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Facebook post used to collar unlicensed dogs

BY BRIAN MARSCHHAUSER STOCK PHOTO/METRO NEWSPAPER SERVICE ters, it feels creepy and unethical,” the resi- ‘If somebody alerts us to it,
EDITOR dent said. we can’t ignore it .
also received letters. is is our job.’
With tensions running high and CO- “I know nothing is ‘private’ on social me- Town Clerk Janet Donohue said her of-
VID-19 at a fever pitch, a member of a pri- ce works with the dog control o cer on –Town Clerk Janet Donohue
vate Facebook group made up of Lewisboro dia,but when a post that was supposed to be enforcement of dog licenses. “If we feel that Town of Lewisboro
citizens had an idea to lighten the mood: fun and a way to brighten up a day during there are dogs that are in town that are not
Pet photos. COVID turns into getting threatening let- licensed, we send what we think is a friendly if a human has been bitten, Donohue said.
letter,” Donohue said. Licenses are used to prove that a dog’s ra-
Nearly 200 members played along, shar- Some residents said the word “harboring” bies shots are up to date “for the safety of the
ing pictures of dogs, cats, and even horses. felt overly dramatic for the situation, but community,” Donohue said.
But ve weeks later,some received a surpris- Donohue said that language comes directly
ing letter in the mail. from the state’s Department of Agriculture “We try to educate the community as
and Markets. Some residents are fostering much possible via email blasts, brochures,
“It has come to our attention that you dogs, watching them for someone else, or newcomer packets that are given out by
may be harboring an unlicensed dog(s),” have service dogs.“Harboring”encompasses our Parks and Recreation Department,” the
read a letter from the town of Lewisboro. every scenario, Donohue explained. town clerk added.
“Please be advised that ALL dogs must be
licensed according to New York State Agri- e town clerk said nobody in her o ce e resident who spoke to e Katonah-
culture and Markets Law.” is actively monitoring social media to crack Lewisboro Times said they posted an old
down on unlicensed dogs. picture and did not currently have any dogs.
If the information was not true, residents Regardless, they said, private social media
were directed to contact Joan Dooley, the “We have more important work to do,” pages should “never be combed through for
town’s dog control o cer. Otherwise, they Donohue said. “We’re working diligently in the bene t of anyone”—including the town,
were told to license their dog by a speci c this o ce and have been during COVID the media, and private business.
date. and so forth. It’s not something that we’re
looking for.However,if we receive a call into “We should be all working together to
“If by that date you have failed to li- this o ce, we can’t ignore it either.” make our community a safe and beautiful
cense your DOG(S) an appearance ticket place to live, and this feels adversarial, not
may be issued and you may be required In this particular case, Donohue said, her cooperative,” the resident said.
to appear before the Lewisboro Justice o ce received an anonymous tip about the
Court,” the letter continued. Facebook post. “If somebody alerts us to it,
we can’t ignore it,”she said.“ is is our job.”
A resident who spoke to e Kato-
nah-Lewisboro Times on the condition Donohue stressed the importance of li-
of anonymity said they received the let- censing dogs, which costs $10 for spayed/
ter after participating in the Facebook neutered dogs and $18 for intact dogs. In-
group’s post on Friday, Feb. 12. Several formation about licensed dogs is especially
other people in the group stated that they helpful if a dog has been found missing or

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THURSDAY, APRIL 1, 2021 YourNeighbor THE KATONAH LEWISBORO TIMES PAGE 3

Lewisboro author’s new novel a hit with librarians

Fiona Davis’ ‘ e Lions of Fifth Avenue’ a New York Times Best Seller

BY NICK TRUJILLO by checking out books by Agatha Chris-

STAFF WRITER tie and Nancy Drew novels from libraries

around the country.

Fiona Davis was a lot of things before she “I love books where you don’t know what’s

became an author. She began her career as a going to happen next,” she said. Davis said

theater actress in New York City,working on that being inspired by Agatha Christie

and o Broadway. She obtained her master’s comes with some internal pressure. “Any-

degree from Columbia’s School of Journal- thing that’s clever has been done by her,”she

ism and worked as both an editor and a jour- said.

nalist before writing her rst novel in 2016. Following Christie’s lead,Davis likes to ll

Now, Davis has authored ve historical her novels with lots of plot twists and unex-

ction mystery novels, each centered around pected turns. She said she likes to “use c-

a famous New York City building. Her most tional characters to make the story do what

recent book, “ e Lions of Fifth Avenue,” I need it to do,” but also bases certain char-

was released in July of 2020 and takes place acters on real people, such as the librarian in

at the New York Public Library. e novel “ e Lions of Fifth Avenue.”

received national recognition as a New York “She’s modeled on an actual librarian who

Times Best Seller and as a “Good Morning worked at Columbia’s Butler Library in the

America”book club pick last August. 1990s, when $1.8 million of rare books were

Davis is a South Salem resident and has stolen over the course of three months,” said

lived in Westchester for over 15 years. She Davis. She added that following the release

rst moved to the county with her ex-hus- of the book, librarians from all corners of the

band, living in Bedford. Following her di- country reached out to thank her for shin-

vorce, she wanted to remain in Westchester ing a light on the librarian profession. e

and fell in love with South Salem. librarian in her novel is the protagonist of the Fiona Davis’ most recent release, “The
Lions of Fifth Avenue”
“Westchester always felt like the right story, so, Davis added, “that’s why I think it’s

place. I think because my parents are both a big hit with library audiences.”

English and there’s something very Brit- Writing novels on historically important

ish about the landscape here with the stone New York City buildings that are centuries PHOTO: DEBORAH FEINGOLD the places and looking around,” Davis said.
walls and the old houses and the horses,”she old has allowed Davis to explore the history For her second novel “ e Address,” set in
said. of the city and its inhabitants in a unique Fiona Davis, New York Times best-selling the Dakota, she said “being able to wander
way. author around that building from the basement to
Shortly after her move to the hamlet, the

Lewisboro Library reached out to Davis to “For me, nding a landmark building that the very top oor where the maids used to

set up an author talk,which took place virtu- people know well and then diving into its ences of working on Broadway, of going to live, to me was just awesome.”

ally last November. “It was just a wonderful history and seeing how its residents and the plays and hearing dialogue and why certain Early in the process of writing “ e Ad-

opportunity to talk to your neighbors,” she building itself have changed over time, or dialogue worked, and certain ones just fell dress,” Davis met Andrew Alpern, an ar-

said. how they haven’t, is just a perfect way to sum at,”Davis said.“Later as a journalist, having chitectural historian of New York City, to

Davis has also spoken at the libraries in up the turn of the centuries,”she said. to structure an article and interview people discuss the historic Manhattan apartment

Ridge eld, Bedford, and North Salem. “ e Davis has owned an apartment on the and do research, it all led to the point where, building. Now, Davis speaks with Alpern

Lions of Fifth Avenue” has been selected to Upper West Side of New York City for when I had a story to tell, which was about before she starts to write her novels.

be read by the Lewisboro Library for their three decades and has watched as the city the Barbizon Hotel for Women, I was ready “Before I start researching any book, I

senior book group on April 5. has evolved over the years. “It’s just been so to do it.” take him out to lunch. He knows so much

“My love of libraries really came from the interesting watching the city change over Her novels have focused on the Barbi- about the history of the city,” said Davis. “I

anxiety of being in a new place every three time and watching the skyline turn from zon, the Dakota, Grand Central Terminal, nd all these interesting gems of inspiration

years,” Davis said. “ e one thing that was something traditional to something mod- the Chelsea Hotel and the aforementioned that eventually work their way into my sto-

always a constant was the local library,which ern,”she said. New York Public Library. For “ e Doll- ries.”

we’d visit every week. I’d pile up on books Writing novels did not come naturally to house,” her book about the Barbizon, she Davis’ next novel is scheduled to release

and go home and read them.” Davis. She draws from her experiences as an interviewed women who stayed there in the early in 2022 and will be centered around

Her father worked as a chemical engineer actress, a journalist, an editor, and a novel- 1950s and 1960s and learned about their the Frick Collection, a historic art museum

and was transferred to a new location every ist to create her books. “In my 20s, I couldn’t experiences in the building. on New York City’s 5th Avenue.“ ere’s al-

three to ve years, so Davis spent time liv- imagine being someone who wrote a book. “I think because I trained as a journal- ways so many buildings. I joke around that

ing in Texas,New Jersey,and Utah as a child. at was what other people did,”she said. ist at Columbia, I tend to really like going by the 30th book, I’ll be doing a gas station

She discovered her love of the mystery genre “It was kind of gathering up these experi- out and interviewing people or getting into on the corner of 11th Avenue,” she said.

