Letters

It’s true, “the one constant in life is change.” With this issue of River Journal we prove the adage correct. The residents and businesses in Briarcliff Manor (including Scarborough) will have additional reading material landing in their mailboxes on a monthly basis. To our newest readers we offer a heartfelt welcome along with an invitation. The invitation stems from the truth that a relevant community publication prospers from the input of the readership it serves.

In essence, the invitation to our Briarcliff Manor readers is to let us know what’s important. That can be accomplished through letters, articles and the happenings that Briarcliff wants to share with the neighboring villages River Journal has served over the past thirteen years. Those Villages are Irvington, Tarrytown and Sleepy Hollow, all three river towns. Having said that, Briarcliff Manor has been duly noted as “the Village between two rivers” and a beautifully written article within this issue expands on that fact.

To our current readers we pledge (as always) to make River Journal relevant and unique. Whether in print or on the Web at RiverJournalOnline.com we will continue to represent each village with a unique variety of articles written by people who live and work in our communities.  

Sincerely,

Robert Bonvento,
Publisher

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In Irvington —

Having reviewed over 800 pages of documents related to the Upper Dows Lane Field, I'm writing to brief the community:

Read more: Uppser Dows Lane Field documents

In a letter to the press, inviting journalists to attend a public meeting on April ll at the Greenburgh Town Hall, Supervisor Paul Feiner provided several major reasons why the recent Japanese tsunami disaster should now prompt a shutdown of the nuclear reactors in Buchanan, NY.  Feiner states in his letter that the Nuclear Regulatory Commission has declared that of all 104 reactors in the nation, Indian Point has the “highest risk of catastrophic failure due to an earthquake.” Feiner’s second point in his announcement letter is that there are currently no plans for a “50-mile evacuation zone.” Finally, he includes a third major point that the “560 megawatts contracted to Con Ed and NYPA” amounts to “6.2% in the winter and 4.3 %  of  total production.” Feiner concludes that on the basis of his arithmetic “our region could live without Indian Point.” 

Read more: Feiner Calls for Indian Point Shutdown… Questionable Claims

Our audited financial statements show that we are spending close to $30K per pupil. Thirty thousand dollars is the cost of tuition at a private school – and far more than tuition at a parochial school – but we are not providing a private school education.

My goal is to give all of our students a college preparatory K-12 education equal to that offered by the best private schools in the country.

Read more: Irvington Schools Budget