Recommended Reading: Talk of the Sound

A list of links from the past week curated by Robert Cox for the Westchester Sound Shore Community.

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Featured Stories

New Rochelle City Manager Charles B. Strome III Announces Retirement

Rep. Jamaal Bowman and Speaker Pelosi to Hold Town Hall in NY-16 (Riverdale)

New Rochelle Man Who Stomped, Kicked Body of Deceased Victim Indicted in Fatal Bronx Baby Shower Shooting

Federal Court Denies New Rochelle School District Motion To Dismiss Discrimination Lawsuit — Case Going To Trial

Port Chester Man Charged for Firing a Gun During Road Rage Incident in Harrison

Thunderhorse Pleaded Guilty to Domestic Violent Strangulation in Greenburgh; Next Day He Stabbed a Woman in the Abdomen in New Rochelle

Road Rage Incident by New Rochelle Train Station Ends with Man Stabbing Woman on North Avenue

Undivided Attention

New Rochelle Proposes First Ever $300,000,000 School Budget as Per-Pupil Spending Outpaces Inflation by 200%

Mount Vernon Man Hiding in a Shed Arrested after Gas Station Robbery in Mamaroneck

Chipotle Mexican Grill to Open New Rochelle Location Next Month with Merch Giveaway

Newark Man Who Stole Range Rover in Greenwich, Led Helicopter on High-Speed Chase, Struck a Patrol Car in Scarsdale, Caught in Backyard in New Rochelle, Police Say

Police Pursuit in New Rochelle on Wednesday Leads to Weapons Charges on Thursday

Elsewhere on the Web

What has happened to these New Rochelle restaurants since COVID’s start? ($)

Fore! Golf Season Scheduled to Tee Off at Westchester County Courses

Bail Reforms Underappreciated New Element: Non-Monetary Conditions Have the Ability to Pave in Emergency Adult Justice ($)(Judge Jared R. Rice)

Former New Rochelle Teacher Featured in New Netflix Series – “He Scares Me”

New York is urged to pay public’s ballooning utility debt

The Fuller Center Meets Sedona Taphouse

Iona Mourns the Loss of Long Time Athletics Ambassador Marian Casali

Iona MBB Upset By Rider In MAAC Quarterfinal

Charles E. Entenmann, Last of a Storied Baking Family, Dies at 92

Benchmarking New York: compare property tax rates, spending, debt, tax levels

DOJ names a director to pursue cases of Covid-19 relief fraud

A Look Into the Mamaroneck Public Radio

Poll: nearly half of New York voters say state is headed in wrong direction

New Rochelle Hiring Retail Strategy Consultant

Should Test Corrections Exist for MHS Students?

New Yorkers With Marijuana Convictions Will Get First Retail Licenses

New Rochelle High School Students Win Scholastic Art & Writing Awards

At the Bottom of an Icy Sea, One of History’s Great Wrecks Is Found

F.B.I. Sees ‘Massive Fraud’ in Groups’ Food Programs for Needy Children

Mamaroneck Historical Society trying to save murals inside school that portray life and work of novelist James Fenimore Cooper

Webpage Launches with Resources for New Rochelle Board of Education Candidates

New Poll: Taxes are Top Reason Residents Looking to Leave New York

Phase II of Young Israel New Rochelle Restoration Underway

2022 Parks & Recreation Summer Day Camps Return to School Sites

Judge Upholds New NY Congressional Districts; Bowman to Represent Northern Westchester & Putnam in NY-16

New Rochelle Pilot Dies After Plane Crash Off Florida Keys

ICYMI

Recommended Reading: Talk of the Sound March 7, 2021

Recommended Reading: Talk of the Sound February 20, 2021

Recommended Reading: Talk of the Sound February 13, 2021

Recommended Reading: Talk of the Sound February 6, 2021

Words in Edgewise: Impressions of a Failed Town Hall Meeting in New Rochelle in the Wake of the West End Shooting

Words in Edgewise: Two Very Different Responses to Very Similar Murder

Deep Dives

Inside the New Rochelle Police Department Clown Show – Table of Contents

Series: Nightmare on the Isle of Sans Souci

Printhouse of Horrors Series

Alec McKenna – Kamal Flowers Archive

Michael Vaccaro – Malik Fogg Archive

Analysis of School Enrollment Projections for New Rochelle Schools 2015 – 2021

Investigation into 2020 New Rochelle School Election

A History of New Rochelle Alternative High School 1970 to 2020

Case History of Apex Grade Inflation at New Rochelle High School

Analysis of Outside Investigation into Apex Grade Inflation at New Rochelle High School

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