OPINION
Dick Hubert’s Worldview: Confronting emotional political issues in the heart of Amsterdam, the Netherlands
My wife and I have been visiting her family relatives in the Netherlands prior to a cruise we will be taking from Amsterdam to Rome. Last Friday, Sept. 6, one of those relatives and his wife took us to the Holocaust Memorial Monument in the heart of Amsterdam, which opened …
Letter: Don’t cut the coneflowers!
Wait! Before jumping into fall cleanup, think twice before cutting a coneflower. In your backyard you might have beautiful coneflowers that bloom in the summer months.
Letter: Fact checking Thomas Ceruzzi
Thank you to Thomas Ceruzzi for another factually incorrect letter (Aug. 30).
Letter: Dangerous ongoing situation in the Village of Port Chester
I have lived in Port Chester for the past five years and have never experienced the level of threat to my personal safety as I have this summer on a repeated basis.
Dick Hubert’s Worldview: Filtration plant to be built starting in 2025; Outrageous age-related NYS approved fees
A multi-decade campaigner for filtered clean water in our circulation area, Dottie Roer of Rye Brook buttonholed me recently with a fevered concern that once again politicians and billionaires would stop the much-needed, court-mandated Westchester Joint Water Works (WJWW) filtration plant from ever being built.
Letter: Support the PCHS Marching Band
The Port Chester High School Marching Band Association is very grateful for the continued support that the Port Chester/Rye Brook community gives to the PCHS Marching Band.
Letter: This time we must vote with intelligence
I am very well acquainted with someone who has very admirable values: kindness, friendliness, is educated, respectful, has integrity, is decent, and for all of his life has been dedicated to service to his community. These values which are taught in the home, in church, and in school are very …
Letter: On the Olympics, America’s past, and the elections
I have only criticism for Dick Hubert’s criticism of Thomas Ceruzzi’s opinion piece in the Aug. 16 issue of this paper, wherein the latter’s call for a boycott of French products prompted the retired news producer and reporter to call his sense of history “narrow” and to denounce his condemnation …
What’s so bad about dogs in Port Chester parks?
As we have just celebrated International Dog Day on Monday, Aug. 26, let’s talk about dogs in Port Chester parks, which has been a hot topic around the village and a subject of discussion at village board meetings in recent months.
Dick Hubert’s Worldview: In 2026 it will be just 250 years since the Declaration of Independence!
You can never stop studying and understanding history. Especially our own.
Letter: Shedding some light on Trump family military record
To my knowledge, no member of the Trump family from Donald’s father during World War II to his children has ever served in the military. Donald Trump has also avoided any military service when called during the Vietnam War. He received at least five deferments when eligible for the draft …
Letter: It’s time to turn the lights back on in the White House
In the Apr. 16 issue of the Westmore News I was attacked in print by someone I consider a left wing liberal, Eric Berger.
Dick Hubert’s Worldview: Two huge stories impact our local communities
This week: a focus on two huge local stories with national implications—both stories having been covered exclusively by media to which you may not subscribe.