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LEWISBOROTOWN BOARD

New installations of outside wood boilers prohibited

Some residents argue that new law doesn’t go far enough

BY TOM BARTLEY of more than a year. Even with Whittaker said he and oth- defendant in our suit.” Marcia Cutler invoked a study
CONTRIBUTING WRITER that much warning, he said, the ers didn’t understand the scope e new law’s language begins by the Northeast States for Co-
town would likely be sued by an- of the new code and again asked ordinated Air Use Management,
Stopping short of outlawing all gry burner owners. whether it would contain a grace by noting,“ e Town Board of the an eight-member clean-air con-
outside wood boilers, the Lewis- period leading to removal of ex- Town of Lewisboro has received sortium that includes New York
boro Town Board ruled last week Instead, the code amendment isting burners. numerous complaints regard- State. She said the study found
that those smokey home heat- adopted at last week’s (March ing outdoor woodburning boilers that outdoor wood boilers lack
ers—targets of “numerous com- 22) regular meeting allows cur- “Where are the other people,” concerning their pollution of the the emission controls that wood-
plaints”—must shape up or snu rent outdoor boilers to remain. Parsons replied, “in other parts of atmosphere and their safety.” burning stoves, for example,
out. With a town-issued permit and town?” “commonly use.”
code adherence, they may operate In a public hearing prior to
e board imposed restrictions between Nov. 1 and March 31, Councilman Tony Goncalves adoption of the revised code, “ is creates increased toxic
on any existing units, including a burning only seasoned rewood intervened, making clear, “ ere Whittaker was among more than and particulate emissions,” she
seven-month ban on their use in and untreated lumber and obey- is no sunset in this current law. a half-dozen residents deploring said. “Smoke from outdoor wood
warmer weather, then went on to ing other restrictions. But if seasoned wood is not be- the burners as noxious, smoke- boilers contains carbon monox-
forbid any new installations and ing used, and if a lot of smoke is belching nuisances. No one spoke ide, nitrogen and sulfur oxides,
require permits on those already e amended code makes no being generated, we can suspend in their defense and no speci c VOCs [volatile organic com-
heating water and homes. mention of an out-and-out ban, the permit.” places where they’re in use were pounds] and chlorinated dioxins,
leaving some residents, Robert T. identi ed. which the NIH [National Insti-
But the board quietly dropped Whittaker of Cross River among “But there is no de nite sun- tutes of Health] has determined
the notion, discussed at a work them, confused. An outspoken set period,” Whittaker pressed. But Ruth Post, from the Ka- are human carcinogens.”
session early last month, of get- advocate of the ban, he sparked Could the current burners con- tonah section of Lewisboro, said
ting rid of existing outdoor boil- a testy exchange over boilers tinue to be red up, he ques- she lives “near the home that Later, in his own indictment of
ers. Banning the units, which can with Supervisor Peter Parsons. tioned, during a ve-month-long most people are talking about outdoor wood boilers, Neil Cut-
cost thousands to install, would “I’m unclear,” he said. “Does that cold-weather season? tonight.” at burner has a ected ler found “a number of shocking
almost certainly bring lawsuits, mean there’s not going to be a daily outings with her dog, Post things” in a state Health Depart-
the board was warned. sunset, or grace, period for people “Unless we do what we said said. “ ere are mornings when ment report on “OWBs, as they
who are using them now?...Are that we will do,” Parsons said, the smell is so strong,” she told seem to be called.” For example,
Moreover, if the board did de- you saying they can continue us- “which is to look hard for a way the board, “I turn and walk in the he noted, “ e particulate emis-
cide to ban burners already in use, ing them?” to prevent that.” other direction.” sions from one OWB are equiva-
Town Attorney Greg Folchetti lent to the emissions from 205 oil
told the March 8 work session, “You’re a lawyer,” Parsons shot Whittaker remained dissatis- In separate statements, Marcia
the uprooting should begin only back, not directly answering. “I’m ed.“Without a sunset provision,” and Neil Cutler of South Salem SEE BOARD PAGE 7
after a so-called “sunset” period sure you’ve read the law.” he predicted, “this is ultimately cited reports by di erent agencies
going to end up in court, and I’m to buttress their complaints.
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BOARD helpful to her health.” Lewisboro and other commu-
e hearing’s only speaker
FROM PAGE 6 nities, like Bedford, are the in-
who questioned the need for
furnaces or 8,000 natural-gas town legislative action, Dean troduction of police body cam-
furnaces.” Travalino of South Salem, sug-
gested the code change could eras, which have not previously
A second Katonah area resi- put Lewisboro in con ict with
dent, Stacey Zuck, came armed state or federal regulations, and been worn; increased training
with her own study. Like Post, perhaps both. “ e situation
Zuck said she also lives near looks terrible to me...I really in anti-racism and recognizing
the outdoor burner drawing so feel bad for the people,” he said.
much attention. Acting on a implicit bias and dealing with
recommendation by the state’s Like two other lawyers
Department of Environmental weighing-in at the hearing— mental-health and domestic-
Conservation, Zuck said, she Folchetti, the town attorney,
formally measured her neigh- and Whittaker, the OWB op- violence situations; and allow-
borhood’s air quality on a mon- ponent—Travalino, also a law-
itor. yer, predicted the dispute will ing anonymous complaints to
likely wind up in court if resi-
Zuck, who spent a year as a dents muster “compelling evi- be lodged against the police.
Seoul, South Korea, resident, dence.”
said the monitor recorded e latter provision came under
“double the amount it is on bad POLICE REFORM
days in Korea, where everybody ADOPTION re from residents when it was
has to wear masks and notices
come to everyone’s phones with e Town Board, as expect- proposed.
a skull on it.” ed, adopted the ndings of a
citizen panel that has examined Lewisboro plans to increase
Expressing opposition to the Lewisboro policing for more
boilers in personal terms, How- than a half year with an eye to its patrol manpower by putting
ard Rosenbaum of South Salem recommending improvement.
cited his wife’s upper respira- two o cers per shift on the
tory condition. It forces her e results of the study are
to sleep with an inhaler at her due in Albany by April 1. Gov. road instead of one. e move
side and the bedroom window Andrew Cuomo following or-
slightly opened, when possible, dered the statewide policing is expected to reduce response
he said. But in recent months, review last June following the
Rosenbaum told the board, “I’d killing of an unarmed Black times and ZpriotovmideerbaocfkGupo.ldenOs N YOONUYROUJORBJOEBVEEVRERYYDDAAYY UUNNTTILILCOCMOPMLEPTLIOETNI..O. N…
open the window a crack and man, George Floyd, by a white Jeremy GGUUAARRAANNTTEEEEDD
she’d say, ‘I smell smoke.’” policeman in Minneapolis
Bridge, who did not serve on
As a result, he said, “I have to Among the “reform and re-
close the window, which is not invention” steps adopted in the citizen panel but who has

