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The Hudson Independent: News for Tarrytown and Sleepy Hollow, NY
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Independent Editorial: A Problem With the System
Each year, communities are presented with the seemingly inevitable higher school budgets ? and the attending annual increases in school taxes. Residents in Irvington, Sleepy Hollow and Tarrytown will vote on May 20 their approval or disapproval. School officials and school boards have labored for months over the financial data and daunting educational requirements before presenting their budgets to the public. The budgets are often trimmed to keep school tax increases within the limits of perceived acceptance by residents. It is not an easy task. Contractual obligations must be absorbed. Utility costs rise. State and federal mandates must be met, often without the financial aid needed to implement them. Infrastructure needs repair or replacement. Debt service has to be taken into consideration. New technology has to be integrated into the system. And on it goes.
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School Board Elections and Other News
In Irvington, incumbent Robyn Kerner is running for her second, three-year term against first-time candidate John Dawson. In the Tarrytown district, there are three candidates for two seats: Marc Kirschner is not running again while incumbent Sheila Conklin will run for re-election against challengers Michele Gonzalez of Sleepy Hollow and Katharine Swibold of Tarrytown.
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The Hudson Valley Writers? Center Turns 20
From its ?humble beginning,? the award-winning organization fosters a sense of literary community James Hilger For The Hudson Independent The Hudson Valley Writers? Center began as a series of poetry readings at Tarrytown?s Warner Library in 1983, became incorporated in 1988 and, 20 years later, has developed far beyond its original scope. ?It was a place for area writers to read their work,? Margo Stever, center founder and poet, said. ?It was a very humble beginning.? (Margo Stever, at left in photo by S. Stowe, with center director Jerri Lynn Fields).
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A Perfect Tradition
It was the end of the bowling season at the Young Men?s Lyceum Club in Tarrytown. A group of about 12 men ? and it is a men?s only club ? gathered last month for their traditional Wednesday night league. Since the 1880s, bowling on the four lanes in the Lyceum Building on Central Avenue, where the pin setters are still human rather than automatic, has been a more collegial than competitive tradition. Irvington resident Steven Ivkosic, 61 and a club member for five years, ended the season with the grandest of bowling traditions: a perfect score of 300. ?We looked through the record books and it doesn?t seem as though it ever happened here before,? Tom Basher, Tarrytown trustee and former president of the Young Men?s Lyceum Club, said. ?Having bowled here for 15 years, it was absolutely exhilarating to see someone finally conquer these impossible lanes.? ? Marcy Gray
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UPDATES in May
Frustrated Business Owner to Sue Sleepy Hollow Peter Grotto (in photo by S. Stowe) is suing the village of Sleepy Hollow and its zoning board for continuing to block his attempts to turn the old Tappan Motors building at the intersection of Route 9 and New Broadway into the new home for Grotto Plumbing and Heating, Inc. (?Business Owner Threatens Lawsuit,? February 2008.)
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