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Stay Home: Emergency Message from Town of Mamaroneck

Gazette Staff — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 00:05:06 +0000

Via email and phone, this message from Steve Altieri urges residents to stay off the streets during the storm:

Hi this is Steve Altieri mamaroneck town administrator with an emergency ...read more...

Fierce Storm Topples Tree, Roils Sea

Judy Silberstein — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 20:29:24 +0000

A nor’easter slammed into the Sound Shore area today, bringing with it wild winds and a raging sea. Area homeowners are bracing for flooding and hoping for the best as ...read more...

VOL Elections March 16; Mayor-to-Be Already Setting Priorities

Judy Silberstein — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 01:30:02 +0000

Larchmont’s next mayor , Josh Mandell, is getting a break – at least on the political front. As the only mayoral candidate, he has been spared the ordeal of sloshing ...read more...

Data Driving District Efforts to Improve

Melany Gray — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 01:28:14 +0000

The New York State Education Department (NYSED) had delayed release of test scores and analysis from the 2008-2009 school report cards, due in February, but that did not inhibit the ...read more...

Mam’k Partners With Trust for Public Land on Hampshire Purchase

Judy Silberstein — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 01:26:50 +0000

According to a joint release from Mamaroneck Village and Mamaroneck Town on March 11, the municipalities are working with the Trust for Public Land (TPL) to pursue the possible purchase ...read more...

MHS Wrestling Coach to Lead Varsity Football

Debbie Manetta — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 01:24:54 +0000

Mamaroneck High School’s varsity wrestling coach, Anthony Vitti, will replace long-time head football coach Harry Peterson, who recently announced he will step down after 34 years. Mr. Vitti, a third ...read more...

Mets Left Fielder Landing in Larchmont

Judy Silberstein — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 01:22:19 +0000

MLB.com is reporting that Jason Bay, formerly with the Red Sox and now with the Mets, will be living in Larchmont.

Evidently, the left fielder is happy with the commute.

He ...read more...

LMC-TV Award Goes to Assemblyman Latimer: May 17

From LMC-TV — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 01:20:09 +0000

LMC-TV, the public access television station serving Larchmont, Mamaroneck and Rye Neck, is honoring NYS Assemblyman George Latimer at its Twentieth Annual Award Night, Monday, May 17 at 7 pm ...read more...

“New” Meters Speed Overnight Parking Permits

Judy Silberstein — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 01:18:38 +0000

Larchmont Village residents shopping or living the Palmer Avenue and Post Road business districts were startled and confused last week by the sudden appearance of “muni-style” meters in the parking ...read more...

2 Podiatrists, 4 Days in Nicaragua, 30 Surgeries

Charles Morelli — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 01:16:22 +0000

It was 17 degrees with 40 inches of snow and brutal, stinging, mind-numbing cold in Mamaroneck on February 12. When we landed in Nicaragua six hours later, it was 94 ...read more...

MHS Diver Theo Bodor Places Fifth at States

Judy Silberstein — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 01:14:21 +0000

Theo Bodor, a Larchmont resident, was the only high school junior to place in the top ten on Saturday, February 27th at Erie Community College in Buffalo, New York, where ...read more...

Sharehouse & MHS Partner on Furniture Drive: March 20

Melany Gray — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 01:12:36 +0000

“We’re going back where we started,” said Kate Bialo, president and executive director of Furniture Sharehouse, about the upcoming March 20 furniture drive at Mamaroneck High School. Mamaroneck was where ...read more...

MHS vs Lakeland/Panas On Demand + LMC’s 20 Game Schedule

Seth Rothman — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 01:10:06 +0000

LMC-TV has set its broadcast schedule for the spring 2010 interscholastic sports season at Mamaroneck and Rye Neck High Schools.

In addition, thanks to LMC-TV, sports fans may now view the ...read more...

Bantam Hockey Takes Marlborough Gold

Laura Lavan — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 01:06:23 +0000

The Mamaroneck Tigers Bantam A team won the March Classic tournament in Marlborough, Massachusetts during the last weekend of February.

The travel hockey team of eighth and ninth graders went ...read more...

Larchmont in the storm

Paula Eisenberg — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 04:59:16 +0000

Photographers Don Sutherland, Debbie Broder and Ruth Gyure captured the beauty of Larchmont during the big snowstorm. Enjoy the images full-size by clicking on the icon to the right of ...read more...

Cuts Bring School Tax Hike to 4.45%: Is It Low Enough?

Melany Gray — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 04:49:38 +0000

While the March 2 meeting of the Mamaroneck School Board opened on a sunny note, with good news on the district\’s energy efficiency, it finished somberly as Superintendent Paul ...read more...

More Units Requested for TOM High-Rise Plan

Judy Raab — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 04:48:58 +0000

At its March 3 meeting, the Town of Mamaroneck Board approved changes in parking regulations for three local streets and considered “slight” changes for a high-rise apartment building that has been ...read more...

Burglar Pleads Guilty to 2008 Break-ins

Judy Silberstein — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 04:47:55 +0000

Keith T. McBride, 46, from Croton on Hudson, pled guilty on March 1 to three burglaries, including one in Rye and two in Mamaroneck Town committed in August and September ...read more...

Larchmont Hells Angel Pleads Guilty in Carlton, MN

Lisa Bauman — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 04:45:04 +0000

A Hells Angels Motorcycle Club member from Larchmont, New York pleaded guilty to a felony in Carlton, Minnesota last week as part of a plea agreement.

Jeffrey Paul Amato, 43, ...read more...

Mam’k Student Greeted by Chilean Earthquake

Abi Benudis — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 04:43:34 +0000

Abi Benudis’ welcome to her college semester abroad in Santiago de Chile was an 8.8 magnitude earthquake that “literally swept me off me feet,” she reports. The Mamaroneck native, a ...read more...