PUBLIC HEARING NOTICE, ACCESSORY APARTMENTS

In case you missed it - Accessory Apartment issue---See more at Public Hearing Notice - Local Law Introductory No. 21 of 2023 | Croton-on-Hudson NY (crotononhudson-ny.gov)

MORE CHRISTMAS COOKIE RECIPES

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MORE CHRISTMAS COOKIE RECIPES:

-----The Christmas Cookie Recipes Our Food Editors Make Year After Year via MARTHA STEWART HERE.

-----Ginger refrigerated cookies Grandma's Vintage Recipes: GINGER REFRIGERATED COOKIES (grandmasvintagerecipes.blogspot.com)

-----Lemon Butter Cookie Press Cookies Grandma's Vintage Recipes: LEMON BUTTER COOKIE PRESS COOKIES (grandmasvintagerecipes.blogspot.com)

-----French Christmas Cookies FRENCH CHRISTMAS COOKIES 

MORE COOKIE RECIPES AT THE NEW EVERYTHING CROTON: FROM 2022---BY SPECIAL REQUEST---COOKIE RECIPE FROM BAKED BY SUSAN, THE RIVER JOURNAL

YACHT CLUB, CROTON LANDING, POST-STORM PHOTOS

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YACHT CLUB, CROTON LANDING, POST-STORM PHOTOS---click on the images courtesy of Dennis Kooney.

MAYRA CAGUANO, MEX-TO-GO, IN THE NEWS, RIVER JOURNAL

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Shop Talk: From Working in the Kitchen to Running Her Own
Nearly 20 years ago, Mayra Caguano was working in the kitchen of one of Westchester County’s most iconic restaurants, Peter Pratt’s Inn. She was asked by the inn’s then-owners, Craig Purdy and Jonathan Pratt, if she would work at a new take-out restaurant they planned to open in Croton-on-Hudson called Mex-to-go. Caguano jumped at the chance and it turned out to be the beginning of an adventure that led to her owning and growing Mex-to-go for the past 17 years. MORE AT Shop Talk: From Working in the Kitchen to Running Her Own – River Journal Online – News for Tarrytown, Sleepy Hollow, Irvington, Ossining, Briarcliff Manor, Croton-on-Hudson, Cortlandt and Peekskill

THE CROTON CHRONICLE VILLAGE JUSTICE WATKINS, A FOLLOW-UP

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Over the past two issues of The Gazette, Croton Village Justice Sam Watkins startled many villagers with two short letters concerning security in our district schools. He signed them using his official title.

In the first, Dec 7-13 issue, Watkins delivered an alarming warning that there were no armed officers present at the schools, and called for the hiring of armed School Resource Officers (SROs.)

Then, the following week (Dec 14-20 issue), Watkins took it back, writing that he had visited the schools and found that the scenario he had imagined—a “crazed person” entering with a gun and meaning to do harm—was “near impossible in the way I had feared.”

“So I was wrong…” Watkins wrote in the second letter.

What went on here?

The question of SROs in schools, and whether they are the best way to keep students safe, has long been controversial and subject to debate. The Croton Chronicle will publish a report on these questions later this week. The Croton Chronicle | Michael Balter | Substack

IN CASE YOU MISSED IT--- CROTON CHRONICLE--SCHOOL DISTRICT TRANSPORTATION PERSONNEL REPORT PROBLEMS WITH ELECTRIC SCHOOL BUSES.....

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THE CROTON CHRONICLE------School district transportation personnel report problems with electric school buses, including excess battery draining in winter and limited charging capacity at the depot.

The December 3 meeting of Croton's Sustainability Committee discussed the experiences with our first purchased electric school bus after more than a year of service.

MICHAEL BALTER
DEC 12, 2023

The December 3 meeting of Croton’s Sustainability Committee had a full agenda (see here for the minutes of the meeting) but the last topic concerned issues with our school district’s electric buses. Here is that segment of the minutes:

READ MORE AT School district transportation personnel report problems with electric school buses, including excess battery draining in winter and limited charging capacity at the depot. (substack.com)

FROM 2022---BY SPECIAL REQUEST---COOKIE RECIPE FROM BAKED BY SUSAN, THE RIVER JOURNAL

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Shortbread Cookies When You’re Short on Time

 
Susan O'Keefe —One of my favorite childhood memories was going through my mother’s recipe box and choosing what Christmas cookies we were going to bake that year. I grew up with three sisters, and we all had our favorites....MORE AT Shortbread Cookies When You’re Short on Time  – River Journal Online – News for Tarrytown, Sleepy Hollow, Irvington, Ossining, Briarcliff Manor, Croton-on-Hudson, Cortlandt and Peekskill

THE TOP THREE CROTON POINT POSTS, 2023

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THAT TIME OF YEAR....ALL THROUGHOUT THE MONTH OF DECEMBER---EVERYTHING CROTON'S ANNUAL "THE TOP POSTS "...AND NOW....THE TOP THREE CROTON POINT POSTS, 2023

#1---COUNTY PRESSED FOR MAINTENANCE PLAN AT CROTON POINT GRASSLANDS; CLICK HERE

#2---THE MYSTERY OF MONEY ISLAND; CLICK HERE 

#3---THAT PETITION FOR YOUR CONSIDERATION: Stop Westchester County's ban on off-season beach access at Croton Point.  IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO SIGN......FOR MORE INFO, CLICK HERE