effec-tive,” yet only 31 percent of students in those grades we’re proficient in English.

“How can that be?” Cuomo said. “The problem is clear, and the solution is clear. We need real, accurate, fair teach-er evaluations....Our education system needs dramatic reform, and it has for years, and I be-lieve this is the year.”

Cuomo, in the first year of his second term as governor, is proposing to establish new teacher evaluations that will

be based 50 percent on state exams, up from the current 20 percent. The other 50 percent will be based on independent classroom observations. The governor said teachers will not be rated effective or highly ef-fective unless they are profi-cient in both the test and ob-servation categories.

To receive tenure, Cuomo said, a teacher would need to achieve five consecutive years of effective ratings, which is up from the current three year process.

Under Cuomo’s reforms, a teacher would receive a $20,000 bonus on top of his or her salary if the teacher re-ceives a highly effective rat-ing. But two ineffective ratings would warrant removal from the classroom.

“I know these reforms are tough,” he said, “but the pur-pose of the education sys-tem and why we do this and why taxpayers give us money to fund education is so we can teach and nurture our children.”

In exchange, the gover-nor said the budget formula-generated education fund-ing statewide increase of 1.7 percent—$377 million—will jump to a 4.8 percent increase, or $1.1 billion.

Locally, Rye Teachers As-sociation president Jamie Zung said the reforms pro-posed by Cuomo will hurt stu-dents and teachers more than it will help them.

“The reforms take away the creativity and fun of teaching and learning,” Zung said, “by

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Rye Town dissolution on the table again

The Village of Mamaroneck voted to revisit the possibility of dissolving the government of the Town of Rye. In November, Rye Town moved its administrative office from this building on Port Chester’s Pearl Street to Port Chester Village Hall on Grace Church Street. Photo/Alina Suriel

By AlInA surIelStaff Writer

Months after a standstill in the debate, the dissolution of the Town of Rye is back on the table for the Village of Mama-roneck after board members voted to re-enter talks to plan out the logistics of a new gov-ernment structure for commu-nities in the village and other affected areas.

The accepted resolution states the village’s intention to proceed with previously pro-posed plans to dissolve the Town of Rye. In doing so, of-ficials aim to create a more cost effective system of providing services to residents of the area and eliminate an unnecessary layer of government.

The Town of Rye is a gov-erning body which encompass-es the villages of Port Chester and Rye Brook, as well as the Rye Neck section of the Vil-lage of Mamaroneck. The area of Mamaroneck Village not within the Town of Rye is part of the tax base of the Town of Mamaroneck.

The Town of Rye offers a very limited amount of day-to-day functions to residents as po-lice, fire, and public works ser-vices are all covered by the in-corporated villages, and a 2012 report on alternatives to services managed by Rye Town shows that the size of its government is much smaller as a result. Rye Town has a full-time workforce of only 17 employees.

The Town of Rye only boasts property assessment, tax collec-tion, license issuing and its own court system. Therefore, sev-eral consolidation alternatives which would see it eliminated have been discussed.

The first option was a shift which would have seen all three villages become coterminous town/villages.

According to Republican Rye Town Supervisor Joe Carvin, a vote to attain coter-minous status for Mamaroneck Village would be unlikely to gain the voting support of Ma-maroneck Town residents, who receive a portion of their tax base from village residents to pay for municipal services.

The option currently being explored would result in Port Chester and Rye Brook remain-ing villages independent of an overarching town government

as well as the part of Rye Neck located in Mamaroneck Village. This possibility was opened up in late spring of 2014 by state Assemblyman Steve Otis, a Rye Democrat, who changed the discussion when he said he believed state law can be read to allow villages to exist with-out being within the boundaries of a town.

Otis has recently told the Re-view that he received confirma-tion of this at a Feb 9 meeting of the New York Conference of Mayors. According to Otis, he spoke on the issue during the meeting and received support, and he also received verifica-tion from legal experts in Alba-ny to strengthen his belief that there is no legal impediment to moving forward.

“People having trouble em-bracing this fact is like pro-claiming the earth is flat, when it is round,” Otis said.

Village of Mamaroneck Mayor Norman Rosenblum, a Republican, has charged that he does not agree with Otis’ in-terpretation that villages are not legally required to be within a town, and says consequently Rye Neck residents will be un-derserved if not under a town government. The debate sur-rounding the issue fizzled out without coming to a vote in mid-2014 after it seemed that there would not be enough sup-port from the Village of Mama-roneck Board of Trustees for Otis’ plan to dissolve Rye Town and leave the remaining villag-es without a town government.

Sources within the village government said that it is one of several topics being revisited in hopes of a different outcome since the election of a new Democratic village board ma-jority last November. The res-olution to dissolve Rye Town was drafted by Democrat Leon Potok, who was re-elected in

November along with Ilissa Miller and joined on the board by newcomer David Finch.

Rosenblum had doubts about Potok’s interests in the matter, as the trustee does not himself reside in the community of Rye Neck.

“Why is Trustee Potok push-ing this?” the mayor said. “It appears he doesn’t give a damn about the residents of Rye Neck and the taxpayers.”

Potok has countered that the mayor could not possibly know if Rye Neck will be more vul-nerable until the terms of the dissolution are settled.

“He’s trying to decide for them what the terms will be,” Potok said. “He hasn’t identi-fied what the vulnerabilities will be.”

Although Potok did re-open the discussion on the possibil-ity of Rye Town’s dissolution, the idea was initially proposed back in 2009 after a state grant was offered to municipalities to study ways to consolidate local government services. The Town of Rye and the villages of Rye Brook, Port Chester and Ma-maroneck jointly applied for, and were subsequently awarded a $50,000 grant to conduct a feasibility study into the disso-lution of Rye Town.

In order for the dissolution bill to pass under state law, resi-dents from each affected mu-nicipality must support it in a public referendum.

According to a timeline, the village will likely vote in May on whether to move forward and put the issue of dissolution before its constituents. If the resolution receives enough sup-port within the Board of Trust-ees, it could lead to a vote as soon as November 2015.

Carvin could not be reached for comment as of press time.

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What’s going on...“Mad Science planet rock”

Grades K through 4Thu, Feb. 19, 9:30 p.m. through 12:30 p.m.Program site: Damiano Recreation CenterFee: $55 resident; $60 non-residentWe’ll travel to the center of the earth and

unlock the mysteries of the planet. Then discover the power of weather like hurricanes, tornadoes and thunderstorms. Take home your own ultraviolet ray detector.

