Section: Misc.

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August in Paris Croton

August 12, 2008

We’ve all heard about the joys of April in Paris, with chestnuts in blossom and holiday tables under the trees. Some of us have even experienced them. But August in Paris? Savvy travelers know that in Paris in August everything closes down.

The French and especially Parisians, it seems, vacation during the month of August. The city is taken over by tourists unhappy to find shops shuttered and services at a standstill. Thank goodness, the ever-popular cafes are still bustling.

Chez Julien cafe near Church Saint-Gervais on Rue des Barres in Paris

Like Paris, Crotonblog is shuttering for the remainder of the month of August. We at Crotonblog need a little R&R time, too. When we return after Labor Day tanned, rested, rejuvenated—and as perky as ever—look for us to be sporting a new look that will knock your socks off.

So, it’s “Bye bye, so long, see you in September, see you when the summer’s through.” In the meantime, for those readers who want to catch up on their reading of some of Crotonblog’s features from recent issues, you’ll find them here.

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Our Recent Outage

June 19, 2008

Dear readers,

We are writing to apologize for any inconvenience our service interruption may have caused you during the past 24 hours.

Much of the code that powers our content management system is written in PHP, a widely-used general-purpose scripting language that is especially suited for Web development and can be embedded into HTML. In short, PHP is installed on our webserver to translate those PHP scripts so that Crotonblog content will render correctly on our pages.

So, after upgrading our webserver from PHP 4.4.8 to PHP 5.2.6 yesterday, we encountered a few errors—and have since straightened them out.

Thanks for your patience.

— The Editors

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Hey Croton, Meet Rep. Ron Paul (R), Texas

December 2, 2007

In this video clip, Presidential candidate Ron Paul is interviewed by CNN’s John Roberts after the CNN/YouTube Republican debate held on Wednesday, November 28, 2007

About the candidate: Ronald Ernest “Ron” Paul, official campaign website

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Technor... What? For Croton...

August 29, 2007

Are you interested in knowing “everything in the universe” about Croton-on-Hudson? If so, then you might enjoy visiting the “Croton-on-Hudson” tagged page on Technorati.

What is Technorati you ask? Well, Technorati is, “Who’s saying what. Right now.”

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'Shout Out' to Crotone, Italy

July 31, 2007

Long before, the Village of Croton-on-Hudson was incorporated in 1898, there was the Achaean colony of Croton, Italy—founded around 710 BC.

Now called Crotone, it is located in southern Italy, in Calabria, on the Ionian Sea (satellite map). Though larger in size and with a population of over 60,000, Crotone, governed by Mayor Peppino Vallone, is also a waterfront community with Mediterranean facing beaches and hotels that help to support tourism. Despite and economic crisis in the 1980’s and a major flood in 1996, Crotone continues to undergo urban renewal to revitalize its local economy.

Crotone’s main attractions include an archaeological museum, a provincial museum of contemporary art, and the Antiquarium di Torre Nao. The climate in Crotone is mild with daytime temperatures averaging 57 to 87 degrees, a relative humidity of 70% and average precipitation between .5 to 3.5 inches per month.

Neighboring Cantanzaro, Italy, Crotone is accessible to travelers via air, at the Sant’Anna Airport, rail and automobile.

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Notice Anything Different?

July 13, 2007

The volume of comments on Crotonblog has increased tremendously.

Until now we have been following the practice—common on many blogs—of showing the oldest comments first. But this requires readers to work their way through the oldest comments to read the most recent.

So we stood the comments on their head.

Any comment you make now will appear first instead of last—saving valuable reading time. Our aim is a blog easier to read and to use.

It’’s a done deal. See for yourself. If you want to comment about the new look of Crotonblog’s comments, you can add one here.

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Craigslist.com + Crotonblog.com = Free Local Classified Ads

June 22, 2007

That’s right… Buy and sell locally with Craigslist.com. For example, right now a seller in Croton-on-Hudson is selling this brand-new, sealed-in-box Xbox 360 for $375.00—a savings of over $50.00 off the retail price with tax. Check it out fast!

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It's Presidential Trivia Time!

May 2, 2007

Who said this?

1. “Victory means exit strategy, and it’s important for the president to explain to us what the exit strategy is.”

2. “I think it’s also important for the president to lay out a timetable as to how long they will be involved and when they will be withdrawn.”

Answer after the jump…

Continue reading "It's Presidential Trivia Time!."

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Crotonblog Announces Staff Additions

April 1, 2007

The number of readers visiting Crotonblog and the number of pages they view have increased astronomically. As a consequence Crotonblog has been forced to make additions to its staff and to divide the staff into departments, following the practice of traditional newspapers. Here are the new staff members whose bylines will be appearing and the departments to which they have been assigned:

Managing Editor: Ivana Doolittle

Copy Editor/Proofreader: Mark Miewords

Political Editor: Bill Loni

Sports Editor: Jim Nasium

Food Editor: Cole Kutz

Beauty Editor: Anita Bath

Society Page Editor: Mahatma Kane Jeeves

Theatre Critic: I. Seymour Shoze

Film Critic: Frank N. Stein

Crotonblog has retained the well-known law partnership of Dewey, Cheatem & Howe in New York City to handle its legal affairs. This white-shoe Wall Street firm is associated with the respected British firm of Sue, Grabbitt & Runne in London, who will handle legal problems in the U.K.

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Real-time Croton Weather Data Link Added to Crotonblog

March 29, 2007

Midtown Manhattan, March 26, 2007

Not everyone can wake up and look out their window early in the morning and peer up at the New York magazine time and temperature sign to get a feel for the current weather conditions. But in Croton-on-Hudson, residents have something even better. Real-time weather conditions on the Internet captured from streaming weather data from the Croton Harmon train station.

In February, Crotonblog reported in a story titled, “Croton Installs Web-accessible Weather Monitoring Station at Train Parking Lot,” that this new service was online. Since then, after several requests to place a high-visibility link to the weather station, we are happy to report that we have done so. Located at the top-left of all pages are two new weather links—one for the current Croton live weather conditions and the other for a local weather forecast from NOAA.

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