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Sam Barron

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sbarron@dailyvoice.com

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An (almost) lifelong Westchester resident, Sam has reported on all facets of Westchester since he graduated from Ryerson University with a degree in print journalism, including stints at North County News and The Examiner. A film columnist for WAG Magazine, Sam's moviegoing expertise has been profiled in the New York Times and he was a featured guest on VH1's Big Morning Buzz Live.

Sam was formerly a community editor at Daily Voice.

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News

Sen. Gipson Express Support For The Safe Act PUTNAM COUNTY, N.Y. -- Sen. Terry Gipson is on board with the New York Safe Act. In an interview with Daily Voice at his campaign office, Gipson in Wappingers Falls, who is running for a second term in the 41st Senate District, against Dutchess County Legislator Sue Serino, said he supports the gun control legislation. "The NY Safe Act is doing a very good job of providing extra safeguards for those who live in our communities, making our families stronger and safer," Gipson said. Gipson said the law puts stricter penalties on those who commit domestic violence and harsher sentences …

by Sam Barron

09/30/2014

Events

Guiding Eyes Hosts Wine Tasting Fundraiser With Blind Sommelier YORKTOWN, N.Y. -- Guiding Eyes For The Blind, which has campuses in Patterson and Yorktown, is hosting its annual fundraiser with some very special guests. Guiding Eyes is hosting its fifth annual Wine, Music and Puppies from 3 p.m. to 6 p.m. on Sunday, Oct. 5 at its Yorktown headquarters, 611 Granite Springs Road. The event will feature Amy Dixon, a sommelier and Greenwich resident, and musician Blessing Offor, both graduates of Guiding Eyes. Dixon and Offor will lead guests in a paired musical performance and guided wine tasting. The event will feature Italian wines from the Piedmo…

by Sam Barron

09/30/2014

News

Ossining's Open Door Hosts Rob Thomas Benefit Concert WESTCHESTER COUNTY, N.Y. -- Rob Thomas will bring his street corner symphony to Purchase Performing Arts Center for a worthy cause. The singer, frontman for Matchbox Twenty and a Bedford resident, will perform an intimate concert to raise money for the Ossining-based Open Door Foundation on Thursday, Oct. 9. The Open Door Foundation runs the Open Door Medical Centers, located throughout Westchester and in Brewster. The event will honor Girish Navani, CEO and co-founder of eClinicalWorks, and Isabel Beshar, a Rye resident who is a community volunteer and Rhodes Scholar. "We do this ev…

by Sam Barron

09/30/2014

Events

Thousands Flock To Chappaqua Book Fair CHAPPAQUA, N.Y. -- An estimated 5,000 people came to Chappaqua to meet and interact with some of their favorite authors and illustrators. The second annual Chappaqua Children's Book Festival took place on Saturday at Robert E. Bell Middle School Books were available for sale, along with food vendors from throughout the region and a bake sale was held with money raised to combat childhood hunger. Dawn Greenberg helped organize the book festival and said she was impressed with the turnout and happy the book fair was blessed with good weather. "I am an avid reader and I am thrilled m…

by Sam Barron

09/29/2014

News

Mysterious UFO Still Vexes Yorktown Police Officer YORKTOWN HEIGHTS, N.Y. -- For Lt. Kevin Soravilla of the Yorktown Police Department, the truth is out there. More than 31 years ago, Soravilla and others saw an unidentified flying object in the sky. Soravilla was working patrol on Route 118 in Yorktown near the Triangle Shopping Center when he saw a large object heading southbound flying less than 1,000 feet above the shopping center. "I thought it was flying very low," Soravilla sad. "It was a V-shaped object and there was green, red and amber banked across the object in the sky." Soravilla stared, transfixed at the object and n…

by Sam Barron

09/29/2014

Events

BBQ Festival At South Salem Church Draws Crowd SOUTH SALEM, N.Y. -- The smell of BBQ was in the air at Stevens Memorial United Methodist Church on Shady Lane in South Salem Saturday. A BBQ festival and country fair brought many to South Salem to sample ribs, pulled pork, ride a mechanical bull or learning ways they can help raise awareness for ailments. Proceeds from the event went to the church will distribute the money to other charities. The second day of the festival is on Sunday. Organizer Rich Vazzana of Ridgefield-based VS Promotions said he is anticipating 1,000 people will attend each day of the festival. Vazzana sa…

by Sam Barron

09/27/2014

Neighbors

Cortlandt's Darcie Chan's Latest Book Focuses On Widowed Mom's New Life CORTLANDT, N.Y. -- The last few years have been a whirlwind for Cortlandt author Darcie Chan. Chan is the author of "The Mill River Redemption," her followup to her e-book bestseller "The Mill River Recluse." Before being signed by Random House, Chan worked as lawyer, drafting environmental and natural resource legislation for the U.S. Senate. In "The Mill River Redemption," a widowed woman takes her two young daughters moves from New York City to Mill River, Vermont. The family builds a new life until a tragedy tears the sisters apart. Years later, the estranged siblings come together …

by Sam Barron

09/27/2014

News

Former Tarrytown Resident Writes Book About Midwifery TARRYTOWN, N.Y. -- A former Tarrytown resident has a new book about midwives and their experiences. Elizabeth Andrew has written "Hannah Delivered," and will be reading from the book on Sunday, Sept. 28 at 2 p.m. at the Ossining Public Library and on Monday, Sept. 29 at 7 p.m. at the Warner Public Library in Tarrytown. "Hannah Delivered" is a novel about a nurse-midwife who assists with a birth and moves to New Mexico to begin a midwifery apprenticeship. While there, she befriends a male midwife, defends a teenage mom and learns to trust's women bodies. She moves back to Minnesota wh…

by Sam Barron

09/27/2014

Politics

Murphy Campaign Accuses Wagner Camp Of Several Misdeeds YORKTOWN, N.Y. -- The state Senate campaign between Yorktown Councilman Terrence Murphy and Justin Wagner is getting heated. This week, the Murphy campaign has accused the Wagner camp of having a campaign office in Brewster that violated campaign law, missing campaign finance reports and losing a third line due to invalid signatures. On Tuesday, Murphy's campaign complained to the Putnam County Board of Elections that Wagner's office in Brewster was less than 100 feet from a polling place. "The law is clear," McCormack said. "Anything less than 100 feet which had not been establis…

by Sam Barron

09/26/2014

News

Cortlandt Manor Resident Opens New Restaurant In Buchanan BUCHANAN, N.Y. -- Buchanan residents now have their own neighborhood hangout. Fat Sal's Bar and Grill is a new restaurant at 265 Tate Ave. in the Village of Buchanan. The restaurant was opened by the owners of Augie's Prime Cut in Mohegan Lake. Audrey Hochroth, one of the three owners of Fat Sal's, said they wanted to provide a casual restaurant where families could go and not break the bank or where someone could go and watch a football game. "We're a great place to have a good time," Hochroth, a Cortlandt Manor resident, said. "We want to be the neighborhood place. We wanted someth…

by Sam Barron

09/26/2014

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