The Goods

Details: Category: The Goods; Published: 12 March 2013

pansies The Scarsdale Youth Employment Services office (Y.E.S.) has kicked off its second annual spring flower fundraiser. Residents may purchase quality plants and flowers at easy-on-the-wallet prices for spring planting. Orders for flowers, vegetables, herbs, hanging baskets and color bowls may be placed now through April 4th by visiting https://scarsdale.ny.hs-ses.com/ or clicking here. Plants will be ready for pick up the week before Mother's Day.

Y.E.S. is a nonprofit community organization that matches bright, talented, ambitious Scarsdale teens with prospective individuals and businesses in Scarsdale. Y.E.S. depends solely on donations from the community.

Details: Category: The Goods; Published: 07 March 2013

annie3 You don't have to go to Broadway to catch a stellar production of Annie! Annie jr. that is, will be on stage at the Scarsdale Middle School this weekend, Friday March 8 and Saturday March 9 at 7 pm. A dedicated group of young thespians, under the direction of middle school teachers Dorothy Golden, Rachele Ketterer and Celia Cuk have been in rehearsal since January, perfecting well-known musical and dance numbers including "Tomorrow" and "It's the Hard-Knock Life."

The show stars Mary Cecil as Annie, Emma Satin as the cruel Miss Hannigan, Lena Proctor as Annie's savior Grace and Robert Chappel as billionaire Daddy Warbucks. To add even more excitement to the production, Scarsdale resident Martin Charnin, who wrote the lyrics to Annie, will be in the audience to see this local rendition of his work.

Tickets are $10 and are on sale in the Scarsdale Middle School Great Hall between 11-1 on Friday and at the door Friday and Saturday nights. annie2 annie4 annie1 annie5 annie6

Details: Category: The Goods; Published: 13 February 2013

tenthofdecember With school vacation and a three-day weekend upon us some of you will be looking for a good book to read or a movie to watch at home. Lucky for you, you live in a community of readers and a Village with a great library.

To give you some ideas about what to take out of the library or download on your Kindle, we asked Elizabeth Bermel, Director of the Scarsdale Public Library to send us lists of the most popular books and movies among library patrons.

Here are her tallies of the most frequently downloaded books, borrowed books and movies this month from the Scarsdale Public Library:

What Scarsdale Is Downloading:

1.Gone Girl - Gillian Flynn
2. Defending Jacob - William Landay
3. Tuesday's Child - Fern Michaels
4. 1Q84 - Haruki Murakami
5. Fifty Shades Darker - E.L. James
6. Life of Pi - Yann Martel
7. 15 Seconds - Andrew Gross
8. The Sandcastle Girls - Chris Bohjalian
9. The Hobbit - J.R.R. Tolkien
10. The Power of Habit - Charles Duhigg

What Scarsdale Is Reading in Print: gonegirl

1. My Beloved World - Sonia Sotomayor
2. Tenth of December - George Saunders
3. The Racketeer - John Grisham
4. Gone Girl - Gillian Flynn
5. Suspect - Robert Crais

What Scarsdale Is Watching:

1. Flight
2. Homeland
3. Skyfall
4. Pitch Perfect

If you want to share your recent reads with Scarsdale10583.com readers, please comment below:

Elizabeth (Beth) Bermel, Director of the Scarsdale Public Library, has been a librarian for 19 years. Before coming to Scarsdale, she was the Director of the Ossining Public Library, and worked for the San Antonio Public Library and the Queens Borough Public Library. In addition to her job, she loves reading, dogs, yoga, traveling, good food and the outdoors.

Details: Category: The Goods; Published: 26 February 2013

This information was submitted by Greenburgh Police Chief Joseph DeCarlo: Recently there has been an increase in thefts from vehicles throughout the town and more so in Edgemont. The large majority of the vehicles that were entered were unlocked. To help combat this type of crime please take notice of the following crime prevention tips.

-Lock your doors and roll up the windows: Criminals love to go window-shopping. They walk down neighborhood streets or go through shopping center parking lots looking through the windows of parked cars to see what people have left behind.

-Make sure you leave nothing of value in plain view in your car. Take valuables away with you, or put them in the trunk. If you own a sport utility vehicle, cover your valuables. Don't give thieves that kind of opportunity.

-Remove portable electronic devices such as smart phones and portable GPS navigation systems, including suction cup or beanbag type mounts. (even the visible appearance of a suction cup ring on the glass windshield can be an enticement to a thief to break in and look for the GPS system.)

-Don't leave personal identification documents such as your license, registration to vehicle or credit cards in your vehicle.

-Activate any theft deterrent device you may have. greenburghshield

-Park in a well lit area or under a motion detector light if available.

-If you have a garage, use it.

-Call the police to report a crime or any suspicious activity.

Details: Category: The Goods; Published: 07 February 2013

facebook25 Rob Fishman, a 2004 graduate of Scarsdale High School now covers the tech sector for Buzzfeed and also works as a media consultant to many leading websites. To celebrate Facebook's ninth birthday on Monday February 4, Rob interviewed Facebook's first 25 users to find out where they are now. Read about Mark Zuckerberg's earliest followers and see how some of them were forever changed by the birth of the social media sensation and others missed the boat.

25. Amie Broder amiebroder

Broder, two years ahead of the Facebook founders at Harvard, went on to NYU Law School and a job at the law firm Simpson Thacher. She's now an associate at Troutman Sanders, and in 2012, was named by Law & Politics as a "rising star" in tax law.

24. Ada McMahon

McMahon lives in New Orleans, where she works as a media fellow for Bridge the Gulf, a group of citizen journalists collecting stories from the Gulf Coast in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. McMahon also blogs for The Huffington Post.

billyolson 23. Billy Olson

Olson, the fourth roommate in Zuckerberg, Hughes, and Moskovitz's suite, was "an amateur thespian with an impish streak," according to David Kirkpatrick, author of The Facebook Effect. In The Social Network, Olson has the bright idea of comparing students to farm animals. While his friends all went on to become billionaires, Olson took time off from Harvard and never graduated, said a Harvard official. Still, he ended up making friends with a tight-knit group of younger students, with whom he is still close, according to a former classmate. Friends said Olson had become a firefighter in his hometown of Briarcliff Manor, New York.

22. Hilary Scurlock Cocalis