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schools work to
upgrade for new year

Vox The restaurant formally BY ABBY LUBY
stood on the corner of Route CONTRIBUTING WRITER

121 and Titicus Road. It’s been a busy summer for construction projects on the North
Salem School District campus.
PHOTO: CAROL REIF
Multiple sites are being tended to by both independent contrac-
vanishes tors and school district crews, with the hope that all the work will
New project begins to take shape be completed by schools’ reopening on Sept. 8. 

BY CAROL REIF structure was about to be demolished. High on the list is constructing a new water ltration system
STAFF WRITER for the entire campus. In March, the district discovered contami-
ere was no re; the local re department had nants in the water at the Pequenakonck Elementary School and
What will rise from the rubble of Vox, the former the middle school/high school. Replacing the system is a capital
French restaurant in North Salem? been given permission by the owners to hold drills project that requires approval by the New York State Education
Department (NYSED) and the Westchester County Department
e public’s interest was piqued recently by the at the site, as it has on other renovation or demoli- of Health (WCDOH). e engineering design for the water l-
sight of re trucks at the pretty, white-stuccoed tration system at the elementary school has been submitted to the
building at the corner of Route 121 and Titicus tion projects in town. WCDOH. As soon as it is approved, the district will move for-
Road. Some passersby feared that there had been ward with the bidding process. 
a blaze, while others wondered whether the empty But within a week of all the buzz on social media,
At the middle school/high school, water ltration system de-
the site of so many family celebrations, from birth- signs have been approved and bids are being sought. A pre-bid
meeting on July 12 included a walk-through to understand the
days to anniversaries, was gone. work required. Work was scheduled to start Aug. 8. 

Well, most of it, anyway. SEE VOX PAGE 17 e district has known about the water issue for some time and
has earmarked $900,000 to be kept in reserve to cover construc-
tion costs and repairs to the water system. 

In addition, mold remediation at PQ is ongoing. After it was
discovered in May, the rst-grade wing was ultimately shut down.

e mold is believed to have been caused by a failed hot water
heater. Students were placed in temporary learning spaces for
the  remainder  of the last school year. Meanwhile, repairs began

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Nifty at 90! On Wednesday, August 4, members of the North Salem
Senior Citizens Club gathered at the Vail’s Grove Coopera-
tive for a group birthday celebration. Honoring group mem-
bers 90 and over who had a birthday over the past year, the
afternoon saw friends and family meet for food, fun, and
dancing!

Francis Tuoti and Helen Vail

James Collins, Helen Vail, Jinx Remson, and friend Lois starting
a conga line.

Mary Joyce Gene Matra provided his musical stylings on the
guitar.

PHOTOS: CAROL REIF Georgia Kindgren, Betty Pogozelski, Virginia Wiede, Mary James Collins, Helen Vail, Johanna Vail and new
Joyce, Millie Martin, and Francis Tuoti seniors club president Marianne Collins on the
Juliette Aguilar, Anna Mae Wiede, Virginia Wiede, Pat dance floor.
Hitchcock and Mary Schumann

Page 4 – North Salem News Thursday, August 12, 2021

Giving back to our heroes

BY CAROL REIF
STAFF WRITER

ere’s nothing like chilling
out on a hot day.

Bringing the sweet treats to
the tireless sta at Waterview
Hills and Salem Hills, two
healthcare facilities in Purdys,
last week was Kona Ice, mobile
purveyor of tropical- avored
goodness.

e colorful thank-you was
organized by the folks at e
Bristal, an assisted living facil-
ity in Armonk; and Right at
Home and Americare CSS,
both in-home care businesses.

It was part of their ongoing
“Giving Back to our Heroes”
initiative, said one of the orga-
nizers, Dean Brown.

“ ey’re on the front line,
doing all the hard work. We
wanted to show our apprecia-
tion for their taking care of our
seniors and our community,”
he added ursday, Aug. 5.

Accompanying Brown were
Nathan Mathews, vice presi-
dent of Right at Home; and
Chelsea Giordano, patient
relations manager for Ameri-
cares CCS in Brooklyn.

