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MATTERS COFFEE MAKES WESTCHESTER MAGAZINE - SOME NICE PIX TOO---read more at Matters Coffee Pours Top-Tier Java in Croton-on-Hudson (westchestermagazine.com)
Monday, August 15, 2022
MATTERS COFFEE MAKES WESTCHESTER MAGAZINE
MATTERS COFFEE MAKES WESTCHESTER MAGAZINE - SOME NICE PIX TOO---read more at Matters Coffee Pours Top-Tier Java in Croton-on-Hudson (westchestermagazine.com)
REALLY STUCK IN THE SEVENTIES...
Ephemera, fashions, novelties, lighting, catalog pages, and so much more. Click here to see the album.
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----Courtesy of Anthony Voz a.k. Trippyglitters....the Vintage British Argos 1976 Catalogue.....Take a blast into the past of retro goodness with this wonderful scan photostream of the entire 1976 Argos Catalog. From vintage toys, to vintage duvets, cooking tools and even lava lamps and fibre optic lights--click here. Over 200 pages!----A LOOK BACK AT THE 1970'S CROTON BUSINESS COMMUNITY; CLICK HERE.
----1976 MONSTER MASKS CATALOG! In time for Halloween! 1976-77 Franco American Catalog | Blood Curdling Blog of Monster Masks
THE EXAMINER NEWS ON THE RECENT GANNETT LAY-OFFS, A VERY DETAILED PERSPECTIVE BY ADAM STONE
THE EXAMINER NEWS ON THE RECENT GANNETT LAY-OFFS, A VERY DETAILED PERSPECTIVE BY ADAM STONE
Latest Gannett Layoffs Sting Westchester, Communities Across U.S.
Adam Stone
It was two decades ago, in late 2000, and I was 22 years old, seated in my goofy ill-sized suit in the corner office of a Head Honcho at The Journal News, interviewing for a position as a reporter.
Growing up on Long Island, anything north of New York City might as well have been the tip of Niagara Falls, all some vague, fuzzy “upstate.” I didn’t know Westchester County from North Country, New York.
If printed news, for example, wasn’t in Newsday, the Daily News or The New York Times, it generally wasn’t on my newspaper radar screen. So I was just genuinely making innocent conversation when I asked Mr. Honcho a question as my job interview was winding down.
“So what grade might you give The Journal News as an organization?” I asked, or something along those lines.
“A C-minus,” he immediately replied, with a wry grin.
In a moment, I’ll get back to my story, the brutal impact of Friday’s wrenching Gannett layoffs, and my illuminating conversation with Asher Stockler, a local government accountability journalist at The Journal News/lohud, and the secretary for the Hudson Valley News Guild, a union repping the editorial staff at The Journal News, the Poughkeepsie Journal and the Times Herald-Record.. READ MUCH MORE AT Latest Gannett Layoffs Sting Westchester, Communities Across U.S. | The Examiner News
It was two decades ago, in late 2000, and I was 22 years old, seated in my goofy ill-sized suit in the corner office of a Head Honcho at The Journal News, interviewing for a position as a reporter.
Growing up on Long Island, anything north of New York City might as well have been the tip of Niagara Falls, all some vague, fuzzy “upstate.” I didn’t know Westchester County from North Country, New York.
If printed news, for example, wasn’t in Newsday, the Daily News or The New York Times, it generally wasn’t on my newspaper radar screen. So I was just genuinely making innocent conversation when I asked Mr. Honcho a question as my job interview was winding down.
“So what grade might you give The Journal News as an organization?” I asked, or something along those lines.
“A C-minus,” he immediately replied, with a wry grin.
In a moment, I’ll get back to my story, the brutal impact of Friday’s wrenching Gannett layoffs, and my illuminating conversation with Asher Stockler, a local government accountability journalist at The Journal News/lohud, and the secretary for the Hudson Valley News Guild, a union repping the editorial staff at The Journal News, the Poughkeepsie Journal and the Times Herald-Record.. READ MUCH MORE AT Latest Gannett Layoffs Sting Westchester, Communities Across U.S. | The Examiner News
CONGRATULATIONS CROTON EMS AND CROTON EMS EXPLORER POST 5500
2022 OSSINING F.D. PARADE----On Friday night Croton EMS & Croton EMS Explorer Post 5500 took to the streets in OFD's Annual Fireman's Parade. The members of CEMS & Explorer Post 5500 worked very hard last week preparing 55B1 for the parade. All their hard ultimately payed off and for the second time this year brought home the gold of Best Appearing Ambulance. READ AND SEE MORE AT 2022 Ossining FD Parade - Croton On Hudson Volunteer EMS (crotonemsinc.org)
IN THE NEWS: KAROL MARKOWICZ--TOO LITTLE, TOO LATE, DISBAND THE CDC NOW
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Last week, the CDC released updated COVID-19 guidance. The agency now believes we should be taking an individual approach to mitigating our COVID risk. In layman’s terms, we are all Florida 2020 now.