been a frequent critic, called its

work “a real failure.” ON YOUR JOB EVERYDAY UNTIL COMPLETION…

Among other things, he said, GUARANTEED
the committee did not respond

to complaints by “several people

of color and marginalized-com-

munity members” who related

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EDITORIAL

NYS legislation will hurt community newspapers

Sen. Harckham’s co-sponsored bill another nail in the co n for our industry

New York State Senator have been treated di erently in ment with the State of New – made from organic materials ing newspapers with the cost of
Peter Harckham is a recognition of the fact that they York to increase their usage of such as soy and linseed oil. recycling will result in layo s,
co-sponsor of legislation provide a public bene t, that recycled newsprint to 40 per- further eroding citizen access to
that shifts the responsibility and they can make a signi cant con- cent by the year 2000. Recycling In November 2020, the EPA essential local news and infor-
costs of recycling from mu- tribution to public education on damages the ber in newsprint, reported the following recycling mation.
nicipalities to the producers of recycling, and that they are not a so a minimum of 50 percent rates:
packaging and paper products. packaged good like other mate- new ber is required to maintain Newspapers are good citizens,
rials in the recycling stream. quality. Newsprint with too • Plastic – 8.5 percent and they are cheerleaders and
e legislation is called the little new ber tears when the • Aluminum – 17.2 percent watchdogs for the communities
Extended Producer Responsi- Newspapers perform an im- presses are running and causes • Rubber/leather – 18.2 they serve. New York’s news-
bility Act, and in other coun- portant role in our democracy, the ink to blot. percent papers will be pleased to enter
tries around the world, newspa- and they are not a consumable • Glass – 25 percent into a voluntary agreement to
pers have been exempted from product – there are no contents Newsprint accounts for less • Newspapers – 68.2 percent support, promote and educate
these recycling initiatives. New and no packaging – the two than 7 percent of solid waste in Newspapers should be ex- readers and community lead-
York should follow suit. are indistinguishable. Treating a typical community. empted from this legislation ers about the importance of
newspapers like packaged goods because they already recycle at recycling. New York’s legislators
In Canada, this product-fo- discriminates unfairly against Newspapers are environmen- a rate far higher than any other should consider the devasting
cused approach is referred to as newspapers – the packaged tally sound. Publishers use the recyclable product. impact this legislation will have
product stewardship. And while goods industry makes no invest- remains of what other industries on newspapers, and subse-
each Canadian province has ment in contents of their pack- discard, recycled ber. Newspa- e proposed legislation will quently, citizens’ access to local
adopted di erent stewardship ages, just the packaging itself. pers are compostable (you can not increase or improve the journalism.
models, there are strong simi- use them in your vegetable gar- recycling of newspapers – it
larities in how newspapers are Further, newspapers have den), they are re-manufactured will simply shift the cost of Sen. Harckham, if you care
treated. eir approach is con- been good stewards of the en- (used to produce home insula- recycling from municipalities about community journalism,
sistent with how newspapers are vironment for decades. In 1989, tion and packaging materials). to newspapers. Newspapers are please do the right thing and
managed in recycling regimes New York’s newspaper industry already su ering from revenue exempt newspapers from this
all over the world. Newspapers entered into a voluntary agree- ey are reusable, biodegrad- declines caused by COVID 19 legislation.
able, and the ink is non-toxic and big tech platforms. Burden-

Nightmare!

READING, watching “ e Exorcist” in a and evil stepmothers. Two Boogeyman made their way to lakebed where occasional pillars
WRITING & rundown movie theater out on hundred years ago, parents read America. In Southern states, of mist can be seen rising from
CHOCOLATE Long Island. I never paid good “Hansel and Gretel” or “ e the word “booger” referred to a the water.
KIM money to watch Texas Chainsaw Robber Bridegroom” as they demon or ghost.
KOVACH or Freddy Kruger lms at the tucked their young children into Also known as “ e Great
movie theaters. But I did see the bed at night. Try falling asleep I was surprised to learn that Meadows Fog,” this marshy
Iam not a fan of horror mov- original 1970s movie, “Carrie.” after that! the famous Spanish painter, swampland was feared by locals
ies or horror books. As a I screamed, along with every- Francisco Goya, painted a for the annual malaria outbreaks
child, I recall watching the one else in the audience that e scary creature known as frightening scene in 1797 with starting in 1850. Since malaria is
black and white 1930s movies of night, when the hand came up the Boogeyman is referenced in the title, “Que Viene el Coco” carried by mosquitoes, residents
“Frankenstein” and “Dracula” on from the grave at the end of the stories around the world. From translated as “Here Comes the dreaded the hot summer months
the TV set in our living room. movie! Eastern Europe to the Brit- Boogeyman.” e haunting living near the swampland since
After my family watched Alfred ish Isles, West Africa, South image is of children cowering they often lost friends and family
Hitchcock’s classic, “ e Birds” Why do people like to be America, the Middle East, Italy, in fear in their mother’s arms members to the disease each
on TV, I walked upstairs to my scared? Stories, books, and and Spain all had their own ver- as a cloaked gure approaches. year.
bedroom and screamed when I movies have been scaring the sions of the Boogeyman. ese Again, try sleeping after seeing
saw what appeared to be a small pants o of humans for liter- tales were often used by parents that! Local lore suggests that a
brown bird coming out from ally hundreds of years. In to frighten children into good series of murders also took place
underneath the linen closet door. Germany, brothers Jacob and behavior. If the Boogeyman appears out in the vicinity in the 1920s.
It turned out to be one of my Wilhelm Grimm popularized of the fog and mists, he might be In more recent times, reports
brother’s socks. the idea of telling and reading e Boogeyman, or Bogey- spotted somewhere near Shades of paranormal activity include
scary stories to children. First man, was described in the 1500s of Death Road in Warren claims of seeing dead people
As a teen, I remember watch- published in 1812, the collected in England as a hobgoblin that County, New Jersey. e locals walking along in the mist at
ing late night scary movies on stories known as “Children’s tormented humans or played refer to this six-mile two-lane night on Shades of Death Road.
Chiller eater. I also remember and Household Tales” presented pranks. Other countries created road as “Shades.” According to
dark tales of children lost in the tales with references to a goblin the internet site, Weird NJ, the Kim Kovach has nightmares if
woods, goblins, ghosts, witches, who rises at night from a swamp road winds past Jenny Jump she eats dark chocolate after 2 p.m.
or bog. Over time, tales of the State Forest near an old, haunted kimkovachwrites.com

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LETTERS April features events

Lewisboro needs Explicitly homophobic and transphobic for everybody
LGBT+ Pride Month jokes were strewn all over Lewisboro Face-
book pages in 2020 and 2021 alone—“girls at

To the editor, urinals”, “my pronouns are pig noises”—and

Wondering why Lewisboro needs LGBT+ more. wish I could have had this course

Pride Month? Let me tell you: I asked Lewisboro residents to add their NEWS & growing up: the Skyhawk Sports
NOTES Academy will hold “Beginning
I went through Lewisboro’s entire K-12 pronouns on Town Board Zoom calls to make MARK Golf.” e April dates are the 20th
JEFFERS and 27th at Katonah Memorial
curriculum whose only LGBT+ character in transgender and nonbinary residents feel safe Park. Participants will learn the

any book was a man with predatory impulses and welcome. In response, residents signed on

who coerced someone into sex in a back room. with usernames that openly mocked pro-

Do you know what it’s like as a teenager to be nouns. fundamentals of swinging, putting,

told that’s what being LGBT+ looks like, and Just one year ago, I watched as scores of body positioning, etiquette, and

then have to participate in seminars about it town residents clamored onto Lewisboro Welcome to “News & keeping score. e program is

with other 15-year-olds? Town Board meetings to deny the existence speci cally designed for the entry-

I received no education from KLSD’s of homophobia and transphobia in this town, Notes,” where we look at level player, simplifying instruction

health curriculum on navigating same-sex be- with voices so loud and numerous that they the happenings here in so that young players can make an

havior in a safe and healthy way. My straight forced our town government to abandon a Westchester County… easy and e ective transition onto

cisgender classmates? ey received curated resolution stating that it so much as con- April is a big birthday month the golf course.

sexual health education. demns homophobia, among other inequities. for the Je ers family. My wife, Did you know that April 3 is

Numerous transgender friends of mine Our town—both our government and resi- daughter, sister, and many dear “National Love Our Children

have been harassed by JJHS students and dents—owe repair to our LGBT+ community. friends all celebrate, so right after Day”? I am very fortunate to have

faculty for their gender identity, to the point A $1,000 budget to celebrate Pride Month I take out a loan for gift buying, three wonderful daughters and look

of attempting suicide. is a small but powerful statement. ank you, I will write this week’s “Birthday forward to celebrating this day and

I’ve witnessed many young boys get physi- Councilwoman Jane Crimmins, for standing Bash” edition of “News & Notes.” all days with them.

