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"Talk of the Town" By Bonni Brodnick I t’s wondrous to be outside ice skating on the park pond and to enjoy our beautiful town that is frosted in white after this week’s snowstorms. Curiosity beckoned as I was skating one night. How thick does the ice have to be for skating? Who tests the ice and how is it done? “The ice has to be five-inches,” David Goldberg of the Pound Ridge Recreation Department said. “The Maintenance Department tests it with a long drill bit that has one-inch markings. As soon as the bit starts to break through the bottom of the ice—and you can feel it—you look at the markings and that gives the depth.” Several areas of the ice are checked to make sure there is enough depth all around. At one of the last tests, the ice was 7.5 inches. Since the Zamboni is en vacance , many thanks to the thoughtful townsfolk who shovel off snow as they skate. W ord from the Detroit Auto Show is that there’s a new device in Mercedes Benz that will actually ...

By BONNI BRODNICK O kay, so you’re 17 days into 2009. Are you exercising more? Eating less? Spending more “quality” time with the family instead of on the computer? It’s still early and not too late to reform. Some of the resolutions I’ve overheard are to get rid of old books in the attic (donate them to the Hiram Halle Memorial Library book sales), show more affection to our beloved pets (my heart is still aching after putting my bearded dragon lizard to sleep. I know, I know. A reptile?!? I was as surprised as anyone to fall in love with a beardie. You never know what the day will bring.) This takes us back to New Year resolutions. You can always put the calendar back two weeks, wake up to Jan. 1st (for a second time) and exclaim, “Today I will . . .” T hink you’ve heard everything? Pound Ridge musician and sound artist Taylor Deupree has a new project called “One Sound Each Day 2009”. Go to 12kblog.wordpress.com/ to hear the minimalist and surreal sounds of something as simpl...

By Bonni Brodnick A s the New Year begins, it is timely to begin new projects. I am thrilled to be taking the “Talk of the Town” reins from columnist Mary Legrand. She turned out wonderful and thoughtful columns which will surely be missed. I launched this column 15 years ago in 1993 under the moniker “Around the Town” for The Pound Ridge Review, the predecessor of the Record-Review. It seems like eons ago, especially when I recall the archaic way in which I gathered information and submitted those early columns for what was then our new town newspaper. As there was no Internet, news scoops were collected in person, by telephone, fax or snail mail. I wrote the column, printed it out, and then had to drive to Scotts Corners to put in a specified Pound Ridge Review mailbox next to The Wine Connection, which was next to Westminster Bank (now Bank of America). My editor drove from Bedford Hills to pick up the manuscript, retype it, and steps later, there it was in the paper the following F...

By BONNI BRODNICK A s the New Year begins, it is timely to begin new projects. I am thrilled to be taking the “Talk of the Town” reins from columnist Mary Legrand . She turned out wonderful and thoughtful columns which will surely be missed. I launched this column 15 years ago in 1993 under the moniker “Around the Town” for The Pound Ridge Review , the predecessor of the Record-Review. It seems like eons ago, especially when I recall the archaic way in which I gathered information and submitted those early columns for what was then our new town newspaper. As there was no Internet, news scoops were collected in person, by telephone, fax or snail mail. I wrote the column, printed it out, and then had to drive to Scotts Corners to put in a specified Pound Ridge Review mailbox next to The Wine Connection , which was next to Westminster Bank (now Bank of America ). My editor drove from Bedford Hills to pick up the manuscript, retype it, and steps later, there it was in the pape...