Irvington Village Administrator Lawrence S. Schopfer

In Irvington, Tarrytown and Sleepy Hollow — Tax Cap Tightens the Screws

In June, the New York State Legislature passed — and with much fanfare Governor Cuomo signed into law — a  state-wide tax cap of 2%. This means that local villages […] Read more »
Irvington Village Administrator Lawrence S. Schopfer

Tax Cap Tightens the Screws

In June, the New York State Legislature passed — and with much fanfare Governor Cuomo signed into law — a  state-wide tax cap of 2%. Read more »

Taking The Playland Plunge

I moved to the Rivertowns five years ago after having spent the last dozen or so years in and around Los Angeles. Throughout my twenties, I was less than an […] Read more »

Things Are Tough All Over, Costs Up, Revenues Down — Final Village Budgets Tell Similar Story

At the rate things are going, in a few years Village government duties in the Rivertowns may consist solely of collecting taxes from the populace to pay health insurance companies, […] Read more »
Baseball, River Dad

Play Ball!

At some point last fall, my then-four-year-old son told me that he wanted to play baseball. Tears of joy streamed down my face. I love baseball. I have loved baseball […] Read more »

Archiving the Children

Each and every day after school, I unload my kids’ backpacks. I check to see what food drive, conference or school trip we have forgotten, empty out the crumbs, notice […] Read more »

Budget Season Part II: The Schools

UPDATE March 28, 2011: On Thursday, March 24, the new tax levy of 2.91% was introduced. That translates to an expected school tax increase of 3.84% in Tarrytown and 1.63% […] Read more »
Cash Register

To Cut Services or Raise Taxes?

If you listened to the chattering voices of the popular media outlets, you’d think the national economy is on the mend and good times are just around the corner. And […] Read more »
River Dad

Plowed

I have never liked snow.  Growing up in California, it seemed like something out of a disaster movie. “Put down the crystals, honey! What’s falling out of the sky? It’s […] Read more »

For 2011… Releasing Children Into the Wild

Now that my children are a little older, my wife and I have taken to letting them out of the house once in a while and exposing them to the […] Read more »