Westchester News - Seahawks' coach keeping promise
The Seahawks' Mike Holmgren is happily leaving the job he's loved and mastered after 17 years of coaching in the NFL to help his wife, Kathy, in her continued efforts to aid the poor.
When a souring real estate market curdled in 2008, homeowners weren't the only ones left holding properties that were losing value by the day and attracting little interest. Large-scale developers left municipalities with big plans, but little in the way of resources. General Motors and Sleepy Hollow entered 2008 developer-less for the"Lighthouse Landing" condo/townhome plan on the 97-acre site. Suffern was shopping for a developer after Martin Ginsburg backed out of a large downtown project. Haverstraw town decided to sit on property it purchased at the former state-run Letchworth Developmental Center rather than accept"fire sale" prices during the real estate downturn. WCI Communities dropped plans to develop upscale housing for seniors at Letchworth, walking away from its $500,000 deposit. The non-developments are more proof that the nation won't end its economic slide until it ends the slide in real estate.
A jury addressed one long-running mystery, acquitting Mount Kisco police officer George Bubaris in June of criminal wrongdoing in the death of immigrant Rene Perez, whose broken body was found alongside a Bedford road the year before. Perez's death brought to light the practice of"border dumping," whereby police in one jurisdiction transport their problems, in this case Perez, who had many alcohol-related encounters with police, to a neighboring jurisdiction. Another whodunit involving police emerged over the summer. Wayne Simoes of Yonkers PD faces serveral charges in connection with the videotaped takedown of Irma Marquez, who suffered gruesome injuries. Allegations of police brutality are nothing new for the Yonkers force, which is under U.S. Justice Department review, but the summer release of the Marquez tape was the first to provide city residents with video evidence of the problem. Simoes attorney, Andrew Quinn, said in U.S. District Court that the tape"appears to show a grossly unfair portrayal of the events." Yeah.