“Dodge Ball Night”Friday, Feb. 27 Grades 5 to 6 from 6 p.m. to 7:30 p.m.Grades 7 to 8 from 7:30 p.m. to 9 p.m. Program site: Osborn School gymThe fee is $20 and pre-registration is

required.Join Rye Recreation staff for an awesome

night of dodge ball. They will be playing and teaching several variations of this great game in-cluding team dodge ball, Dr. Dodge ball, Rescue ball and Bombardment. Don’t miss your chace to learn and play this classic game.

Space is limited.

Rye Historical Society “Happy Birthday George Washington”

Children ages 7 to 11 are invited to the Square House Museum on Wednesday, Feb. 18 from 10 a.m. to noon for a special celebration honoring the 283rd birthday of our first presi-dent, George Washington.

Fun activities include presidential games, trivia, crafts and even a birthday cake. The cost for this special program is $15 per child which includes all craft materials and snacks. Reserva-tions are suggested as space is limited and can be made by calling the Rye Historical Society at 967-7588.

The Square House Museum is located at 1 Purchase St. in Rye and is open Tuesday through Friday from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., and Sat-urday from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. For more informa-tion, please call 967-7588 or visit our website at ryehistory.org.

“Women lost to history”History luncheon with Allison Pataki. Women

lost to history will take place on Thursday, March 5. The Rye Historical Society will host its annual

history luncheon from noon until 2:30 p.m. at the American Yacht Club located at 500 Stuyvesant Ave., in Rye. This year’s luncheon features a fas-cinating presentation by Pataki, author of the New York Times best-selling and critically-acclaimed historical novel “The Traitor’s Wife.” Pataki’s new novel, “The Accidental Empress,” tells the little-known love and life story of Empress Elisa-beth in the Habsburg Empire.

Luncheon tickets are $65 per person for so-ciety members: $70 for non-members. Reserva-tions can be made by calling the Rye Historical Society at 967-7588 or visiting ryehistory.org. Specialty boutique shopping will be available at 11:15 a.m. Lunch starts at noon and the presenta-tion will begin at 1:15 p.m. Vendors will re-open following lunch.

The Rye Historical Society office and its Square House Museum are located at 1 Pur-chase St. in Rye and are open Tuesday through Friday from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. and Saturday from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. For more informa-tion, please call 967-7588 or visit the website at ryehistory.org.

Wainwright House events

A consumer’s guide to a green energy Efficient Home with Judy Martin, found-

er and principal of Green Home Consulting. A new topic each Friday through March 13. No topic on Feb. 20 due to a vacation week. Topic 3: Indoor air quality and low chemi-cal exposures – Friday, Feb. 27, 10:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m., $10. Educate yourself on how to live green. Information at wainwright.org.

The Illuminated Heart: Sufi practices

For awakening with Sharifa Felicia Norton and Muinuddin Charles Smit; Saturday, Feb. 14 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. We will focus on inten-tion and the Sufi science of activating subtle dimensions of the heart. Practitioners will use breath and light, mystical relaxation and insight into ways of living most fully in our “natural state,” our true being. Ecstatic Sufi poetry and teaching stories will enrich this deep experience of the awakening of our hearts and the discov-ery of our soul’s true freedom and joy. $54 for members, $60 for non-members. Go online at wainwright.org.

Hypnosis weight-loss workshop with Janioce Matturro

The subconscious mind is the other part of the equation to successful weight loss and it ex-erts an even more powerful influence on your everyday weight loss efforts than the conscious mind. Join our workshop to discover and expe-rience the power of your subconscious mind to achieve weight loss success. Complementary weight loss CD/MP3 included. Saturday, Feb.

21 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. $68 for members; $74 for non-members.

Author series: 1st lecture and book-signing

Live and let live: How multidimensional col-laboration heals ecosystems with Dr. Conroy and Ms. Basia Alexander. Learn how people can collaborate with all living beings to restore eco-logical health, foster dynamic balance and re-new hope for a livable world. Their Institute for Cooperative BioBalance leads the way to solve humanity’s challenge: thrive sustainability while in partnership with nature. Breakthroughs gal-vanize people to live healthy, secure, prosper-ous lives as enlightened stewards of earth. Sat-urday, Feb. 21. 11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. $25 for members; $28 for non-members. Price includes book. Register at wainwright.org.

Blood supplies low

Since the beginning of the year, dozens of American Red Cross blood drives were can-celed due to inclement weather in parts of the country. In addition, widespread flu has kept some regular blood donors from donating. The Red Cross asks that healthy individuals help ensure a sufficient and diverse blood supply by giving blood.

Upcoming blood donation opportunities:

Rye:Feb. 28, 9 a.m. to 2 p.m., Rye YMCA,

21 Locust Ave.

Harrison:Feb. 26, 9 a.m. to 2 p.m., Harrison High

School, 255 Union Ave.

Westchester Jewish Adult EducationWarm your mind in the cold winter months,

by joining Westchester Jewish Adult Education for one or more of these exciting classes:

“History of Judaism in America”Five Thursday mornings beginning on Feb.

26, at the Temple Israel Center in White Plains.

The Book of Ruth and Song of SongsTwo Wednesday evenings beginning

March 18, at 800 Westchester Ave., 5th floor boardroom in Rye Brook.

“Jewish cooking: Passover dinner”Tuesday, March 10, at 10 a.m., private home

in Harrison. A program of the Westchester Jewish Council, provides exciting opportunities for lifelong learning.

For more information or registration, visit the Westchester Jewish Council online at waje.org, or call Alice Tenney, director, at 328-7001 ext. 704.

SPRYE events

Thursday, Feb. 26 at noon: Chinese New Year lunch at local restaurant arranged by SPRYE member Frank Woo. $20

The sing along that was supposed to be held on Sunday, Feb. 8 has been changed to Sun-day, Feb. 15, from 3:30 p.m. to 5 p.m. Please make sure you say that all those interested in attending must rsvp to 481-5706.

The mission of SPRYE is to enable adults who are 60 and older in the communities of Harrison, Port Chester, Rye and Rye Brook to live in their own homes as long as possi-ble while remaining actively engaged in the communities they love. We accomplish this by providing access to essential services, ameni-ties and neighborly assistance.

