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Family New Year's Celebration in New Rochelle To Aid Children's Museum
NEW ROCHELLE, N.Y. -- Families can welcome 2016 with their little ones at New Rochelle’s annual “Ring in the New Year at Noon” event on Thursday, Dec. 31.
It takes place at New Roc City, an entertainment and retail complex in downtown New Rochelle, from 10:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.
Tickets to the event, a fundraiser for the Westchester Children’s Museum, are $5 per family of four. The price of admission includes a goodie bag for each child, organizers said.
Phase One of the new museum, which overlooks Long Island Sound in Rye, opens this February. According to its website, the 22,000-square-fo…
Briarcliff Musician Performs At Ossining Photography Exhibit
OSSINING, N.Y. – Art and music were melded during a recent show at in Ossining.
Acoustic blues guitarist Phil Dollard provided the sound background to “Fragments,” a display of photographs by Robert Olsson, on Saturday, Dec. 5, at the Steamer Firehouse, home of the Ossining Arts Council.
Olsson’s photographs focused on "unnoticed, mechanical landscapes," according to the council.
Dollard, a Briarcliff Manor resident, played original and cover tunes. He has performed at coffeehouses around the region and is the co-winner of the 2015 Build a Song Award at Clearwater.
Robert Stava…
Gov. Christie Recalls U.S. Sacrifices On 'Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day'
TRENTON, N.J. -- Gov. Chris Christie, declaring Monday, Dec. 7, as “Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day,” in New Jersey, issued a statement on the deadly attack that plunged the country into World War II.
The Japanese bombing of the U.S. Navy base and other military installations on the Hawaiian island of Oahu in 1941 killed more than 2,000 sailors, Marines, and soldiers, and wounded more than 1,000 others. Close to 200 aircraft were destroyed.
The attack, Christie said, shattered the nation’s domestic tranquility but strengthened its “resolve against forces of oppression and hate.”
In the afterm…
Skype-a-docent Tour To Bring Hill-Stead Museum To Fairfield Library
FAIRFIELD, CONN. -- Want to tour an historic homestead in Farmington without leaving your seat at the Fairfield Library?
The library will be conducting a virtual tour of the Hill-Stead Museum from 10:30 - 11:30 a.m. on Wednesday.
The tour, via Skype, will allow participants to view the rooms and artifacts on a screen while chatting with a live docent.
Hill-Stead was built in 1901 by Alfred Atmore Pope, an American industrialist and art collector, and designed by his daughter, Theodate, a noted architect.
Among Pope’s vast collection are works by Edgar Degas, Claude Monet, Mary Cassatt, Ed…
Herbst, Trumbull Town Officials To Be Officially Sworn In
TRUMBULL, Conn. -- First Selectman Timothy Herbst, re-elected last month to his fourth term, and a host of other town officials, will be sworn in Monday, Dec. 7.
The ceremony will take place at 7 p.m. at Trumbull High School, 7 Strobel Road.
Also to be sworn in, and their offices, are:
Town Clerk: Suzanne Burr Monaco.
Treasurer: Anthony Musto.
Board of Finance: Scott Zimov, Elaine Hammers, Bill Haberlin.
Board of Education: Michael Ward, Lucina Timpanellli, Paul S. Lavoie, Marie Petitti, Jeffrey M. Donofrio, Suzanne Testani, Loretta Chory.
Board of Assessment Appeals: Jeffrey Craw.
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