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Kenneth Simon, 93, Formerly Of Mamaroneck, Prisoner Of War
MAMARONECK N.Y. -- Kenneth Simon, a former longtime resident of Mamaroneck, passed away Tuesday, June 14 at his home in New York from complications of Alzheimer's disease. He was 93.
Born in New York City, where his parents operated newsstands and stores, Simon attended Dewitt Clinton High School and the City College of New York.
Simon served in the U.S. Army Air Corps in World War II as a second lieutenant and a bombardier. He flew 60 missions, earning a Purple Heart.
Shot down over Italy in 1944, he was in a German prisoner of war camp in Poland until 1945, when he was liberated by the R…
Easton EMS Worker Faces Theft Charges
EASTON, CONN. – A Milford man has been charged with stealing close to $3,000 from Easton’s Emergency Medical Services, according to a report by The Connecticut Post.
Andrew Rosenthal, a 47-year-old EMS employee, was accused by police of buying printers, cables, and other items from Staples and illegally charging them to the town’s account, The Connecticut Post reported.
He now faces first-degree larceny charges, The Connecticut Post story said.
To read the full The Connecticut Post story, click here.
Lax Monitoring Of School Transit Pacts Cost Yonkers $160,000, Report Says
YONKERS, N.Y. -- Monitoring of school taxi and bus contracts was so lax that Yonkers was defrauded of nearly $160,000, according to the city’s inspector general, Brendan McGrath.
In a June 14 report to Mayor Mike Spano and education officials, McGrath said Yonkers Union Car Service, aka F&B Car Service, had been billing the school district for student-transportation services that “never occurred” from July 2009 to April 2014.
McGrath said the inspector general’s office alerted the Westchester County District Attorney’s Public Integrity Bureau, which then launched a criminal investigatio…
