08/02/09 The White Plains Briefing By Robo Blogger (Updated)

Comprehensive News Feed for White Plains, NY.

• Cockpit pioneer
  posted on August 02, 2009 11:54:36 pm
  ... visit family. At the time, the mid 1970s, she was working for Ted Healy, owner of Panorama Flight Services in White Plains, N.Y., as a dispatcher, secretary, bookkeeper and cashier. She rode as co-pilot on freight runs for a year to build enough ...
• Always - Atlantic Starr
  posted on August 02, 2009 06:12:10 pm
  ... adult contemporary market as well, but their roots were '70s soul and funk. The East Coast outfit was formed in White Plains, NY, in 1976 by three brothers: lead singer/guitarist David Lewis, lead singer/keyboardist Wayne Lewis, and ...
• Reporter recalls his close call on Taconic
  posted on August 02, 2009 03:00:00 pm
  ... me. It was about 9 p.m. and I was driving my 1996 Nissan Sentra north near Stormville, about 50 miles north of White Plains. I was 24, driving back to my apartment in the Berkshires after visiting a friend in New York City. My first thought was ...
• 3rd Annual Port Chester Health Fair
  posted on August 02, 2009 03:00:00 pm
  ... President Lindsay Farrell for the ceremony. Health care professionals from Open Door Family Medical Centers, White Plains Hospital Center, Greenwich Hospital and other organizations will offer free health screenings at Open Door's Port Chester ...
• Streep channels moma s joie de vivre in a Juliaa
  posted on August 02, 2009 02:09:35 pm
  ... of Julia Child. That voice was so familiar," Streep said at a small Ritz-Carlton hotel press conference in White Plains, N.Y. "And then, how do we know whether we're doing her - or Dan Aykroyd's version of her?" Streep said director Nora Ephron's ...
• Across the area
  posted on August 02, 2009 12:52:50 pm
  ... 1987. He worked as a photo editor for several newspapers, was photo director for Gannett Suburban Newspapers in White Plains, N.Y., and was assistant managing editor for photography at the Democrat and Chronicle in Rochester, N.Y. 78-year-old robbed ...
• Officials To Check Signs After Taconic Pkwy Crash
  posted on August 01, 2009 09:24:06 pm
  Share + Aug 1, 2009 10:23 am US/Eastern WHITE PLAINS 1 of 1 Remains of the minivan that smashed head-on into an SUV on the Taconic State Parkway before bursting into flames on July 26, 2009.
• Business in the Burbs: Profits, sales fall sharply at Drew Industries
  posted on August 01, 2009 03:00:00 pm
  Sharp declines in shipments of manufactured homes and recreational vehicles continue to hurt Drew Industries Inc., a White Plains-based company that supplies components to those economically sensitive industries.
• ITT quarterly results better than expected on cost cutting
  posted on August 01, 2009 03:00:00 pm
  Cost cutting helped diversified global manufacturer ITT Corp. of White Plains produce better-than-expected second-quarter results.
• White Plains man heals after saving friends
  posted on August 01, 2009 03:00:00 pm
  WHITE PLAINS - 'Stay awake, 12 minutes.' That's what Patrick Massaroni remembers the EMTs telling him, over and over.
• Open Gym nights surge in popularity
  posted on August 01, 2009 03:00:00 pm
  WHITE PLAINS - No less than four nights a week, from 7 p.m. until darkness washes over every inch of the Westchester County Center about three hours later, Aaron Daughtrey is there, dribbling, shooting, watching.
• Digital conversion isn't working for everyone
  posted on August 01, 2009 03:00:00 pm
  ... p. Are others still having conversion trouble? What is the FCC going to do about this? B.J. Innamorato White Plains
• Sound Shore Lacrosse: Putnam Valley, Fox Lane win semis; will meet in ...
  posted on August 01, 2009 03:00:00 pm
  From staff reports Putnam Valley 7, White Plains 6: In a Sound Shore High School League semifinal at White Plains, Ryan Fitzgerald scored the winning goal.
• IBM can't try again to keep ex-MA chief from Dell
  posted on August 01, 2009 03:00:00 pm
  ... chief from performing duties at Dell Inc., a judge ruled. U.S. District Judge Stephen Robinson in White Plains, New York, rejected IBM's claim this week that it had new evidence to include in a motion for a preliminary injunction against the ...
• Lewis: Torrent of badmouthing against bbottled water
  posted on August 01, 2009 05:22:26 pm
  ... strategy and communications agency in New York City. Yaverbaum is the founder of Ericho Communications in White Plains, N.Y. Yaverbaum said he simply wants all water companies to list their sources. In many cases, if consumers knew where their ...
• Research Perspectives Signs 8,000 SF Lease
  posted on August 01, 2009 03:00:00 pm
  Research Perspectives has signed a five-year lease for 8,000 square feet at Gannett Office Park in White Plains, N.Y. Research Perspectives is a full-service custom-market-research firm offering strategic and tactical market research solutions with a worldwide perspective.
• Special Events At Saxon Woods Pool
  posted on August 01, 2009 03:00:00 pm
  Mt. Kisco, NY - One of Westchester County's most popular pools, Saxon Woods in White Plains, will host several special events for people of all ages during August.
• Drew Industries Inc. Reports Second Quarter Profit
  posted on August 01, 2009 06:00:28 am
  Drew Industries Inc. , White Plains, N.Y., Thursday A reported net income of $2.6 million for the second quarter ended June 30, compared to net income for the second quarter of 2008 of $9.2 million.
• Port Chester man sentenced to 8 years for terrorizing ex-girlfriend
  posted on July 31, 2009 03:00:00 pm
  WHITE PLAINS - A Port Chester man accused of terrorizing his ex-girlfriend was sentenced today to eight years in state prison for setting fire to her apartment and breaking into her father's home.
• State Running a $2.1 BILLION Deficit After 1st Quarter
  posted on August 01, 2009 01:46:19 am
  Been out of town...still felt I was in White Plains, reading what is new in CitizeNetReporter.