JUST A REMINDER--ST. AUGUSTINE PARISH FESTIVAL DATES ARE JULY 24-27TH! $100 RAFFLE TICKETS NOW AVAILABLE

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THE DATES FOR THIS YEAR’S FESTIVAL ARE WEDNESDAY, JULY 24, through SATURDAY, JULY 27. The $100 Raffle Tickets are now available at the Parish Office Monday through Friday, 9:00 AM to 3:00 PM. Someone will walk away with $10,000, $5,000 or four (4) $1,000 prizes. Maybe it will be you but only if you take a chance!! Only 400 tickets will be sold at $100 each so get together with family members or friends to share the cost of a ticket. 20240519B.pdf (parishesonline.com)

WWII ARTICLE, THE WOMEN WHO SERVED, NAVY NURSES, AMONG THEM CROTON'S GEN TITTEL, COURTESY OF THE CROTON HISTORICAL SOCIETY

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WWII ARTICLE, THE WOMEN WHO SERVED, NAVY NURSES--AMONG THEM CROTON'S GEN TITTEL, COURTESY OF THE CROTON HISTORICAL SOCIETY--click on the images below.

VIDEO, SECTION 1 BASEBALL CHAMP PARADE

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Franki of Franki's Grill (now in its tenth year!) sent us this facebook video of the police accompanied parade--our Croton Section 1 Baseball Champs!

CLICK HERE TO SEE THE VIDEO

CLICK HERE TO SEE PHOTOS FROM PATRICIA LYNCH

FOR MORE ABOUT FRANKI'S GRILL, VISIT Franki's Grill (frankisgrillcroton.com)

THANK YOU HOLY NAME OF MARY KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS

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HOLY NAME OF MARY Thank you! Knights of Columbus.   Thank you to the Knights for preparing a Communion Brunch for parishioners. Many thanks to all those in attendance who donated toward the Faith Formation Scholarship Fund!

IN CROTON, SECRECY IS A CHOICE...WHY HIDE THE LOT A DEVELOPER PROPOSALS? A LETTER FROM PAUL STEINBERG

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A LETTER TO THE GAZETTE FROM PAUL STEINBERG..............

To the editor:

David Hume said that free will is the most difficult of the metaphysical questions, but Hume never lived in Croton. It may be true that “nobody is being forced to live here” and yet eight thousand people do live here. Most of them quietly pay their steep property taxes, shovel their sidewalk in the winter, and don’t ask questions. On occasion some of those eight thousand are curious as to what is going on inside the offices of the Municipal Building. New apartment construction is one of those instances of resident inquisitiveness.

I personally think that development of Lot A is a good idea. Some people disagree, and that is where a community-oriented government would put the options on the table and work to build a consensus. When those running the government believe that residents are best seen and not heard, there is no transparency, let alone consensus.

Croton government has a history of operating in the shadows, particularly when it comes to real property decisions. Lot A continues this tradition. In response to a solicitation, the village got proposed development options for Lot A. What was proposed? Nobody knows. We are told that a particular developer had a proposal which was selected by a task force and that the Croton Board of Trustees is engaged in “present or imminent contract awards” for development of the property.

What are the details? What was in the rejected proposal? Is the contract presently awarded, or is it imminent? If the latter, how “imminent” is the award?

In a government lacking transparency, it is common to use the Freedom of Information Law to get the data necessary for informed citizen participation. Unfortunately the folks who run Croton believe in neither freedom of information nor in citizen participation. So it is not surprising when in response to a journalist’s inquiry, the village refused to disclose the proposals to develop Lot A.

The technicalities of the village refusal are based on Public Officers Law section 87(2)(c). But let us remember a critical point: the decision to keep residents in the dark is a choice made by the Village Manager, and he serves at the pleasure of the Mayor and Board of Trustees. Leaving aside the merits of the FOIL rejection, the fact is that the people who run our village have made a choice to keep us in the dark.

