Somers Leads Twelve-Town Effort To Protect Watersheds
Twelve towns in Northern Westchester announced plans on Monday August 23 to protect the Croton and Kensico watersheds. Somers Supervisor Mary Beth Murphy, who chairs the Northern Westchester Watershed Committee, helped make the deal to use $10 million obtained from the East of Hudson Water Quality Fund to bring the towns in compliance in the Memorandum of Agreement for watershed protection entered into in 1997. Most of the money is for storm water retrofit projects throughout the Croton watershed to reduce phosphorus discharged into the reservoir system.
“Protecting our watershed requires the vision to understand what needs to be done and the practical common sense to get things done,” said Westchester County Executive Robert P. Astorino Astorino. “The Northern Westchester Watershed Committee, under the leadership of Somers, has done both. Working with the county, the committee is taking important steps to protect our drinking water by keeping our reservoirs free of storm water, drainage runoff and contaminants.
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Supermarket Price Wars Go To Court
Supermarket giants A&P and Stop & Shop are in court accusing the other of lying about price comparisons at three stores, including one in Somers.
According to the LoHud.com story by Timothy O’Connor posted on August 24, A&P filed a lawsuit against Stop & Shop in federal court saying that “Stop & Shop's advertising campaign claiming consumers could ‘save more every time you shop’ at Stop & Shop compared to A&P was false and was damaging A&P's business.” The lawsuit cited advertisements from three stores in Westchester. Stop & Shop is asking the court to dismiss the suit.
Read the LoHud story here.
Fire Department Drills With Croton Falls
The Northern Westchester blog in LoHud.com reports that Somers and Croton Falls fire
departments recently conducted joint drills at the Exceptional Children’s school in North Salem.
PHOTO from LoHud.com
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