Westchester County Business Journal
Westchester County Local Jobs
Vol. 46, # 36 | September 3, 2007
 
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Near summer's end, the weekday lunch crowd was light and quiet at Rigatoni Restaurant, the cozy, green-awninged place that Frank and Margaret DiBari have run for 13 years at 124 Fifth Ave. in Pelham's village business district. The noise in the parking lot next door came from the bulldozers, rock-pounding drill and other heavy equipment of a Croton-on-Hudson company cutting and piling boulders from a 30-foot-high cliff at the rear of downtown buildings
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The independently owned drugstore is one of the last surviving archetypes of America's downtowns, a place where customers are still known by their first names and specialty services such as home delivery are offered. Many are now carving their epitaphs, dying at the hands of mail-order prescriptions.

 

 

 

For newly named Ossining village Manager Linda Cooper, promoting economic development "without overwhelming the community" is the order of the day.

 

 

 

Though much of its business stems from video gaming machines these days, Yonkers Raceway returned to its roots when it hosted the second consecutive Yonkers Trot at the raceway after it was held elsewhere in 2004 and 2005.

 

 

 

Take a man with an extensive background in the recording-audiovisual industry, two enterprising business women and the Internet. The result? An Internet radio show attracting listeners as near as Blauvelt and as far away as Belgium, and a business show to add cachet to its extensive format.

 

 

 

With the Hudson Valley experiencing warmer winters and suffering from a spate of damaging floods, the impact of climate change on the region is no longer purely a matter of theoretical speculation. A report of the Northeast Climate Impacts Assessment, a collaboration between the Union of Concerned Scientists and a team of independent experts, predicts that if greenhouse gas emissions continue to grow at the current rate, New York state will have temperatures akin to current-day South Carolina by 2040.

 

 

 

Sales of existing single-family homes held steady in New York state in July compared with July 2006, according to the New York State Association of Realtors, which also reported the sales prices increased slightly for the same time frame.

 

 

 

Haights Cross Communications Inc., a 10-year-old publisher of educational and library materials based in White Plains, recently announced the resignation of Peter J. Quandt, the company's founding chairman, CEO and president.

 

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