New Castle’s Board of Assessment Review
June 20, 2008
by Ann Marie Fallon

Grievance Day has come and gone. There was one noteworthy applicant seeking relief from its current assessment. Summit Greenfield, the owner and developer of the Reader’s Digest property, has filed a petition with the New Castle Board of Assessment Review seeking a decrease in the tax assessment of their property. 

Carriage house at the Amsterdam property
July 4, 2008
by Christine Yeres

Six months ago the New Castle town board voted to construct one field rather than two on its Amsterdam property at Hoag Cross Road. Although the project is well underway, the board learned in its work session last Tuesday that sod cannot be laid in the heat of summer. So it will be laid in the fall, pushing back the opening of the field for play until next spring. The question currently before the board is what to do with the carriage house that remains on the property.

July 4, 2008
by Ann Marie Fallon

Beginning next Wednesday, July 7, the town of New Castle will once again present “Musical Wednesdays at the Gazebo.”

July 4, 2008
by Ann Marie Fallon

The New Castle Recreation and Parks Department has teamed up with professional trainers at Functional Agility Speed and Strength Training, Inc. (FASST) in Millwood to provide training to student athletes in grades 8 -12 beginning August 4.

July 4, 2008
Editor’s Note: Each week NewCastleNOW.org provides highlights from the New Castle police blotter as well as a list of emergency calls to the Chappaqua Volunteer Ambulance Corps and to the Chappaqua Fire Department and the Millwood Fire Department for the prior week. 

June 27, 2008
by Susie Pender

Soon, as you leave downtown Chappaqua over the Route 120 bridge, you’ll be able to look down and see big machinery gathering on the vacant lot where the former Chappaqua Drama Group was once housed. You can watch the creation of the staging area throughout the summer as you experience your last trips over the stone bridge. September will see the start of real construction. 

June 27, 2008
by Tom Kasulka

If all goes according to current plans, sometime soon you will drive across our historic Quaker St. Bridge and notice that the canopy of trees lining the gateway to our hamlet being marked for removal. Over the next few weeks you’ll then witness the gathering of cranes, bull dozers and back hoes as construction of a 265-foot-long great wall and new road commence where the trees and a grassy hill once stood. 

In the work session
June 27, 2008
by Liza Margulies

With “off-leashing” becoming as familiar a sight across the country as soccer games and little league, sooner or later rules and guidelines for park usage in this manner would need to be established.  So it was that a small but devoted group of dog owners were in attendance Wednesday, June 18, night for the town board’s work session discussion regarding the parks and recreation department’s recommendations to regulate dogs in the town’s parks—most notably, Gedney Park. 

June 27, 2008
by Ann Marie Fallon

On Sunday afternoon, June 22, a lighting strike to building 16 in the Foxwood condominium complex in Pleasantville ignited a massive fire. Both the Chappaqua and Millwood fire departments responded to aid the Pleasantville Fire Department. 

On Wednesday June 25th, the Millwood Volunteer Fire Company along with many other fire departments from NY gathered in Yorktown for the Yorktown Fireman’s Parade.
June 27, 2008
Editor’s Note: Each week NewCastleNOW.org provides highlights from the New Castle police blotter as well as a list of emergency calls to the Chappaqua Volunteer Ambulance Corps and to the Chappaqua Fire Department and the Millwood Fire Department for the prior week.

June 20,2008
Editor’s Note: Each week NewCastleNOW.org provides highlights from the New Castle police blotter as well as a list of emergency calls to the Chappaqua Volunteer Ambulance Corps and to the Chappaqua Fire Department and the Millwood Fire Department for the prior week.

June 13, 2008

An Open Letter to the New Castle Town Board

As many of you may know, the New Castle Town Board has been presented with an exciting proposal that could provide a tremendous benefit to the various youth athletic programs in our town. A local group has offered to construct a full-size state of the art synthetic turf field on the soccer field located at Gedney Park. 

Andrea Klausner..............................  Deirdre Kucharik
June 13, 2008
by Ann Marie Fallon

On Tuesday night at the final Chappaqua PTA meeting for the 2007-08 school, Andrea Klausner and Deirdre Kucharik were honored with New York State PTA Honorary Life Membership. This award is presented annually to individuals for distinguished service to children and youth.

Rose Cohen and Rita Tobin
June 13, 2008
by Rose Cohen

A lot has happened since those cold days in January when I stood in the Chappaqua train station with a few other hardy souls, encouraging voters to support Barack Obama in the New York Democratic primary.

June 13,2008
by Christine Yeres

High School Winners added!

In January, the word goes out from the Friends of the Chappaqua Library that Young Writers’ Contest applications are available to middle and high school students. This is a contest that pays serious attention to the power of the pen, the ability of writing to amuse, to persuade, to communicate or to touch readers’ hearts, whether through fiction, non-fiction or poetry.

June 13, 2008
by Pamela Thornton, Chappaqua Library Director

Board of Trustees of the Chappaqua Library will be holding a retreat at the library on Sunday June 22nd from 10 – 12:30.  The retreat will provide the staff, public and the Board to meet and discuss what the future holds for the library and how to better serve our patrons. In addition to presentations from staff and members of the library Board, our guest speaker will be Ms. Siobhan Reardon, Executive Director of the Westchester.