VOICE OF CROTON--SENASQUA MEET AND GREET THE CANDIATES RAVELO AND EISINGER

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A great evening at Senasqua Park where Crotonites stopped by to meet our Voice of Croton candidates Nigel Ravelo and Gary Eisinger.

REMINDER---HOLY NAME OF MARY KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS ANNUAL GOLF FUNDRAISER

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Holy Name of Mary Knights of Columbus 9th Annual Golf Tournament--Friday, September 20th, 2024--Putnam County Golf Course

This event is open to everyone regardless of skill level. We can pair individuals or incomplete foursomes.

If you are not a golfer, but interested in supporting our cause, please see the website below to sponsor / donate.

Please register by September 1st at www.crotongolf.com OR submit payment to the Parish Office and include your name, email, and phone number OR payment via Zelle to HNM KofC@hotmail.com.

The cost is $170.00 per golfer and includes green fee, golf cart, lunch, buffet dinner, and beer/soda!!!!

This tournament is our biggest fundraiser and has enabled us to provide significant support to the Holy Name of Mary Parish community as well as other worthy causes at the local and national levels. We are targeting a significant portion of the proceeds from this year’s tournament to support an initiative with Blythedale Children’s Hospital to provide specially designed gaming consoles for resident children with special needs.

CHINESE AGENT CASE IN NY HIGHLIGHTS CCP INFILTRATION

The arrest of Linda Sun, a former top-level aide to New York governors Kathy Hochul and Andrew Cuomo, as an alleged spy for Beijing has been a wakeup call to the depth and scale of the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) infiltration into American governmental bodies, according to top intelligence experts.  The Department of Justice on Sept. 3 unsealed an indictment that revealed Sun had forged Hochul’s signature and edited Cuomo’s statements to advance CCP interests on American soil and allow CCP officials to enter the United States illegally and meet with government officials. Sun’s tenure in the New York government goes back to 2009, and she spent more than 10 years (2012 to 2023) working for the governor’s office. The former deputy chief of staff was put in charge of liaising with  the Asian community MORE AT Chinese Agent Case in NY Highlights CCP Infiltration (theepochtimes.com)

EX-CORTLANDT WORKER, BUSINESS OWNER PLEAD GUILTY IN DUMPING SCHEME, DEFRAUDED THE VILLAGE OF CROTON SCHOOLS, ETC.

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Ex-Cortlandt Worker, Business Owner Plead Guilty in Dumping Scheme--September 2, 2024--Rick Pezzullo

A former longtime Town of Cortlandt employee and owner of a prominent Peekskill-based landscaping company pled guilty last week for their involvement in an illegal dumping and bribery scheme at a town facility on Arlo Lane.

Robert Dyckman, 52, former Assistant General Foreman in Cortlandt’s Department of Environmental Service Highway Division, and Glenn Griffin, 55, owner, president and principal of Griffin’s Landscaping Corporation, could each face up to five years in prison when they are scheduled to be sentenced by U.S. District Judge Vincent L. Briccetti on Dec. 5.

As first reported by Examiner Media in Jan. 2021, from 2018 until Feb. 2020, Dyckman allegedly gave Griffin and his employees unauthorized access to land behind the town’s salt dome at the end of Arlo Lane to dump hundreds of large truckloads of unauthorized materials such as thick concrete, cement with rebar, large rocks, and soil from projects outside Cortlandt.

The scheme also involved the submission of fraudulent invoices totaling more than $100,000 for work not performed...According to Williams, between 2015 and 2018, Griffin defrauded the Village of Croton-on-Hudson for work on its schools, and the hamlet of Verplanck for work at its fire department.

Williams stated Griffin made “sham, non-competitive, and inflated bids” on behalf of entities that Griffin did not work for or have authorization to submit bids on behalf of, so that Griffin would be the low bidder in a pool of purportedly competitive bids and receive public money for work on the projects.

Griffin pled guilty to one count of conspiracy to commit bribery and one count of conspiracy to commit wire fraud. Dyckman pled guilty to one count of conspiracy to commit mail fraud. MORE AT Ex-Cortlandt Worker, Business Owner Plead Guilty in Dumping Scheme | The Examiner News

9/22 ST. AUGUSTINE HOSTING BLOOD DRIVE

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St. Augustine Parish will host a BLOOD DRIVE sponsored by the Hudson Valley Blood Center on SUNDAY, September 22nd, from 8:30 AM to 2:30 PM in the Parish Hall. Please consider donating blood ~ you never know when you or someone in your family will need a transfusion. To sign up, call 1 8009332566, visit nybc.org/donate 

KAMALA HARRIS FLIP-FLOP ON PLASTIC STRAW BANS MARKS THE END OF AMERICA'S DUMBEST MORAL PANIC

Kamala Harris Now Opposes Plastic Straw Bans. America's Dumbest Moral Panic Is Finally Over. On this small issue, America has finally come to its senses. Kamala Harris' Flip-Flop on Plastic Straw Bans Marks the End of America's Dumbest Moral Panic---MORE AT Kamala Harris' Flip-Flop on Plastic Straw Bans Marks the End of America's Dumbest Moral Panic (reason.com)