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e gift of a lifetime

In our family, this week brings that day’s newspaper headline de- inch, 37-pound frame almost an
with it not only the prom- clared, the U.S. had just invaded illusion.

ise of spring, but the moist Iraq. e world was up in arms anks to Harrison’s passion

remembrance of 18 springs ago and our world was spinning at for sports—he played basket-

that is cause for pause, re ection, dizzying speed. ball in Yorktown Athletic Club

pride, gratitude, and eternal love. “Hope springs eternal in the among peers virtually twice his

When Elyse’s and my son and human breast,” wrote 19th Cen- size and was a sportswriter—I

Elissa’s brother Harrison needed tury poet Alexander Pope. learned the inner strength it

his third open-heart surgery In that spirit, tethered to the takes to hold your head high

in 2003, the rst available date oxygen tank that let both him even when low to the ground.

o ered us by Children’s Hospital and us breathe easier while he anks to his canny insights

of Philadelphia was March 20. was quarantined in our Yorktown and way with words, I learned—

We took that as a divine sign of Heights home for the prior 11 when he addressed classmates as

providence. It’s my birthday. weeks, Harrison walked purpose- a speaker at the 2001 Mildred E.

Philly is the city where Har- fully through the hospital to his Strang Middle School gradu-

rison sprang to life in 1987 in appointment with destiny, full ation—“Dreams do not come

Pennysylvania Hospital, where of the same combative spirit as easily, but if you stretch enough,

Rocky Balboa’s son also was born, his Philadelphia soulmate of the nothing is out of reach.”

in the movies. Oddly enough, silver screen, whom he idolized as

upon arrival, Harrison even had a an underdog hero. BIRTHDAY GIFT PROMISE

bit of a shiner under one eye. Starting a secret diary the

TINY AS TOM THUMB night before his surgery, we later

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Fifteen years later, it also were not at all alike, though, characteristic con dence by

seemed serendipitous that we had is in physicality. e rare form noting that the next day he

returned to Harrison’s birthplace of dwar sm Harrison had was fully expected to “give my dad a

for a critical, even risky, operation. never fully identi ed, but it refreshing birthday gift wrapped Harrison Apar didn’t let his size stop him from competing in

It was the onset of spring, and stunted his growth short of even in esh—a son’s healthy heart.” basketball for Yorktown Athletic Club.

the opening round of the NCAA the legendary Tom umb of Less than 24 hours after

March Madness basketball tour- P.T. Barnum fame. writing those words, Harrison cruelly crushed. After sudden my birthday gift, or its bearer.

nament, with Harrison cheering What we—and anyone who emerged from the operating cardiac arrest on March 21, the Harrison was gone.

on his dad’s alma mater, Syracuse ever met him—grew to greatly room with his dad’s birthday gift best e orts of a befuddled team

(which went on to win its only admire is a fortitude, self-esteem, pulsing proudly. of six doctors surrounding his SEE APAR PAGE 17

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Downhill from here

THE ARTIS WAY MAN authorities if a crime were to
OF MEMORY CARE OVERBOARD be committed near my car.
IS NOW OPEN “Help! Someone is trying to
RICK steal my Dodge Dart!” I shout,
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New Residents in live in the area respond, help-
Briarcliff Manor! There’s nothing nicer ing the thieves make o with
than taking a bicycle my car so they don’t have to
At Artis, our residents ride on a warm March listen to that damn beeping
are not de ned by day, because with the leaves anymore. “And do yourself a
their dementia. o the trees the sun hits you favor and hit the gym, because
We help them from everywhere, and you those pants are cutting o
be who they’ve can invade peoples’ privacy your circulation.”
always been! by looking in their windows
from miles away. First, you e bike ride would be a
To find out more about Memory Care, should make sure you are well great time to stop and smell
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Check out our other nearby community in Chestnut Ridge. t into my knapsack. I like to march of the cycle of life. eir
bring my own camera instead ceaseless song seems to say to
of just using my phone, in case their mate, “We’ve got to get
I need to snap a mugshot and the hell out of here, this place
call my lawyer at the same is going to evaporate in two
time. Make sure you pump up days, max.” Further down the
your bike’s tires before you get trail a snapping turtle sunned
started. You may be thinking that itself on a log, casually snap-
I’m someone who never runs out ping its gum. In the trees a pi-
of air, but you never know. leated woodpecker tapped out
a Morse code to say, “Watch
e bike rack is a source of out world, I haven’t even begun
possible injury before you even to pileate yet.”
mount the bike. Mine has six
straps that are supposed to Every couple of miles on the
attach to di erent sides of trail is an “Emergency Call
the car’s liftgate. Once you’ve Box” for your safety, which
lifted the liftgate and it’s now made me extremely hungry.
parallel to the ground, you Why would that make me
reach up and lay the bike rack hungry? Because what if I
on it, attaching the straps to forgot my cell phone and didn’t
the top. When you close the pack a lunch, would order-
gate to attach the sides, the ing a pizza be considered an
top is no longer still attached emergency? If there were a
and the whole thing falls on bigger emergency maybe, like a
your foot. If you try to clip it possible snapping turtle attack,
to the bottom rst, the laws maybe I could just slip the
of gravity will teach you what pizza order in as a palliative
you failed to learn in physics measure. Who is on the other
class, and it falls on your other side of the call box anyway?
foot. It’s at least a two-man
operation, and unlike my last ey would have to come and
meeting at work, it might rescue me on a bicycle, and
exactly where are they going to
nally help to have six people put me? One-Adam-12, one-
pulling in opposite directions. Adam-12, please bring a bike
with a huge basket.
We were headed down
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towards Yorktown, and I ying by me, and it dawns on
couldn’t wait to get out of the me that I’ve been going down-
parking lot with the bicycles. hill for the last half hour. It
It turns out that I either couldn’t be more pleasant until
gained 10 pounds during I think how horrible it’s going
COVID quarantine, or my to be riding up the hill on the
pants lost 10 pounds, because way back. My mood brightens
they were a little tight and again when I realize that at
the key fob in my pocket kept least I will have lost the ten
sounding the car alarm every covid pounds by the time I get
time I bent over. Can some- back to the car and I won’t set
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A grand doggie a air

had become very close and along doggone well. But then “No. Moxie is new to the “Nothing wrong with
one day I noticed something group and Susie hasn’t met looking,” said my husband,
walked next to each other di erent. her yet.” distractedly.

