Rob Astorino

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• Editorial: Westchester needs to settle HUD impasse

  County Executive Rob Astorino would be wise to have his legal team put together an anti-discrimination housing bill they can live with. That means one Astorino can truly "promote," even if he does have to hold his nose at the mention of it.Nose-holding goes   Read more »

• Tentative 10-year deal for operation of NY park

  has tentatively agreed to manage a county-owned amusement park for at least the next 10 years.Westchester County Executive Rob Astorino said Thursday that the money-losing Playland park in Rye could be taken over on Oct. 1 by Sustainable Playland Inc.However,   Read more »

• Rob Astorino to unveil terms of Rye Playland deal

  Westchester County Executive Rob Astorino on Thursday is expected to unveil his long-awaited contract with the nonprofit organization he has designated to manage Rye Playland, the beloved but aging county-owned amusement park that has been operating in the   Read more »

• Rye Playland meeting draws hundreds; contract with bidder likely by end of month

  Boosters of the nonprofit organization chosen by Westchester County Executive Rob Astorino to manage Rye Playland turned out in droves to attend a public meeting on the future of the county-owned amusement park.   Read more »

Around the web

• Children's Museum Tops Rye's News This Week

  members of the Westchester Board of Legislators asked County Executive Rob Astorino to hand over the keys to the bathhouse at Rye Playland so work can begin on the Children's Museum. Photo Credit: Casey Donahue RYE, N.Y. -- A call by legislators to open the   from The Daily Rye  Read more »

• Westchester Dems Want To Proceed With Children's Museum

  members of the Westchester Board of Legislators gathered at Rye Playland Thursday and called on County Executive Rob Astorino to allow work to begin on the . The museum has a lease agreement with the county to occupy about half of the former men's bathhouse   from The Daily Pound Ridge  Read more »

• Friends of Westchester County Parks Donation Preserves Cultural Festivals

  Westchester residents have enjoyed the Cultural Heritage Festival Series at Kensico Dam Plaza in Valhalla. County Executive Rob Astorino and the Friends of Westchester County Parks made sure this week that the popular spring and summer events would continue.   from The Examiner News  Read more »

• Astorino’s grand plan stalls children’s museum $9 million investment at Playland

  County Executive Rob Astorino strode to the podium at the Ritz Carlton on Friday night, supporters of the Westchester Children’s Museum hoped that this was the occasion for a major breakthrough in the 13-year campaign to build the attraction. It was the perfect   from Politics on the Hudson Read more »

• White Plains Domestic Abuse Service To Expand Programs

  expand its sexual assault and domestic violence services thanks to $100,000 in funding from Westchester, County Executive Rob Astorino announced Tuesday. The coalition will expand its Ayuda Latina contra Agresion Sexual (ALAS) program to make its 24/7 hotline   from The Daily White Plains  Read more »