By Michael Gold To develop Carl Fulgenzi’s way or Joe Bonanno’s way – that is the question Mount Pleasant faces. Fulgenzi believes we can’t stop development. Bonanno’s recent campaign for a Mount Pleasant Town Board seat put up signs that
Read MoreBy Michael Gold Political leaders around the world are inflicting grievous damage to the international order and American security with their aspirational vanities. I’m talking specifically about Russia and China and one person closer to home, here in the U.S.
Read MoreBy Michael Gold Giuseppe (Joseph) Tanzi was drafted into the U.S. Army in 1967, when the Vietnam War “was in full force,” he said. Joseph, a first-generation Italian immigrant, arrived in America in 1959, had just gotten married and worked
Read MoreBy Michael Gold The origins of Halloween can be traced to an ancient Celtic festival, called Samhain. The Celts used the day to celebrate the harvest, but they also seemed frightened of the coming winter. They thought Samhain a dangerous
Read MoreBy Michael Gold Mount Pleasant lost about 700 acres of forest from 2001 to 2016, 10 percent of the town’s woodlands, the town’s Conservation Advisory Council’s (CAC) just-completed natural resource inventory (NRI) has concluded. “Development is eating up our forests,”
Read MoreBy Michael Gold There are many at-risk teens in the Village of Ossining, Chima Monday said, and he’s trying hard to help them. A big part of his toolkit is to get these kids jobs. Monday, the director of the
Read MoreBy Michael Gold Bill Gerosa may not have achieved a zero-carbon emitting household yet, but he’s trying hard to get there. Gerosa has installed both a geothermal system to heat and cool his house and 55 solar panels on the
Read MoreBy Michael Gold The proposal to build a 31-lot subdivision in the Pocantico Lake area will entail the clearing of six acres of woodland. The property on which the Meadows at Briarcliff development would be constructed is close to a
Read MoreBy Michael Gold Middle school these days can be a minefield, with bullying, insults and fielding false accusations on social media and texting, even physical fights. Plus, the COVID pandemic hit just as the kids were working on social relationships and
Read MoreBy Michael Gold My mother lived by values that are often considered unfashionable these days, as we suffer the daily bombardments of slick models, actors and pop stars who constantly post pictures of themselves sunning on yachts or pitching their
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