SBNC Seeks Candidates for Scarsdale School Board
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The SBNC is actively seeking candidates for nomination to the Scarsdale School Board. Three members of the Board of Education are completing three-year terms.
Upon reconvening for the 2025 term, the School Board Nominating Committee (SBNC) is seeking to identify potential candidates to serve on the Scarsdale Board of Education. Following the first meeting to be held on January 12th, SBNC is now actively conducting outreach to build a robust candidate pool for the nonpartisan slate in the next school board election. The school board election and budget vote are slated for Tuesday, May 20, 2025. Candidate applications must be submitted by 7pm on Friday February 7, 2025.
The SBNC invites all Scarsdale School District residents to consider themselves or others when proposing names of qualified individuals to serve on the Scarsdale Board of Education by email to sbncchair@gmail.com.
A candidate must be at least 18 years old, a U.S. citizen, a qualified voter, and a resident of the Scarsdale School District for at least one year prior to the May 20th, 2025 school board election date.
General information about this volunteer position is currently available on the SBNC website at scarsdalesbnc.org including the updated application form for 2025 candidates or please contact the SBNC Chair(sbncchair@gmail.com) for further information. Interested in applying? Please access the application here.
New Trash and Recycling Pick Up Schedule for 2025
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Starting January 2025, Scarsdale Village will have weekly pick up of paper and recycling. What days will this occur on your street? Take a look at the announcement from the Village below. First click on the link to find which route you're on, and then access your schedule and print it out if you like.
Here is the announcement and links from the Village of Scarsdale.
The Village of Scarsdale is pleased to announce a transition to weekly recycling collection beginning January 1, 2025. Under this new schedule, both paper and commingled recycling will be collected every week. This enhancement demonstrates the Village’s continued commitment to sustainability and improved service for our residents.
To implement this change effectively, the Village has established FOUR new sanitation routes. However, residents will only need to identify and follow their specific route, just as before.
What Residents Need to Know:
Find Your New Route: Discover your updated sanitation route by visiting the link:
Sanitation Collection Day Route By Street 2025.
Access Your Schedule:
Download your personalized sanitation calendar here: Sanitation Collection Schedule 2025.
There are now four routes:
Route A
Route B
Route C
Route D
Updated sanitation calendars have been mailed to all residents this week for your convenience.
We encourage everyone to review the new schedules and recycling guidelines in advance by visiting https://www.scarsdale.gov/170/Sanitation.
For additional assistance, please contact the Sanitation Department at (914) 722-1294. Thank you for your cooperation and partnership as we work together to make this transition a success.
Back-to-Back Sellouts in Scarsdale
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The New Choral Society performs two sold out concerts of Handel's Messiah at Hitchcock Presbyterian Church. (Photo credit: Steven Schnur)The New Choral Society (NCS) has done it again.
NCS, in its 58th and 59th consecutive performances of Georg Friedrich Handel’s Messiah, the always well-prepared musical organization once again registered back-to-back sellouts on Friday evening, Dec. 6, and Sunday afternoon on Sunday, Dec. 8, to the delight of its enthusiastic concert-goers of all ages at both events.
The sellouts took place in the Sanctuary at the Hitchcock Presbyterian Church on Greenacres Avenue in Scarsdale.
In his 31st consecutive year at the helm, Maestro Dr. John T. King, artistic director and conductor who founded NCS in 1994, was as usual his energetic self while directing the 48 choral singers and 14 orchestra members who kept their eyes continuously glued and clearly focused on their leader during the performances.
Many of the singers had continuous smiles on their faces for the entire 75-minute performances of the Messiah. They absolutely seemed to be enjoying themselves while performing as the two audiences did the viewing and listening.
One of those steady smiles came from Soprano Liv Redpath, who was the last soloist of four to stand-up and perform. It was Redpath’s debut with NCS, and it was most noticeable that she was thoroughly enjoying her own “very professional” performance as well as the singing of all the other performers and the other soloists.
