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🌱 Patch AM: How a Channel swim is boosting Larchmont’s own Save the Sound

And check out Young & Old Builder's Workshop on the Larchmont Patch calendar

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Cheers Larchmont! We're back, helping you stay up to date with what's happening. Let's take on the day together! ☕️️

In today's newsletter:

  • How a Channel swim is boosting Larchmont's own Save the Sound
  • What Larchmont's new fiscal stress score really means for you

Also on today's calendar: Young & Old Builder's Workshop and 10 more events.

Today's riddle: Why do some birds fly south for the winter? 🤔 (Answer below!)

Weather forecast:

  • Monday: Warmer, with a high of 73 and low of 58 degrees.
  • Tuesday: Partly sunny and pleasant, temps: high: 74, low: 65.
  • Wednesday: Sun and some clouds, with a high of 80 and low of 58 degrees.

📰 News we're reading

• Port Chester Swimmer Completes English Channel Crossing (talkofthesound.com) — A Port Chester distance swimmer's successful solo English Channel crossing is drawing attention in Larchmont because it raised more than $20,000 for Save the Sound, the Larchmont-based environmental nonprofit. After training in Long Island Sound, he completed the grueling 14-hour swim and will join Save the Sound staff in a November webinar on water quality issues.
   

• New York Fiscal Stress Test Finds Sound Shore Governments Financially Stable, but Two School Districts Face Warnings (talkofthesound.com) — Larchmont taxpayers can take some comfort from New York State's latest fiscal stress test, which gives the village a very low fiscal stress score of 3.3 and modest environmental stress. All Sound Shore municipalities, including Larchmont, avoid any stress designation, while nearby New Rochelle and Port Chester-Rye school districts receive environmental stress warnings but remain fiscally stable.
   

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  • Any suggestions to put on a Pumpkins so the squirrels will not steal them or lunch on them every day?
    I used to have little pumpkins surrounding my plants in pots until I saw those little Peter Squirrels running away with them. I know it was really… (Nextdoor Larchmont Manor)
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🗞 Nearby News

New Rochelle

  • New Rochelle Murder Trial Enters Fifth Week, With No Verdict Reported (talkofthesound.com)
  • New Words in Edgewise Podcast Examines $3.2 Million Shrub Oak Investigation and Court Battle (talkofthesound.com)
  • Westchester County Announces Early Voting Dates, Hours for November 3 Election (talkofthesound.com)

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-- The Patch AM Team

P.S. The answer to today's riddle: "Why do some birds fly south for the winter?" — Because it's too far to walk..! (Thank you Theresia F. for sending it in!)
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