🌱 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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Today's riddle: Can February March? 🤔 (Answer below!)

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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🗓 Upcoming Events in Yorktown Heights

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★ Featured events ★

Wednesday December 17

• Holidays on the Farm: The 49th Annual Holiday Exhibition
  Historical Society of Rockland County, 20 Zukor Rd, New City
  12:00 pm

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Other local events

Friday December 19

• Seniors Holiday Show — Yorktown Community Nursery School
  Yorktown Community Nursery School , 247 Veterans Rd , Yorktown Heights
  9:15 am

Saturday December 20

• CHMA Recital
  Yorktown United Methodist Church , 2300 Crompond Road , Yorktown
  10:00 am

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🗓 Events Nearby

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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💬 Chatter

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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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🗞 Nearby News

Yorktown

• 15 Westchester Hanukkah Events for Families 2025 (newyorkfamily.com)
• Wrestling dual meet tourney ends this week, Week of Dec. 15 scoreboard (lohud.com)

Somers

• Westchester County Productions Earn 31 Golden Globe and Critics Choice Nominations (riverjournalonline.com)

Katonah

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