Rye Recreation

“February Vacation Golf Camp”Grades K through 5This camp runs Tuesday and Thursday, Feb.

17 thorugh 19, 9:30 p.m. to 12:30 p.m., Osborn Gym.

Fee: $190 residents; $215 non-residentsTGA Premier Junior Golf is bringing the golf

course to you. Children will play games while learning fundamentals, advanced techniques, rules, etiquette and gain an understanding of all parts of the golf course. Tee it up with TGA and see how much fun playing golf can be. All equipment supplied. Returning students will advance to upper level skills.

“Bugs and Beasts”Grades K through 4Wed, Feb. 18, 9:30 p.m. to 12:30 p.m.Program site: Damiano Recreation CenterFee: $55 resident; $60 non-residentExplore the world of creepy, crawly creatures

and the animal kingdom. Learn about habitats, anatomy and life cycles. Investigate the fascinating behavior of spiders, ants, bats and owls.

Deadline for our What’s Going On section is every Thursday at 3 p.m. Though space is not guaranteed, we will do our best to accommodate your listing. Please send

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By JACkson ChenStaff Writer

Rye Golf Club has re-ceived proposals from three companies who are vying to run the club’s snack bar be-ginning this year, according to the club’s general manager.

The request for propos-als, RFP, went out on Jan. 9 to seek an outside company to operate the poolside snack bar and halfway house that services the club’s swimming pool and recreation area. The deadline for proposal submis-sions ended on Friday, Feb. 6.

Rye Golf Club General Manager Jim Buonaiuto said the three proposals will soon undergo a review process by himself and the Rye Golf Club Commission.

According to Buonaiuto, the golf club was accepting proposals that ranged in con-tractual time from one to nine years. For the golf commis-sion’s chairman, Leon Sculti, a year-to-year process of companies coming in to take

Golf club receives three snack bar proposalsover would not be ideal.

The snack bar hit a speed bump last year when it was taken over by Powell’s Clam Bar and Catering, a Harrison-based company. After an early onset of performance issues and customer service com-plaints, the city and Powell’s decided on a mutual agreement to terminate their contract.

After Powell’s departure in mid-2014, the Long Island-based Lessing’s—which cur-rently runs the food and bev-erage operations in Whitby Castle—stepped in to tran-sitionally fill the gap. Since Lessing’s agreement to step in ended with Powell’s con-tract expiration last year, the snack bar has been closed since October. With no cur-rent company running the snack bar, the city decided to put its operations out for bid, sending out a request for proposals.

While the idea of renewing with Lessing’s was available to the city, there was a clause in their contract which re-

quired the catering company to submit a proposal if it were interested in renewing its maintenance of the snack bar. However, golf club officials wouldn’t confirm if Lessing’s submitted a proposal in the current RFP process.

Sculti said he didn’t have any expectations as to the number of proposals that would be submitted for the snack bar contract. Buonaiuto said the city-owned golf club went into the proposals pro-cess with a very open mind.

Moving forward, the general manager added that there would be a good chance that he and the com-mission would meet with representatives from each company that put in a bid. Once the interview process is completed, the commis-sion would vote on a com-pany to recommend to the Rye City Council for final approval, Buonaiuto said. Looking ahead, the general manager is expecting that a recommendation be ready

for the council by Feb. 20 to allow for them to fully assess the commission’s suggestion before its Feb. 25 meeting.

If a decision is made by the council by that meeting, the selected bidder would be able to prepare during March and

be fully operational by April, according to Buonaiuto.


Rye Golf Club has received three proposals from companies that are interested in running its snack bar, according to Jim Buonaiuto, the club’s general manager. File photo


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By John BrAnDIStaff Writer

If you got beer on the brain, two friends with a love for craft brew are creating a space where locals are invited to ride the wave of craft expansion into Westchester County.

Doug Cedrone and Bren-dan Carroll, both 27, said goodbye to their office jobs to open a craft beer place on Kraft Avenue in Bronxville called Beer Noggin. Cedrone said the name of the location, which once was home to a fro-zen yogurt shop, is a blend of two concepts: a derivation of an old English word meaning a four-ounce cup of beer and the idea that the two owners want customers to “use their noggin” when it comes to un-covering the vast flavors of craft creations.

“There’s a beer out there for everyone,” Cedrone said. “Beer can be sour; it can be sweet; it can be roasted like coffee. We’re so fortunate we found a really wonderful location and we’re in love with it. We wel-come people with open arms.”

Cedrone, a New Jersey na-tive, said he grew up in a simi-lar suburban environment to

Craft duo taps Bronxville market

the Village of Bronxville. He said it makes for the ideal lo-cation because you get to re-ally know your customer base.

“I enjoy this type of village, the atmosphere and communi-ty it fosters,” he said. “Every-body knows everybody else and [it has a] ‘we’re in this to-gether’ type of energy.”

Beer Noggin is also in great company with the county al-ready home to other quality breweries like Peekskill Brew-ery. Cedrone said that even in-cludes chains like White Plains-based The Brazen Fox, which recently opened up a second location on the Lower East Side in Manhattan, and Yard House in Yonkers’ Ridge Hill.

For Cedrone, his love for craft beers came while in col-lege, on a study abroad se-mester in Belgium. He said he started to see what beer could be, beyond the staples that were being passed around the college parties back home.

“It’s developing a love for craft beer as a culinary type of experience in terms of flavor and ingredient,” he said.

That’s not to say those tra-ditional beers won’t be in-corporated into the inventory of Beer Noggin. Cedrone

said, however, there will be a “heavier focus” on local beers. The idea is to first try the tradi-tional beer, like a Pilsner that’s been brewed for 1,000 years, and then branch out to alter-natives to have that anchor of something to compare the two.

The locale’s collection will also include imported domes-tic and foreign brews. Accord-ing to Cedrone, there will be a keg rotation when one is tapped out and seasonal vari-ety, but the beer spot will still feature “repeat beers” and a consistent selection of bottle brands.

“I would like for the cus-tomer to come in and first experience a comfortable and welcoming environment,” he said. “[The] craft beer industry, some people might be turned off to it because it might seem inaccessible or intimidating for the sheer choice. Ask ques-tions, learn what you like, and don’t like and why.”