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Political polarization and
Cuomo among podcast topics

Braver Angels state coordinator is guest on
Hudson Valley Uncensored

At the top of this week’s podcast episode of ticing psychotherapist with her MSW and LCSW,

Hudson Valley Uncensored, host Brett Freeman and has moderated many red/blue workshops, and

welcomes the three editors from our Halston Me- she co-hosts monthly moderator calls. She joins

dia newspapers: Brian Marschhauser, editor of Yor- the show today to discuss how her background PHOTO: TOM WALOGORSKY

ktown News and e Katonah-Lewisboro Times; as a marriage counselor made her a perfect t for SCHOOLS

Tom Walogorsky, editor of North Salem News and Braver Angels, how she applies the principles from FROM PAGE 1

e Somers Record; and Bob Dumas, editor of her therapy practice to today’s political divide, and

Mahopac News. explains the importance of accepting one another’s

ey discuss the recent downfall of Governor di erences to move forward together as a country. May 22 and current remediation includes replacing drywall,
painting, the repair of wall organizers, replacing oor tile in one
Andrew Cuomo, and the calls for him to resign fol- Freeman breaks down the history of polarization classroom and replacing cabinets and sinks.  e district stated the
cost will be covered by its insurance carrier. 
lowing numerous allegations of sexual harrassment in the United States, and how social media has ex-
Repairs to a sanitary line at PQ began July 12. e underground
and sexual assault. You’ll hear their thoughts and acerbated this issue. She also o ers her perspective line is in the hallway and repairs include asbestos abatement, re-
moval and re-pouring of 100 square feet of cement slab and re-
opinions as they deliberate about extreme account- on how to have political debates in a civilized, re- placing oor tile.  

ability, particularly in the Me Too era, how Gover- spectful manner, the power of allowing each side to Currently, engineering plans are being drawn up to replace in-
operable HVAC units at the high school. ose plans also need
nor Cuomo might move forward either by way of have a voice, and why it’s actually necessary that we NYSED approval. 

resignation or impeachment, and avoiding a “mob not agree on everything as a society. However, drawings have been completed for the district’s Ath-
letic Fields Improvement Project, which North Salem residents
justice” mentality as these allegations have not yet approved in May and will cost the district $6.9 million. e proj-
ect subcommittee reviewed project documents on July 14 and will
stood trial or conviction at this point. Listen to Hudson be submitting project plans and drawings to NYSED on Aug. 18. 
Marschhauser, Walogorsky and Dumas chat
Smaller projects include upgrading and replacing security cam-
about local headlines, share the biggest stories from Valley Uncensored eras at the MS/HS, general cleaning and upgrading the HVAC
their respective papers this week, and give listeners podcast system in the main o ce at MS/HS, which includes carpet re-
a sneak peek at what they’re working on next. moval, asbestos abatement, door replacement and painting. 

Next, Freeman speaks with today’s guest, Randy

Freeman,his mother and one of two New York State • Visit hudson-valley-uncensored.captivate.fm
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Happily
Ever
After

e coyote tale Chasing waterfalls

Acouple of weeks ago, WHAT WAS could without frightening the Last Saturday the weather MAN
I received a phone I THINKING? child.  roughout the rest of was so nice we decided to OVERBOARD
call from Emily, my my stay, Emily was enthralled take a little motorcycle ride.
brother’s nine-year old grand- with the subject of coyotes; It’s nice to feel the wind lapping

daughter. She was laughing RUTHANN this fascination continued at your face, and it’s one of the RICK
few things I don’t mind lapping MELÉN
and very excited. SCHEFFER well after my return home.   at my face. Our destination was a

“Auntie Ruth, remember Debbie (Emily’s mom) sent day trip to Kent Falls up Route 7

when I asked you and Pop me a video of the two of them in Connecticut, with a visit to the

Pop if coyotes wore shoes? I baking cookies.   Eric Sloane Museum along the way. At the end of Dog Tail Corners

was in the back seat of the car, and we were go- “Auntie Ruth, I’m making this star cookie Road we stopped at the Bulls Covered Bridge for a photo, but you

ing on a little trip.” with green sprinkles just for you.”  can’t see the bridge at all because they built a cover over it. e good

Days before, Jack had told me how this event Her facial expression was so serious and an- news is that if you drive over it in the rain, your car stays dry the

suddenly came to Emmy. She got such a kick gelic as she held up her o ering to Auntie that whole time.

out of her question years before—she was only I wanted to hug that little girl on the spot.  As At the Eric Sloane Museum, an enthusiastic docent told us about

3 years old at the time--and had to tell Pop the video was ending:   his life and accomplishments. He was a proli c painter, author and

Pop. Jack then suggested that she share it with “And, I saw a coyote!” lover of Americana. His collection of antique hand tools is on display

Auntie Ruth. Hence, the delightful call from Now that Auntie Ruth and coyotes were there, because he viewed them as a utilitarian art form. If you’ve often

this wonderful child. I will share the history synonymous, it was time for me to make that wondered what a picaroon was, or a winnowing machine or a bark

with you. It goes like this: pairing nal and o cial: Good ole’ Amazon spud, this is the place to nd out. ere was something called a “ ail

While sitting on the front porch enjoying the to the rescue. I found two books about Frank, with eelskin thong,” which if I’m not mistaken was also the title of a

soothing sounds of water trickling down the the coyote—now our coyote had a name. As I Kim Kardashian Instagram post.