TRACY each time they went out. It “Where’s Susie?” I asked my at night I had din- My jaw dropped and I
BECKERMAN may not have been a mad, dog walker. ner with my husband while stared at him.
torrid a air, but it certainly Monty lay at our feet. I looked
“Oh, she’s home,” he said. down at the sleeping dog, and “Are you telling me you
seemed to be a small canine “She got THE surgery.” though sleeping dogs don’t lie, look at other women?”
apparently ours does, and he
romance. I could see what I nodded. en I looked at was hiding his a air from his “What? No. I was talking
the group and noticed a new soon to-be-wife. is couldn’t about Monty!”
he saw in her. She was cute dog. end well. Hell hath no fury
like a doggie scorned. “I don’t think you were,”
“Monty has a girl- and petite, well-mannered, “Who’s that new Golden?” I I said. “Is there something
friend,” I an- asked my dog walker. “Honey,” I said. “Monty you’re not telling me.”
nounced to my and could fetch a ball like was in a relationship with Su-
nobody’s business. “ at’s Moxie!” he said sie but now he’s two-dogging e dog heard me raising
brightly. “She and Monty got her, and I don’t know what to my voice and stood up next
Susie was actually the dog along great.” do.” to my husband. e two of
them stared at me in fear. But
husband. “She’s also a Golden walker’s new dog and he and “What’s this?” I thought. My husband stared at me. then Monty slunk away. He
“My dog canoodling with “You really do have too knew a losing side when he
Retriever and her name is I were both pleased with another canine? While Susie much time on your hands saw one.
was indisposed, nonetheless?” since the kids left, don’t you?”
Susie.” the match. We thought that I narrowed my eyes at Monty. “No, I’m serious. Susie, “Well,” I said. “What do
Could it be that my retriever Monty’s ancé, was home you have to say?”
“ at’s unlikely,” he said. maybe we should announce was seeing another retriever sick, and Monty started irt-
on the side? Was he… ing with the new dog, Moxie. My husband whispered, “I
“Did you forget that our dog their engagement and start a I think he’s having a Midlife think I’m in the doghouse.”
A Doggie Don Juan? Canine Crisis.”
is neutered?” registry for them so they could “Does Susie know about For more “Lost in
this?” I asked my dog walker. Midlife,” Follow Tracy on
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dog’s company,” I replied. food bowls and a nice big dog

I looked over at Monty bed built for two. I wondered

sprawled out on the living if maybe we should also send

room rug. He had just re- them on a doggiemoon, at a

turned from his daily mid- place that had a great pool

day walk with several other with a swim up bar that served

dogs, including the cute new Milk Bone margaritas.

retriever. According to the ings between the two

dog walker, Monty and Susie of them seemed to be going

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JohnVOLLEYBALL Jay goes 3-0 on the we

BY RICH MONETTI Lakeland pressed on nonetheless, and Wisker’s Lily Preis goes up for the slam.
CONTRIBUTING WRITER block yielded an 8-5 lead. Of course, McMann did her Kira
thing again. She killed from the right, and on the next
John Jay volleyball is really on a roll, having won 11 sequence, Preis dug out a slam and McMann found an McMann
of 12 games so far en route to a 4-0 record. e one open spot on the free ball.
blemish is no bother for Coach Tom Rizzotti. “It’s
been great to start o the season 4-0, for sure,” he said. However, McMann’s long spike still had Lakeland
up 9-7, but the senior didn’t miss a beat. An ace, four
Monday, March 22, opened the week at home kills, and a block would give the Wolves an 18-15 lead.
against Lakeland, and had all three games going down
to the wire. Lily Preis’ block in the rst game broke the Still, Lakeland kept at it, and two kills by Jennings
Wolves out to a 5-0 lead, and an easy go seemed pos- left an 18 tie. But when Jennings stepped over the mid-
sible. Instead, Lakeland hung in and made it 11-9 on a dle line, the game landed in McMann’s hands again.
Kayla Jennings’ kill.
Five aces allowed the Wolves to complete the victory
Caitlin Wisker and Emily Kubicsko followed suit to at 25-18, and on Wednesday, the Wolves weren’t done
grab a 16-15 lead, and Sophia Sommovigo’s slam gave with their sweeping ways. ey traveled to Greeley and
Lakeland a 20-17 advantage. Not quite enough separa- kills by McMann and Preis put the Wolves up 6-1 to
tion, a Preis kill and dink got John Jay within one and start.
then both teams dug in. Ferocious defense had both
teams swinging to no avail at 21-19, but Wisker nally e Quakers got no closer in the 25-13 game. Al-
registered the kill. though they had more ght in games two and three,
and ties at 13 and 20 had the Wolves itching. Even so,
Nonetheless, the visitors would score no more. Ma- the Wolves gathered themselves and racked up 25-14
digan Flynn played big with two blocks and a kill to and 25-20 wins.
provide the 25-22 di erence.
On ursday, the Wolves took a breather and re-
Staying on point, game two had no lead over three. quired four games to win on the road versus Fox
Two kills by Kira McMann and one by Kaitlyn Var- Lane. In game one, dinks by McMann and Driesen
riale gave the Wolves a 6-3 lead. But the lead didn’t were paired with one of Preis’ nine kills, and John Jay
hold. Kubicsko’s slam sparked a four-point run and a jumped out to a 5-0 lead.
7-6 edge.
e lead grew to 19-11 on the oomph of Hodor’s
In turn, the next three-point lead belonged to Lake- gritty libero play. She dug out a Fox Lane spike, and
land. Lily Hodor served long, Sommovigo teed up a the Foxes then hit the return long.
center set, and then easily knocked down a missed John
Jay bump for a 10-7 lead. A couple kills by Varriale, who led with 11, and John
Jay took the second game 25-18. e Wolves kept it
Undeterred, McMann answered back with a right rolling, and after gaining a 14-2 lead, John Jay’s bench
side kill and John Jay went onto an 11-10 lead. e got a look. Julia D’Urso had three kills, and Flynn
chipped in with two in the 25-12 victory.
nal three-point lead emerged on a block by McMann
and two aces by Allie Driesen. Ten straight game wins, and the second string stayed
on. But a 10-3 de cit ensued. e girls hung tight,
e 17-14 lead quickly gave way, though, and Lake- though, and a kill by Flynn and an ace by Jesse Davis
land battled back from the center. Kubicsko had the kill tied the score at 13.
and Victoria Tsui dropped a dink for a 19-19 deadlock.
Unfortunately, the bench fell behind 21-15, and the
So, McMann stepped up again. She let y from the return of the starters could not stave o a 25-21 loss.
right, and an ace opened a two-point lead. However,
McMann’s long serve set John Jay back again, and e nal game had the starters remain and an easy 25-
Sommovigo’s center kill posted a 22-22 tie. 11 victory followed.

Lakeland surrendered the lead on Jennings’ errant “Once they start to believe in themselves as much as
serve, and then John Jay rose from the back. Varriale’s I believe in them, they’re going to be awesome,” Riz-
one-handed dig got the ball to Driesen, and the setter zotti said. “But that can be a growing process for sure.”
opted to dink. She found a hole, and then Preis dinked
for the 25-23 win. e Wolves face Hen Hud, Panas, and Fox Lane this
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How much do you know about spring?

STRONG ank you so much for sharing this plants start to grow during the spring
LEARNING with me. As our children and grand- is due to plenty of ___ and ____.
children grow up it’s impressive to see
DR. LINDA what they’ve learned. With everyone 4. True or False: Tulips and lilacs are
SILBERT complaining about the state of educa- examples of the rst spring owers.
tion in their town, city or state, the
Dear Dr. Linda, fact is that school, along with family, 5. If you lived at the North Pole
On the rst day of spring, my opens our children’s minds to learning and it was the rst day of spring,
and it’s what they do with the skills you would be looking forward to six
8-year-old grandson told me that and knowledge they acquire that helps months of _____.
it’s only the rst day of spring in create their lives. e impressive thing
the northern hemisphere, but in the about your grandson sharing what he 6. Many people put out _______
southern hemisphere it’s the rst day learned in school is that he wanted during spring as a source of food for
of autumn. When I asked him how to share it with you. He felt comfort- migrating birds.
he knew that, he told me that he was able talking to you which means you’re
learning about it in school. Of course, probably a good listener. It’s also im- 7. True or False: If you lived in the
I couldn’t let that moment pass, so I pressive that he remembered what his Southern Hemisphere, springtime
asked him what hemisphere meant and teacher said which means the lesson begins around March 21.
he told me. We went on from there engaged him and held his attention.
to have an actual conversation about 8. True or False: One of the
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impressed that at 8 years old he knew spring that you may want to share with springtime is to attract mates.
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How Much Do You Know About _____ to swarm in search of nding
I had to share this with you and Spring? a new home.
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how this little grandson of mine was spring in the Northern hemisphere and refer to spring, the season is a symbol
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Happily
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APAR mourning that replaced my face in the days a dedication plaque is mounted on a post that For 4,000 days, from March 2003 until we
following her sibling’s death, she asked her is the same three-foot height as Harrison. It’s moved out of our house in February 2014,
FROM PAGE 11 mom,“Will daddy ever be happy again?” built that way to remind kids and adults alike every night before turning in, I’d go to Har-
that the true measure of a person is not in rison’s room to ick on the light switch, then
UTTER DESPAIR HEALING AND RESURGENCE inches, or in material trappings, but in heart ick it o .
At rst, you only can wonder forlornly She and Elyse are the life-a rming and soul and character.
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the rock of our family, as the shock set in after Just as spring always returns, so, somehow, in the return of kids like Harrison to that believe that Harrison knows he came through
an ashen surgeon apologetically delivered the does the prospect of healing and resurgence. and every other eld, making the joyful noise on that March 20, 2003, birthday wish for his
paralyzing news. It is a gift in itself for us to be swaddled by of bat on ball and giddily cheering on their old man, by giving not only me but all of us
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Aidan Cullen gets a sack.