Redpath, a graduate of Harvard University and The Juilliard School, according to the concert’s program, “has been hailed as possessing such a radiant voice, effortless even in the highest register with breathtaking coloratura, the likes of which have not been heard for a long time.”
The other three Messiah soloists also had their moments of greatness. They included Anne Marie Stanley, Mezzo-Soprano; David Portillo, Tenor, and Sean Michael Plumb, Baritone. Portillo and Plumb appeared by courtesy of the Metropolitan Opera.
Always willing to experiment for a better and clearer sound for his educated audiences, Dr. King for these 2024 Messiah concerts reconfigured the NCS singers in the line-up with the basses and sopranos closely melded together and the same for the tenors and altos. Members of the orchestra were entirely at their familiar posts.
It was indeed another success story for NCS.
Dr. John T. King backstage with soloists David Portillo, Sean Michael Plumb, Liv Redpath and Anne Marie Stanley
Convenience Store to Open at Hartsdale Train Station
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Starbucks formerly held the concession at the Hartsdale Train Station.The first blast of frigid weather last week in Westchester was a sad reminder that the station house in Hartsdale is still not open. Even though there is a heated overpass, this leaves most commuters outside on a freezing platform awaiting the train.
Why is it taking so many years for Metro North to find a new tenant for the station house? Starbucks vacated the property during the COVID crisis and the building has now been shuttered and empty since 2021. Train riders no longer can use the bathrooms, stay warm or enjoy a cup of coffee. In better times locals congregated at tables inside and outside the station and the venue was a place to meet. Since that time Enrico's bakery in Hartsdale has also closed, taking away their sidewalk cafe too.
We contacted Ray Raimundi from the MTA Press Office who had some news. He reports that the MTA signed a lease with Airport Mart, Inc for a food, beverage and convenience store. He has no further details about what will be inside and when it will open.
We assume the business will be similar to a 7-Eleven, but don’t know whether or not there will be tables and chairs for customers or if any fresh food will be offered. A Chestnut Market, which is another snack and beverage store, is also slated to open across the street at the gas station at 240 East Hartsdale Avenue.
The station house in Scarsdale has also been closed, but the Village of Scarsdale recently issued an RFP to find a food vendor to re-open the building.
We’ll continue to follow this and send you updates when available.
School Board Nominating Committee Election Results for Class of 2025
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Ten candidates were elected on December 4, 2024 to join the roster of the Scarsdale School Board Nominating Committee.
The following candidates were elected:
Edgewood:
Jason Andrus
Boning Liu
Nicole Sternberg
Fox Meadow:
Elaine Wan
Wenchun Wu
Heathcote:
Cynthia Xiaoyue Li
Simon Liebel
Joel Steinhaus
Cindy True
Quaker Ridge:
Jaye Weisbrod
A total of 63 votes were cast in the election, 63 in person and 0 by mail-in ballot. Vote totals for committee members, by neighborhood, were as follows:
Edgewood – 13
Fox Meadow – 31
Heathcote – 8
Quaker Ridge – 11
This year’s new SBNC members will join the continuing members of the committee, each serving a three-year term on the SBNC followed by a 2-year term as part of the SBNC Administrative Committee.
The SBNC will have its first meeting on January 12, 2025, and by the beginning of April it will nominate three candidates for the Scarsdale Board of Education to fill the seats currently held by Colleen Brown, Suzie Hahn, and Ron Schulof, whose terms expire at the end of this school year.
All Scarsdale residents are welcome to propose Board of Education candidates to the SBNC chair at sbncchair@gmail.com. The SBNC Board of Education candidates, along with any other candidates who may choose to run, will stand for public election May 20, 2025 at the same time as the school budget vote.
Results of the votes for the resolution amendments will be announced once the outcome has been evaluated by the resolution committee (ensuring accurate reporting of amendments passing or not).
Contact: Christine Weston, 917-783-2199