At some point in the “imminent” future, our rulers will present us with a fait accompli and there will be no legal basis for keeping the Lot A development documents secret. Of course by then our input will not matter. Some might argue that our input wouldn’t matter anyway, but it might be nice for appearance sake to pretend that we have a say in large-scale housing developments which will—for better or worse—become a permanent part of our village.

The Mayor is correct: Nobody is being forced to live in Croton. Nor is anyone forcing the Mayor and Village Manager to govern in secret. The FOIL law does not prevent disclosure of the Lot A proposals. Refusal to disclose the imminent development plans (and rejected development plans) for the village-owned land is a choice made by the Village Manager and trustees.

--Paul Steinberg, Croton-on-Hudson

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YOU MAY ALSO HAVE AN INTEREST IN THE NEW EVERYTHING CROTON: 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

MORE FROM THE 5/23/2024 HOLY NAME OF MARY MAY CROWNING

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On 5/23, Holy Name of Mary held their annual May Crowning.

Click on the image from 5/26 Holy Name bulletin---a very special event.

For more about Holy Name of Mary, visit Holy Name of Mary - Croton-on-Hudson, NY

RAY BLUE AT THE WCT IN OSSINING---THE GAZETTE--THOMAS STAUDTER

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THIS WEEK'S ON THE BEAT AT THE GAZETTE---THOMAS STAUDTER----RAY BLUE AT THE WCT IN OSSINING---PAGE 12--THE GAZETTE DOES NOT HAVE AN ONLINE PRESENCE BUT IS SOLD JUST ABOUT EVERYWHERE--Should it be sold out, you can contact the editor at thegazette.us@gmail.com

CROTON BASEBALL SECTION 1 CHAMPS---5-3 WIN OVER RYE NECK--SECTION 1 CHAMPS!!!!!!

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COURTESY OF PATRICIA LYNCH---CROTON BASEBALL CHAMPS! Parade police escort into town around 1:30 today.  CLICK ON THE PHOTOS BELOW.

UPDATED---VIDEO THE NEW EVERYTHING CROTON: VIDEO, SECTION 1 BASEBALL CHAMP PARADE

UPDATED---https://theneweverythingcroton.blogspot.com/2024/05/5-2-tiger-loss-to-spackenhill-at-state.html

BY SPECIAL REQUEST--AH THOSE EXPERTS---NEW FROM THE BROWNSTONE INSTITUTE AND IAN MILLER

We’re in the middle of 2024, and the “experts” still won’t give up their ridiculous defense of Covid mandates.

By now, the evidence against the effectiveness of Covid policies and so-called “interventions” is overwhelming. Mask mandates were a spectacular failure, with the most heavily masked populations often seeing worse results than cities, counties, or countries with little to no masking.

Vaccine mandates and passports were an unmitigated disaster; coercion created mistrust, and resistance and in some cases may have led to unnecessary, damaging side effects.

School closures, as we have clearly learned, were a tremendous, world-changing disaster. And it was made all the more frustrating by the fact that we had examples across the globe showing that they weren’t needed.

None of that’s stopped those committed to maintaining the fantasy of Covid mandates from desperately seeking to validate their belief system. And that desperation just led to one of their most absurd claims yet...read more at 'Experts' Fail to Argue That Mandates Worked ⋆ Brownstone Institute

MEMORIAL DAY WEEKEND, CROTON SENIOR CLUB, PHOTOS

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Approximately 40 Croton Senor Club members kicked off the Memorial Day weekend with a talk by American Legion Post 505, Commander, Bill Tuttle. Club president Bob Anderson, read the poem Flanders Fields and a poem about the unknown soldier and discussed the wearing of the poppy and that Memorial Day is a day of remembrance and honor for the fallen. He also mentioned that the moment of silence occurs on Memorial Day at 3 pm, when we should stop what we're doing for a minute and reflect on those who have sacrificed for what we have. (ALL PHOTOS, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED BOB ANDERSON)

Coffee and a delicious cake were served to finish the meeting. CLICK ON THE PHOTOS BELOW.

The Croton Seniors are always happy to have new members join and enjoy club activities. Contact the recreation department at 914-271-3006 or club president Bob Anderson 914-271-3168 for more information. The seniors meet at the municipal building at 11 a.m. Fridays and at Senasqua Park on the last Friday of the month during the summer.

