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Unusual Suspects: Overexposed; Journal News Receives Suspicious Mailing; Train Drives Over Man and He Lives

Recent weird and unusual crime in the Hudson Valley. Reports do not indicate a conviction.

Man Exposes Penis to Store Employee

Dobbs Ferry police searched for a man who allegedly exposed his penis to a female employee of a Main Street business. The suspect entered the business and began speaking to the male and female employees who said they could not understand what the suspect was saying. When the male employee left, the suspect exposed himself to the woman. Police were unable to find the man. 

Journal News Mail Handlers Report Suspicious Powder

The Journal News reported receiving a suspicious package for the second time in one week. Two mail handlers opened the package in the parking lot of the White Plains Library. The mail handlers requested to be decontaminated and the car was moved to another location where it could be searched. The first package was determined not to be a threat. The incidents occurred after the newspaper published an interactive map of gun permit owners in Westchester and Rockland Counties. Putnam County is attempting to block publication of the same information. 

Media Asked Not to Park on Clintons' Home Street

New Castle police asked the media not to park on Hillary and Bill Clinton's street following the Secretary of State's release from New York-Presbyterian Hospital, where she was being treated for a blood clot in her head. 

Man Crawls Away Unharmed After Train Drives Over Him

A man who proceeded to lie between the train tracks of the Mamaroneck Metro-North station survived a train driving over his body without injury. He then crawled out from under the third train car. Officials described the man as incoherent and he was taken to Sound Shore Medical Center in New Rochelle for psychiatric evaluation. 

State Police arrested a Carmel woman, 48, who was reported to be driving erratically and forcing other cars off the road. The woman failed field sobriety tests and resisted efforts to handcuff her. She also grabbed a trooper's Taser holster. 

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Lisa Buchman (Editor) June 6, 2013 at 10:14 am
I loved all the music - the band belting out 'Sweet Caroline' was great!
Lisa Buchman (Editor) June 6, 2013 at 10:12 am
Heather, thanks! I saw you in the crowd! These are awesome. It was a perfect night for it! I'll addRead More a link to your post from mine.
Josephine Ziegler presented the school board with the petition at the May 9 meeting.
John Craig June 3, 2013 at 11:50 am
Regarding paragraph 5 -- the retirement incentive. I haven't read anything to suggest that theRead More retirement incentive and the insurance switch are related or that that KLDTA asked for one to get the other. When I read the initial release from the board, I saw them as 2 different cost savings initiatives. ---The district indicated that each retirement saves a net of $32,500 per year. Early Retirement Incentive Plans (ERIPs) are fairly common stuff among downsizing private organizations. I think it makes sense to use them here to accelerate cost savings. ---The original petition was well written. Now that we have addressed point #3, I think it's time to make further progress on point #2 -- a financially sustainable contract. ---And, experience suggests that if you really want to move forward in a collaborative way, you have to let go of the past. Continuing to harp on past mistakes undermines point #5.
Sara Weale June 3, 2013 at 12:36 pm
Thanks for your comment. I agree that we all need to move forward -- but in my opinion, althoughRead More this side agreement made a long-overdue change in health care carriers (while maintaining a high level of health care benefits/access to teachers, retirees and their dependents), the KLDTA again asked for retirement incentives in return - just as they did for the December 2010 MOA that extended the terms of their contract for two years and avoided going to Triborough. Under the 2010 MOA, KLDTA requested a $10,000 retirement incentive and 21 teachers took the offer (including the current leader of KLDTA) -- resulting in an outlay of $210,000 by the district. Although some savings might have been realized for "early" retirements, it is difficult to calculate the exact amount because the district has no way of knowing when a teacher would have retired without the incentive. If 20 additional teachers take the new retirement incentive which was increased to $17,500 for some reason -- that is a total cost to the district of $350,000. Don't forget that regardless of the incentive, teachers retire with full pension and retiree health care benefits. Yes - the district will realize some savings from the incentives -- but we likely would have realized similar savings without incentives and natural attrition/retirement of our teaching staff. What I think we need to pay attention to as a community is that it seems the only way that KLDTA leadership will agree to changes in the status quo is if they get something in return. The last two agreements with the KLDTA will likely result in approximately $500,000 spent by the district in retirement incentives over a five year period -- money in my opinion, better kept in the district system during these difficult economic times and in the tax-cap environment. In my opinion, finally switching health care carriers did not merit financial rewards for teachers likely retiring in the next three years anyway.
Katonah19 June 6, 2013 at 08:08 am
For more insight, take a look at BOE Member Charles Day's statement on retirement incentives inRead More exchange for KLSDTA's agreement to changes in Health Care here: http://bedford.patch.com/groups/opinion/p/days-statement-on-kl-union-contract-changes