July 17, 2024
Joann Ponterio, wife of the late Bruno Ponterio, and her granddaughter Lauren Howard sit in the newly named Bruno M. Ponterio Memorial Room in the Port Chester-Rye Brook Public Library on Tuesday, July 16. The teen room was renamed to commemorate the longtime Blind Brook educator, who died in March, and his 40 years of service on the library board.
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When Joann Ponterio looked around the children’s section of the Port Chester-Rye Brook Public Library, she was full of mixed emotions. She, along with other members of her family, were invited by the Library Board of Trustees to commemorate her late husband, Bruno, who died Mar. 7. A ceremony was held on Tuesday, July 16, to rename the teen room in the children’s section to the Bruno M. Ponterio Memorial Room—a dedication to a man well known in the Rye Brook and Port Chester communities.
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