Apply Now for College Scholarships from the SHS PTA
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Applications for a one-year grant from the Scarsdale High School PTA Scholarship Fund for College are now available. The application form and the dean’s evaluation form may be downloaded from the Scarsdale High School PTA website, https://www.scarsdaleschools.k12.ny.us/Page/28929). Completed applications must be submitted by May 1, 2023.
To learn more about the Scholarship Fund, who is eligible, and how to apply, please refer to our Fund Facts linked here.
For additional information regarding the Scholarship Fund, please visit the SHS PTA website or contact Tracy McCarthy: tracymcc@gmail.com.
DMV Now Open in White Plains
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Good news for Scarsdale drivers. The Department of Motor Vehicles has reopened in White Plains, now located next to Whole Foods and the Cheesecake Factory at 1 Maple Avenue. The DMV closed their location in the White Plains Mall in 2018 and has been sorely missed, with residents forced to travel to Tarrytown or Yonkers for routine matters like renewing drivers licenses and returning license plates.
The new DMV office will be open Monday to Friday, from 7:30 am. to 5 pm and reservations for appointments can be made online.
As of May 7, 2025 the federal government will require you to have a REAL ID for identification for flying domestically. If you would like to convert to an enhanced drivers license (EDL) you can apply to renew your current license early and replace it with an EDL.
Click here to see how the process works:
Two Student Directed Plays on Stage at SHS This Weekend
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The SHS Drama Club is in rehearsals for this weekend’s performance of its annual student-directed plays, I Don’t Want to Talk About It and Finding Love in the 21st Century.
The first play, I Don’t Want to Talk About It, is about the difficulty of being a teen dealing with the problems faced when growing up, as well as bullying and suicide, issues many teens today do not want to talk about. The second play is the comedy Finding Love in the 21st Century, which follows two people who hit it off on an online date but vow not to commit to each other until they go through a series of other terrible, funny dates only to find out that maybe they had it right in the beginning.
I Don’t Want to Talk About It is directed by Taylor Levin and Jason Dickstein and Finding Love in the 21st Century is directed by Colin Dunsky and Brooke Suzman.
Both plays have been in development for just over a month; the directors of Finding Love in the 21st Century had this to say about the production: “We definitely had hardships as this was our first time directing. There was so much to navigate with casting choices, lighting cues, and everything in between. But in the end, it has all been incredibly rewarding. We had so much fun making this show, because it's a comedy, we feel it truly brought out the little, comedic kid in each cast member. Never did a day go by without us laughing.”
The directors continued, “We picked Finding Love in the 21st Century because it relates to each and every person. Through its hilarious characters and absurd jokes, we loved how each cast member found something special within the show. At the end of the day, it’s a production about finding yourself while finding love, a message everyone deserves to hear.”
You can see the show in the Scarsdale High School Auditorium on Friday, January 13, and Saturday, January 14, both at 7:30 pm. Tickets can be purchased in person or online here. Both plays showcase the talented SHS Drama Club and tech crew. Enjoy the show!
The Flavors of India on Hartsdale Avenue
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Two years of the pandemic were tough for local restauranteurs with more closings than openings, leaving us with diminishing dining options. So it was great to see a sign for a new Indian restaurant in Hartsdale, and then have it open its doors so quickly. We had no idea why it was called NH44 but figured it out once we saw the décor.
The restaurant has been totally redone and is spacious, casual and colorful. A wall size mural is actually a rendition of a sign on the back of a truck that might deliver food in India. The name, NH 44, is for National Highway 44, India’s longest highway spanning 11 states and 2,555 miles from the northernmost to southernmost tips of the country. According to the restaurant’s website, “The flavorful food that we bring to the table represents an eclectic north to south culinary experience.” The restaurant is managed by the same company that runs Vega, the Mexican restaurant a few doors down.
It was only when someone pointed out that we were in the former site of Japanese restaurant Azuma, that we realized the scope of the transformation. With curtains no longer hiding the front window, the sushi bar gone, and the carpet lifted the formal atmosphere or Azuma has given way to a lively, bustling venue for very tasty food.