FOOTBALL

John Jay records second
straight shutout

Wolves take down Walter Panas, 35-0

BY RICH MONETTI coordinator, beaming about his Nick Giardina hit Chris Shapiro Chris DiChiara runs after the catch.

CONTRIBUTING WRITER squad. on the sideline to get the Wolves

“ e kids are just ying and to the 17.

John Jay opened their sea- playing fast, and, mentally, ev- Staying inside the hash lines, 27-yard run by Roberto Bran got “We wanted that shutout bad,”

son last week with a 21-0 vic- erything is coming together,” Giardina stayed on his toes to the Panthers out of the shadows. Cullen said.

tory over Yorktown. e Wolves Velez said. get on the board. e quarter- Fittingly, it wasn’t for long. e Following a long pass interfer-

came home a week later on Fri- On the other hand, deliver- back burst through the middle lights actually went out, and the ence call, Panas had the ball on

day, March 26, and, once again, ing a quick three-and-out gave and, after the rst of Lucas Or- game was delayed for 15 minutes. the John Jay 30, and the defense

the end zone was no place for the John Jay o ense a chance lovitz’s ve extra points, John Jay e pause was no help, and two reset. Ader DeSouza dropped

the opponent. Panas was the to show o their cylinders. Jon was up 7-0 at 8:23. plays later, the visitors were punt- back on second down, and Cul-

35-0 victim this time, which had Connelly reeled o a 28-yard e changeover only gave Pa- ing again. len came crashing in for the sack.

Ryan Velez, John Jay’s defensive run to the Panas 32, and QB nas three plays before they were John Jay returned the favor “You want to get to the ball as

punting again, and the o ense on the next drive. But Panas still fast as possible and hit ‘em on all

wasn’t any less forgiving. Setting had no answers for the Wolves sides,” Cullen said of John Jay’s

up at mid eld, runs by Connelly defense, and Connelly and Giar- defensive mindset.

and Giardina got the Wolves to dina didn’t give the Panthers any Near the end of the fourth,

the 22, and, after an o sides, the time to think over the futility ei- Walter Panas’Travis Carlucci ran

running back powered for a 12- ther. the kicko to the John Jay 10-

yard touchdown run with 2:38 Connelly’s 20-yard burst got yard line. But Panas went back-

remaining in the rst. John Jay down to the 30, and the wards from there, and Coach

All told, Connelly tallied 176 quarterback’s 15-yard run set the Velez felt just as strongly about

yards on 26 carries and didn’t o ense up inside the 10. A play the shutout as his players.

put the mileage on himself or later, with 1:57 left in the half, “You work the whole week as

take it for granted. “It’s a team Giardina got around the corner a defensive coach to not give up

e ort. Our coaches prepare us, from the six, and the touchdown any points, and it’s coming down

everyone is doing a great job, helped the QB tally 131 yards to the nal two or three minutes,

and I’m happy to get the carries rushing in 13 attempts. you don’t want to give it up,” he

I’m getting,” Connelly said. e lead would grow to 35-0 said. “A win’s a win, but in the

e defense then took the on runs of 36 and nine yards by end, it’s a little extra gravy on

hando , and Aidan Cullen really Giardina and Connelly, respec- top.”

made himself heard with a thun- tively, and all that remained was Up next, John Jay faces Lake-

John Connelly in the open field PHOTOS: RICH MONETTI dering sack inside the ve. But preserving the defense’s pristine land on Saturday afternoon at

Panas did have a little life, and a record. home.

THURSDAY, APRIL 1, 2021 SPORTS THE KATONAH LEWISBORO TIMES PAGE 19

An interview with Coach Geoff Curtis

Gerard Garofolo, a sopho- graders from around the whole

more at John Jay High School, district would come to our high

interviewed Geo Curtis, var- school, where we had an incredi-

sity baseball coach, about the ble swimming pool. We had this

upcoming season, playing inter- program where juniors would

scholastic sports in a pandemic, be teachers assistants. So, I got

and more. to do that program, and I knew

is interview has been edited within probably three or four

for space. A video of the com- lessons that that’s what I wanted

plete interview is available at to do.

TapIntoKLT.net. e thing that happened was

Tell me a little bit about I was at our local mall. One of

yourself. my fourth graders saw me across

I am a 20-year veteran of the shopping center and dragged

the district. I’m originally from his mom across the 100 feet to

the Northwest. I was born in so introduce her to his swim

Oregon and moved to Seattle teacher. It’s just sort of this feel-

and did all my K-12 schooling ing of being able to help people

in Washington State. After I and work with young people and

graduated, I headed o to a va- laugh. I don’t think of it as a job

riety of schools to play baseball at all. Every day is di erent, ev-

and get my teaching certi cate. ery day is fun and exciting, and

My rst nine years of teaching you never know what you’re go-

and coaching, I was in a place ing to get.

called Port Orchard, Washing- How will preparation and

ton, which was my hometown. play be di erent for the season

I went back home to teach and with COVID protocols?

coach. e outdoor sports, we had a

In about late 1999, my wife fall season where sports like soc-

and I decided we were going to cer and eld hockey and cross

be moving this direction. She’s country got to play. If you didn’t

a Pennsylvania native, so she really look too closely, it wouldn’t

found a job in Rye, New York. seem too di erent. On the eld,

So, that turned into us living other than the masks, it wasn’t

in Harrison in a one-bedroom that di erent really. Looking at

apartment for a little while, then the stands behind the benches, it FILE PHOTO/KATONAH LEWISBORO SCHOOL DISTRICT

an apartment in Rye. I found this SEE CURTIS PAGE 20 Geoff Curtis, John Jay baseball coach
job [at John Jay High School] in

January 2001.

I was very fortunate that one

of our guidance counselors here

had retired from the middle Geoff Curtis, right, coaches
school, and that meant that a during a baseball game in
health teacher here went down 2018.

and took that job, opening up FILE PHOTO/ROB DIANTONIO
this job in the middle of the year.

It’s been a wonderful experi-

ence from the very rst day that

I started teaching here. I often

describe my job and my oppor-

tunities here as just one of the

most fortunate things that could

have ever happened to me. All

the great experiences that I’ve

gotten to have with coaching

and the athletics department

and our leadership programs

and on and on and on. It’s been

wonderful.

So now, somehow, I just passed

my 20-year mark here. I started

being the varsity baseball coach

in 2004, a streak that was sort of

interrupted last spring since we

didn’t get to have a season. We’ve

a ectionately started calling that

the “undefeated” season. But not

for the reasons you’d want it to

be.

How did you get into coach-

ing baseball and why?