The new guidance suggests ending “test to stay” so kids exposed to someone with COVID-19 can remain in school. Of course, this was only related to known exposure. People are exposed to COVID all the time, but only children who were aware of that exposure were punished. Kids lost so much throughout the pandemic because of terrible, irrational CDC guidance like this.
The fresh guidance also says people without symptoms no longer need to be routinely tested.
And the CDC permits us to come within six feet of each other again. Finally! Husbands, tell your wives it’s on!
But most important, the agency has finally faced some truths about the vaccine that it should have long ago. “CDC’s COVID-19 prevention recommendations no longer differentiate based on a person’s vaccination status because breakthrough infections occur.” And it’s admitted that “persons who have had COVID-19 but are not vaccinated have some degree of protection against severe illness from their previous infection.”
Cities across the country fired teachers, firefighters, health-care staffers, police officers, sanitation workers and so many others because they refused to get vaccinated. Many of these people had worked through the early days of the pandemic — and contracted COVID many times over — while we baked banana bread and patted ourselves on the back for ordering from Uber Eats. Now the CDC acknowledges this was the wrong thing to do. Whoopsie! MORE FROM MARCOWICZ HERE.
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AND IN CASE YOU MISSED IT:
DR. FAUCI, DR. BIRX; MORE HERE
ANNUAL REQUEST--BACK TO SCHOOL: PENCIL CASES, THREE-RING BINDERS, LUNCH BOXES, CROTON & MORE, A NOSTALGIC LOOK
Welcome to The New Everything Croton--a collection of all things Croton, our history, our homes, our issues, our houses of worship--in short, EVERYTHING CROTON.
The Seasonal aisle at Croton SHOPRITE is stocked with everything you need for back to school and college dorm stuff too. That reminded us how much the "Back to school" shopping list has changed...and prompted Everything Croton's Annual Nostalgic Look at Back to School.
(Click on the photos and links.)
In the 60's and beyond, it was often time to shop for new shoes. And you could generally count on at least one trip to Woolworth's...in the Beach Shopping Center of Peekskill....ah, those three ring loose-leaf binders.
And remember those gummed "hole reinforcements".....some of us can still taste the glue.
You'll need a lunch box too---and while most are being made of (OH-NO!) that dreaded plastic these days---and a far cry from the ones you may remember--some things never change---and that's the latest television or movie characters who grace the "lids".
SEE THEM ALL AT THE OUTSTANDING VINTAGE LUNCH BOX FLICKR ALBUM HERE.
Good food makes great memories...and there would always be those FOODSTOPS EVERY CROTON COLLEGE STUDENT MISSES.
A few years back NICK DERBABIAN wrote a very cool article about the connection between food and home. YOU CAN READ MORE ABOUT IT HERE.
Featured are the Croton Mini Deli, Croton Colonial Diner, Bagels on Hudson and four more hotspots.
Click here to read Nick's article.
And of course for many of us, back to school meant a new uniform (if you attended Catholic school) or anything else you might need from Elliott's in the Upper Village.
P.S. ROBBINS IS OFFERING SCHOOL KIT SERVICE AGAIN THIS YEAR - SEE MORE AT Facebook - PLEASE CALL 914-271-5000.
Note: All content on this blog is Copyright (c) by Maria Cudequest and by the posters who have contributed specific content. All material is for your personal use only. No content or photos may be republished or sold, without prior written consent from your editor and the individual who contributed the content in question. For permissions or questions about this policy, please contact the editor.
The Seasonal aisle at Croton SHOPRITE is stocked with everything you need for back to school and college dorm stuff too. That reminded us how much the "Back to school" shopping list has changed...and prompted Everything Croton's Annual Nostalgic Look at Back to School.(Click on the photos and links.)
In the 60's and beyond, it was often time to shop for new shoes. And you could generally count on at least one trip to Woolworth's...in the Beach Shopping Center of Peekskill....ah, those three ring loose-leaf binders.
And remember those gummed "hole reinforcements".....some of us can still taste the glue.
