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Tom Auchterlonie

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Tom Auchterlonie is an experienced local journalist and is originally from Mount Kisco. Prior to joining The Daily Voice he spent more than four years at Patch.com, where he covered Mount Kisco, New Castle and Bedford. He has also freelanced for various local publications, including The Examiner, Inside Chappaqua and The Record-Review. Tom is an alumnus of Syracuse University.

Tom was formerly a reporter at Daily Voice.

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Scoping Session Set For 79-Home Proposal In Bedford Scoping Session Set For 79-Home Proposal In Bedford
Scoping Session Set For 79-Home Proposal In Bedford BEDFORD, N.Y. -- The Bedford Planning Board is scheduled to have a scoping session Tuesday for the proposed 79-home development for a site near downtown Bedford Village. The Planning Board is serving as lead agency for the project's environmental review. The purpose of a scoping session, according to state law, is to gather public input on what to include in a project's Draft Environmental Impact Statement (DEIS), which will be a lengthy document for the review. The state law is officially called the State Environmental Quality Review Act (SEQRA).  Developer Wilder Balter Partners is…

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Runoff, Lots Drawing Among Options To Break Nelsonville Trustee Tie Runoff, Lots Drawing Among Options To Break Nelsonville Trustee Tie
Runoff, Lots Drawing Among Options To Break Nelsonville Trustee Tie NELSONVILLE, N.Y. -- The options for resolving the tied election outcome for a Nelsonville trustee seat are varied and depend on the candidates' consent. Village Clerk Pauline Minners told Daily Voice on Thursday that she checked with the New York Conference of Mayors and the state's election law pertaining to villages. Based on that, she explained that a runoff election is required unless both candidates consent in writing to waiving it. If a waiver is agreed to by the candidates, then a drawing of lots would be held by a county court judge, she explained. The drawing would take place …

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Nelsonville Trustee Race Ends In Tie Nelsonville Trustee Race Ends In Tie
Nelsonville Trustee Race Ends In Tie PUTNAM COUNTY, N.Y. -- The race for a trustee seat on Nelsonville's village board has ended in a tie between the two candidates. The candidates, Danielle Pack McCarthy and Thomas Robertson, each received 90 votes, according to Village Clerk Pauline Minners. Nelsonville's village board races are non-partisan, which Minners explained means the candidates have their own parties. McCarthy ran on the Main Street Party line while Robertson ran on the Thistle Party line, the clerk said. The votes were counted three times due to the closeness, Minners said. Two absentee ballots were ca…

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Nelsonville Mayor Corless Easily Wins Re-Election Nelsonville Mayor Corless Easily Wins Re-Election
Nelsonville Mayor Corless Easily Wins Re-Election PUTNAM COUNTY, N.Y. -- Nelsonville Mayor Thomas Corless won re-election and fended off a write-in challenger, results show. Village Clerk Pauline Minners, who provided the results, said Corless received 131 votes.  David Moroney, who was the write-in candidate, received 35 votes, the clerk said. There were no absentee ballots cast for the mayoral race, Minners said. Nelsonville's village board races are non-partisan. This means, Minners said, candidates have their own parties. Corless was running on the Crown Party line, Minners said. The clear outcome of the mayor's race was i…

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Odell Defends Not Sharing Sales Tax Revenue With Putnam Municipalities Odell Defends Not Sharing Sales Tax Revenue With Putnam Municipalities
Odell Defends Not Sharing Sales Tax Revenue With Putnam Municipalities MAHOPAC, N.Y. -- As part of her State of the County address, Putnam County Executive MaryEllen Odell touched upon several key points for the county's financial shape and defended not sharing sales tax revenue with Putnam's municipalities. Speaking before a packed crowd at Putnam County Golf Course in Mahopac, Odell gave a recap from the past year. This included retaining the county's Aa2 credit rating, which was awarded by Moody's Investors Service, keeping a fund balance that is strong, avoiding layoffs of employees and keeping within the state-mandated tax cap. Thirty-one percent of P…

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Lucky, North Salem Woman's Missing Elderly Dog, Is Found Lucky, North Salem Woman's Missing Elderly Dog, Is Found
Lucky, North Salem Woman's Missing Elderly Dog, Is Found NORTH SALEM N.Y. -- North Salem's Jennifer Groves reported that her missing dog, Lucky has been found. After a search during the night, Lucky was found in a wooded area behind 4 Pinegrove Drive, Groves said, noting that he was stuck in bramble. Lucky, who is 15 years old, was subsequently taken to Katonah Bedford Veterinary Center, Groves recalled. Groves also thanked her neighbors for helping with the search, as well as Daily Voice. Groves alerted this publication to Lucky's disappearance on Friday. In her follow up after the dog was found, she said that he looked dirty, cold, hu…

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Schools
2015-16 Bedford School Budget Plan Stays Within Tax Cap, Cuts Jobs 2015-16 Bedford School Budget Plan Stays Within Tax Cap, Cuts Jobs
2015-16 Bedford School Budget Plan Stays Within Tax Cap, Cuts Jobs BEDFORD, N.Y. -- The proposed 2015-16 budget for the Bedford Central School District stays within the state-mandated tax levy cap while including several job cuts. The budget, which comes in at nearly $125.6 million, was unveiled by district administrators at the school board's March 11 meeting. The budget calls for a total tax levy of around $115.1 million a percentage increase of 1.71 percent. The levy amount is the same as the highest-permitted level under the cap. The tax cap calls for limiting levy increases to the lesser of two percent or the rate of inflation. The most recent …

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Business
Renderings Show Chappaqua Crossing Retail Buildings Renderings Show Chappaqua Crossing Retail Buildings
Renderings Show Chappaqua Crossing Retail Buildings CHAPPAQUA, N.Y. -- Renderings showing the proposed retail buildings for Chappaqua Crossing were recently presented to New Castle Town Board members. The renderings, commissioned by site owner Summit/Greenfield, were done by The Monroe Partnership. David Ball, a principal with the architectural firm, presented several watercolor-style renderings and several that were computer generated. Retail buildings for the project include Georgian architecture as an inspiration, Ball explained, which was derived from the site's existing cupola building. Ball also pointed to downtown Chappaqua's arch…

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Politics
March Village Elections Set For Pleasantville March Village Elections Set For Pleasantville
March Village Elections Set For Pleasantville WESTCHESTER COUNTY, N.Y. -- Voters in some Westchester are villages slated to go to the polls on Wednesday, March 18. Some villages have uncontested races while others have competitive ones. Here is an overview of some of the contested elections: A split has emerged among Sleepy Hollow incumbents as Mayor Ken Wray, who has in the past run on the Democratic ticket, is heading is own party line called Unite Sleepy Hollow. Running with him are incumbent Trustee Glenn Rosenbloom and challengers John Leavy and Denise Scaglione for the remaining trustee seats. The Democratic ticket, which …

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South Salem Auto Repair Shop Owner Killed In Accident Remembered Fondly South Salem Auto Repair Shop Owner Killed In Accident Remembered Fondly
South Salem Auto Repair Shop Owner Killed In Accident Remembered Fondly SOUTH SALEM, N.Y. -- Members of the Lewisboro community shared memories of South Salem Auto Repair owner James O'Connor, who was killed when the engine compartment of a vehicle he was working on caught fire on Wednesday, according to New York State Police.  O'Connor, who died at age 48 and lived in Brookfield, Conn.,  tried to put out a fire in a Volkswagen Golf that he had been working on, as well as attempting to move it away from a building, state police said. O'Connor fell into the vehicle, became trapped and died due to the fire, police added, attributing the latter action to the Volk…

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