TOWN OF CORTLANDT VETERANS FAMILY BOWLING NIGHT---6/4

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Veterans Family Bowling Night: June 4, 2024 at 6PM--Release Date: May 21, 2024

As a salute to our Cortlandt military and veteran community, the Town of Cortlandt is hosting a Veterans Family Bowling Night at Cortlandt Lanes on Tuesday, June 4 at 6:00PM. This is a free event for Town of Cortlandt veterans, active military and their families. Please RSVP by Friday, May 31st. For more information, please contact the Supervisor’s Office at (914) 734-1002. GO TO LINK BELOW:

VETERANS FAMILY BOWLING NIGHT RSVP (GOOGLE.COM)

TRANS ISSUES, SCHOOLS, WEST VIRGINIA TRANSGENDER ATHLETE DEFEATED GIRLS IN TRACK EVENTS OVER 700 TIMES...

A new court filing in a lawsuit against the Biden administration for its overhaul of Title IX claims that a transgender track-and-field athlete at a West Virginia middle school displaced girls in competition over 700 times in three seasons.

On Thursday, the Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF) a nonprofit civil rights firm, filed a motion asking the 6th Circuit Court of Appeals to stop the Biden administration's new Title IX rules from going into effect on Aug. 1, and to allow state laws that ban transgender athletes from playing on girls' sports teams to stay in effect.

The rules, issued by Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona last month, say that sex discrimination includes discrimination based on gender identity as well as sexual orientation. The administration has claimed that the change wouldn't affect sports, but attorneys for ADF say that's not true. MORE AT West Virginia transgender athlete defeated girls in track events over 700 times, new legal filing says (yahoo.com)

1959---QUICK STICK---CROTON!

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We love coming across vintage ads---and it's even better when they have a Croton connection. Click on the image from 1959 and Hudson Photographic Industries--because there once was a time when this was new and exciting.

Like this was too: THE NEW EVERYTHING CROTON: 1954--THE RAPID RIBBON CORPORATION--CROTON

SECTION 1 BASEBALL UPDATE! TIGERS DEFEAT DOBBS FERRY

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SECTION 1 BASEBALL UPDATE! TIGERS DEFEAT DOBBS FERRY

9-1 AND WILL ADVANCE TO THE CLASS B SEMIFINALS ON WEDNESDAY

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WESPAC: IS THIS SUBURBAN NEW YORK CHARITY A TERRORIST FRONT GROUP?

At first glance, the Westchester Peace Action Committee Foundation (WESPAC) seems unremarkable: a sleepy community organization with just one part-time staffer, a modest office in White Plains, N.Y., and little by way of public events.

But the group raked in $2.4 million in 2022—more than three times as much as it raised in 2020, according to public tax filings. The charity in 2022 spent nearly $1.5 million on "office expenses," a category the IRS says should only cover "supplies, telephone, postage."

"This is all very strange, it seems like they're trying to obfuscate what they're really spending their money on," said former IRS tax law specialist and nonprofit consultant Patrick Sternal. "This doesn't look like a particularly transparent organization, this filing raises all sorts of questions."

A new lawsuit could point to some answers.

In May, families of the victims of Hamas's Oct. 7 attack on Israel filed suit against National Students for Justice in Palestine and American Muslims for Palestine, both of which, the plaintiffs allege, are "collaborators and propagandists for Hamas." Buried in the suit is a brief reference to WESPAC, which the suit names as the "official 'fiscal sponsor'" of National Students for Justice in Palestine.

"The financial interactions between WESPAC and its anti-Israel clientele is intentionally opaque to largely shield from public view the flow of funds between and among them," the lawsuit reads.  READ MORE AT Is This Suburban New York Charity a Terrorist Front Group? (freebeacon.com)

SOME MORE RECENT VIDEOS, PHOTO ALBUMS AND PODCASTS YOU SHOULDN'T MISS

--PHOTOS, TRACK and FIELD Championship Results; click here

--PHOTOS, 2024 SOPHOMORE TRIP, 6 Flags; click here

--PHOTOS, Marcy Cohen captures May 2024 Northern Lights; click here.

--VIDEO, via Tom Faranda's Folly; the priest who postulated the big bang theory; go to Tom Faranda's Folly: First science - the priest who postulated "The Big Bang" theory of the beginning of the universe (typepad.com)

--PHOTOS, 1976, CROTON'S BICENTENNIAL; click here

--PODCAST, Professor Lampini's Podcast - The Films of John Carradine; CLICK HERE

--PHOTOS, St. Augustine School, The Drama Club; The Crimson House Murders; click here.

