Wake Up with Patch: BOE Candidates Announced, Spring Bounty at Farmers Market

1. Spring Arrives to Pepsico Farmers Market

Fresh greens, herbs, tea, wine and local dairy products will all be on sale today at the Pepsico Farmers Market (800 Anderson Hill Rd., Purchase) from 9:30 a.m. - 3:30 p.m.

The Purchase Repetory Theatre will perform Bertolt Brecht’s Mother Courage and Her Children tonight from 8 - 10 p.m. at the Performing Arts Center.

Here's a description of the play, courtesy of Purchase College:

Set against the Civil War, a black woman tries to profit from selling goods to both sides to protect her adult children from their own heroic impulses. This bold translation of Brecht’s classic was commissioned by the Public Theatre and this adaptation was created by the author of For Colored Girls Who Have Considered When the Rainbow is Enuf.

Tonight is the first performance of the play, which will run nightly until May 1. Tickets are $20 and can be bought at www.artscenter.org.

The Harrison High School Varsity Boys Lacrosse team will host Horace Greeley at home tonight, starting at 6:30 p.m.

Yesterday, Harrison Patch ran two school-related stories. First, the tax rate increase for the proposed 2011 - 12 budget has decreased slightly. To read more, .

Also, three challengers have joined the race for a seat on the board of education. The election will take place along with the school budget vote on May 17. To read about the candidates, .

On Apr. 26, 2010, Harrison Patch covered news of a truck in Harrison. It fell into the Hutchinson River and authorities had to close off the ramp for several hours. No one was hurt in the accident.