Croton Community Calendar: April 26th Edition

A list of upcoming events in Croton-on-Hudson
April Upcoming Events
Arbor Day Ceremony
Friday, April 28th, 11:00 AM
Veteran's Corner (intersection of Cleveland Dr. and Old Post Rd. S.)
 

The Village of Croton-on-Hudson will hold an Arbor Day ceremony and tree planting at 11:00 AM on Friday, April 28th, 2023 at Veteran’s Corner (intersection of Cleveland Dr. and Old Post Rd. S.) National Arbor Day is the last Friday in April. Arbor Day is a day set aside for schools, civic clubs, and other organizations, as well as individuals, to reflect on the importance of trees in our state and across our nation. J. Sterling Morton, the father of Arbor Day, initiated the holiday in Nebraska in 1872. He said, “Other holidays repose upon the past; Arbor Day proposes for the future.”


ADULT 60+: Healthy & Fun Cooking with Alyssa

Friday, April 28th, 1:00 PM to 1:45 PM
Municipal Building Community Room (1 Van Wyck Street) 
 
Join us for free cooking demonstrations and nutrition tips. Sample delicious recipes & enjoy fun giveaways. Come to one session or all! Register online here or call Croton Recreation at 914-271-3006 for more information. 
 

Earth Day Celebration
Saturday, April 29th, 10:00 AM to 4:00 PM
Senasqua Park
 
The Village of Croton-on-Hudson and the Croton Conservation Advisory Council invite you to celebrate planet Earth with your neighbors, local and regional experts. The event will have live music, hands-on activities for children and adults, and much more. Featuring:
 
  • Croton environmental committees, organizations and businesses
  • Electric vehicle displays and demonstrations • Hudson River groups
  • Information on birds and pollinators, native plants, invasive plants & tree care
  • Local food vendors

This is A ZERO WASTE EVENT - Bring your reusable water bottles and tote bags!


Bluebird Trail Dedication
Saturday, April 29th - 2:00 PM
Croton Landing Parking Lot, 10 Elliott Way
 
The Croton Rotary Club has created a Bluebird Trail which will be dedicated as a special Earth Day event on Saturday, April 29th at 2:00pm. Please gather at this sign near the Croton Landing parking lot and join Mayor Brian Pugh, members of the Board of Trustees, Croton’s Bird Commissioner Cary Andrews, Rotary leadership and others as we officially inaugurate Croton’s new Bluebird Trail. 
 

Celebration of Local Authors 
Saturday, April 29th, 1:00 PM to 4:00 PM
Croton Free Library, Ottinger Room
 
Each year, the Croton Free Library honors published authors hailing from, working in, and/or writing about Croton-on-Hudson and its neighboring towns and villages. Stop in, hear short readings, and meet authors in your community! Free and open to all. Readers of all ages are welcome. Books will be available for purchase and signing. A portion of book sales will benefit the Library. Click here to see a list of participating authors. 
 

Concert: Pianist Mateusz Borowiak
Sunday, April 30th, 3:00 PM to 4:30 PM
Croton Free Library, Ottinger Room
 

The Croton Free Library is excited to present an afternoon of music by renowned pianist Mateusz Borowiak. The visiting British-Polish pianist will perform pieces by several composers, including local Croton composer Louis Pelosi, who will be present for the recital. Free and open to all! No registration required.


Sound the Alarm. Save a Life - American Red Cross Home Fire Campaign
April 12th - May 17th 
 
This Spring, the American Red Cross is teaming up with communities across New York to install free smoke alarms in resident's homes. Residents of Croton-on-Hudson can register to have a FREE smoke alarm installed in their homes by registering online at https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScMf3CbaDDgSNUxpEESfUQGKRO7BeeljVTQQicgmCedi8ciNQ/viewform
 

49th Annual Croton Girls Relays
Saturday, April 29th, 9:00 AM to 4:00 PM
Spencer Field
 

On Saturday, April 29th the 49th annual Croton Girls Relays will be taking place on Spencer Field from 10:00 am through 3:00 pm. Community members are invited to attend as schools from across our region will send their teams to participate in Track and Field events. At 9:00 am there will be youth relay events taking place on the track at Spencer Field. Please contact the Croton Tigers Booster Club for more information about the youth races.


Call for Artists: Village Voices, Croton's 125th Anniversary Art Show
Deadline for submission: May 1st, 2023
 
The 125th Anniversary Committee, in partnership with the Croton Council on the Arts and the Unitarian Universalist Congregation of the Hudson Valley, invites artists to submit work to the upcoming "Village Voices" Art Show, celebrating people and places from the Village of Croton-on-Hudson through photographs, paintings, sculpture, pottery, and more. The show will take place Sat. May 20 thru Sat. June 17 at the Unitarian Universalist Congregation of the Hudson Valley (UUCHV), 2021 Albany Post Road, Croton, 10520. A reception will be held on Saturday, May 20, from 4:00 to 6:00 PM. The reception is free and all are welcome. Artists may submit up to three images of work to the exhibit. There is no charge to submit work, and you need not live in Croton. If your work is selected for the show, you can register online and pay a small fee to exhibit ($10 if you're willing to gallery sit, $15 for seniors, and $20 for all others). Please send all submissions via email (with images attached) before May 1 to: 125@crotonarts.org. For more information, visit https://125.crotonarts.org/
 

Turn of the Century Croton
Municipal Building
Thursday, May 4th 10:00 AM to 11:30 AM
 
Village Historian Marc Cheshire will take us on a tour of Croton at the dawn of the 20th century. See familiar streets and buildings as they looked more than 100 years ago and discover long-lost treasures like Croton’s first train station, the barn at Van Cortlandt Manor, the Gardiner Estate. Registration is free - sign up online here or call Croton Recreation at 914-271-3006 for more information. 