I would say that I knew when

I was a junior in high school that

I wanted to be a teacher. My

high school had a swimming

lesson program, so all the fourth

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CURTIS through back-to-back seasons? are either all football or you’re “Oh, my gosh, if we can win a it’s you, the hitter, against a
I think there is going to be all baseball, so decide.” I don’t regional section title, I would pitcher. It’s a little one-on-one
FROM PAGE 19 think that’s realistic or appro- take that.” It’s so much better situation. It’s the only game
some overlap. So, there will be priate, to be quite honest. than nothing. where the defense holds the
looks di erent because they some challenges. Most of the ball, and you fail constantly in
are so sparsely populated. e high-school coaches I know al- Do you have any insight People have sort of been this game. So, I think one of the
indoor sports, they are in a dif- ways defer to the previous sea- into the John Jay baseball started for this because of all things that’s most important
ferent boat as well, because the son. So, in baseball, if we’ve got schedule? the things that are missing. I for a good baseball player, one
rules inside are di erent. a kid who is an ice-hockey per- walk around the hallway here of the things you have to have,
son or a basketball player, I don’t At this point, I have a pretty and, if I let myself think about is the ability to be like a duck
I’d like to think there’s at even want to see them until their good sense of the three or four it, it’s so sad to see all of the and let stu just roll o your
least enough normalcy in what season’s over. schools that they will give me a things that our kids are missing. back. If you hit .350 in a varsity
the kids are getting to do that home-and-away with. I’m pret- season, you’re a pretty solid hit-
they are feeling sort of satis ed ere are a couple of scenarios ty sure that baseball will start on e empty hallways, and I know ter, and that means you failed
in ways that our spring athletes where that philosophy sounds April 19 or so. Having said that, everybody’s on Zoom, but it’s 65 percent of the time. I know
from last year just didn’t get. e good but isn’t necessarily con- things could change, and I’ve not the same thing, being able that’s an old adage, but it’s true,
good news about the current ducive, even to the health of the heard some rumblings of, “Hey, to just hang with your friends and it’s not easy to sort of deal
situation is at least the student- student-athlete. Let’s say you let’s push it back even one more in between classes or at lunch. with that idea. It’s this game of
athletes are getting something. were a big-time pitcher and if week,” because we can go, theo- All of those things that we have ups and downs, and there’s a big
you did focus on football, which retically, all the way to the end here—homecoming, Jay Fest— piece of luck.
e schools, I think, are working you should do, but you never of June, and that would still give all of those things that just
hard at doing a good job at keep- pick up a baseball, your pitching us almost 10 weeks. make up the day-to-day in be- Who is your favorite profes-
ing the kids as safe as possible. is going to be behind, so arm- tween the brick and mortar, that sional athlete of all time and
And, knock on wood, we haven’t care could be problematic. So, We also know that we’re not stu that makes John Jay what why?
had any issues yet here that dis- in that case, I would say, “Why going to participate in state it is, we’re all missing that.
rupted too much for this most don’t you focus 100 percent on championships, which buys us I had some phenomenal Mar-
recent batch of winter sports. football, but at least start a little time as well. It will look like What do you feel are the iners that I would throw into
throwing program? Come in what our fall teams did. Where characteristics of a great base- that pile. Ken Gri ey Jr., he’s
It does look di erent, but I the gym maybe some mornings, you play in a region, this little ball player? probably right next to Edgar
think for people involved, they’re masked up, we’ll get a catcher, pod of eight schools, you have Martinez, two of my all-time
so happy to have something that and at least you can start some playo s, and you, if you win, We have a famous Hall of favorites. On that same team,
they’re willing to make those arm strengthening things.” you are the section champ of Fame John Jay baseball coach, Jay Buhner, Randy Johnson—it
sacri ces so they can ensure that that little region. So, it’s not Joe McGee. Joe passed away a was such a fun little chunk of
it happens. I’m not going to say to you, quite the same as a regular sec- couple of years ago from cancer. time right there. So, I would say
the student-athlete, “Hey, I tion championship, but I can’t But one of his favorite quotes Gri ey and Martinez side-by-
Knowing there are athletes know you’re doing football, but think of a team or a school right was that “the game knows.” at side brought me so much joy as
like myself who play football I need you in a three-hour base- now that I know of that, based means that the game knows a Seattleite, just watching what
and baseball, how are you go- ball workout because baseball’s on what we just went through what you’re giving it. they did in the Kingdome.
ing to advise the athletes that coming.”A coach who says,“You in spring of 2020, wouldn’t say,
play multiple sports to work It is a pretty harsh game. It’s
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Federal aid coming to Bedford, Lewisboro

Unclear how much money the towns will receive

BY TOM BARTLEY while Westchester stands to get money, down about $32,000 a penny of net gain. Fiscally ment, spelled out general guide-
CONTRIBUTING WRITER $188 million, its piece of almost from earlier estimates. But, as squeezed state o cials, Sele- lines for appropriate use of the
$11 billion earmarked for New Superintendent Andrew Selesn- snick noted, simply “withheld aid funds. ey were:
Just how much local towns and York’s local jurisdictions. ick recently cautioned the school $309,000 we otherwise would
board, aid allocation is still only have received in our usual state • Costs associated with re-
schools stand to bene t from fed- U.S. Sen. Chuck Schumer of in “the very early stages.” aid and replaced it with the fed- sponding to the COVID-19
New York, the Senate’s new ma- eral funding.” public health emergency or its
eral aid under the American Res- jority leader, says local govern- “Even though you’re seeing negative economic impacts, in-
ments throughout the state will some newspaper reports with Whatever the nal aid gures cluding but not limited to assis-
cue Plan remains largely an open divvy up $10.865 billion, most dollar amounts in them…they’re this year, Washington has includ- tance to households, small busi-
of it earmarked for large cities. preliminary numbers,” he said, ed restrictions on how the federal nesses and nonpro ts or aid to
question for local o cials. Still, under a breakout last month “and the money still has to work cash can be used. As Lewisboro’s impacted industries such as tour-
from Schumer, Bedford stands to its way through the state and nd Parsons said of the projected ism, travel and hospitality.
As those 1.9 trillion federal receive about $1.94 million (“ e its way to districts. And we know $1.37 million, “I’m holding my
numbers are a bit uid,” warns that changes can continue to oc- excitement in check until I know • To support workers perform-
dollars trickle down, they dwin- Supervisor MaryAnn Carr) and cur.” exactly what I can do with the ing essential work during the
Lewisboro’s share was put at money.” COVID-19 public health emer-
dle to billions in state co ers and $1.37 million (“I’m sure mine ose changes might be sub- gency by providing premium pay
will go down,” says Supervisor stantial, as the district saw last He said the town’s allocation to eligible workers or by provid-
eventually dribble millions in Peter Parsons). year. Washington had allocated was “working its way through the ing grants to eligible employers
$309,956 in coronavirus relief [U.S.] Treasury Department. We that have eligible workers who
aid into local governments. But Schools throughout the state for Katonah-Lewisboro schools, won’t really know how we can perform essential work.
face worse uncertainty. e Ka- then sent it to Albany for distri- spend it until the Treasury has
leaders of those struggling cities, tonah-Lewisboro district, for bution. But while those federals worked out exactly what the rules • To cover revenue losses
example, is now slated to receive did ow to KLSD, the district are for spending the money.” caused by the COVID-19 public
towns, counties, and other local some $587,000 in Rescue Plan and its taxpayers realized nary health emergency.
Schumer, in his March 8 state-
governments don’t yet know for • To make necessary invest-
ments in water, sewer or broad-
certain exactly how big a windfall band infrastructure.

to expect or even, in the case of Parsons had a clear view of how
his neighbors, facing millions in
schools, whether they’ll see any long-term debt to install sewers
in and around the Katonah and
additional cash at all. Bedford Hills business districts,
might best use the federal cash.
Albany expects to see $23.5 “If I were Bedford,” he said, “it’s
simple: I think they could put
billion, including $12.5 billion in the whole damned thing in their
sewer!”
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Walker, president of the Ford political disruption–despite the the winner of numerous awards selection for April is “ e Lions
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Gluten-free baking easy and tasty

Gluten-free diets are a necessity for people who have Celiac’s Disease, a condition that causes an immune reaction in
the small intestine from eating gluten. is reaction causes damage to the small intestines that can lead to pain and other
symptoms. Going gluten-free also is a choice for people who experience other reactions to eating gluten products that are not
related to Celiac’s, or have been instructed to do so on the advice of their nutritionists or doctors.

