Tuckahoe's annual New Year's Eve celebration is happening again tomorrow night in Depot Square from 10:30 p.m. - 12:30 a.m.
Attendees can bring in the New Year with the band T-Bone, who is scheduled to perform from 11 p.m. - 12:30 a.m.
The village will count down to 2012 with heated tents, confetti, noisemakers, hats and two plasma screens to watch the ball drop in Times Square. The event is sponsored by the Generoso Pope Foundation.
Friday, December 30, 2011
Tuesday, December 13, 2011
Napolitano wins Fire Board election
Jerry Napolitano won a seat to the Eastchester Fire Board of Commissioners on Tuesday, unseating one-term incumbent and former town Fire Chief Keith Fennelly. Napolitano cruised to victory in a landslide, winning in every town voting district in an election that saw the highest voter turnout since 2000.
Napolitano, 46, works as a solutions architect in Motorola's government and enterprise division. He has been a regular at Fire Board meetings for he past three years. He took home 1,096 votes, easily trumping Fennelly, who netted 318 votes. Also running was David Levy, a town resident and union iron worker, who received 39 votes.
The Fire Board oversees a Fire District that encompasses Eastchester, Tuckahoe, and Bronxville. Each year, a December election is held for one of the seats on the board and voter turnout is notoriously low. The Fire Board is a taxing entity, setting the budget for the Fire District.
Fire Board meetings have grown quite contentious in recent years, with the common scenario being Commissioner Dennis Winter bumping heads with the rest of the commissioners over the district's accounting and communications practices. Winter supported Napolitano's candidacy in this year's race.
In a recent interview with The Town Report, Napolitano said, “I think there’s a lot of ways to communicate better to the public what the Fire Board is doing and make the public more comfortable with what the Fire Board is doing."
Fire commissioners receive no compensation annually and serve five-year terms.
Read more in this week's edition of The Town Report.
Napolitano, 46, works as a solutions architect in Motorola's government and enterprise division. He has been a regular at Fire Board meetings for he past three years. He took home 1,096 votes, easily trumping Fennelly, who netted 318 votes. Also running was David Levy, a town resident and union iron worker, who received 39 votes.
The Fire Board oversees a Fire District that encompasses Eastchester, Tuckahoe, and Bronxville. Each year, a December election is held for one of the seats on the board and voter turnout is notoriously low. The Fire Board is a taxing entity, setting the budget for the Fire District.
Fire Board meetings have grown quite contentious in recent years, with the common scenario being Commissioner Dennis Winter bumping heads with the rest of the commissioners over the district's accounting and communications practices. Winter supported Napolitano's candidacy in this year's race.
In a recent interview with The Town Report, Napolitano said, “I think there’s a lot of ways to communicate better to the public what the Fire Board is doing and make the public more comfortable with what the Fire Board is doing."
Fire commissioners receive no compensation annually and serve five-year terms.
Read more in this week's edition of The Town Report.
Vote Today for Eastchester Fire Commissioner
Polls opened at 2 p.m. for today's the Eastchester Fire Board election and will remain open until 9 p.m.
Incumbent Keith Fennelly is running against challengers David Levy and Jerry Napolitano for one Eastchester fire commissioner seat. Voters in Eastchester, Tuckahoe and Bronxville can participate in the election.
Polling locations for today's election are as follows:
*Eastchester Town Hall, 40 Mill Road (Eastchester)- Districts 6, 7, 8, 9, 24, 25, 26, 28, 30, 37, 38 & 39
*LeRoy Gregory Post #979, 40 Bell Road, behind Equinox Gym (Eastchester) - Districts 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 23, 27, 29, 34 & 36
*Chester Heights Firehouse, 10 Oregon Ave. (Eastchester) - Districts 15, 31, & 35
*Tuckahoe Community Center, 71 Columbus Ave. (Tuckahoe) - Districts 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 32 & 33
*Bronxville Village Hall, 200 Pondfield Road (Bronxville) - Districts 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21 & 22
Eastchester fire commissioners serve for a five-year term without pay. Fire Board elections are non-partisan.
Incumbent Keith Fennelly is running against challengers David Levy and Jerry Napolitano for one Eastchester fire commissioner seat. Voters in Eastchester, Tuckahoe and Bronxville can participate in the election.
Polling locations for today's election are as follows:
*Eastchester Town Hall, 40 Mill Road (Eastchester)- Districts 6, 7, 8, 9, 24, 25, 26, 28, 30, 37, 38 & 39
*LeRoy Gregory Post #979, 40 Bell Road, behind Equinox Gym (Eastchester) - Districts 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 23, 27, 29, 34 & 36
*Chester Heights Firehouse, 10 Oregon Ave. (Eastchester) - Districts 15, 31, & 35
*Tuckahoe Community Center, 71 Columbus Ave. (Tuckahoe) - Districts 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 32 & 33
*Bronxville Village Hall, 200 Pondfield Road (Bronxville) - Districts 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21 & 22
Eastchester fire commissioners serve for a five-year term without pay. Fire Board elections are non-partisan.
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