FAUCI RESPONDS TO EX-CDC DIRECTOR'S DISTURBING LAD-LEAK SUPPESSION ACCUSATION

Fauci Responds to Ex-CDC Director’s ‘Disturbing’ Lab-Leak Suppression Accusation----Fauci on Thursday forcefully denied suppressing the lab-leak theory in the early days of the pandemic, after former CDC director Robert Redfield accused the former chief White House medical adviser of sidelining him from conversations about Covid’s origins. READ MORE AT Fauci Responds to Ex-CDC Director’s ‘Disturbing’ Lab-Leak Suppression Accusation (msn.com)

CONGRATULATIONS TO THE FALL AND WINTER TEAMS QUALIFYING AS SCHOLAR-ATHLETES BY THE NYSHAA

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FROM THE CROTON HARMON BOOSTER CLUB FB PAGE - Talk about Tiger Pride!!!! Congratulations to our Fall and Winter teams for qualifying as Scholar-Athletes by the New York State Public High School Athletic Association!!! A team must have 75% of the players with a GPA of 3.5 (90) and above to qualify their team to be honored. Croton Harmon Fall Teams Distinguished are:

Girls Cross Country, Boys Cross Country, Field Hockey, Girls Soccer, Boys Soccer, Girls Swimming, Girls Tennis, and Volleyball

Winter Teams: Girls Indoor Track, Boys Indoor Track, Girls Basketball,
Boys Basketball and Girls Ski Team
Wow!!! Go Tigers!!! 

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NEW FOM TRAVALANCHE: OF SHERMAN BILLINGSLEY AND STORK CLUB

I’d certainly heard about New York’s famous Stork Club all my life, but learned more than I ever knew I had any use for in the year 2000, when I was working at the New-York Historical Society, and we did an exhibition and public program series on that bygone celebrity mecca in conjunction with the release of Ralph Blumenthal’s book Stork Club: America’s Most Famous Nightspot and the Lost World of Cafe Society.  

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GINGOLD LETTER TO THE EDITOR, HOLTEC, RADIOACTIVE WASTE WATER ETC.

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THE FOLLOWING LETTER FROM JOEL GINGOLD APPEARS IN THE MOST RECENT EDITION OF THE GAZETTE

Dear Dana and Pete,

You are certainly to be commended for your proposed legislation to prevent Holtec from dumping tritiated water into the Hudson, and especially for your commentary supporting the bill. I heartily agree that the psychological toll that it will take on the residents of the Hudson Valley is as damaging as the discharge of the radioactive water itself. Especially since there are better, albeit more expensive, alternatives to Holtec’s plans.

However, even if your bill should pass, one very large question remains. Does New York State possess the legal authority to prevent such dumping in the face of existing federal regulations?

It is my understanding tat, some decades ago, the federal government preempted the states and reserved to itself all regulation of radioactive materials and their impact on the public. As you are aware, at the last meeting of the Indian Point Decommissioning Oversight Board, the statement was made on numerous occasions that, while the state controlled non-nuclear discharges, control of radioactive releases is the purview of the federal government, most notably the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). Thus, if Holtec’s discharges are within the limits of current federal regulations (which I believe they will be), they can proceed regardless of what the state may say or do. Clearly, a legal opinion regarding the state’s jurisdiction is imperative in this instance.

One additional area of exploration is whether the proposed discharge contains boron, which is often added to spent fuel pool water of the type Holtec is planning to discharge. If it is borated, the state may be able to prevent the dumping by focusing on the boron, rather than the tritium.

What seems to be missing from the current hullabaloo is the fact that an identical scenario has been playing out for the past couple of years at the Pilgrim Plant in Massachusetts, also being decommissioned by Holtec. However, in that instance the opposition to the dumping is being led by U.S. Senators Markey and Warren and Congressman Keating in addition to all of the state and local officials and environmental and citizens’ groups. Yet Holtec remains adamant that they will dump the contaminated water into Cape Cod Bay. 

Even though our officials and organizations have been aware of the situation at Pilgrim, and its parallels to Indian Point, for over a year, we have heard nothing from anyone until just recently. And where are our federal officials, Senator Schumer, Senator Gillibrand, former Congressman Jones, and our current Congressman Lawler? Their silence has been deafening. 

The absence of our federal representatives is especially disheartening because the major problem at Indian Point is the failure of the NRC to adequately regulate and oversee decommissioning projects. The NRC has continuously relaxed its regulations, granted numerous exemptions, etc., etc., putting residents near these plants at greater risk than they might otherwise be.

Here too, Senator Markey has tried to take the NRC to task for its lax regulation, but he has not received any support from New York’s federal officials.

So maybe our best course of action is to bring as much pressure as possible on our federal officials to simply get the NRC to do its job.

Sincerely,

Joel E. Gingold

2023 SUMMER CAMP REGISTRATION BEGINS

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2023 Summer Camp Registration Begins--Monday, March 13th, 2023--Recreation Department  

Starting Monday, March 13th, Camp registration forms will be available in the Recreation Department, the Croton Free Library, and online on the Recreation Department website. Early registration is encouraged, as space is limited. Questions? Call the Recreation Department at (914) 271-3006. 

FAUCI IN THE NEWS---SAYS REDFIELD'S CLAIM THAT HE WAS SIDELINED HAS NO BASIS IN REALITY

Fauci: Ex-CDC chief Redfield’s claim he was sidelined has ‘no basis in reality’
By Victor Nava--March 9, 2023 7:14pm

Dr. Anthony Fauci accused former Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director Dr. Robert Redfield of lying in front of Congress when he alleged that he was “sidelined” by Fauci from internal debates about the origin of COVID-19 for pushing the lab leak theory.  “He is totally and unequivocally incorrect in what he’s saying, that I excluded him,” Fauci told Fox News host Neil Cavuto on Thursday. Read more at Fauci: Ex-CDC chief Redfield's claim he was sidelined has 'no basis in reality' (nypost.com)