You'll need a lunch box too---and while most are being made of (OH-NO!) that dreaded plastic these days---and a far cry from the ones you may remember--some things never change---and that's the latest television or movie characters who grace the "lids".
See what we mean with some vintage lunch boxes too---check out your editor's vintage lunch box Flickr photostream----Bonanza, Lost in Space, The Munsters, The Jetsons and more!
SEE THEM ALL AT THE OUTSTANDING VINTAGE LUNCH BOX FLICKR ALBUM HERE.
Good food makes great memories...and there would always be those FOODSTOPS EVERY CROTON COLLEGE STUDENT MISSES.
A few years back NICK DERBABIAN wrote a very cool article about the connection between food and home. YOU CAN READ MORE ABOUT IT HERE.
Featured are the Croton Mini Deli, Croton Colonial Diner, Bagels on Hudson and four more hotspots.
Click here to read Nick's article.
And of course for many of us, back to school meant a new uniform (if you attended Catholic school) or anything else you might need from Elliott's in the Upper Village.
P.S. ROBBINS IS OFFERING SCHOOL KIT SERVICE AGAIN THIS YEAR - SEE MORE AT Facebook - PLEASE CALL 914-271-5000.
Note: All content on this blog is Copyright (c) by Maria Cudequest and by the posters who have contributed specific content. All material is for your personal use only. No content or photos may be republished or sold, without prior written consent from your editor and the individual who contributed the content in question. For permissions or questions about this policy, please contact the editor.
ON THIS DAY IN 1939, THE WIZARD OF OZ PREMIERED IN HOLLYWOOD...PLUS THE LATE ROBERT SCOTT'S TREATISE ON THE FILM
1939 "The Wizard of Oz", American musical fantasy film adaptation of L. Frank Baum's book, premieres at Grauman's Chinese Theatre, Hollywood; directed by Victor Fleming and King Vidor with cast featuring Judy Garland (Dorothy), Ray Bolger (Scarecrow), Jack Haley (Tin Man), Bert Lahr (Cowardly Lion), Frank Morgan (Wizard), Billie Burke (Glinda), and Margaret Hamilton (Wicked Witch)........Check out the late Robert Scott's treatise on the film at
Postscripts: 'Pay No Attention to That Man Behind the Curtain' (notorc.blogspot.com)
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AND HERE'S IS SCOTT'S PIECE ON GONE WITH THE WIND GONE WITH THE WIND; MORE HERE
IN THE NEWS: ATLANTIC OP-ED CLAIMS CATHOLIC ROSARY HAS BECOME "AN EXTREMIST SYMBOL"
As praying the rosary is an important part of life for many Catholics---and the Knights of Columbus have a long history of charitable endeavors just about everywhere---this article is particularly disturbing. Nevertheless, it should be read. You are encouraged to do so.
Atlantic op-ed claims Catholic rosary has become ‘an extremist symbol’
The author claimed, 'Catholics are a growing contingent of Christian nationalism
Warning that Catholics are a "growing contingent of Christian nationalism," Panneton commented that "Catholic imagery now blends freely with staple alt-right memes that romanticize ancient Rome or idealize the traditional patriarchal family."
'Atlantic contributor Daniel Panneton declared that the Catholic rosary has become a "symbol" of religious radicalism.
The rosary is a string of beads or knots used by Catholics as they pray a sequence of prayers, but one writer warned they have taken on a far darker meaning in modern times. "Just as the AR-15 rifle has become a sacred object for Christian nationalists in general, the rosary has acquired a militaristic meaning for radical-traditional (or ‘rad trad’) Catholics," Panneton claimed in the Sunday piece titled, "How the Rosary Became an Extremist Symbol.".......Panneton slammed an entire online ecosystem for disseminating imagery featuring Christian warriors both historical and modern, suggesting that "social-media pages are saturated with images of rosaries draped over firearms, warriors in prayer, Deus Vult (‘God wills it’) crusader memes, and exhortations for men to rise up and become Church Militants." MORE AT
THE ATLANTIC ARTICLE IS HERE.
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HOLY NAME OF MARY MONTESSORI SCHOOL---THAT TIME OF YEAR---ANNUAL PLANT & BAKE SALE
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Welcome to The New Everything Croton, a collection of all things Croton--our history, our homes, our issues, our businesses, our schools, ou...
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Welcome to The New Everything Croton--a collection of all things Croton, our history, our homes, our issues, our houses of worship--in short...