Part of this learning curve will include events Beer Nog-gin looks to launch when they officially open in mid-April. Possible events, Cedrone said, will include a brewery tap takeover and brewery talks where patrons can learn more

about what they’re drinking. As part of the liquor li-

cense agreement, the craft beer spot will also serve “light snack fare.” Residents may be tempted to try the artisanal spiced nuts and hot pretzels, pickles and meat and cheese plates.

Still, as Bronxville’s com-mercial and retail vacancies dwindle in its business dis-trict, from seven vacancies to five in a matter of two months, it seems the village is open for business. The empty store fronts don’t scare Cedrone, who said it presents an ex-

citing opportunity for new neighbors, specifically other local businesses, to enter the streetscape.

“It’s expansion potential for Bronxville,” he said, “to spark up local commerce and the en-vironment. I’m excited to see what comes.”

And perhaps one day, Kraft Avenue will be known for its craft selection.

“We’re here to help im-prove peoples’ understanding of a really wonderful product,” Cedrone said.


A new beer destination will preimere this April on Kraft Avenue in Bronxville. Photo courtesy beernoggin.com

At 102 Kraft Ave., customers will soon experience unique brews on tap with the opening of Beer Noggin. Photo courtesy citysearch.com

A new craft beer place in the village will feature a variety of local, domestic and international brews. Photo courtesy Doug Cedrone

The name “Beer Noggin” blends beer and the thought behind choosing the perfect brew. Photo courtesy fuzebranding.com


the mayor and property own-er, was for the bank to pay an above-market rent to supple-ment the Smoke Shop’s below market rent of approximately $48 per square foot a month. The average price for commer-cial space per square foot along Purchase Street is between $50 to $55 per square foot.

smoke shop from page 1 Under this scenario, the bank would have occupied the Plush Blow site—which faces Purchase Street—and wrapped around to the Elm Street side of the building to the vacant Sundae Funday location, al-lowing the Smoke Shop to re-main in its current space.

But according to a source with knowledge of the situ-ation, the bank in question

was only interested in the cor-ner location—currently the Smoke Shop—which is why discussions with the city never moved forward.

Tony D’Onofrio, owner of the Smoke Shop, declined comment and Fareri, the prop-erty owner, did not return calls for comment, as of press time.


The Rye City Council tried to save the iconic T.D.’s Rye Smoke Shop, but inactivity on the part of the property’s owner leaves the future of the storefront in serious doubt. File Photo

The Royal Hanneford Cir-cus is coming to town this weekend and will be celebrat-ing its 40th anniversary at the Westchester County Center.

Children in the county’s foster and homeless programs will be able to enjoy this great Westchester tradition free of charge thanks to a generous donation of tickets to the De-partment of Social Services for the third year in a row from Titan, a leader in transit me-dia and a longtime advertising partner of Westchester County.

“The Royal Hanneford Cir-cus is a cherished family tradi-tion in Westchester, and we are honored to be celebrating its 40th anniversary at the Coun-ty Center this year,” County Executive Rob Astorino said. “We are also extremely for-tunate that for a third year in a row, we will be able to give several of our foster and homeless families the chance to enjoy this great show for free. I want to again thank Ti-tan for this generous donation on behalf of our kids.”

Don Allman, president and CEO of Titan, said the com-pany was happy to continue a tradition that puts smiles on the faces of kids.

“Giving back to the com-munity has always been of utmost importance to us, and

we’re happy to continue our tradition of providing West-chester County foster and homeless families the opportu-nity to experience the magic of the Royal Hanneford Circus,” Allman said.

Kristen Vivanco and Chris-topher Sala became foster parents to Julian and Julius Vivanco, 6-year old twin boys, in March 2013. Mr. Sala was raised in foster care giving him special insight into the needs of these children. The couple is thrilled that their kids will be able to experience the cir-cus for a second year.

“We attended the circus last year and the children thought it was awesome,” Vivanco said “We are thankful to be able to share this wonderful experi-ence with them again.”

The Deleg family sought refuge through the county’s homeless program after expe-riencing financial hardship. As the couple works to secure a new home and become finan-cially stable, they are extreme-ly grateful for the ticket do-nation that will allow them to give their two young children the circus experience.

“The circus brings back memories of happiness,” Ms. Deleg said. “I remember the excitement I felt when my fa-ther took me as a child. I can’t

wait for my children to experi-ence that same excitement.”

Department of Social Ser-vices Commissioner Kevin McGuire added, “A circus ex-perience is a life-long memory for kids and families. We are so thankful to Titan and The Royal Hanneford Circus for providing some of our foster and homeless children the op-portunity to attend this won-derful event.”

The Royal Hanneford Cir-cus will perform nine shows on Feb. 14, 15 and 16. Show times are 10 a.m., 2 p.m. and 6 p.m. each day. Tickets are available at the Westchester County Center Box Office located at, 198 Central Park Ave., in White Plains, or via Ticketmaster. Call the County Center at 995-4050 to pur-chase tickets today.

“We are excited for chil-dren of all ages and their families to experience this year’s special anniversary per-formance at the Westchester County Center,” Billy Martin, circus ringmaster, said. “We are proud of our 40-year affili-ation with Westchester County and are thrilled to once again partner with the Department of Social Services and Titan to provide the Hanneford Circus experience to foster and home-less children.” (Submitted)

The circus is coming to town


Cold weather, Soviet style

The late writer Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn made the world aware of punishment in a So-viet gulag when he issued “One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovitch.” As I recall the story, Ivan is not sure why he was detained in the first place. But he is now doing a multi-year sentence in frigid Siberia.

Despite having served in the Soviet army from 1941 to 1945, Solzhenitsyn himself was sentenced to eight years in prison for anti-Stalinist remarks written to a friend. His prison experiences provided the back-ground for the Ivan story.

There appear to have

been various gulags, or labor camps, in Siberia, in a network known as the Gulag Archipel-ago. Though on short rations, prisoners were required to do heavy labor six days a week, even in the coldest weather. Ivan survives by his wits and his courage.

Solzhenitsyn makes his readers painfully aware of the prisoners’ suffering from the cold of the Siberian winter. One scene has stuck in my memory through all the years since I first read Ivan. He and other prisoners are marched to their work sites by armed guards.