The restaurant is strictly first come, first served, and does not take any reservations. So we stopped by on a chilly night and took our chances at getting a table. We arrived around 6:30 and found several open tables. But by seven, they were all taken and a crowd was waiting by the door.
We scooted into a roomy booth and assumed we were in for a long wait for our meal, but we were pleasantly surprised by the swift service.
On the drinks menu we found a selection of beers on draft and in bottles, including King Fisher, Taj Mahal and Montauk Wave Chaser. There are several sangria’s and red and white wines by the glass or the bottle, reasonably priced at just $11 a glass.
Though the restaurant features a wide variety of offerings, we cautiously ordered Indian dishes that we knew and all were delicious. We started with vegetable samosas that arrived with two dipping sauces, one mild and the other hot and spicy. We also chose the Baghari Jhinga, which are shrimp in a tangy cream sauce with curry leaves and mustard seeds and Kungfu Gobi, roasted cauliflower with onion in a tangy sauce.
We couldn’t pass on the Indian bread (naan) which arrived hot and was perfect for dipping into all the delicious sauces that came with the meal.
For our main courses we sampled chicken two ways: first tandoori murgh, which is bone-in chicken roasted in house blended spices. The chicken tikka masala did not disappoint either, served in the traditional creamy tomato sauce infused with fenugreek. There are many vegetarian options on the menu, and from those we chose the saag peshkesh, pureed spinach which was a great accompaniment to our entrees.
We’ll have to go back to try their lamb dishes, curries and kebabs along with chicken, lamb or goat biryani.
And we do plan to go back – and to order online for home delivery directly from the restaurant or via Grubhub, Uber Eats or Doordash. Check out their website and menu here:
NH 44
219 East Hartsdale Avenue
Hartsdale, NY 10530
(914) 574-5262
info@nh44indian.com
https://www.nh44indian.com/
No Way to Turn
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I usually have to drive around town to chase the news, but for the past three weeks, the mountain has come to Mohammad as they say.
I live on a short street in Greenacres that runs between Walworth and Greenacres Avenue. To give you an idea of just how short it is, there are only six houses on each side of the street, all on lots of about 1/3 acre. This bucolic byway, which is usually quiet and empty, has become a major construction site. Every morning a parade of backhoes, pick-up trucks, dump trucks and cars converge. We wake up to the earth shaking vibrations of the back hoes picking up and dropping large steel plates that cover deep open trenches in the roadway.
What’s up?
Though it looks like they are installing the Alaska pipeline, we’re told Con Edison is putting in new gas lines throughout Greenacres. We lived through a similar project that blocked Walworth Avenue for much of the earlier part of 2022 and now they have creeped right up to our door.
When and if I decide to leave home, I need to get out of the car at the top of the driveway, find a Con Ed worker and ask which way it might be possible to exit the block. At the north end, in addition to the work on my street, the same operation is in progress on Greenacres Avenue and a portion of that road is also blocked off. So in order to drive toward Scarsdale Village, I have to do a half mile loop up and around toward White Plains.
Last week, the Con Edison workers struck the street’s water main. That was even more exciting. Emergency vehicles sped to the street in an attempt to stop the flow and our water was turned off for about four hours as the Village worked to repair the pipe.
And if this wasn’t enough fun, in the midst of the chaos, I looked out my back window the other morning to see a police officer speaking to a gardener who was holding a leafblower. Shoot! It was a Monday and the gardener was breaking a new law that says gas leaf blowers can only be used Tuesdays- Fridays. I wondered how the policewoman had traversed the pipes, deep holes and blocked street to find her way into my yard.
Two weeks later I also received a summons in the mail for the same leaf blower violation.
So now, if I can get out of my driveway, I will need to get out of my pajamas for a court appearance in early January to speak to the judge about the summons.
The timing seems rather unfortunate. We’ve lost the use of our street, water service was off and they choose now to issue us a violation for clearing the leaves? I guess no one is above the law … except of course Con Edison.