Varsity Boys Lacrosse: Croton Harmon vs. Ossining
Thursday, May 4th, 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM
Spencer Field
 
On Thursday night May 4, 2023 at 7:00 pm, the Varsity Boys Lacrosse team will be playing against Ossining "UNDER THE LIGHTS" of Spencer Field. The community is invited to come out and support the team during this exciting game. 

Croton Harmon Softball PINK/TEAL Game
Friday, May 5th, 6:00 PM to 10:00 PM
Firefighter's Field
 

On Friday night May 5, 2023 at 6:30 pm, the Varsity Softball team will be playing against Scarsdale "UNDER THE LIGHTS" of Firefighter's Field. The team holds the PINK/TEAL game each year in May to support those with Breast and Ovarian Cancer, and have raised thousands in funds for Support Connection, an organization to support Breast and Ovarian Cancer patients. All are invited to come out and support the team! 


125th Anniversary Ping Pong Tournament
Holy Name of Mary Gymnasium, 110 Grand Street
Saturday, May 6th, 9:00 AM to 2:30 PM
 
The first-ever ping pong tournament in Croton on Hudson to be held by the Croton 125 committee in conjunction with the USA Table Tennis Association, Westchester Table Tennis, and Ping Pong Parkinson. The event will take place on May 6, 2023 at Holy Name of Mary Gymnasium, 110 Grand Street, Croton on Hudson NY 10520. There is a $10 advance entry fee ($20 at the door). Click here to register online. 

I Love My Park Days on the Old Croton Aqueduct
Quaker Bridge Road
Saturday, May 6th, starting at 10:00 AM (Rain Date Sunday, May 7)
 

Learn from expert crew leaders to identify INVASIVE plants; lop, pull and dig them up; remove tree-strangling vines; restore crumbling stone walls; plant NATIVE species, and paint fences. Register at https://aqueduct.org/ILMPD


The Big Easy on the Hudson
Upper Village
Saturday, May 6th, 12:00 to 6:00 PM
 
Live Jazz & Blues on Grand St. Over 50 Food and beverage vendors, retail and family fun. Free admission. Sponsored by the Croton Business Council. 

The Croton Chorale Spring Concert
Asbury United Methodist Church, 17 Old Post Road South
Saturday, May 6th, 8:00 PM to 9:00 PM
 
Performing six centuries of joyful music. Suggested contributions to benefit the Croton Caring Committee. Adults $20; Seniors/Students $10; Under 12 free. Simulcast on Zoom: 9202 633 6984

Voices of Spring: Works by Brahms, Corigliano, and more
Holy Name of Mary Church, 114 Grand Street
Saturday, May 6th, 8:00 PM and
Sunday, May 7th, 4:00 PM
 
A celebration of love a nature, including Johannes Brahms' romatic Liebeslieder Waltzes Op. 52, John Corigliano’s rarely performed Fern Hill, shorter works by  Daniel Elder and Morten Lauridsen, and opera choruses by Mozart, Leoncavallo, Handel and Donizetti. Join us for an evening of inspiring music from The Taghkanic Chorale, one of  Westchester’s premier choral ensembles.

Varsity Girls Lacrosse: Croton Harmon vs. New Rochelle
Saturday, May 6th, 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM
Spencer Field
 

On Saturday night May 6, 2023 at 7:00 pm, the Varsity Girls Lacrosse team will be playing against New Rochelle "UNDER THE LIGHTS" of Spencer Field. The community is invited to come out and support the team during this exciting game. 


ADULT 60+ Smartphone Tech Support
Tuesday, May 9th, 3:15 - 4:00 PM 

PVC Middle School, 3 Glen Pl

Do you have questions about using your smart phone? Maybe you have the basics down but have questions about a new app. Or is your smartphone still sitting in the box from the store? Join members of the PVC student council for tech support. FREE! Register online or call Croton Recreation at 914-271-3006.


Croton Friends of History: New Croton Dam
Thursday, May 11th, 7:00 PM - 8:30 PM
 
By any measure, the New Croton Dam is an engineering marvel. For 14 years (from 1892 to 1906) as many as 1,000 workers used more than 500 pieces of heavy machinery, 745,000 barrels of cement, 100,000 tons of coal and an incalculable quantity of locally quarried stone to build the dam. It is said to be the third largest hand-hewn structure in the world after the Great Pyramid of Giza and the Great Wall of China. Village Historian Marc Cheshire will describe the construction process and the lasting impact the project had on the village.

 

Upcoming Village Meetings
 
Please note that all board meetings are being held in-person at the Stanley H. Kellerhouse Municipal Building, unless stated otherwise:
 
  • Thursday, April 27 | 6:00pm – 125th Anniversary Committee Meeting
  • Tuesday, May 2 | 7:00pm – Arts & Humanities Advisory Council Meeting
  • Tuesday, May 2 | 8:00pm – Planning Board Meeting
  • Wednesday, May 3 | 7:30pm – Conservation Advisory Council Meeting
  • Thursday, May 4 | 6:00pm – Police Advisory Committee Meeting
  • Monday, May 8 | 6:00pm – Board of Trustees Meeting
Recordings of the statuary board meetings (Board of Trustees, Planning & Zoning) are available under the Village’s live stream channel.
 
Do you have an item you wish to submit to the Village for inclusion in this e-blast? Please fill out the event submission form located on our website.