fountain at my brother’s home in California, I scrolled down the page, something caught my Eric Sloane had a lifelong fascination with weather, clouds and the

saw a dog skulking up the street.   eye: A soft, stu ed coyote wearing a red ker- atmosphere, and he was commissioned to paint the seven-story-high

“What a ratty, mangy looking dog.” chief around his neck. Two days later, cuddly mural that is on display in the lobby of the Smithsonian Air and

Upon more careful observation, I realized Frank and the two books were at my door. Be- Space Museum in Washington, D.C.

it was not a dog but a coyote.  What did you fore repacking Frank and sending him on his You can tour his studio, recreated with the tools he used and the

expect from this city-born-and-raised girl?  e way to California, I carefully printed his name books he found inspiration in all sitting there as if he just got up for

only coyote I’d ever seen was Wile E. Coyote on the red kerchief.  rank was now a member of a beer. I pictured myself painting in the studio, trying to gure out

from the Road Runner cartoon.   the family! how so much paint got in my hair, and how I might get it out, and I

Later that morning Jack and I took his John (Emily’s daddy and my nephew) and end up trying to actually use my hair to paint something, and my wife

darling three-year old granddaughter, Emily, Debbie tell me that Emily and Frank are walks in and sees it, makes a noise that I am well used to and walks

on a little day trip. As we were traveling on the inseparable, and she loves when her daddy and quickly out again without further comment. I realized it was time to

Interstate, I mentioned that I’d seen a coyote Pop Pop read her the books. Jack drives Emily go before I pictured anything else.

that morning. Emily, riding in her car seat in to day care a couple of days a week and when Kent Falls is a nice place to have a picnic or get a good sel e or

the back, picked up on this immediately. he checks her little backpack, he nds her soft take your kids. If you want to bring them back home again that’s up

“What does a coyote look like?” blanket and snug able Frank, the very perfect to you. We watched one girl set up an entire portable sel e studio

“What does a coyote eat?” nap-time duo. “ with a light ring and a tripod, and she clearly had invested some time

“Where does a coyote stay? ” e fact that Emily remembered this event in hair and make-up. Perhaps she was an in uencer, and I hear that

“Does a coyote hide at night?” with such enthusiasm just tickled my heart. We cray sh are easily in uenced, so I just hope that she was using her

“Will the coyote hurt Pop Pop’s dogs and store these kinds of memories in our hearts and powers for good instead of evil.

chickens?”   minds, and they become part of our personal You’re not allowed to scale the falls themselves, but there’s a

And the best:  “Do coyotes wear shoes?” history.  anks for remembering our special SEE MELEN PAGE 12

We answered her questions as honestly as we story, Emily. Love you, honey!

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Thursday, August 12, 2021 OPINION North Salem News – Page 9

Camp memories

As summer draws to a SEASONAL of nothing but riding my bicycle
close, the endless piles TIDBITS with 25 other girls all around
of damp, musty clothing, town, exploring places one never
towels, sleeping bags and du el sees on foot or by car. I looked

bags from adventures spent in LAURA at the age required by the time
the great outdoors begin to move
CAMPAGNA camp started. I was going to be
on to the oors of the laundry the youngest, but by golly, I was

rooms all across the country. going to be the best. Well, need-

When I was young, I was less to say, I was nothing near

involved in the Girl Scouts. I really did not like the best. I was the last in the pack, the caboose if

it that much. I was more of a tomboy and I felt you will. Not because I was cute like a little red

that the Girl Scouts were just too girly. Sewing, caboose, but because I was slow. I don’t remember

cooking, reading and doing things that were just much about those two weeks, except we always

not tomboyish enough for me. I am sure that they had dinner in our o cial Girl Scout mess kit,

had more to o er, but that is how I remember it. I sang songs around the nightly camp breu,tabnydgIowllya,Os N YOONUYROUJORBJOEBVEGEVGREURYUAYADRDRAAAAYYNNUUTTNENEETETDILDILCOCMOPMLEPTLIOETNI..O. N…
do love to cook, quilt and read now, but back then always last for many of the activities,
I just wanted to be outdoors and get my hands
dirty. Sometime in mid-winter when I was 12, a I rode my bicycle all over town for two weeks and

survived.

