Recommended Reading: Talk of the Sound

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

Featured Stories

Former New Rochelle Board of Education Employee Arrested for Attempting to Run Over Local Journalist

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

Traffic Stop Leads to Gun Arrest in West End of New Rochelle

New York Governor: Kids Must Remain Masked at School, Adults Get Mask Mandate Relief

Moody’s Confirms New Rochelle Bond Rating as Aa2

Town Hall Meeting at Christopher Columbus Elementary School 2/8 5:30 pm

Pilot Program to Make Area at Columbus School Safer with One-Way Streets at Washington Avenue & Fifth Street Begins

Site of Grant’s Department Store, Liebman’s, Gutted to Clear Way for High Rise in Downtown New Rochelle

Bronx Woman Looted Mamaroneck Company for $550,000, Feds Charge

Rep. Jamaal Bowman Calls Out Con Ed for Outrageous Price Hike

Mamaroneck High School Students Win Awards at 2022 Westchester-Rockland Science and Humanities Symposium

Stop & Shop Delivers 2,000 Stuffed Animals for Valentine’s Day to Six Year-Old Larchmont Cancer Survivor Who Will Donate the Toys to Pediatric Cancer Patients in Area Hospitals

Gambino Crime Family Captain Sentenced to 37 Months in Prison and Ordered to Pay $1 Million in Restitution for Racketeering Conspiracy

New Rochelle Grocery Stores Report Run on Cocoa Puffs, Sour Patch Kids and Sugary Soda as Children Go Wild with $1,000 EBT Card Windfall

Stark Stonewalling and Coverup at New Rochelle Fund for Educational Excellence Continues

Governor Hochul Urges Con Ed to Review Billing Practices and Announces Actions to Continue Addressing Surging Energy Prices

Elsewhere on the Web

Larchmont Police Respond to Kamala Harris Protest Signs

Resilient Monroe Mustangs Men’s Basketball Snags Double-Overtime Victory at Lackawanna

Have You Been Holding Your Phone Wrong This Whole Time?

New Rochelle’s Jason DeSalvo scores 5th goal in OT to top White Plains

New Rochelle Man Accused Of Breaking Cell Phone, Slapping Victim

New Rochelle handyman accuses Bronx company of taking his home

Sondheim Musical Revue comes to Westchester

New York Deer Infected With Omicron, Study Finds

Performance at NRPL: The Wayne Henderson Sextet

JCC of Mid-Westchester Announces the Start of Elise Dowell as CEO

Ursuline sued again over another student’s expulsion tied to fight at The Westchester mall

Thruway Authority Sells 8.971 Acre Property to Rye Country Day School

In 1857, Long Island Sound froze over, spurring a daring jaunt across the ice

After 78 years, Zachys is leaving Scarsdale for larger space in Port Chester

Bobcat Sightings On The Rise In The Suburbs; Experts Say Chances Of Attacks Are Low, But Residents Should Remain Vigilant

Sen. Alessandra Biaggi launches U.S. House campaign

Reports: Biaggi to Announce Run for Congress in NY-3; Sound Shore Long Island & West

Abandoned Lamborghini Huracan Performante Found in Canadian Parking Garage With No One to Claim it

Yonkers Mayor Spano Looking to Primary Congressman Jamaal Bowman

Community Leaders Demand Apology From Mayor Spano For Comments About Congressman Bowman

ICYMI

Recommended Reading: Talk of the Sound February 6, 2021

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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