08/17/09 The White Plains Briefing (Updated)

Comprehensive News Feed for White Plains, NY.

• SWBOCES Center Releases Fall-Winter Catalog
  posted on August 17, 2009 03:00:00 pm
  ... Sleepy Hollow. BOCES also offers citizenship classes in satellite locations in New Rochelle, Sleepy Hollow and White Plains. For more information, visit the BOCES Adult and Community Services website at www.swboces.org/ault-Education.cfm where you ...
• Former BU dean posthumously given music-society honor
  posted on August 17, 2009 12:00:00 pm
  ... including a stint as conductor of the Corpus Christi Symphony Orchestra. Grainger died at the age of 78 in White Plains, N.Y., in 1961, and his home there serves as headquarters for the International Percy Grainger Society. The medallion, presently ...
• Read Comments
  posted on August 17, 2009 09:21:50 am
  ... for affordable housing in the Lower Hudson Valley can easily be traced to the World War II era. In 1941, in White Plains for example, there were attempts to form a permanent housing committee to deal with a lack of decent affordable housing and to ...
• Town halls on health bills hard to plan
  posted on August 16, 2009 03:00:00 pm
  ... she was relegated to a conference call on President Barack Obama's health care plan. The mother of five from White Plains wanted to tell her congresswoman - Rep. Nita Lowey, D-Harrison - in person that she thinks the plan stinks. But that never ...
• 1 in 10 White Plains workers earned $110G
  posted on August 16, 2009 03:00:00 pm
  WHITE PLAINS - One of every 10 workers on the city payroll earned at least $110,000 last year, records show.
• Advocate: White Plains has no basis to withhold salaries data
  posted on August 16, 2009 03:00:00 pm
  WHITE PLAINS - Top aides to Mayor Joseph Delfino have rejected several requests from The Journal News during the past four months for an account of the $2.6 million in overtime the city expects to pay this year, claiming no reports are kept on the issue.
• Stephen K. Peeples: Les Paul's legend and legacy loom large
  posted on August 15, 2009 03:00:00 pm
  ... and we'll make that move later.'" Now I guess that time will come soon, as Les Paul died Thursday in a nearby White Plains, N.Y., hospital from complications of severe pneumonia. Family and loved ones were by his side. At Paul's favorite club, the ...
• Revered guitar player-inventor Les Paul dead at 94
  posted on August 14, 2009 03:00:00 pm
  ... Keith Richards. "All of us owe an unimaginable debt to his work and his talent." Paul, who died Thursday in White Plains, N.Y., of complications from pneumonia, was a tireless tinkerer, whose quest for a particular sound led him to create the first ...
• Music Great Les Paul Dies at 94
  posted on August 17, 2009 04:03:41 am
  Les Paul, famed jazz virtuoso and inventor of Gibson's popular guitar series, died Thursday in White Plains, NY, of compilations from pneumonia, according to CNN .
• Continue reading Municipal bonds make a comeback
  posted on August 17, 2009 12:23:35 am
  ... returned 9.9 percent. "Munis are hot and not showing signs of cooling anytime soon," Belle Haven Investments, a White Plains, New York-based fixed-income management firm headed by Chief Executive Officer Matt Dalton, said in a monthly update ...
• Audio Pundit: Les Paul: June 9, 1915 a August 13, 2009
  posted on August 17, 2009 12:00:50 am
  ... the term properly applied: Les Paul was an icon. He passed away today from complications of severe pneumonia at White Plains Hospital in White Plains, New York, at the age of 94, following a fascinating life of invention and music. I grew up ...
• Westchester Board of Legislators Officially Receives Affordable Housing Settlement Agreement
  posted on August 16, 2009 10:45:04 pm
  ... the federal government and Westchester county government now in the hands of legislators for authorization (White Plains, NY) ~ In response to the landmark settlement between the federal government and Westchester County, the county's Board of ...
• Miles Philip Liporto
  posted on August 16, 2009 03:00:00 pm
  ... es will be private. Memorial donations in Miles's memory can be made to March of Dimes, 1275 Mamaroneck Avenue, White Plains, NY 10605, www.marchofdimes.com To leave a note of sympathy for Miles's family, please visit, www.brittonfuneralhomes.com
• AP Bans Use of Famed Woodstock Photo By Members
  posted on August 16, 2009 01:17:48 pm
  ... that we took or were given to us," said Larry Nyland, deputy managing editor/visual at The Journal News in White Plains, N.Y., which ran a collage of Woodstock images on the front page today "I don't know why they would do that." Rex Smith, editor ...
• Legendary guitarist Les Paul had friends in Prince William
  posted on August 14, 2009 03:00:00 pm
  ... equipment manufacturer. Wolff met Paul when he worked on some of Paul's equipment at his house in suburban White Plains, N.Y. "I used to go up there and resolve issues for him," Wolff said. One of the stories that both men recall is the one about ...
• Guitar legend-inventor Les Paul dies at age 94...
  posted on August 14, 2009 03:00:00 pm
  ... into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as one of the most important forces in popular music. Paul, who died in White Plains, N.Y., of complications from pneumonia, was a tireless tinkerer, whose quest for a particular sound led him to create the first ...
• Guitar legend Les Paul dies, 94
  posted on August 14, 2009 12:13:52 pm
  ... into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as one of the most important forces in popular music. Paul, who died in White Plains, N.Y., of complications from pneumonia, was a tireless tinkerer, whose quest for a particular sound led him to create the first ...
• Edward A. Lajoie
  posted on August 13, 2009 03:00:00 pm
  Edward A. Lajoie, 73, died suddenly August 10, in Carmel, N.Y. Mr Lajoie was born in White Plains, N.Y., August 23, 1935, to Edward and Jenni Lajoie.
• JBT Corporation to Present at CJS Securities Conference
  posted on August 10, 2009 03:00:00 pm
  JBT Corporation Release date: August 10, 2009 CHICAGO, Aug. 10 - JBT Corporation today announced that it will present at the ninth annual CJS Securities "New Ideas" Small-Cap Investor Conference on August 18th in White Plains, New York.
• Worker Files Discrimination Suit Against City for Tolerating Racial Harassment
  posted on August 16, 2009 11:11:19 am
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