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Tuesday, October 8, 2013
Bonfire lights up Somers High School
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Somers splits with Mahopac in tennis
Mooooook! Mookie Wilson takes part in Somers baseball event
By Brian Marschhauser
Of The Somers Record
Wilson began the ceremony with a 10-minute speech about making and sustaining a Major League career through hard work and work ethic, and not necessarily with natural ability.
“I was a decent hitter but I never hit .300,” Wilson told the crowd inside the Somers Middle School auditorium. “But the one thing that I could always do was run.”
Somers Library 5K Trail Race and 1-Mile Family Fun Run
EDITORIAL: Somers gun sign incident is symptom of a national problem
By Bryan Fumagalli and Brett Freeman
Editor and Publisher
The politics of divisiveness leapt off of the national news pages and onto the front page of The Somers Record last week (“Gun sign controversy now Constitutional issue,” Oct. 3, Page 1).
Read The Somers Record's initial article here.
On Sept. 23, The Blaze, which is a national news, information and opinion site created by conservative commentator Glenn Beck, published a one-sided article about Somers resident Jon Gibson, who posted a video on NYFirearms.com showing Somers Police Officer Larry Collura removing a pro-Second Amendment sign from his yard.
Editor and Publisher
The politics of divisiveness leapt off of the national news pages and onto the front page of The Somers Record last week (“Gun sign controversy now Constitutional issue,” Oct. 3, Page 1).
Read The Somers Record's initial article here.
On Sept. 23, The Blaze, which is a national news, information and opinion site created by conservative commentator Glenn Beck, published a one-sided article about Somers resident Jon Gibson, who posted a video on NYFirearms.com showing Somers Police Officer Larry Collura removing a pro-Second Amendment sign from his yard.
Tuskers win two games, suffer first loss
By Wesley Cash
For The Somers Record
The Somers Tuskers went 2-1 last week, beating Roy C. Ketcham and Arlington, but they suffered their first loss of the season to Our Lady of Lourdes.
Somers, which is ranked No. 2 in New York State in Class A, beat Ketcham 3-0 on Oct. 1. Senior captain Carolyn Casey scored two goals and junior Nicole Anes, who returned from an injury, netted one. Junior Melissa Righetti, junior Shoshana Bedrosian, and freshman Melina Couzis each had one assist. Senior goalkeeper Justine Huber had 10 saves.
Tuskers topple Spring Valley in Week 5
Of The Somers Record
So far, so good.
Lower utility bills on the way in Somers?
By Tom Bartley
For The Somers Records
Homeowners could see smaller utility bills if local government negotiated the prices for gas and electricity, a proposed state law promises—and Somers agrees.
The Town Board has called for passage of separate measures, now pending in the state Senate and Assembly, to establish a five-year pilot program of so-called “community-choice aggregation.”
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Homeowners could see smaller utility bills if local government negotiated the prices for gas and electricity, a proposed state law promises—and Somers agrees.
The Town Board has called for passage of separate measures, now pending in the state Senate and Assembly, to establish a five-year pilot program of so-called “community-choice aggregation.”
Dammeyer earns rank of Eagle Scout
By Brian Marschhauser
Of The Somers Record
Craig Dammeyer of Somers became the 29th member of Boy Scout Troop 376 to attain the rank of Eagle Scout—the highest rank in scouting. The ceremony was held Saturday at Grace Lutheran Church.
Dammeyer is a senior at Somers High School and began as a Boy Scout in May 2007. He officially became an Eagle Scout in April after carrying out a project at the Angle Fly Preserve on Route 139.
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Craig Dammeyer of Somers became the 29th member of Boy Scout Troop 376 to attain the rank of Eagle Scout—the highest rank in scouting. The ceremony was held Saturday at Grace Lutheran Church.
Dammeyer is a senior at Somers High School and began as a Boy Scout in May 2007. He officially became an Eagle Scout in April after carrying out a project at the Angle Fly Preserve on Route 139.
Celebrate Somers!
By Brian Marschhauser
Of The Somers Record
Somers has turned 225 years old and the Chamber of Commerce celebrated the occasion with the inaugural Celebrate Somers Day.
Thousands turned out for the event, which ran from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 28, at the Somerstown Shopping Center and Bailey Park. The locations were filled with bouncy houses, special performances, clowns, face painting, food vendors, stilt walkers, free popcorn, pink hair extensions, giveaways and tours of the museum inside the Elephant Hotel.
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Somers has turned 225 years old and the Chamber of Commerce celebrated the occasion with the inaugural Celebrate Somers Day.
