August 27, 2010
Are you the kind who spends the last week of summer running around squeezing in all the activities that never made it off the to-do list, like that trip to Six Flags or Playland (“But, you promised!”), or that exhibit at the museum in the City that only runs until August 31? Yikes! Or perhaps you can’t bear to miss the play that completes its run on Sunday, September 5? So you continue full speed ahead right up until the Labor Day weekend (during which you probably have tickets to the U.S. Open!)
Or are you the kind who managed to fit it all in, have all the memories neatly sorted in digital format and have already edited the vacation video of the kids to send to grandma? So you are out the door on Monday armed with school supply lists and headed to Staples.
(Or you might be the grandma, back from a trip to the see the grandkids, with the pics downloaded and looking forward to some peace and quiet.)
Or have you already loaded up the SUV with all those things your college-bound student cannot live without, made the long journey to your child’s new home and are back, flipping through photo albums wondering how the years flew by so fast?
Or perhaps, just perhaps, you are one of those people who manage to save that final week of summer to, well, just savor the end of summer, and allow those first hints of autumn to tickle your nose. Sitting on the deck enjoying the cooler evenings, watching the first yellow leaves appear and the squirrels collect nuts with increasing intensity.
Christine and I fall into the last category. So we are on vacation, sort of. (But we will still keep our ears to the ground and publish on our regular schedule.)
Getting our readers set for September
We are taking this opportunity during the slow news, dog days of summer, to give you some food for thought for September. We have compiled a list of the “Top 30 Stories of the summer,” all hyperlinked, so if you just click on the title, you will go to the whole story and the commentary from readers at the end of each story. That should help those of you who have been away from your laptops, notebooks and Blackberry’s (lucky you!) to catch up on what’s been happening in New Castle this summer.
Two important meetings are coming up in September that need community participation. On Tuesday, September 7 at 7:00 p.m. the Chappaqua Central School District Board of Education will hold an open interview session in the Academic Commons at the high school with the two firms that are being considered to lead the district in its superintendent search this year. The meeting is open to the public, and after the board members question representatives from the two firms about how they will conduct the search, New Castle residents are invited to pose questions to the firm representatives as well. After the completion of the interviews, the board is interested in hearing commentary from those who attend the meeting about the two firms under consideration.
On Tuesday, September 28, the New Castle Town Board will conduct an information session at town hall during their regularly scheduled meeting on the Final Environmental Impact Statement (FEIS) for Chappaqua Crossing submitted by developer Summit Greenfield. (Time and format still “to be announced.”) Since we started our comment section this spring, we have received over 350 comments on the articles we have written and the reports and letters to the editor that we have published about Chappaqua Crossing. We have put those all together for your convenience of review on this significant topic. Click HERE to review them and offer your comments.
We hope everyone has enjoyed a wonderful summer, and no matter what kind of end-of- summer person you are, that you have the best last-week-of-summer ever!
Susie Pender, Editor
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