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NEW ROCHELLE, NY (September 3, 2025) — The City of New Rochelle announced Tuesday that it will hold a presentation and a hearing on the Quaker Ridge Road upgrade project on Sept. 9 at 7 p.m. at City Hall in the Council Chamber. The hearing will provide an update on
DUBLIN, IRELAND (August 31, 2025) — I am back now from my Grand Tour of Hungary, Austria, Czech Republic, and Germany. Quite a trip. We don’t have Labor Day Weekend here so having recuperated from my travels I will be grinding out some interesting stories starting Monday. I spent some
MUNICH, GERMANY (August 27, 2025) — Gee, that was quick! I submitted my response Monday to the complaint filed on August 4 by David D. Lin and Michael D. Cilento of Lewis & Lin, LLC in U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York on behalf of New
BAYREUTH, GERMANY (August 26, 2025) — I submitted my response Monday to the complaint filed on August 4 by David D. Lin and Michael D. Cilento of Lewis & Lin, LLC on behalf of New Rochelle Corporation Counsel Dawn Warren (Dum Dum) and New Rochelle Development Commissioner Adam Salgado (Loverboy). You
PRAGUE, CZECH (August 24, 2025) — Over the past week I have been traveling with stops in Budapest, Vienna, and now Prague. I am off to Germany tomorrow to the attend the Bayreuth Festival. I booked so many things to do each day that I am too tired at the end
NEW ROCHELLE, NY (August 24, 2025) — I could write a detailed account of the disastrous Taste of Horton event yesterday — or the equally poor showing at the Coffee with the Mayor event — but I am going to ask my readers to do that in the comments.
DUBLIN, IRELAND (August 17, 2025) — I will be on holiday starting tomorrow with stops in Budapest, Vienna, and Prague before crossing into Germany to attend the Bayreuth Festival to see two Wagner productions (Tristan & Isolde, Parsifal) at the opera house he built to showcase his compositions; the Bayreuth Festspielhaus
NEW ROCHELLE, NY (August 14, 2025) — In a recent opinion piece for Governing magazine, New Rochelle City Manager Wilfredo Melendez extolled the virtues of the council-manager system of government, crediting it with balancing democratic accountability and operational expertise to drive the city’s progress. But just weeks before the
This article is part of a series: New Rochelle Thimblerig Table of Contents. DUBLIN, IRELAND (August 13, 2025) — In a significant GETTING RESULTS win for New Rochelle taxpayers, competitive bidding for the 2025 Jazz Under the Stars and LINC-ing Futures events has slashed costs by over $67,000 compared
DUBLIN, IRELAND (August 10, 2025) — The big news this week is that Dawn Warren and Adam Salgado — now on their third (or fourth? or fifth?) law firm over the past year— finally found a lawyer willing to file their personal defamation lawsuit — funded by the City New Rochelle, meaning the