It used to be that gluten-free cooking, especially baking, was extremely limited and the results may have not tasted much
like gluten-containing counterparts. However, thanks to recipe experimentation and new our blends on the market, baking
gluten-free breakfast items, breads and desserts is much easier and tastier—as is the case with “Gluten-Free Buttery Snicker-
doodles,” courtesy of King Arthur Baking Company. ese avor-packed cinnamon cookies are sure to wow friends and family
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Gluten-Free Buttery Snickerdoodles

Yields 3 1/2 dozen 2 1/2-inch cookies

Dough Directions flatten them to about 3/8 thick; they’ll be about 1
1/2 in diameter.
8 tablespoons unsalted butter, at room Preheat the oven to 375 F. Lightly grease (or line Bake the cookies for 8 minutes (for soft cookies) to
temperature* with parchment) two baking sheets. 10 minutes (for crunchier cookies). Remove them
3/4 cup sugar To make the cookies: Beat together the butter and from the oven, and cool them on the pan until
1 large egg sugar until smooth. Add the egg, beating until they’re firm enough to transfer to a rack to cool
1 teaspoon vanilla extract smooth. Beat in the vanilla, salt, and baking completely.
1/2 teaspoon salt* powder. Add the flour, mixing until totally Store any leftover cookies, well wrapped, at room
1 teaspoon baking powder incorporated. temperature for several days; freeze for longer
1 1/3 cups Gluten-Free Measure for Measure Flour To make the coating: Shake together the sugar and storage.
*If you use salted butter, decrease the salt to 1/4 cinnamon in a medium-sized zip-top plastic bag. Tip: If you prefer chewier cookies, chill the dough
teaspoon Drop small (1-inch diameter) balls of dough into before making into cookies and do not press the
Coating the bag; a teaspoon cookie scoop works well here. snickerdoodles as thin.
Roll/toss the cookies in the cinnamon-sugar until
2 tablespoons sugar they’re completely coated.
1 to 1 1/2 teaspoons cinnamon, to taste Space the cookies at least 1 1/2 apart on the
prepared baking sheets. Use a flat-bottom glass to

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CB Gallery hosts Katonah
artist’s exhibit

CB Gallery is hosting a new on raw linen and then accentu-

exhibition, “Self-Titled,” by Ka- ated with acrylic, ashe paint in

Just look at that handsome tonah’s Ned Snider. e exhibit tandem with cotton thread and
face! Harley is a wonderful
will run from March 31 to May framed in artist-built frames
cat that is a bit shy, but
when feeling secure he 8, with a reception by appoint- that not only compliment the
warms up and is very
loving. If you are interested ment from 2 to 6 p.m. Saturday, pieces but sometimes are incor-
in giving this boy the
loving home he is waiting April 10. Call 917-520-3234 to porated in, acting as an exten-
for please call for an
schedule an appointment. sion of the composition.
appointment.
CB Gallery is located at 23 “ e organic quality of the

Valley Road in Katonah. All branches that have fallen to

visitors will be required to wear the ground combined with

masks. the hard edges of the paint

“I am delighted to continue o er up a formal tension that

to operate the gallery safely and is the main component to the

Harley so looking forward to seeing conceptual part of this work,”

even more collectors as the vac- Snider said. “ e pieces repre-

cines roll out,” said CB gallery sent the push and pull between
owner Christopher Brescia.“I’m A piece from Ned Snider’s upcoming the natural and the technocen-
These two bonded dogs have so glad the world is gradually “Self-Titled” exhibit
been through a lot and now tric worlds.
deserve a loving forever home
together. After a horrible bout opening up because that means “Furthermore,” he added,
with severe mange that left
them unable to walk because I can share this awesome show by Ned Snider with “this work in some ways, is a continuation of my
of the pain, they are healthy
and full of life. Call us to set more of the world!” investigations involving space, vessels, information
an appointment to meet these
Snider grew up in Princeton, New Jersey, and and transference.”
beautiful, sweet dogs.
after getting his MFA from Cranbrook Academy Brescia said of Snider’s work: “When I rst saw

Chumpa of Art in Bloom eld Hills, Michigan, he moved to these works, they knocked me o my feet. I’d never
& Precious
New York City for a few years and is currently liv- seen anything like these—feelings of calm and joy

ing with his wife, Marina, and daughter, Simone, in rush over you as you gaze at this combination of

Katonah. Snider is a visual artist working in the in- tiny pieces of nature with an extremely well thought

Putnam Humane Society, 68 Old Rt. 6, Carmel tersection of many disciplines, including printmak- out color processes. It’s indescribable.”
845-225-7777 www.puthumane.org
ing, painting, writing and graphic design. For more information, visit CB Gallery on Face-
Open 7 days a week from 10 a.m.-4:30 p.m.
e work in the “Self-Titled” exhibit established book and Instagram (@cbartgallery) or contact

itself in the fall of 2019. It features a combination Brescia at [email protected] or 917-520-

of small pieces of locally sourced wood mounted 3234.

THURSDAY, APRIL 1, 2021 BUSINESS & REAL ESTATE THE KATONAH LEWISBORO TIMES PAGE 27

Is now the time to gift your PUZZLE SOLUTIONS
commercial real-estate holdings?
Corresponding to Last Week’s
March 25 Issue

As has been well docu- GUEST gift a majority interest in the
mented, the current CORNER premises and/or the entity own-
federal estate and gift ing the premises, thus, allowing
tax exemption of $11.7 million the transferor to further discount

per person is scheduled to sunset ANTHONY J. the value of the property gifted

(expire) on Dec. 31, 2025. ENEA by utilizing a discount for lack

Unless the current exemption of marketability and a minority

is made permanent on or before interest discount. is discount

Dec. 31, 2025 (which is highly will further reduce the amount of

unlikely because of the present political environ- the gift tax exemption utilized by the gift.

ment in Washington), on Jan. 1, 2026, the new Finally, as if the above were not su ciently

federal estate and gift tax exemption will be ap- convincing that a once in a lifetime opportunity

proximately $6 million per person. us, in a mere exists to shelter assets from estate taxes, the current

four years, it is likely that if one does not act, they low interest rate environment makes it an oppor-

will have lost the opportunity to take advantage of tune time to utilize estate planning tools such as a

a total of $5.7 million of gift tax exemptions that Grantor Retained Annuity Trust (GRAT).

presently exist. us, incurring the possibility of ere are many factors beyond the estate tax

signi cant federal and state estate taxes upon their bene ts that need to be considered before one gifts

demise. assets. Perhaps most important being whether one

It should be noted that in November 2019, the is comfortable making the gift and whether the gift

IRS advised taxpayers that if they make taxable should be made outright or to a trust. However, in

lifetime gifts after 2017 and die after 2025, the the current environment with the potential likeli-

exclusion used in calculating the gift will be the hood of both federal and state estate tax exemption

amount when the gift was made and not that of being reduced, taking steps to reduce one’s taxable

2026. us, they will not claw back into one’s fed- estate is imperative.

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has signi cantly reduced the value of commercial of the New York State Bar Association. He is the

real estate (apartment buildings and retail spaces), current chair of the 50+ Section of the NYSBA. He is

particularly in New York City and other large the past president and founding member of the New

cities. Values have dramatically fallen because of York Chapter of the National Academy of Elder Law

current projected vacancy rates and rent defaults. Attorneys. He is the president of the Westchester County

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