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June 17, 2022 | Vol. 10, Number 24 | www.eastchesterreview.com
Champs at last!
Bronxville’s players tear across the field following the Broncos’ 15-8 win over Skaneateles in the Class D state finals on June 11. Bronxville finished the season with a stellar 21-1 record. For story, see page 16. Photo/Mike Smith
Sustainable Westchester’s electricity supply faces short-term pause For the first time in six years of supplying electricity to customers in participating municipalities in the Con Edison utility service territory, the Westchester Power Community Energy Program’s electricity supply will experience a temporary pause. It is important to note that electricity service will not be interrupted in any way. The rapid rise in energy prices, spurred by the war in Ukraine, has made securing long-term contracts more difficult. Program administrator, Sustainable Westchester, a nonprofit consortium of municipal governments, continues to seek the best economic value for its 100% renewable and standard supply options. During the upcoming pause, electricity supply customers will be returned to standard Con Edison supply with their first meter read after June 30. It should be noted that this does not affect the city of Yonkers as they are on their own Westchester Power contract through November 2023. It also does not affect participating municipalities in the NYSEG utility service territory. “Sustainable Westchester’s Westchester Power program has demonstrated the value of a community-wide clean energy offering. Unfortunately, the global disruption in energy
markets has affected our ability to execute a contract for continuous service of participating municipalities in the program in ConEd service territory, excluding Yonkers, which has a separate contract. We are taking this opportunity to
consider how the program can be administered to still capture and provide the same benefits, but to allow for more nimble procurement,
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Rocah announces new gun safety plan Westchester County District Attorney Miriam E. Rocah announced a comprehensive gun safety plan following a sweeping series of state and local legislation strengthening New York’s gun safety laws in the aftermath of the Uvalde and Buffalo shootings. “As a mother of two schoolaged children here in Westchester, I feel the same fear so many parents experience each day when they send their kids off to school. Recent events around the country have made it clear that we cannot let our guard down anywhere, including here in Westchester County, to keep our children and families, our teachers and first responders, our neighbors and communities safe. So today I am putting forth a five-point plan to highlight how my office is doing—and will do—everything within our power to ensure New York’s strong gun safety laws are used as effectively as possible,” Rocah said. “This epidemic has become so pervasive that, for the first time in our nation’s history, gun violence is now the leading cause of death for children and adolescents in this country. We simply cannot accept this.” DA Rocah’s Gun Safety Plan: 1. Getting Guns off Our Streets: There are more guns in circulation in our country than ever before. We are working to get illegal guns off our streets through: • Coordinated operations with
our law enforcement partners at the local, county, state and federal levels. The largest operation to date resulted in the seizure of more than 100 guns, including “ghost guns,” body armor and high-capacity drum magazines, silencers, ballistic vests, counterfeit police shields and significant quantities of ammunition. • Gun buybacks like the one we had in New Rochelle last year in partnership with the New York State Attorney General and New Rochelle Police Department. We pledge to use office forfeiture funds to continue efforts in the community toward more gun buybacks. We are ready to expand our work with municipal partners immediately. • Tracing origins of seized guns used in crimes across our communities, and launch investigations and prosecutions whenever possible. • Intelligence and data sharing between federal, state and local law enforcement partners and analysts from our Crime Strategies Center who are embedded with High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area, HIDTA’s, Gun Violence Strategy Partnership. 2. Prosecuting Gun Crimes: We will continue to aggressively investigate and prosecute crimes involving guns and gun violence, including violent gang cases and firearms trafficking. • Launched the Gun & Gang
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Westchester County District Attorney Miriam Rocah announced a five-point gun safety plan in response to the mass shootings in Buffalo, New York, and Uvalde, Texas.