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CONGRATULATIONS NATALIE BARILLARO

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Congratulations to sophomore shortstop and Captain Natalie Barillaro for earning All-Section at the Section 1 Softball dinner!!! Can’t wait to see what next year brings!!!

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FOR THOSE FOLLOWING THE BRIARCLIFF YESHVIVA, JUNE 2023 UPDATE, WESTCHESTER & FAIRFIELD COUNTY BUSINESS JOURNALS

Hasidic organizations demand right to worship on Briarcliff Manor campus.
By Bill Heltzel--June 7, 2023

The former Pace University campus in Briarcliff Manor has been used by educational institutions for more than a hundred years, according to a lawsuit, but cannot be used for that purpose by a Hasidic Jewish organization.

Instead of preserving the property’s historic role, Khal Torath Chaim of Rockland Inc. claims, the village “has chosen to protect a very different kind of historic character, one that perpetuates exclusion based on religious practices.”Former Pace U. property, Briarcliff Manor - more at Hasidic organizations demand right to worship on Briarcliff Manor campus (westfaironline.com)

2023 CROTON GIRLS SOFTBALL END OF YEAR DINNER

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NYC---ADAMS DUMPS 90-DAY HOMELESS SHELTER RULE TO MAKE ROOM FOR MIGRANTS

Full capacity Mayor Adams dumps 90-day homeless shelter rule to make room for migrants----The “90-day rule” had required homeless people to spend three months in NYC shelters before they could become eligible for housing vouchers to help with their rent.

BY SPECIAL REQUEST---1942 ZERO MOSTEL, THE CROTON CONNECTION: MOSTEL TO CELEBRATE WILLIAM GROPPER BIRTHDAY, HARMON PLAYHOUSE

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By special request---- COURTESY OF THE OUTSTANDING ARCHIVES MAINTAINED BY THE VOLUNTEERS OF THE CROTON HISTORICAL SOCIETY: 1942 ZERO MOSTEL, THE CROTON CONNECTION: MOSTEL TO CELEBRATE WILLIAM GROPPER BIRTHDAY, FAMOUS ARTIST, HARMON PLAYHOUSE--CLICK ON THE IMAGES BELOW.

FOR MORE ABOUT CROTON'S WILLIAM GROPPER and other Croton artists of the day, click on the link http://everythingcroton.blogspot.com/2016/02/1940-croton-artists-to-exhibit-at.html

YOU MAY ALSO HAVE AN INTEREST IN THE NEW EVERYTHING CROTON: THE TOP FIVE CROTON IN THE 1940'S POSTS, 2022

PLAYLAND WEST ON CROTON POINT

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PLAYLAND WEST ON CROTON POINT----from a post at the CHS FB page

In 1927 the Westchester County Parks Commission announced plans for a second county amusement center to be built on Croton Point, which the county had purchased in 1924. To be named Playland West, it would include a boardwalk, ice skating rink, swimming pool, beaches, a casino, automobile parking area, promenade with amusements and food court, and a series of rides. Officials predicted, “The proposed amusement park will earn millions of dollars for our county.” After the 1929 stock market crash the county abandoned the project.  This undated plan was created by Gilmore David Clarke, an American civil engineer and landscape architect who designed many parks and public spaces in and around New York City.  (Click on the photo.)

DRAG IS NEVER APPROPRIATE FOR KIDS---CHAD FELIX GREENE, AUTHOR OF SURVIVING GENDER, MY JOURNEY THROUGH GENDER DYSPHORIA

I love drag. I have done drag. Many of my favorite celebrities are drag queens. If you asked me a decade ago what I thought of, say, RuPaul sashaying into a library in full sparkling evening gown glory to read a popular children's book to kids, I would have said it was hilarious. RuPaul's Drag Race did for drag queens what Will & Grace did for gays in the 2000s. I would argue most Americans can name a favorite drag queen at this point.

But something has also changed in how Americans see drag. Drag queens went from a favorite gif to add to a particularly sassy tweet to the manifestation of everything conservative Americans fear about LGBTQ activism, especially toward children.