BY SPECIAL REQUEST AND BACK FOR 2024: THE CROTON GARDENER! #3

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BY SPECIAL REQUEST AND BACK FOR 2024: THE CROTON GARDENER! #3:  It's Rose and Peony season!!!

---KNOCK-OUT ROSES (click on the photo) are so easy to grow---indestructible---disease resistant---and so fast growing!  READ AND SEE MORE ABOUT THEM AT https://www.knockoutroses.com/

---IT'S PEONY SEASON; check out this pest and disease list at https://americanpeonysociety.org/learn/diseases-and-pests/

AND MOVING ALONG:

--UT OH, SPIDER MITES! EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT THEM; go to  What Are Spider Mites and How Do You Get Rid of Them? | The Family Handyman

--TOMATO PLANT TIPS: SEVEN OF THEM! Gardening: A tomato lover’s 7 tips for growing them big – AgriNews (agrinews-pubs.com)

--GROWING LOTS OF BASIL!  SEE THE VIDEO HERE.

--26 POPPY FLOWERS YOU SHOULD KNOW ABOUT; READ MORE HERE.

SEE THE LAST EDITION OF THE CROTON GARDENER #2 at THE NEW EVERYTHING CROTON: BY SPECIAL REQUEST AND BACK FOR 2024: THE CROTON GARDENER! #2; A WORD FROM THE NYSDEC--CHECK YOUR TREES, MAY INVASIVE SPECIES NEWS, DISEASES

And don't forget--poison oak, poison ivy, poison sumac! THE NEW EVERYTHING CROTON: SPECIAL EDITION OF THE CROTON GARDENER 2024: POISON IVY, POISON SUMAC AND POISON OAK

And BEWARE THE GIANT HOGWEED; THE NEW EVERYTHING CROTON: BEWARE THE GIANT HOGWEED, YOUR EVERYTHING CROTON ANNUAL ALERT 2024, A VERY DANGEROUS PLANT

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MORE FABULOUS VINTAGE WEBSITES, FINDS, ETC. FROM EVERYTHING CROTON

As always, some wonderful websites, finds, oldies but goodies, special requests and more.  

FOR THOSE OF YOU WHO LIKE TO DECORATE FOR MEMORIAL DAY, FLAG DAY, JULY 4TH AND/OR ALL THE PATRIOTIC HOLIDAYS, you can create some patriotic storefront buildings via Paul Race and Howard Lamey. Click on the photo to the right.  And they say: This project is another in our Tribute to Tinplate(tm)" series, a tribute to the tinplate villages that were served by tinplate trains in the early 1900s. SEE MORE AT Building Flag Day Store Fronts - from Big Indoor Trains(tm)

Okay---now you'll need some accessories:

--From BMC Toys BMC Marx Plastic Army Men Marching US Soldiers - OD Green 27pc Figures – BMC Toys

--From Pick On Us: 100 Count Flag Toothpicks United States Toothpick Flag - 2.5 Inch – Pick On Us, LLC

MOVING ALONG:

--Fun with "foamiron"; craft a Christmas angel---to make,  click here 

--FAIRY HOUSES: Make an Easy Mushroom Fairy House - Paper Glitter Glue

AND The Winter Wonderland Fairy House - Paper Glitter Glue

AND Make a Daisy Fairy House - Paper Glitter Glue

--MORPHY AUCTION, JUNE 7TH AND 8TH; SOME OUTSTANDING THINGS HERE; Catalog - June 7 & 8, 2024 Soda Pop & Advertising Las Vegas (morphyauctions.com)

--AND FINALLY, GONE BUT NOT FORGOTTEN, MERCURY CARS AND S&H GREEN STAMPS TOO! CLICK HERE

SEE THE LAST EDITION OF THIS SERIES AT THE NEW EVERYTHING CROTON: MORE FABULOUS VINTAGE WEBSITES, FINDS, ETC. FROM THE NEW EVERYTHING CROTON

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