In all but one detail, the guards are more fortunate than the prisoners. That detail involves protection of faces against frost bite. The pris-oners are on their own as to

clothing, and if they are able to scrounge an extra piece of cloth, they are free to wrap it around their faces. But the guards would be out of uni-form wearing such an essential bit of protection, so they must expose their faces to the sub-Arctic air.

Solzhenitsyn survived not only the gulag but also a bout with cancer. He makes the struggle against disease just as vivid in his later work “Can-cer Ward” as he has made the rigors of deeply sub-freezing temperatures in Ivan.

Later in his life, Solzhenit-syn was able to leave the So-viet Union and came to live in the State of Vermont, where the winters must have seemed balmy to him.


RadioShack files for bankruptcy

RadioShack, an electronic retailer, announced last week that it plans to file for bankruptcy and sell up to 2,400 of its stores to Standard General, which has a deal with Sprint to open up “mini-stores” in up to 1,750 RadioShack locations.

Long-running electronics company RadioShack filed for bankruptcy on Feb. 6 and plans to sell up to 2,400 of its stores while closing the re-mainder by March 31, 2015.

The once invaluable elec-tronics retail chain immedi-ately suspended trading in its company’s public stock last week, following 11 consecu-tive unprofitable quarters and its shares dropping 86 percent from last year, when it filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protec-tion, according to the compa-ny website.

“These steps are the culmi-nation of a thorough process intended to drive maximum value for our stakeholders,” said Joe Magnacca, chief ex-ecutive officer of RadioShack, in a statement.

Some of the planned store closings will include its Yon-kers, White Plains, Hartsdale and Mount Vernon locations, according to the company. Mamaroneck, Port Chester and New Rochelle sites are some of the 1,500 to 2,400 Ra-dioShack stores said not to be in danger of closing.

Despite filing for Chapter 11, bankruptcy, more than 1,500 of its stores will remain open.

Plans for the company’s fu-ture are in an effort to keep the RadioShack brand alive, albeit

with fewer stores and in a co-branded fashion with wireless telecom provider, Sprint.

According to a statement by RadioShack, General Wire-less, a subsidiary of Standard General, RadioShack’s larg-est shareholder, has agreed to purchase up to 2,400 of its remaining stores. Sprint has a deal in place with Standard General to open “mini-shops” in up to 1,750 stores that Standard General is purchas-ing from RadioShack. Sprint would take up about one-third of the retail space in each store.

According to a U.S. Bank-ruptcy Court filing in Dela-ware, RadioShack, represen-

tatives said the company had $1.2 billion in assets and $1.38 billion in debt as of 2015.

RadioShack also operates stores in Mexico, which were not part of the bankruptcy filing.

RadioShack was first found- ed in Boston in 1921, when it began as a mail-order retailer for amateur ham-radio opera-tors and maritime communica-tions officers.

Store managers from both the Port Chester and Mama-roneck locations declined comment.

A representative from the RadioShack corporate office also declined comment.-Reporting by Marissa Penn

imposing standards and mod-ules which were developed by non-educators.”

The New York State United Teachers, NYSUT, which is the largest teacher union in the state, put the $1.1 billion increase in perspective in a letter published in response to Cuomo’s State of the State address. NYSUT said the $1.1 billion increase is actually short of the $2 billion increase requested by the Board of Re-gents and the $2.2 billion in-crease already advocated for by 82 members of the state Legislature in a letter to the governor.

reforms from page 1 “Moreover, it comes with unprecedented strings at-tached, held hostage to a harsh anti-teacher agenda that would more than double the weight of standardized testing, erode local control, gut collective bargaining right and punish struggling schools that serve at-risk children,” the NYSUT letter states.

State Sen. George Latimer, a Rye Democrat who sits on the Senate Education Committee, said the governor’s reforms are “misguided” and “holding the schools hostage” by saying schools will get more funding if they adopt his proposal.

“I don’t believe the prob-lems in New York State’s pub-

lic education system is solved by the path that we’re going on,” Latimer said. “I don’t think this complete reliance on mandatory testing and test scores is well placed.”

Latimer worries that the state is setting itself up to mis-read the problems in education.

“We have a larger num-ber of public school students who are coming out of urban settings that have poverty and other socio-economic issues, and that’s the single biggest reason they aren’t performing well in school,” the senator said. “I don’t believe it is the quality of the teaching.”


New York State Gov. Andrew Cuomo proposed tougher teacher evaluations as part of his education reform platform in his State of the State address and dangled a $1.1 billion increase in school aid if the state Legislature passes his reforms. File Photo


Trader Joe’s supplier of pita bread is recalling select lots of pita bread products due to the possibility of them containing “undeclared” soy.

Middle East Bakery, Inc., of Lawrence, Mass., recalled on Feb. 4, Trader Joe’s brand pita bread products because they may contain trace amounts of soy, an allergy threat to those with soy allergies or sensitiv-ity. People that have an aller-gy or severe sensitivity to soy run the risk of serious or life-threating allergic reaction if they consume these products, according to the Food and Drug Administration.

Locally, the recall affects Trader Joe’s chains in East-chester, Larchmont and Harts-dale. The recall also affects stores in locations throughout New York, New Jersey and Connecticut.

According to a Larchmont Trader Joe’s store manag-er, who declined to give his name, signs are posted in all of the Trader Joe’s stores detail-ing the recall and alerting cus-

tomers as to the contaminated products. The tainted products have also been removed from store shelves, the manager said.

“If you bring the products back to the store, you will get a complete refund,” the man-ager said.

The soy-contaminated products include eight types of pocket, mini, roll-up and Aprocryphal pita bread prod-ucts with sell-by dates ranging from Feb.3 to Feb.5.

There have been no illness-es reported thus far.

The recall was initiated af-ter a temporary breakdown in the company’s production and packaging processes.

Consumers with soy aller-gies should discard the prod-ucts or return them to their local Trader Joe’s store, ac-cording to the Food and Drug Administration.

A Middle East Bakery, Inc., representative declined com-ment as of press time.

Consumers with questions should contact Middle East Bakery at 978-688-2221. -Reporting by Marissa Penn

At Trader Joe’s stores, pita bread products are being recalled due to an undeclared soy contamination. Photo/traderjoes.com

Trader Joe’s recalls pita bread

There seems to be some mis-understanding in the commu-nity with regard to how our city government functions, high-lighted by the angst over rock chipping in Indian Village.

