HOLY NAME OF MARY HOSPITALITY MINISTRY

Welcome to The New Everything Croton, a collection of all things Croton-on-Hudson: our history, our homes, our issues, our businesses, our schools, our houses of worship -- in short, EVERYTHING CROTON.

HOLY NAME OF MARY HOSPITALITY MINISTRY--Hospitality Ministry Parishioners Dorys Hand & Lupe Criollo would like some volunteers to assist them with parish related events such as after-mass coffees. Please call the office and speak to Debra Rago to volunteer your time. 914-271-4797 x 12 Bulletin (holynameofmary.org)

BY SPECIAL REQUEST: SOME BITS & PIECES FROM CROTON IN OCTOBER AND NOVEMBER 1949

Welcome to The New Everything Croton, a collection of all things Croton-on-Hudson: our history, our homes, our issues, our businesses, our schools, our houses of worship -- in short, EVERYTHING CROTON.

BY SPECIAL REQUEST, SOME BITS AND PIECES FROM CROTON IN OCTOBER AND NOVEMBER OF 1949, courtesy of the outstanding archives maintained by the volunteers of THE CROTON HISTORICAL SOCIETY.

Click on the images below and enjoy. And since the Village Tavern is mentioned, you may also enjoy https://everythingcroton.blogspot.com/2017/10/october-1948-village-tavern-opens-in.html

SCHOOLS MUST TACKLE STUBBORNLY HIGH CHRONIC ABSENTEE RATES, COMPTROLLER WARNS

Schools must tackle 'stubbornly high' chronic absentee rates, NY comptroller warns--Nancy Cutler--Rockland/Westchester Journal News--About 1 in 3 New York public-school students was chronically absent in 2022-2023, a state comptroller's report found, and the pandemic-era issue continues to cause educational disruptions.

The comptroller's report, "Missing school: NY's stubbornly high rates of chronic absenteeism," generally mirrors a June 2024 analysis by the USA Today Network New York, "Why student absences have soared since the pandemic – and what schools are doing to help." READ MORE AT New York schools chronic absentee rates too high: comptroller report (lohud.com)