By John A. Corry

Aug. 26, 2015:  Parking Meter Charges:  At a special August 22 morning meeting, the trustees reversed an earlier planning board decision to postpone an increase in meter charges that would have made them higher than those in several neighboring communities. The increase would partly offset a $30,000 revenue loss caused by a new state tax on municipal parking facilities. Mayor Stein noted that any increase could not be enacted until a public hearing was held on the matter. 

Street Lighting:  Mayor Stein announced that village street lights with "opaque" street lamps would be replaced by new and brighter lights. The change would also be made at the village-owned Cedar Street parking lot. The change resulted from complaints from local merchants, who became more strident after the robbery of a Park Place deli owner. 

New Parking Meters:  Instead of using traditional meters at the recently acquired 33-space parking lot, the village planned to install a multi-space device known as a Parkmaster. Parking would be limited to two and a half hours at 25 cents a half hour. The site was previously occupied by a bowling alley.

Reformed Church Mission Trip:  Reformed Church minister Rev. Carter Via was planning to lead a 32-person "mission trip" to Mississippi's upper delta to help build a bridge there. They planned to be working alongside a group from Habitat for Humanity. Approximately 95 percent of its residents were poor African Americans. The weather there in mid-August was likely to be in the 90s, with high humidity. 

Pratt Institute:  The Brooklyn educational center announced the appointment of Bronxville resident Warren Ilchman as its president. He had been serving as an executive vice president at SUNY in Albany. He was the husband of Sarah Lawrence's then-president, Alice Ilchman. 

Road Flooding:  More than 4.5 inches of rain during the previous week caused major flooding at the Bronxville River Parkway's Paxton Avenue exit and caused a stone retaining wall on Sagamore Road to collapse. The flooding left several large boulders in the yard of an Oval Court home. It also left exposed some Con Edison wiring. Public works superintendent Peter Woodcock estimated repair costs to total $4,000.  

School Alarm System:  As a result of five recent cases of vandalism, the school planned to install a sophisticated motion detection system to be used only when personnel were not in the building. The cost was expected to be $8,500 and $30 a month. 

Residence Robbery:  A house sitter sleeping in the master bedroom at 26 Prescott Avenue was awakened by "jingling keys" to see a man with a flashlight kneeling by her bed. She yelled for help and he immediately fled but had already taken several items, including jewelry. He had apparently entered through an unlocked downstairs window.