Under our city charter, the day-to-day operations of the city are run by the city man-ager. The City Council hires and fires the city manager, but the manager makes all other administrative and operational decisions. The council acts in a way similar to a corporate board of directors. We pass leg-islation and set policy, but do not have the power or responsi-bility to enforce those laws and regulations. That job belongs solely to the city manager.

Importantly, the council pro-vides oversight of the city man-ager’s actions. Unfortunately, there was a breakdown of this oversight, as demonstrated by the Rye Golf Club scandal and the police uniform bid snafu.

As a result, this new City Council recently took action to increase its oversight tools, and strengthen its checks and balances. That is why, in July, we passed a new provision of the city charter, which requires the city manager to produce the books and records of the city for inspection by the council, not just the mayor. This is also why, in October, we amended the charter to require the city manager to submit his or her choice for police commissioner to the council for our approval.

In the context of rock chip-ping, neighbors demanded that the council take action. Within its authority, the mayor re-sponded by quickly establish-ing a study group to propose new regulations. The council also worked to extract volun-tary concessions from the de-veloper under the way the city code is currently written. Fur-ther, the council suggested the city manager explore all pos-sible avenues of enforcement to provide relief to residents. Under our form of city govern-ment, the council cannot just order the halting of a permit-ted activity at its discretion, as much as we might like to, and as arduously as residents might

Operations and limitations of the city

The council corner

CouncilwomanJulie Killian

implore us to do so.Ironically, despite the above,

there are some in the communi-ty who have vocally advocated that the council should actually have less oversight ability.

In October, when the change for police commissioner was being discussed, there were let-ters to the editor and vocal op-position at a council meeting by a small group in Rye composed primarily of former council-members. Oddly, their main argument was that this was al-ready the unofficial practice of the council and that, further, this would open the door to po-litical patronage and corruption.

First, if this was happening unofficially why be so upset about making it official? Sec-ond and maybe more impor-tant, we will be hiring a new city manager soon and our new manager will then hire a new police commissioner.

It is highly unlikely that our new manager will be from Rye and may not be from Westches-ter or even New York. Doesn’t it make sense that seven elect-ed officials with longtime ties to the community would ap-prove the city manager’s final decision?

Further, the reason we should strengthen our oversight is to prevent corruption and avoid future Rye Golf Club-type scandals. That is why it also makes sense to continue to strengthen our oversight, by allowing the council to speak with city department heads in order to get information. Argu-ably, this reasonable practice is not permitted under the way our charter is currently written as the council is still required to go “solely through the manager and neither the council nor any committee member shall give orders to, require action by or information from, any subordi-nate of the city manager either publicly or privately.”

Ironically, there is nothing that stops any member of the public from calling a depart-ment head directly.

The council can’t make ev-eryone happy all the time but we definitely strive to serve the community as best we can.

On a completely different note, I am always so inspired by the creativity and hard work of so many women in Rye. There are dozens who

perform herculean volun-teer efforts at local charities and schools and women who actually run or work at our schools, Rye library, arts cen-ter, historical society and the YMCA. I just heard about a new group in Rye called En-terprising Rye Moms, run by Valerie Groglio. Her Face-book page says “it’s an orga-nization to mutually support and encourage moms who want to start their own busi-nesses from the ground up or who already started their own business and want collabo-ration with the group to take it to the next level”—what a great idea and a great way to harness all the creativity that fuels these women to help each other.

There has long been an amazing cadre of real es-tate agents, decorators, piano teachers, tutors, college coun-selors, psychologists, and now we have many new and inter-esting businesses run in Rye by Rye moms: chocolatier and chocolate classes, cook-ing classes, yoga and mas-sage studios, chiropractors, marketing and event plan-ning companies, organization for families, smart playroom design and how about the three Rye moms who created True Cocktails, a powdered cocktail mix for cosmos and margaritas? Keep it coming, ladies.

Lastly, a quick shout out to the Rye Arts Center for its suc-cessful Irving Harper exhibit, the first-ever show for the 50-year Rye resident who in his spare time created meticulous colored paper sculptures that were nothing short of amaz-ing. The exhibit was covered by local, national, and inter-national press and watched by art collectors nationwide. You know a show is successful when fifth graders are going home to tell their parents they must see it. I was there to see history in the making on Jan 10, 2015, when Mr. Harper was honored amidst his trea-sures in the arts center gallery and the very first piece from his collection to ever be sold was auctioned. How exciting.

We are so lucky to have such a great institution in our city that contributes in a big way to our culture and quality of life.


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The Rye Y Wave Ryed-ers have had a strong start to the season with wins over JCC Scarsdale, Greenwich Boys and Girls Club and Har-rison Swim Team and a loss at the Jan. 25 meet with JCC Manhattan.

“The team is feeling opti-mistic about the rest of the sea-son,” coach Kate Tiedemann said. “We’ve had some great swims this season, particu-larly in the 8 and 10 year old age groups.”

The Wave Ryeders are now gearing up for the Super Bowl Sunday meet with Yonkers Rec at home followed by the League Champion-ships in the end of Feb-ruary and the YMCA State Champion-ships in March. (Submitted)

Strong start for Rye Y swim team


Westchester unemployment dropsBy AlInA surIel

Staff Writer

Preliminary unemployment rates on all New York counties from the last month of 2014 re-veals that Westchester is bounc-ing back from post-recession era job slump in a big way, ac-cording to reports released by the state labor department.

Only nine out of the total 62 counties in New York have similar or lower unemploy-ment rates than Westchester, which saw 4.6 percent of its current population jobless in December 2014. The last time that number was that low was in 2006, when Westchester unemployment rates were 3.3 percent. In 2013, Westches-ter’s unemployment rate was 5.2 percent.

Johny Nelson, a labor mar-ket analyst in the Hudson Val-ley branch of the state labor department, said that, while Westchester typically does en-joy low unemployment rates, the latest numbers are signifi-cant because of recent eco-nomic hardship.

“Historically our region has done well in terms of having low unemployment rates, but we weren’t immune to the re-cession,” Nelson said.

