by Jerry Eimbinder
Chef/owner David Thomas, of Tarrrytown’s Jack & Dyl’s, has long been a daring and inventive chef, but his flair for creativity, until recently, has been on display only at dinnertime. Now Jack & Dyl’s is serving breakfast and lunch on weekends for the first time since the restaurant opened nearly five years ago. True to form, even familiar items on Chef Thomas’s breakfast/brunch menu such as omelets, eggs, French toast, waffles and pancakes have inspired custom touches, unusual ingredient mixes and, fun, if not descriptively appropriate, names. “Breakfast is served with a creative spin,” said Thomas, “but plainer versions are available if preferred by the customer.”
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by Linda Viertel
Word is spreading fast through the rivertowns that The Cookery is open for business, and, from the look of a packed dining room filled with happy customers, it’s going to be a big success. Chef David DiBari, formerly the executive chef at Zuppa in Yonkers for five years, has clearly learned to perfect his culinary skills in a career that spans experience in a number of revered New York restaurants – Five Points, Danube, Mario Batali’s Babbo and Windows on the World. 
Michael O'Neill, manager and co-owner. Photo by Rani Levy
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The first ever Sleepy Hollow Sprint Triathlon, presented by Sleepy Hollow Physical Therapy, is expected to attract at least 300 participants and 1,000 spectators to the village in late June.
All proceeds from the June 28 event will be donated to The Westchester/Hudson Valley Chapter of The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society specifically for direct patient care services.
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by Rick Pezzullo
Thanks to high profile athletes like Alex Rodriguez, Barry Bonds and Roger Clemens, steroids have been dominating the sports pages more than the games themselves.
Of course, professional athletes are also role models, rightly or wrongly. If they’re successful using performing enhancing drugs, what harm could it cause a high school athlete?
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by Rick Pezzullo
The Village of Irvington is hoping to save more than $150,000, plus generate additional revenue, by scaling back services, eliminating some special events and increasing fees.
The Village Board of Trustees instructed all department heads to cut spending by five percent in the 2009-10 budget, which must be adopted by May 1. The proposed budget is $14.2 million and includes a tax decrease of 0.72%.
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by Jerry Eimbinder
Four small, black swastikas apparently drawn with a marker pen were discovered at Temple Beth Abraham in Tarrytown on the morning of March 20.
Two appeared on a door that leads to the nursery school and two more were found on an outside wall and ledge, according to Rabbi David K. Holtz. The swastikas were covered by temple staff before children arrived and removed after police took photographs.
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It is only officially celebrated one day a year, but for Earth Day and everything it stands for to truly make a difference, it has to be a year-round commitment.
Clean air, clean water, renewable energy: all noble causes and vital to the long-term health of the environment. But they can’t just be placed on the radar screen one day in the 365-day calendar; this year, April 22, one day after Arbor Day, where trees and their importance in the world take center stage.
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by Robert Kimmel
Hundreds of rubber ducks will race down the Patriot’s Park Brook on Saturday, April 25, during the second annual Duck Derby organized by the Rotary Club of the Tarrytowns. Each of an anticipated 2,000 ducks will have been adopted and the individual linked with the winner of the grand final race will come away with a $1,000 prize.
The Duck Derby will be held in conjunction with the Tarrytown YMCA’s Healthy Kids Day and Family Fun Day. The Y’s activities at Patriot’s Park on North Broadway begin at 11 a.m. while the first of a series of preliminary duck races start at noon. Adoptees of the victorious ducks in those races will also receive prizes.
“The number of Derby ducks adopted at this point before the race is a good bit ahead of last year’s adoptions,” said Mimi Godwin, one of the Rotary’s event organizers. “Preliminary sales have been great, but we expect some ducks will be available on Derby Day.”
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