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🌱 How a Yorktown Heights research stint shaped a major UCLA benefactor

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  • How a Yorktown Heights research stint shaped a major UCLA benefactor

Also on today's calendar: Holidays on the Farm: The 49th Annual Holiday Exhibition.

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Weather forecast:

  • Tuesday: Sun followed by some clouds, with a high of 31 and low of 22 degrees.
  • Wednesday: Breezy and not as cold, temps: high: 42, low: 26.
  • Thursday: Times of clouds and sun, with a high of 45 and low of 40 degrees.

📰 News we're reading

• Distinguished Professor Chandrashekhar Joshi Appointed Inaugural Holder of Mukund Padmanabhan Term Chair in Excellence (ucla.edu) — Yorktown Heights gets a brief spotlight as the home of IBM’s Watson Research Center, where UCLA alumnus Mukund Padmanabhan once worked on speech recognition. The piece mainly celebrates UCLA professor Chandrashekhar Joshi’s appointment to a new endowed engineering chair and highlights Padmanabhan’s philanthropy and career, including his ties to New York–based research and finance.
   


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    Tuesday December 16
  • RCS: Lift Your Life: Lesson 2: Reframing Rage
    Chabad of Briarcliff-Ossining , 15 Campwoods Road , Ossining
    10:30 am
  • Open Makerspace
    John C. Hart Memorial Library , 1130 E Main St , Shrub Oak
    1:00 pm
  • Mediterranean Diet and Aging - What You Need to Know
    Hudson Valley Hospital , 1980 Crompond Road , Cortlandt Manor
    1:00 pm
  • HealthOutreach: Balance Training Class
    Hudson Valley Hospital , 1980 Crompond Road , Cortlandt Manor
    1:00 pm
  • Holiday Tea Musicale
    Caramoor Center for Music and the Arts , 149 Girdle Ridge Rd , Katonah
    2:00 pm
  • Breastfeeding Support Group - Brooklyn Methodist Hospital
    Hudson Valley Hospital , 1980 Crompond Road , Cortlandt Manor
    2:30 pm
  • Teen Tech Help
    John C. Hart Memorial Library , 1130 E Main St , Shrub Oak
    3:00 pm
  • Preschool Story Time & Craft
    Katonah Village Library , 26 Bedford Rd , Katonah
    3:30 pm
  • Music Rehearsal
    Yorktown United Methodist Church , 2300 Crompond Road , Yorktown
    3:30 pm
  • Living Well with and after Cancer
    Hudson Valley Hospital , 1980 Crompond Road , Cortlandt Manor
    4:00 pm

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  • Last night we got home just in the nick of time!
    Once it started coming down, it was really coming down quick! My family moved here from CT, by the coast, so we mostly got rain or the yucky stuff. I… (Nextdoor Jefferson Valley)
  • Incident cleared on Highway 129 westbound between Croton Avenue and Short Hill Road in Cortlandt.
    6:42PM on Dec 14: Accident closes Hwy 129 WB between Croton Ave and Short Hl Rd in Cortlandt. (Nextdoor )
  • Dollar Tree posted a job opening for Assistant Manager I in Yorktown Heights. Apply here.
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  • 15 Westchester Hanukkah Events for Families 2025 (newyorkfamily.com)
  • Wrestling dual meet tourney ends this week, Week of Dec. 15 scoreboard (lohud.com)

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