March 19, 2010
by Susie Pender

This past Tuesday, the Chappaqua school board continued its in-depth review of Superintendent David Fleishman’s proposed 2010-11 budget. Thus far the administration has presented detailed budgets for Curriculum and Technology (February 23). Next week, on March 23, the topics will be Athletics and the Non-instructional budgets. On April 13, the final topic will be Revenues and Tax Rates.

March 19, 2010
by Christine Yeres

Parents of teens, what keeps you up at night? Fears of your teen texting while driving? Confusion about your teen’s social networking on the Internet? The Chappaqua PTA and New Castle CARES want you to get a better night’s sleep. They have invited Amanda Lenhart, a senior research specialist at the Pew Research Center’s Internet & American Life Project, to speak on Monday, March 22, at 7:30 p.m. in the Bell auditorium on “Teens and Technology: What Parents Need to Know.” 

March 19, 2010
by Maureen Callan

Tonight at 7:30 p.m. the Horace Greeley High School Chorus will present its annual major work concert in the high school auditorium. This year, the featured work will be Haydn’s “Missa Brevis St. Joannis de Deo.” The concert is free and open to the public.

March 19, 2010
by C.J. Ehrlich

Maybe you last read Dante’s Divina Commedia in college, or maybe you got as far as “Abandon all hope ye who enter here,” and did. Perhaps you’ve spent a few hours hooked on the gory new video game, Dante’s Inferno. Well it’s time to get out of the den and take a fresh look at the master and his works. What better way than an evening of hot-off-the-presses-original theatre, a night of short plays created by the energetic Brooklyn Playwrights Collective.

March 19, 2010
by Susie Pender

“We have nine returning players, seven of whom are seniors and very, very strong players,” pointed out Horace Greeley High School Softball Coach Gina Streany, in assessing the varsity team’s outlook for this spring season. “Our strongest competition will come from Harrison, John Jay and Fox Lane,” she stated, “which are traditionally strong programs.”

March 19, 2010
by Keith Robellard

Twice a year for more than 35 years, the First Congregational Church of Chappaqua Chancel Choir has performed a significant choral piece in lieu of the Sunday sermon. This Sunday, March 21, during morning worship from 10:00 to 11:00 a.m., the choir will perform Francis Poulenc’s Gloria. All are invited to share in this special Sunday worship service and join us for Sunday brunch afterwards in the church hall.

by Reverend Tom Lenhart 

On Sunday, March 21, after the morning worship service, The First Congregational Church will recognize and celebrate at a special brunch the membership since 1953 of Gordon and Marj Hale, long time residents of Chappaqua.

March 19, 2010
by Jim Nottingham

An informational meeting led by Horace Greeley High School Athletic Director Steve Young for parents of students playing or planning to engage in spring sports will be held next Tuesday, March 23, in the high school auditorium at 7:30 p.m.

Photo by Sue Light
March 19, 2010
by Susie Pender

Greeley seniors will “Shake, Rattle and Roll” when they Return to the Forbidden Planet on April 15, 16 and 17 to perform their senior musical in the Greeley auditorium. “Goodness, Gracious,” tickets are on sale now, “Great Balls of Fire!”

March 19, 2010
by Chief Russell Maitland, Chappaqua Fire Department

It’s 1am and you wake up to find you house is quite cold, so you get out of bed to check the thermostat to find it’s set at 70 degrees, but the actual temperature is 58. Next you go down to your basement to press the reset button on your furnace, and at the bottom of the basement stairs you find ten inches of water and your possessions floating around the basement. Who do you call? Is this an emergency where you need to call 9-1-1?

March 19, 2010
by Christine Yeres

At 5:30 p.m. on Tuesday, March 16, New Castle police officers answered a call from the scene of a minor car accident in the parking lot behind One South Greeley Avenue (behind the Senior Center). When officers asked the drivers of both cars to produce their licenses, one driver complied, the other told police he didn’t have his license with him.

Get with the program—the town’s changing over by end-of-April.
March 19, 2010

The town board has been so impressed with the New Castle Police Department’s use of Nixle.com for the last several months that the town is in the process of changing from its e-alert system to Nixle-only, which allows for real tailoring of which messages you get and how you get them.  If you’d been on Nixle this week, you’d have received updates on the state of Seven Bridges road, closed for several days due to the balancing act of a large tree on wires.

Read why the blotter’s so wet this week: Click HERE.
March 19, 2010

Editor’s Note: Each week NCNOW.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.