It might seem easy to dismiss these concerns as an overreaction or even as an expression of bigotry, but conservatives are right about this one. MORE AT Drag Is Never Appropriate for Kids | Opinion (newsweek.com)

NEWS 12--ALTERNATIVE OPTIONS TO DECOMMISSIONING INDIAN POINT DWINDLING--HOLTEC, THE HUDSON AND MORE

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Alternative options to decommission Indian Point dwindling--Jun 15, 2023, 10:27pmUpdated 7h ago
By: Jonathan Gordon

Despite a strong show of support from concerned residents, Buchanan Mayor Theresa Knickerbocker said the village will not approve any permits to store nuclear wastewater on the Indian Point site.

This was just one of the alternative decommissioning proposals community members had voiced over the last few years, hoping to avoid the dumping of treated nuclear wastewater into the Hudson River.

Holtec, which is responsible for the plant's decommissioning and the federal Nuclear Regulatory Commission shot down alternatives to dumping waste into the river throughout Thursday's Indian Point Decommissioning Oversight meeting.

Knickerbocker said there's no way to decommission the plant without some environmental impact. MORE AT Alternative options to decommission Indian Point dwindling (news12.com)

BEN APPEL---IT'S A SHAME WHAT PRIDE HAS BECOME

It’s officially what the White House calls “Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, And Intersex Pride Month.” Though I’m gay, I feel something besides pride on the occasion. The socially compulsory celebration now is something to dread. It means that for the entire month of June, you’ll get to hear about the plight of transgender people, just like you do the other 11 months of the year. It also means your social media feeds have become one long rainbow, littered with tacky memes about how we must “protect trans kids” and “respect polyamorous asexuals” or whatever. Or, if you lean right (which today means anywhere to the left of Mao Zedong), you’ll see a billion posts about how Bud Light betrayed the Founding Fathers by hiring Dylan Mulvaney as a spokesperson.

Every year now, we celebrate the holiday marked by the flying of a flag, only it’s a different flag each time, and nobody seems to know who is responsible for deciding how the flag changes or when we can stop and decide it’s enough. At first, the changes to the movement seemed merely aesthetic. They began with the Pride flag, which, in a nod to intersectionality, added black and brown stripes to represent black and brown people (Because rainbows have always been “whites only”?) and renamed it the “Progress” flag. Then, the trans triangle, in all its baby pink and blue glory, showed up as if we’d all been forced to attend some eternal gender-reveal party: “Congratulations! You’re having a boy who will grow up to dominate women’s athletics!” Trans people already have their own flag, but apparently, that’s beside the point; they need to take over the gay Pride flag, and gay people have to like it.

This design update heralded a new era for LGBT rights. Somewhere, someone is penning an entire thesis on the symbolism of this hideous new design: the way the triangle encroaches upon the rainbow, just as radical trans activism consumes the gay and lesbian rights movement and dismantles the progress we’ve fought for decades to make; the way radical trans activists advocate the medicalizing of gender-nonconforming children, who, if left alone, would likely grow up to be gay and lesbian. (“Trans the gay away” is the new “pray the gay away,” only more lucrative for drug companies.)

The interests of the new “LGBTQIA+” regime — and the “Pride month” that this soft authoritarian regime demands we all celebrate, or else — couldn’t be in greater conflict with the interests of the gay and lesbian activists who came before it. MORE AT It's a shame what Pride has become (msn.com)

WE'RE #27 ON THE LIST OF BEST SMALL TOWNS

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NEW FROM OUR FRIENDS AT EFSP---GLENDA JACKSON HAS DIED

Yesterday, 15 June 2023, British actress and politician Glenda Jackson (1936) passed away. 

She was one of the leading British actresses of the 1960s and 1970s. As a major film star, she won many awards, including two Oscars for Best Actress for Women in Love (1969) and A Touch of Class (1973).

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European Film Star Postcards: Glenda Jackson