COUNTY DEPARTMENT OF SENIOR PROGRAMS AND SERVICES KICKS OFF MAY AS OLDER AMERICANS MONTH WITH ANNUAL SALUTE TO SENIORS EVENT Written by Westchester County
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The Department of Senior Programs and Services (DSPS) will be recognizing the month of May as Older Americans Month with the 53
rd Annual Salute to Seniors event. Salute to Seniors has been reimagined into four smaller, safer, outdoor events in northern, central and southern Westchester. The information and business expos will feature music as well as information on programs, services and products targeted at the senior community and their caregivers. Event schedules and times are listed below.
I KICKED COVID TO THE CURB!
CAMPAIGN LAUNCHED
I kicked COVID to the curb! That’s the new campaign Westchester County has launched to encourage Westchester County teens and young adults to get vaccinated for COVID-19. The campaign includes a PSA with New York Knick and Ossining native Obi Toppin and Knick Immanuel “IQ” Quickley.
Along with the New York Knicks PSA, the County is also launching an aggressive social media campaign, hosting a youth town hall May 13 to answer questions young people might have about the vaccine and is partnering with local schools, libraries and more to directly get the information in the hands of the young people and their parents.
Latimer Salutes Westchester’s Fire Service in Advance of International Firefighters Day Written by Westchester County
County Executive George Latimer saluted Westchester’s firefighters today for the courageous and skillful service they continually provide across the County, particularly during the Covid-19 pandemic this past year.
“Every day firefighters go out and risk their lives to protect property and life. Any of us who have ever been proximate to a fire realize the bravery that it takes to run to the fire when the rest of us as civilians run from the fire as fast as we can,” Latimer said. “We really respect them and on this day we want to honor them.”
Westchester County Federal Legislative Requests sent to Washington Written by Westchester County
County Executive Latimer has sent his federal legislative requests to the federal delegation that represents Westchester County
Westchester County Executive George Latimer has sent his federal legislative requests to the federal delegation that represents Westchester County. The priorities were compiled by the Westchester County Department of Intergovernmental Relations under Latimer’s leadership. Department of Intergovernmental Relations Director Steve Bass led the team along with Deputy Director Ellen Hendrickx and Intergovernmental Relations Aide Kyle McIntyre.
While there are a number of federal priorities, the top priority for the Latimer Administration is the repeal of the SALT tax cap. The law now caps the SALT deduction at $10,000, resulting in double taxation and raised taxes on thousands of middle-class families in Westchester who depended on that deduct
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State and local officials are looking for ways to entice younger people to get vaccinated. Rep. Sean Patrick Maloney, left, and Dutchess County Executive Marc Molinaro toured a county-run vaccination site recently in Poughkeepsie. (Office of Rep. Sean Patrick Maloney)
NEW YORK After months of people scrambling to find places to get the coronavirus vaccine available appointments would no sooner be announced than they would be snapped up more and more clinics, pharmacies and points of dispensing are offering to give the vaccine to anyone who walks in.
On Tuesday, Rep. Sean Patrick Maloney, D-Cold Spring, and Dutchess County Executive Marc Molinaro, a Republican, toured the Poughkeepsie Galleria Vaccination Site, set up in the former JCPenney store, and encouraged everyone in the Hudson Valley to get the vaccine.