News from Westchester County Legislator Kitley Covill.

Leg. Kitley Covill Says Law Is Working to Protect Kids.

White Plains, NY — Legislator Kitley Covill (D - Bedford, Lewisboro, Mount Kisco, North Salem, Pound Ridge, Somers) is happy to report that a new law raising the age for the purchase of tobacco and related products in the County from 18 to 21 is working in our communities.

Recently, Westchester County Police sent a youth into two stores in Mount Kisco as part of a compliance check to ensure that the shops, which sell tobacco and vaping products, were complying with the County law. One of the two shops visited, Smoking King of Mount Kisco, at 32 E. Main St, was cited Tuesday for selling vaping products to a minor. The other shop, Kisco Vapors at 145 E. Main St., properly denied service to the underage youth.

“It is our responsibility to ensure that our local businesses are not selling alcohol, tobacco, e-cigarettes or nicotine-based products to people under age 21,” said the Legislator, “and these compliance checks, along with education, play an important role in encourage young people to make safe and healthy choices.”

In June, the Board, with Legislator Covill’s full support, passed legislation that raised the age for the purchase of tobacco and related products in the County from 18 to 21. This important law was put into place in order to protect the children of Westchester. The law went into effect in August. Just last week, the Environmental Protection Agency announced that nationwide youth vaping had reached epidemic levels.

News from Marc Molinaro for New York Governor.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE MOLINARO ANNOUNCES CUOMOLEAKS.COM FOR STATE EMPLOYEES SEEKING TO EXPOSE CORRUPTION. Provides Additional Whistleblower Documentation on Rushed, Potentially Dangerous Opening of New Tappan Zee Bridge. New York-Sept. 23...Cuomo Administration employees seeking to expose corruption are being provided with a new, confidential online tool called CuomoLeaks.com beginning today, the campaign of New York gubernatorial candidate Marc Molinaro announced. CuomoLeaks.com allows users to confidentially post information about improper or potentially illegal activities occurring within Andrew Cuomo’s government. “For months, my campaign has been receiving information from courageous state employees seeking to expose corruption and frustrated by the refusal of New York State law enforcement figures to act on what they view as clear illegalities,” Mr. Molinaro said. “We have received countless calls, often in whispered tones, about the Governor’s former top aide and MTA board member Larry Schwartz meddling in state affairs; politically motivated waste at the AIM Photonics center in Rochester; improper use of the Tax Department to punish political enemies; the abuse of sexual harassment witnesses at DCJS; the waste of taxpayer dollars to meet ribbon cuttings for the Governor; the Governor’s office meddling in investigations and contracts at Upstate Medical Center; the diversion of taxpayer funds to underwrite Andrew Cuomo’s 2020 political agenda… and the list goes on. In creating CuomoLeaks.com, we are speaking directly to those brave individuals, and others like them, and providing them with a secure, confidential online tool with which they can pass along information that needs to see the light of day.”   Mr. Molinaro provided at a news conference in Tarrytown announcing CuomoLeaks.com a copy of a government document he recently received proving that contractors working on the closure of the old Tappan Zee Bridge, and the opening of the new one, were rushed to open the new bridge in time for Governor Cuomo’s pe-primary ribbon cutting despite significant cost and public safety concerns.   “This is not how a state with proper checks and balances operates,” Mr. Molinaro continued. “Government whistleblowers should be able to safely rely on enforcement agencies to pursue justice where it is due. But in Andrew Cuomo’s New York, in a New York with sham ethics agencies like JCOPE, power politics is valued over the truth. I send a message today to those brave voices on the other end of the line: what you are doing is right; what they are doing is wrong, and help is on the way.”

News from Town of Greenburgh.

VETERANS APPRECIATION BARBEQUE THIS THURSDAY AT 5 PM

If you are a veteran, please join us at our annual veterans appreciation barbeque this Thursday, September 27 from 5 PM to 7:30 PM at Anthony Veteran park, Heatherdell Road. Your family is invited to join us. Major sponsors are Atria Woodlands, Shoprite Supermarkets, D'Arrigo Brothers Produce. West Point Military band members will be providing entertainment. There will be informational tables from the DAV, American Legion, VA Hospital and Marine Corp League.   A representative of the organization that organizes free trips to DC for veterans will also be present to discuss the trip.

WOODLANDS HIGH SCHOOL GRADUATES SONGS WERE #1 AROUND THE WORLD---THEY ARE CELEBRATING WITHH A CONCERT IN TARRYTOWN THIS THURSDAY!

This Thursday, September 27th Greenburgh residents (and residents from around the area) will be able to enjoy a live concert at the Doubletree Hotel in Tarrytown beginning at 8 PM.  It's Atlantic Starr day - a celebration concert. Atlantic Starr musicians will perform their class hits that millions of people listened to and loved and songs from their new metamorphousis CD.  Doors open at 7 PM. Concert begins at 8 PM.  Tickets start at $25. For information call 837 6542


I invited the Lewis brothers, graduates of Woodlands High School, on my WVOX program recently. This is the interview I had (some of their hits can be heard during the interview:

https://youtu.be/5pwWVOWvNZw


PAUL FEINER