Thousands turned out for the event, which ran from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 28, at the Somerstown Shopping Center and Bailey Park. The locations were filled with bouncy houses, special performances, clowns, face painting, food vendors, stilt walkers, free popcorn, pink hair extensions, giveaways and tours of the museum inside the Elephant Hotel.
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Somers varsity football team cruises to homecoming win
By Rob DiAntonio
Of The Somers Record
In just one hour and 26 minutes, the Somers varsity football team disposed of visiting Hendrick Hudson in a 55-0 dismantling on Sept. 27 at the Tuskers’ homecoming.
Somers, which improved to 3-1, jumped out to a commanding 34-0 halftime lead.
The Tuskers didn’t take long to get on the board.
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In just one hour and 26 minutes, the Somers varsity football team disposed of visiting Hendrick Hudson in a 55-0 dismantling on Sept. 27 at the Tuskers’ homecoming.
Somers, which improved to 3-1, jumped out to a commanding 34-0 halftime lead.
The Tuskers didn’t take long to get on the board.
Somers soccer suffers four-game losing streak
By Rob DiAntonio
Of The Somers Record
After a strong start to the season, the Somers’ varsity boys’ soccer team suffered a pair of 1-0 losses to Arlington and Roy C. Ketcham.
The setback against Arlington on Sept. 28 was the Tuskers’ third straight loss. Senior captain and goaltender Ryan Nealon made eight saves.
“We have had a few mental lapses defensively that have cost us in the past three games,” Somers coach James Palumbo said. “Offensively we need to create better chances as a team rather than finding one person to create on their own.”
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After a strong start to the season, the Somers’ varsity boys’ soccer team suffered a pair of 1-0 losses to Arlington and Roy C. Ketcham.
The setback against Arlington on Sept. 28 was the Tuskers’ third straight loss. Senior captain and goaltender Ryan Nealon made eight saves.
“We have had a few mental lapses defensively that have cost us in the past three games,” Somers coach James Palumbo said. “Offensively we need to create better chances as a team rather than finding one person to create on their own.”
Granite Pointe clears regulatory hurdle
By Tom Bartley
For The Somers Record
A decade after winning—then losing—final subdivision approval, the Granite Pointe housing proposal inched closer to regaining it last week when the Planning Board endorsed the latest review of the controversial project’s environmental issues.
Setting aside a number of eleventh-hour entreaties to delay action, the shorthanded planning panel voted, 5-1, to accept as complete a supplemental environmental-impact statement (EIS) on plans to clean up lead from the site. Discovery of the lead contamination, which in 2004 quashed the project’s earlier initial approval, triggered the remediation study.
For The Somers Record
A decade after winning—then losing—final subdivision approval, the Granite Pointe housing proposal inched closer to regaining it last week when the Planning Board endorsed the latest review of the controversial project’s environmental issues.
Setting aside a number of eleventh-hour entreaties to delay action, the shorthanded planning panel voted, 5-1, to accept as complete a supplemental environmental-impact statement (EIS) on plans to clean up lead from the site. Discovery of the lead contamination, which in 2004 quashed the project’s earlier initial approval, triggered the remediation study.
Somers gun sign controversy now Constitutional issue
By Bryan Fumagalli
Of The Somers Record
The article initially appeared in the Oct. 3 edition of The Somers Record.
Somers made national news this past week after a homeowner’s sign was removed from his lawn by a Somers police officer after the officer determined the sign was on Town property.
The removal of the sign, which reads “Protect the 2nd Amendment,” has the homeowner claiming his right to free speech has been violated due to his support of the Second Amendment. The Town, however, contends the sign was removed due to a violation of Town code, and not because of its message.
“I put the sign up primarily because I oppose the SAFE Act and how it was passed,” Lake Lincolndale resident Jon Gibson said, referring to New York’s newest gun control law. “I figured this was a way for me to do my part to raise awareness of the actions of our elected leaders.”
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| Jon Gibson kneels in the spot where his sign was removed by police. What remains of the black stake that held up the sign can be seen. Photo credit: Bryan Fumagalli. |
Somers made national news this past week after a homeowner’s sign was removed from his lawn by a Somers police officer after the officer determined the sign was on Town property.
The removal of the sign, which reads “Protect the 2nd Amendment,” has the homeowner claiming his right to free speech has been violated due to his support of the Second Amendment. The Town, however, contends the sign was removed due to a violation of Town code, and not because of its message.
“I put the sign up primarily because I oppose the SAFE Act and how it was passed,” Lake Lincolndale resident Jon Gibson said, referring to New York’s newest gun control law. “I figured this was a way for me to do my part to raise awareness of the actions of our elected leaders.”
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