Sarah Wolpoff
Recent Stories
Education is changing in NYS and PCSD will be a part of it
New York State is moving forward with substantial philosophical and tangible changes to the way K-12 education is focused and facilitated. And the Port Chester School District isn’t just getting a head start on studying and implementing one of those coming transformative elements but will have a voice through experience as the Education Department defines its new expectations.
Bea Conetta, a renowned advocate celebrates her 100th birthday
Whether she was the bane or the delight at any given Board of Trustees meeting, Bea Conetta, to all who have watched, is a local figure who demands respect. With a reputation in advocacy as feisty as her own, it’s no wonder that the community would gather to celebrate Conetta’s 100th birthday—if anyone can make it to the rare title of centenarian, it’s her.
To Greg Austin, serving R.B. was a dedication to home
Greg Austin retired from the Rye Brook Police Department after 36 years of service on Nov. 12. During the last 18 years, he served as chief. At 61 years old, he left his post as the most experienced police chief in Westchester County, he said—though that was a title he only held for a few months; the longtime police chief in Tuckahoe, John Costanzo, beat him to retirement.
Senior creates AI diagnostic tool, gets published in biomedical journal
Before being legally permitted to get behind the wheel of a car—a test she nervously conquered in October (it ended up being easier than she thought)—Charlotte Zelin celebrated an achievement that’s difficult for academics twice her age: she got published.
First female Eagle Scout claims her spot in history
In December 2019, Ariana Ayala was a pioneering girl joining the mixed-gendered Cub Scout Pack 400. She was a Corpus Christi-Holy Rosary School fifth-grader with sharp ambition. On Nov. 12, she officially became an Eagle. Out of her own pure ambition, she even outpaced her older cousin who inspired her to join the Scouting world in the first place.
There’s a new chief in town
Just a few hours into his new position, Eric Dengler was “slowly” getting used to his new moniker: “Chief.” The night before, at the Rye Brook Board of Trustees meeting, the 56-year-old Mount Pleasant resident was officially sworn in as the new chief of police.
‘You’re more than your grades,’ high school thespians portray
Blind Brook high schoolers have at least one common denominator in their experience that many, if not most, share: grade anxiety. “Ranked” was essentially written for them. And because circumstances seemed appropriate this year, Drama Club director and producer Christina Colangelo felt it was the right study for her students’ fall production that will premiere this weekend.
Free Clay Art Center program teaches PCSD students about the culture of ceramics
The Port Chester High School students working in the main classroom at the Clay Art Center on Tuesday, Oct. 29, were given a simple, yet loaded, task—create something of significance.
Do you remember High Point Hospital?
A few years after the BelleFair community was developed in 2000, Jodi and Bryan Wolkind moved in. They didn’t realize they were living on the grounds of a largely unknown, yet historical spot in the community—not until an elderly taxi driver told Jodi during a trip home from the Metro-North train station that she resided on the property that formerly housed a psychiatric institution: High Point Hospital.
