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🌱 Patch AM: How a $100K grant just upgraded Ossining’s police headquarters
Make time for Tie-Dye 4 NY on the Ossining Patch calendar

Greetings Ossining! We're your go-to source for what's happening in town. Read on to get plugged in! ☕️️
In today's newsletter:
- How a $100K grant just upgraded Ossining's police headquarters
- See how Ossining Girl Scouts built a lasting 'Hope Spot'
Also on today's calendar: Tie-Dye 4 NY and 15 more events.
Today's riddle: How do billboards talk? 🤔 (Answer below!)
- Saturday: Sun through high clouds, with a high of 66 and low of 49 degrees.
- Sunday: Rain in the afternoon; cloudy, temps: high: 63, low: 57.
- Monday: A passing morning shower, with a high of 71 and low of 54 degrees.
📰 News we're reading
• Ossining Police Station Completes Renovations with $100K State Grant (riverjournalonline.com) — Ossining residents should know their police headquarters on Spring Street just received a full overhaul of its front desk and communications area, funded largely by a $100,000 state grant. New sit-stand workstations, updated counters, and improved ergonomics aim to boost daily operations and public safety, with local leaders emphasizing this investment in modernizing the Birdsall-Fagan Police / Court Facility.
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• Girl Scout Troop 2513 Creates Community Hope Bench in Sleepy Hollow (riverjournalonline.com) — Local families may be proud that several Ossining sixth-graders in Girl Scout Troop 2513 helped design and build a new Community Hope Bench in Sleepy Hollow's DeVries Park. The girls dedicated over 20 hours each to create a reflective "Hope Spot," complete with inspirational trail markers meant to comfort and encourage visitors from Ossining and neighboring communities for years to come.
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📸 Around Ossining
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🗓 Upcoming Events in Ossining
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★ Featured events ★
- Tie-Dye 4 NY →
Sundial Farm, 1311-1321 Kitchawan Rd, Ossining
3:00 pm - Nyack Famous Street Fair, Sun. Oct. 11, Over 300 Exhibitors, Downtown, Nyack, NY →
Nyack
10:00 am - Betterlife Bioscience Full Moon Sale →
Betterlife Bioscience,
12:59 pm - Move with Confidence: The Nutrition Connection (In Person Class) →
Hospital for Special Surgery Main Hospital, 535 E 70th St, New York
10:00 am - Rivertowns Improv Fall Festival →
Croton Academy of Arts, 8 Old Post Rd S, Croton-On-Hudson
6:50 pm - Antique Appraisal Day - Peekskill →
Peekskill Elks Lodge #744, 1038 Brown St, Peekskill
10:00 am - Maryknoll Fathers and Brothers World Mission Sunday Open House →
Maryknoll Society Center, 55 Ryder Rd, MARYKNOLL
1:00 pm - FREE Reading of Original Short Play to Raise Awareness and Funds to Help the Homeless →
Grace Episcopal Church Trinity Campus, 7 S Highland Ave, Ossining
1:00 pm - Westchester Philharmonic Presents "The Sum of All Things" →
The Performing Arts Center, Purchase College, 735 Anderson Hill Rd, Harrison
3:00 pm
Saturday October 10
Sunday October 11
Monday October 12
Friday October 16
Saturday October 17
Sunday October 18
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Other local events
- Morning Prayer and Blessing of the Animals →
40 Ganung Dr, Ossining
10:30 am - Paint & Sip →
Ossining Elks Lodge, 118 Upper Croton Ave, Ossining
7:00 pm - Westchester Collaborative Theater Features the Coco Quartet →
Westchester Collaborative Theater, 23 Water St, Ossining
7:30 pm - 2026 Hope Harvest: Hope for the Journey →
The Center at Mariandale, 299 N Highland Ave, Ossining
4:00 pm - Head Start Open House and Scholastic Book Fair →
Yonkers Children's Place
8:30 am - Westchester Collaborative Theater (WCT) Presents Terror Tales Chilling Stories of the Macabre →
Westchester Collaborative Theater, 23 Water St, Ossining
7:30 pm - Teatown's Enchanted Forest →
Cliffdale Farm, 85 Teatown Rd, Croton-On-Hudson
10:30 am - Westchester Collaborative Theater (WCT) Presents Terror Tales Chilling Stories of the Macabre →
Westchester Collaborative Theater, 23 Water St, Ossining
2:00 pm - Pumpkins, Pipes & Peculiar Stories →
The Briarcliff Congregational Church, 30 S State Rd, Briarcliff Manor
4:00 pm
Sunday October 11
Friday October 16
Saturday October 17
Sunday October 18
Monday October 19
Friday October 23
Saturday October 24
📣 Ossining Shout Outs!
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Thank you 👏👏👏 to these businesses for making Ossining PatchAM possible:
- Bella Mae Plastic Surgery — (203) 336-9862
- Sustainable Westchester — (914) 242-4725
- Dave Diedrich — (203) 518-0695
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💬 Chatter
What your neighbors are talking about on social media
- Hi neighbors!!
Looking for studio/apt with private entrance under $1,450. Single female good credit. Thanks so much. Or a share room close the area please !! (Nextdoor Ossining)
- Oak St. Health posted a job opening for Store Associate in Tarrytown. Apply here.
🗞 Nearby News
Briarcliff Manor
- Radio History: Oct 9 (blogspot.com)
- $140-million, 17-storey rental tower planned for Yonkers' Ridge Hill (newyorkconstructionreport.com)
Croton-on-Hudson
- Beacon's Dummy Light Centennial Art Exhibition (chronogram.com)
- This New York Manor Lights Up With Thousands Of Hand-Carved Jack-O-Lanterns Every Fall (takingthekids.com)
Sleepy Hollow
- Orlando Ranks Above Sleepy Hollow and New Orleans in Travel and Tour World Top Halloween Travel Destinations in United States (travelandtourworld.com)
- Does Christian County have Kentucky's spookiest town name? (christiancountynow.com)
Ok Ossining! So now you're in the loop about what's happening today. Thanks for reading, and see you in your inbox next time! Oh -- and if you like what you're reading, invite a friend to Patch AM!
-- The Patch AM Team
P.S. The answer to today's riddle: "How do billboards talk?" — Sign language (Thank you Ellen S. for sending it in!)
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