Miss Anything? This Week in Review

An annual festival, a couple of Harrison stars facing off against the area's best and a big decision by the Harrison Town Board dominated headlines in Harrison this week.

Early in the week we heard that the salary negotiations between the town and five major worker's unions would finally be voted on publicly. On Thursday, we heard the details. The town will defer payments to members of each union to future years, balancing this year's budget but raising questions as to whether or not the town can withstand the payments it is now obligated to make starting in 2012.

Backtracking to last weekend, we had coverage of the 41st annual "Festa Italiana" held at St. Anthony of Padua Parish in West Harrison. Several thousand people attended the event where they enjoyed homemade food, Italian delicacies, children's activities and jumping castles.

Updating a previous story, we heard about a bill involving hydraulic fracturing that is now moving through the New York State Assembly. The bill, entitled Assembly Bill A10490A would hold off any new permits for hydraulic fracturing for natural gas or oil in New York State until 120 days after the Federal Environmental Protection Agency issues a report on possible contamination and health issues.

Harrison town leaders have said that they are against hydraulic fracturing because they fear it could contaminate the town's water supply.

Just outside of Harrison, in Tarrytown, we were saddened to hear about a young woman took her own life early Thursday morning when she jumped from the Tappan-Zee Bridge. The woman, eventually  was from Shrub Oak.

As the week continued, we heard about another all-star player from Harrison. On Friday Mike DeLacey joined Jack Molloy as the second Harrison varsity player this week to participate in a regional all-star game. Milloy played in a game at Rutgers University last weekend, while DeLacey played in the Section 1 all-star game Thursday night at Dutchess Stadium.

In other sports news, Ashley Marino was named this week's  and we took a deeper look at her team's accomplishments with the Harrison softball season recap.

We look forward to bringing you everything in Harrison news again next week.