According to Jim Brown, a labor department represen-tative, Westchester’s low un-employment is due to its high education rate. Brown said the population in Westchester is relatively more educated than the rest of New York and this statistic largely explains the lower unemployment rate. Nearly half of Westchester adults over the age 25, 45.4 percent, have a bachelor’s de-gree while only 33.2 percent of the population in the rest of the state has such a degree.

Westchester’s central lo-cation also contributes to its low unemployment rate. Its close proximity to New York City and other tri-state cen-ters of commerce allow resi-dents to easily commute to job opportunities.

The highest unemploy-ment rate ever measured in Westchester County was 8.1 percent, in January 2010, which took place slightly more than a year after the recession that struck in late 2008, according to Nelson. The unemployment rate in

the county dropped steadily in surveys taken in the years following, but rates remained as high as 6.8 percent in De-cember 2012.

Nelson cites growth in cer-tain industries in the Hudson Valley area as a major cause of the improvement.

“We can tie it up into the job picture around here,” Nel-son said. “We’re seeing decent job growth in the three-county lower Hudson valley of Put-nam Valley, Westchester and Rockland.”

Data from the Division of Research and Statistics at the Department of Labor points to education and health ser-vices as industries which grew over the course of last year. In this category a combined total of 2,400 jobs were cre-ated in 2014, for a growth of two percent. In the leisure and hospitality category, there was an even larger growth of 5.6 percent, or 2,600 jobs, over the last year.

The increase in job avail-ability locally has not gone unnoticed.

Wendy Morosoff, director of the Career Development Center at Purchase College, told the Review that, since January 2014 there has been a steady increase in employ-

ment opportunities posted to the school’s online search en-gine. According to information from the National Association of Colleges and Employers, a nonprofit which links college career services professionals with employers of new gradu-ates, employers plan to hire 8.6 percent more college graduates than they hired in 2013.

Despite the influx, Morosoff said those in pursuit of work still need to put in extra effort to ensure the best chances of be-ing hired.

“Although we may see an uptick in opportunities, this never means that one should be complacent and expect job op-portunities to come knocking on one’s door,” she said.

Morosoff suggested using social media as an effective way to network for employ-ment, as well as attending social and educational events related to a desired career.According to the Purchase College career development webpage, approximately 60 percent of job seekers find jobs through their network of contacts.

The Business Council of Westchester could not be reached as of press time.


Westchester County is one of only 12 counties in New York with an unemployment rate of less than five percent. Map courtesy New York State Department of Labor


A year’s worth of federal funding from HUD that was lost by Westchester County has been retrieved by a joint agreement between the gover-nor and area congresswoman.

The caveat for county ad-ministration officials is they are now being completely re-moved from the distribution of funds, as per the agreement.

On Monday, Gov. Andrew Cuomo, a Democrat, and U.S. Congresswoman Nita Lowey, a Democrat, announced a deal that will establish an approxi-mately $5 million community development block grant for 2015 after the federal Depart-ment of Housing and Urban De-velopment, HUD, withheld ap-proximately $23 million worth of grant money from 2011 to 2014 from the county for not being in compliance with a 2009 affordable housing set-tlement. The federal commu-nity development block grants go toward funding afford-able housing and revitalizing neighborhoods.

As part of the agreement be-tween Cuomo, Lowey and the federal government, the grant money will be funded by HUD but funneled through state pro-grams, rather than the county, and disbursed to qualifying Westchester municipalities and nonprofits that were part of the 2009 housing settlement.

Westchester County Board of Legislators Chairman M- ike Kaplowitz, a Yorktown Democrat, said “this recapture of the community development block grant monies has been a goal of all the legislators.”

The New York State Homes and Community Renewal pro-gram will distribute approxi-mately $3.3 million to fund housing improvements and rehabilitation, structure im-provements of public facilities that will serve special-needs populations and infrastructural improvements to public works such as sidewalks and streets. More than $600,000 will be available from Emergency Shelter Grants, which can be used to fund the renovation of buildings used as emergency shelters or transitional hous-ing for homeless families. And more than $900,000 will be available for the HOME

Cuomo, Lowey restore 2015 HUD funding

Investment Partnerships Pro-gram, which funds a wide range of activities including building, buying, and/or reha-bilitating affordable housing for rent or homeownership.

Kaplowitz said this money has been “lock-boxed” for the eligible Westchester entities to ensure the funding doesn’t go to other counties in the state.

Cuomo said in a statement, “This funding is an important resource for local governments and non-profit organizations in Westchester County that pro-vide everything from afford-able housing to public works improvements for their com-munities. Our administration is proud to be joining with Con-gresswoman Lowey to make this funding available once again to the groups that need it most.”

The 2011 to 2014 grant money was originally lost because of a disagreement between Westchester County Executive Rob Astorino, a Re-publican, and HUD.

The affordable housing set-tlement, reached under former County Executive Andy Spa-no, a Democrat, and HUD, re-quired the county to build 750 units of affordable housing in Westchester over a seven-year period; complete source of in-come legislation—which bans discrimination against poten-tial renters and homebuyers based on their source of in-come—and complete an anal-ysis of impediments, which is a review of the barriers affect-ing the development of afford-able housing.

As of the beginning of this year, Westchester is on pace to fulfill the 750 units require-ment, according to Ned Mc-Cormack, a spokesman for Astorino’s office. The source of income legislation was passed in 2013 by the Board of Legislators.

But the analysis of impedi-

ments remains the holdup. The Astorino administra-

tion submitted eight analy-ses of impediments to HUD, but each submission was rejected.

McCormack said the As-torino administration has done everything the settlement has required and remains steadfast in its position that the county is in compliance.

HUD disagreed and points to paragraph 32 of the 2009 settlement, which says the analysis of impediments “must be deemed acceptable by HUD.” Since that analysis has not been deemed acceptable, HUD said the county is not in compliance with the settlement and thus has withheld the four years of grant money.

Kaplowitz said the Cuomo/Lowey agreement will not bring back the four years of grant money that has been lost, and the funding is for 2015 only, with 2016 and beyond still shrouded in uncertainty.

McCormack said, Astorino suggested the state adminis-ter the funds rather than HUD, back in 2013, but was told by Congressman Eliot En-gel, a Democrat, that distribut-ing funds like that would be illegal.

“So it’s curious that it’s OK now, but it was illegal then,” McCormack said.

