By Eileen Gallagher
The town board announced a 9/11 Memorial Ceremony Thursday evening which will take place at 6:30pm at Gedney Park. According to the town board, the program will include an invocation, musical selections, Robert Castelli as the keynote speaker, and a reading of the names of those lost on that day from New Castle.
Next, downtown is the place to be on the last two Saturdays of the month, with Community Day on September 20 and the Chappaqua Children’s Book Fair on September 27.
In other news, the research firm Penn Schoen Berland will be conducting 300 phone interviews for the Master Planning process beginning September 18. To that end, there will be a mailing to all New Castle residents with information about the survey process, which will last about two weeks.
In addition, the Millwood Task Force has a new name, the Millwood-West End Advisory Board, which is a more inclusive title for a board with members of both Millwood and the New Castle portion of Ossining. The new sanitation contract with SaniPro signed by the town is expected to save over three million dollars over seven years, and the fee for each household will likely be reduced from the current $485 annual amount.
Per Jill Shapiro, the town administrator: the Recreation Department will be rolling out a new registration program in the next couple of weeks. This will allow for online registration of the various programs offered. The paving of lower King Street and the portion of the road in front of the library is expected to be completed this week.
