Chappaqua News Archives

The Westchester Jazz Orchestra has been called a "local" orchestra "in about the same way as, say, the New York or Berlin Philharmonic Orchestras are local." On June 7, this world-class big band will welcome ... via All About Jazz

“People who don't trust Clinton are given to saying that he cheats at golf”

Biographical reporting has as much to do with selection and emphasis as it does with the unearthing of raw data. via New York Times

“I think it's great, just wonderful”

By Linda Lombroso The Journal News * April 25, 2008 Anne Gelfand stretches out her newly manicured fingers and offers a grateful smile. via The Patent Trader

“This is very good for me - it slows you down a little.”

By Bill Cary The Journal News * April 24, 2008 The 2008 Open Days Program kicks off on Sunday with a look at two great private gardens: Joanna Friedman's shady 1-acre garden in the heart of suburban Larchmont ... via The Patent Trader

“Looking at this umbrella, I thought, 'Why doesn't someone make this into a real rain umbrella? It would be so cool. It would be so pretty.' ”

Pamela Zonsius has designed many things - knitwear, private label clothing for Saks Fifth Avenue and cashmere togs sold to high-end stores Bloomingdale's and Henri Bendel. via Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

NEW CASTLE - A Chappaqua physician was charged Sunday with impersonating a police officer after a road rage incident on the Saw Mill River Parkway in which he is accused of pointing a gun at another motorist ... via Journal News

“The selection of First Stamford Place by a global business leader such as Citibank underscores the stellar reputation of this trophy property as the location of choice for prestigious companies”

The Global Wealth Management division of Citibank NA has signed a lease for 30,590 sf at 200 First Stamford Place here, GlobeSt.com has learned. via GlobeSt.com

“I've thought about it for a long time”

Two aspects of American foreign policy in the past few years pushed Ethan and Rima Vesely-Flad to step up their protests against the government's militarism. via Journal News

“It is a very time-consuming and expensive project”

MOUNT KISCO - The scribe, with his long beard and hat, sat before the ark at the Mount Kisco Hebrew Congregation, as guests stood in line to hold the end of the long quill he used to write the last of the ... via Journal News

“I think I would just ask him to bless everyone I care about”

There aren't too many people who can say they've met the pope, but for five young Westchester students that memorable moment will come Saturday when they bestow symbolic gifts upon Pope Benedict XVI at a ... via The Journal News

“The winters are long in New York”

The campaign trail isn't a great place to catch up on sleep or reading, but, if nothing else, at least it boosts your heart rate. via Journal News

“He planned it beautifully. He executed it beautifully. He just didn't get to all the candles.”

CHAPPAQUA - The rose petals he sprinkled along the path were romantic. The portable heater he rigged so she would be warm outside was thoughtful. via Journal News

“It's something people can actively feel. You can't really see it, but you can feel it.”

When L&L Holding Co. LLC was marketing space at one of its trophy office buildings in midtown Manhattan three years ago, the company decided its ability to regulate the inside temperature could help draw ... via Journal News

“He gave me his brother's number, and the brother told me about the proposal.”

Lawrence Waterhouse III pulled out all the stops -- and all the candles -- when he proposed marriage to his girlfriend in the gazebo outside his suburban home. via WNBC New York Channel 4

“The most important asset that Bill Clinton has is not his personal checkbook”

By Matthew Mosk Washington Post Staff Writer Sunday, April 6, 2008; Page A09 Bill Clinton 's book "Giving" devotes a great deal of space to the charitable habits of the world's wealthiest inhabitants, and it ... via The Washington Post

“The NMF is grateful to this incredible group of women who are pooling their energies and resources to raise money for education, support services and research on Marfan syndrome”

Twenty women from Chappaqua are teaming up to chair the first Heartworks Westchester gala, a benefit for the National Marfan Foundation in honor of four-year-old Sydney Lerman. via Westchester.com

“Not that any of this matters...Clinton is toast. Obama will win the Primary and lose the General election. ”

Posted on 04/04/2008 10:28:36 PM PDT by kellynla Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign released their tax forms from 2000-2007 Thursday, which showed the Clintons earned more than $100 million in that time ... via Free Republic

Residents shouldn't pay for city's mistake As a former Yonkers resident, I was appalled to read that Mayor Phil Amicone was involved in ordering The Guardian news racks removed in the first place. via The Patent Trader

“Every year she checks in with me, she asks me what classes I'm taking and has even talked with me about one of my papers”

Part three in a three-part series Jimmy Tobias Media Credit: Carmela Aquino College senior David Helfenbein talks about his eight years of support for Hillary Clinton that began when he was just in middle ... via Daily Pennsylvanian