Five Things You Need to Know Today: Dec. 1

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1. Early Dismissal for Yorktown School District

Students at the middle school, Brookside, Mohansic, and Crompond will be dismissed earlier today due to parent-teacher conferences. Enrichment Centers will stay open. 

MESMS Grades 6-8 will be dismissed at 10:20 a.m. 

Crompond: 11:10 a.m.

Brookside, Mohansic: 11:55 a.m. 

There will be no afternoon kindergarten. 

2. Community Housing Board Meeting

The housing board meets today at 7 p.m. at the Yorktown Community and Cultural Center, in Room 1. 

3. Sleepy Hollow Christmas Carol

The Westchester Broadway Theatre, located at 1 Broadway Plz. in Elmsford is putting on Sleepy Hollow Christmas Carol. Performances start today and will run until Dec. 26. 

John Treacy Egan will star as Ebeneezer Scrooge. The new twist musical is set in the town of Sleepy Hollow, New York in 1900. It weaves the magic of the Charles Dickens classic with the characters from Washington Irving's vivid imagination and tells the tale of a Sleepy Hollow businessman, Ebenezer Scrooge, who had no love in his heart for his fellow man, especially at Christmastime. Scrooge meets Washington Irving who takes him on a redemptive adventure to his past, present and future where he meets his boyhood self. For more information and to purchase tickets, call 914-592-2222. 

4. Happy Hanukkah

Today is the start of the Jewish holiday Hanukkah. It is marked by lighting one candle on a nine-branched menorah for eight nights. To view some gift ideas from local businesses, . 

5. Arts and Craft for Adults

Linda Weinbaum and Sharon Kullberg will show residents some altered book techniques. You can also bring your own project to work on today at 7 p.m. at the John C. Hart Memorial Library.