--PHOTOS, PODCAST, BY SPECIAL REQUEST; Clint Eastwood; go to THE NEW EVERYTHING CROTON: FROM OUR FRIENDS AT EFSP: CLINT EASTWOOD

SEE THE LAST EDITION OF THIS SERIES AT

THE NEW EVERYTHING CROTON: SOME MORE RECENT VIDEOS, PHOTO ALBUMS AND PODCASTS YOU SHOULDN'T MISS

IN CASE YOU MISSED IT-- THE CHRONICLE APPEALS DENIAL OF RECORDS RELATED TO THE SALE OF 'LOT A' AS A VIOLATION OF THE LETTER AND SPIRIT OF THE NEW YORK FOIL

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The Chronicle appeals denial of records related to sale of Lot A as a violation of the letter and spirit of the New York FOIL--READ MORE HERE.

BY SPECIAL REQUEST--THE SHEEP TO SHAWL FESTIVALS AT VAN CORTLANDT

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BY SPECIAL REQUEST--THE SHEEP TO SHAWL FESTIVALS AT VAN CORTLANDT---CLICK ON THE IMAGES BELOW FOR the 1970 event.

For the 1997 Sheep to Shawl, click here.

YOU MAY ALSO HAVE AN INTEREST IN THE NEW EVERYTHING CROTON: IN CASE YOU MISSED IT---THE MID-SPRING 2024 EDITION FROM THE NEW EVERYTHING CROTON: "THE CROTON KNITTER & CROCHETER TOO

ABOUT THOSE "E-BIKES", ELECTRIC BATTERIES, ETC.--NY STATE SENATE TO PASS EBIKE FIRE SAFETY BILL PACKAGE

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The Albany blueprint includes provisions that would set quality standards for batteries that power the devices, require that e-bike shops carry sufficient fire-fighting tools such as extinguishers…READ STORY AT New York State Senate to pass ebike fire safety bill package (nydailynews.com)

IN THE NEWS----THE BUTCHER OF TEHRAN IS DEAD

It’s a very good thing that Iran’s president, Ebrahim Raisi, is dead.

Raisi was a blood-splattered Khomeinist, known as the Butcher of Tehran for his role as chief executioner during a massive 1988 purge; a key protégé of current capo supremo Ali Khamenei and his most likely successor.  He was committed both to the evil ideology he espoused and to the violent repression so necessary to maintaining its grip on Iran — as witness the 2022 nationwide crackdown against Iranians protesting the religious-police murder of Mahsa Amini for daring to remove her hijab. MORE AT The Butcher of Tehran, Ebrahim Raisi, is dead: Good, but it won’t change anything (msn.com)

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I Will Shed No Tears for Ebrahim Raisi, the Butcher of Tehran | Opinion (msn.com)

40 ACRES PRESERVED IN CORTLANDT---WESTCHESTER LAND TRUST---THE EXAMINER NEWS

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40 ACRES PRESERVED IN CORTLANDT---WESTCHESTER LAND TRUST---THE EXAMINER NEWS---READ MORE AT 40 Acres in Cortlandt Preserved by Westchester Land Trust | The Examiner News

A WRAP-UP OF RECENT EDUCATION ISSUES-INCLUDES TODAY'S SCHOOL VOTE

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---Budget Vote and School Board Election--5/21---- 6:00 AM to 9:00 PM AT THE HIGH SCHOOL--MORE INFO AT School Board Election & Budget Vote Information - Croton-Harmon Schools (chufsd.org)

The blog has received many questions about "write-in" options; please make sure whatever name you write in---that it is 100% correct---or it won't count.

---Recent news stories; CLICK ON THE LINKS BELOW:

• THE NEW EVERYTHING CROTON: TEST SCORES DOWN, GPAs UP: THE NEW ANGST OVER GRADE INFLATION
• THE NEW EVERYTHING CROTON: LOHUD--2 WESTCHESTER HIGH SCHOOLS TO HELP NYS PILOT NEW WAYS TO ASSESS WHAT STUDENTS KNOW
• THE NEW EVERYTHING CROTON: SCHOOL ISSUES: THE ADVENTURE CONTINUES---NYS EDUCATION DEPARTMENT EXPLORING SCHOOL LOCKDOWN DRILL MANDATE REFORM
• THE CROTON CHRONICLE; LOW PAID CROTON SCHOOL WORKERS SHOW UP IN FORCE AT BOARD OF EDUCATION MEETING; READ MORE HERE
• THE NEW EVERYTHING CROTON: THE CROTON CHRONICLE---ELECTRIC VEHICLE ADVOCATES URGE "NO" VOTE ON PROPOSITION #2---SCHOOL DISTRICT OFFICIALS COUNTER THAT EV PURCHASES REMAIN ON TRACK TO MEET STATE REQUIREMENTS