Girl Scout camp catalog came in the mail. I ran It seems that every little girl is a Girl Scout at ON YOUR JOB EVERYDAY UNTIL COMPLETION…

to my room and explored the possibilities. Home one point in their lives and such was the case for

Economics Camp, a week full of creative think- my daughters. When I was a Girl Scout leader GUARANTEED

ing and design. Yeah, sure. A week of following for my daughter’s troop I came across a summer

simple recipes for food I don’t like, learning to sew camp that was in need of camp supplies. I did not

a button on a shirt and how to iron the perfect research the camp at the time, I was too excited to

pleat. Pass. Horseback riding camp. Interesting, get the girls started on the activity as summer was

and it made my list of top choices, but it proved drawing near and the camp needed to get the sup-

too expensive when you factor in the riding attire plies ready for their campers. e troop and I col-
required. Nature camp. A week of counting how
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Court of Hono
On Sunday, August 8, North Salem
Troop 1 welcomed nine new Eagle Scouts.
Dylan Quadrini, Christian Du y, Ian Wo-
losyn, Eric Lange, Sebastian Fitzgerald,
Timothy Gallagher, Ian Quadrini, Aidan
Houlihan, and Andrew Costas were all
honored at an Eagle Scout Court of Honor
held at the Vails Grove Cooperative.

In addition to friends, family, and nu-
merous members of the Scout community,
the new Eagle Scouts were also honored by
Senator Pete Harckham, County Execu-
tive George Latimer, North Salem Town
Supervisor Warren Lucas, and Putnam
County Sheri Robert Langley.

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MELEN Chik-chak

FROM PAGE 8 READING, ber plantations or holding local actually sat quietly and listened
WRITING & government positions, the author for the night sounds of nature
precarious path you can walk up near the side of the water if you CHOCOLATE referred to the sound of “chik- outdoors?
want to get a nice view from the top. I’m guessing it’s the place KIM chak” in the dark of night. At
where Kent actually fell from when they named the place after him, KOVACH I remember years ago in my
because going back down wasn’t that much easier than climbing up. rst, I just assumed that it was other house, on summer nights
My summer afternoons some kind of tropical bird. with the windows wide open,
My grandmother used to take me to Kent Falls when I was a include walking, eating hearing a strange screaming
little kid. I remember catching cray sh in the brook, a fact that chocolate ice cream, But when Maugham men- sound carried across the lake. A
my wife did not believe. “No way you did that,” she said, but it’s and reading a good book. For the tioned in another story that one fox? Perhaps a coyote?
not like they run all that fast. Neither my grandmother nor the last few weeks, I have been en- of the characters saw a noisy
cray sh are around to corroborate the story, though. joying the collected short stories chik-chak on the ceiling, I got We hear daytime sounds, too,
by W. Somerset Maugham. is kind of curious. According to my in the hot summer months. e
“What did you do with them?” she asked. wonderful volume contains more internet research, a chik-chak buzzing of bees, the whirring of
I said, “I roasted them on the spit and made cray sh thermidor than 800 pages worth of excel- is a type of gecko in Southeast a speeding hummingbird as it
out of them. It’s like lobster thermidor only smaller.” lent stories written by one of the Asia, Indonesia, ailand, Singa- darts past my sunhat, the calls
She didn’t believe me anyway so why not. true masters of the short story. pore, and Malaysia. ese small of birds itting from branch to
Our nal stop was a chocolate shop in the town of Kent, where lizards can be found outdoors branch.
they peremptorily apologized for the chocolate shortage, another e author traveled extensively as well as inside homes, climb-
unfortunate by-product of the pandemic. Most of the good stu was over his lifetime. Many of these ing walls at night in search of Dogs bark, cats meow, and
already taken: fudge was sold out, no chocolate chip cookies or tree short stories are set in England, insects attracted to light xtures. crows caw. Have you ever heard
bark. All that was left were chocolates made by people who tried to other stories in Malaysia. While the chittering sounds that
ruin them by putting stu in them that was clearly not chocolate, I was reading a few of the stories e chik-chak is named for the squirrels and chipmunks make,
like coconut or fruit syrups or even liquor, which is where the term about British citizens working in characteristic chirping sounds especially when they are chasing
“chocoholic” probably comes from. Folks, the way you can improve exotic outposts overseeing rub- they make, often loud enough to each other?
my chocolate experience is by leaving a little more of it for me. wake you up in the middle of the
night. At three to six inches long, Deer are silent, majestic
Join Rick and Trillium on ursday, August 19th, 6:00PM at the the chik-chak is not harmful to looking creatures. I can recall
Armonk Concert in the Square near the Chase Bank for a little love, humans. a summer afternoon about 15
happiness and harmony, and at Black Rock Kitchen in Croton at 7PM years ago, when I was reading a
on Saturday, August 21 for more of the same! Look for Rickster Melen During the hot summer book indoors with the windows
on Facebook! Say hello at: [email protected] months of July and August, I and sliding door open for some
look forward to hearing the fresh air. I kept hearing a strange
buzzing of nocturnal insects sound coming from the back-
outside. I like to hear the sound yard. I nally walked from the
of the bull frogs near the marshy living room, through the dining
pond. I can do without hear- room and stood at the screen
ing the whine of mosquitoes.
When was the last time that you SEE KOVACH PAGE 14

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