Assuming the municipali-ties receive the money, how-ever, McCormack called it a victory for the county on two levels. No. 1, the municipali-ties will receive the money that should never have been withheld and, No. 2, they can do so without changing their zoning codes and forfeiting home rule, which was some-thing HUD was pushing mu-nicipalities targeted in the settlement to do.


New York State Gov. Andrew Cuomo and Congresswoman Nita Lowey announced a joint agreement this week that will restore community development block grant money to Westchester County that was previously withheld. File Photos


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It’s officially here, people; the worst time of the year for sports fans.

I don’t mean it’s a bad time for fans of Section I athletics. If anything, with sectionals just ramping up, this may be the most exciting time of the winter.

But if you cast your gaze out beyond the local scene; there’s just not a lot going on.

In fairness, this happens ev-ery year around this time.

The immediacy of the NFL playoffs and the pomp and cir-cumstance of the Super Bowl annually gives way to the dol-drums of February as fans count down the days until pitch-ers and catchers report.

Sure the NHL and NBA are in full swing. But we are only around the midpoint of two long seasons, and forgive me if I can’t muster my full enthusiasm for a mid-February game between the

A long winterRangers and the Maple Leafs, who have about one win so far this calendar year.

As for the Knicks—who were essentially eliminated from the playoffs two days after the sea-son started—and the barely-bet-ter Nets, the less said the better.

This is the time of year when we begin to scramble for sports stories to keep the fires burning. And sure, it seems like we have quite a few going on.

Local sports pundits are eagerly prognosticating about Alex Rodriguez and the three-ring circus he’ll bring to camp when he reports to Tampa in a few weeks.

James Dolan recently took some time off from running a premier NBA franchise into the ground to hurl stinging accusa-tions at a critical 72-year-old Knick fan who had the temer-ity to question the Cablevision scion’s basketball acumen.

As far as the other local team, the newly-formed West-chester Knicks, it might be time to go see them play be-

fore their bench players get called up to play for their NBA counterparts and we’re left watching a bunch of stiffs who probably couldn’t hack it in an over-40 intramural league.

In the absence of any real sports news, I guess, we’ll just have to make do.

Fortunately, however, this won’t last too long. Once Spring Training starts up, we can finally start to talk about things that matter. March Madness is just on the horizon and with that comes my yearly chance to embarrass myself in the office bracket pool.

Soon enough, MLB’s Open-ing Day will be here, followed by the basketball and hockey playoffs that last roughly four months. Finally, we’ll be able to talk about sports again.

Unless Dolan sends another fan a nasty email, that is.

That will definitely grab the back pages.

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With snow on the ground and a dearth of sports stories in the works, the winter can be a bleak time for sports fans. Photo/Mike Smith

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Before she heads off to Princeton University next fall, Clarissa Carson-Rose of the girls squash team continues to be a fierce competitor, lead-ing by example. Clarissa, a senior, competes in the third slot and is one of the captains of the squad.

After shutting out Darien 7-0, the squash team won the Division 1 Fairwest League for the second year in a row. The team also recently placed fourth in the country in the United States Squash High School Nationals, Division 2, including victories over Con-estoga, Penn., and Hotchkiss,

Conn. As part of a commu-nity service project, the team also helped teach squash to youngsters at the Harlem StreetSquash program.

“Clarissa is an awesome teammate and co-captain both on and off the courts,” fellow captain Chloe Jen-nings said. “She always knows the right shot to hit during a crucial point or the right thing to say in order to motivate a fellow teammate.”

Head coach Anthony Campbell concurred.

“Clarissa has anchored and led the varsity team 1 to their most successful season,” he said. “Clarissa’s strong play and leadership were instrumental in the team’s

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accomplishments.”Clarissa practices and

competes in squash all year round and is hoping to con-tinue to play in college. The Ivy League-bound student-athlete is also very active out-side of the court, including being president of the Nation-al Honor Society and serving as a volunteer at the New Ro-chelle Humane Society.

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Titans fall lateBy mIke smITh Sports Editor

After a back-and-forth game between two local teams, it was a last-second breakaway goal that proved the difference giving New Rochelle a 5-4 win over the Rye Town/Har-rison Titans.

With just five seconds to go in the third period of a tie game on Feb. 7, Huguenot stand-out forward Kenny McLean collected a loose puck off the boards, sped past the defense and found the net to put his team on top for good.

McLean, who had been in the penalty box until 30 sec-onds left in the game, simply proved too much for the Titans to handle, said New Rochelle coach CJ Tozzo.

“When he came out of the box he had fresh legs, he was chasing the puck around,” Tozzo said. “He was just the best out there on the ice.”

It may have been a chance

for the senior to shine, but the young Huguenots, who are 6-8 on the year, have been making their own strides over the last few weeks.

On Jan. 31, they took peren-nial powerhouse Mamaroneck to the limit, falling to the Ti-gers 3-2.

On Friday, the undersized New Rochelle squad refused to back down against a deep, physical Titans team, some-thing that speaks to the prog-ress the squad has made.

“They were able to take it to us a little physically in the be-ginning,” Tozzo said. “We’ve been focusing on the details, on the little things, as the sea-son has gone on.”

The Titans ended the sec-ond period with their own last-second goal and entered the third period trailing 4-2. They surged late, putting the pressure on the Huguenots—especially with McLean in the box and knotted the score at four with a Doug Harrison goal with just 34 seconds left in regulation.

Unfortunately for the Ti-tans, it was McLean’s late game heroics that would prove the difference-maker.

“Obviously, we’re not overly thrilled with some of the goals we gave up down the stretch,” Tozzo said. “But it’s a learning experience that will pay off as this group gets older.”

With the loss, the Titans fell to 9-5-1 but should be in good

position for the playoffs which are scheduled to kick off next week. As of press time, the Titans’ record and strength of schedule should be enough to make them a sixth-seed in the Division II playoffs.


David Benko collects the puck against Rye Town/Harrison on Feb. 7. The Huguenots needed a late goal to down the Titans.

Brandon Cimino finds some open ice in the Huguenots 5-4 win over Rye Town/Harrison. Cimino and the Huguenots are currently 6-8 on the year.

Nick Ramondelli fights with Rye Town/Harrison’s William Pizzutello for the puck on Feb. 7. Photos/Bobby Begun

New Rochelle’s Arthur Liebowitz gets set to make a save against the Titans. Liebowitz made 40 saves in the 5-4 win.

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