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Jon Craig

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Pleasantville native Jon Craig is special editor for the Westchester, Putnam, Rockland, Orange and Dutchess Daily Voice sites. He is also the primary reporter for Daily Voice Plus Politics in Westchester and Fairfield.

Jon graduated from Cornell University and received his master's degree in journalism from Northwestern University. Across a 35-year career, he's worked as a reporter for daily newspapers in Chicago, New York, Ohio & Washington, D.C and as managing editor for weekly newspapers in Rye, White Plains and Harrison.

Jon also writes periodically for the Cornell Chronicle.

Career Highlights:

  • Covered Metro-North train wreck that killed a motorist and five commuters, 2015
  • Researched state investigative project for PublicIntegrity.org, 2011-12
  • National MADD award for database analysis of repeat drunk drivers in Ohio, 2008.
  • Henry F. Guggenheim Fellow, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, 2010.
  • Sentenced to jail for protecting confidential sources (won on appeal), 1999.
  • Broke 30th anniversary story about Kent State shootings — using FBI records, resurrecting theory a student informant triggered fatal National Guard volley, May 2000.
  • Covered Ground Zero after Sept. 11, 2001, terrorism attacks.
  • Uncovered voting problems before & during presidential recount in Ohio, 2004.
  • Witnessed botched Death Row execution of Romell Broom in 2009, one of more than a dozen I covered; Wrote about three inmates whose death sentences were commuted to life without parole.
  • Won IRE, SDX and multiple national & state awards for series led by Erik Kriss investigating New York General Assembly. 1994.
  • Guest lecturer at universities in NY & Ohio. Taught Syracuse high school journalism class.
  • Co-authored IRE-award winning series on illegal restraints/beatings at juvenile detention centers. Gov. Mario Cuomo had NY inspector general confirm what Hart Seely and I found at Division for Youth & fired top directors, 1993.
  • Survived Air Force Kool School training at North Pole, 1996.
  • Covered Persian Gulf wars, including 2002 bomb missions from Turkey and stateside Army/Air Guard training. 1991.
  • Supervised overnight coverage of Pan Am Flight 103 after Libyan bomb killed 35 Syracuse University students over Lockerbie, Scotland, 1988.
  • Covered aftermath of John F. Kennedy Jr.'s fatal plane crash from Cape Cod, 1999.
  • Greeted Kurt Vonnegut Jr. as Cornell Sun sports editor during daily's 100th anniversary dinner in May 1980. 

Jon Craig's Contributions

Schools
22 Westlake High Seniors, 30 Recent Wildcat Graduates Are Named AP Scholars 22 Westlake High Seniors, 30 Recent Wildcat Graduates Are Named AP Scholars
22 Westlake High Seniors, 30 Recent Wildcat Graduates Are Named AP Scholars This story has been updated. THORNWOOD, N.Y. -- Fifty-two students at Westlake High School have earned AP Scholar Awards in recognition of their exceptional achievement on the college-level Advanced Placement (AP) Exams. William Carr, a 2015 graduate of Westlake High School and salutatorian, qualified for the National AP Scholar Award by earning an average grade of 4 or higher on a five-point scale on all AP Exams taken and grades of 4 or higher on eight or more of these exams.  Thirteen recent Westlake High graduates and one student who is now a senior qualified for the AP Scholar with Di…

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Events
White Plains Performing Arts Center Showcases Westlake High 'Page To Stage' White Plains Performing Arts Center Showcases Westlake High 'Page To Stage'
White Plains Performing Arts Center Showcases Westlake High 'Page To Stage' WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. -- Seven Westlake High School students will watch their writing performed live onstage during a Friday night show at the City Center in White Plains. The first-of-its-kind premiere begins at 8 p.m. at the White Plains Performing Arts Center. “Page to Stage: High School Edition” is patterned after WPPAC’s “Page to Stage” series where playwrights can see their works-in-progress and invite audience feedback. Eleven actors will bring the Westlake students’ literary works to life. Creative writing teacher Janet Matthews said the works were selected based on their potential fo…

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Sports
Rye Rowers Ready For Annual Crew Fundraising Ergathon Rye Rowers Ready For Annual Crew Fundraising Ergathon
Rye Rowers Ready For Annual Crew Fundraising Ergathon RYE, N.Y. -- They're often on the water at Milton Harbor before sunrise, and have racked up hours of rigorous exercise before other Rye High School students are awake or eating breakfast. And once a year -- on shore -- the Rye High crew team holds a critical fund-raising event to help support the Garnets' successful program, which can get costly. This year's "ergathon" is Saturday from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. at Rye Recreation Center, 281 Midland Ave. More than 60 rowers are training with the team this fall: 40 boys and 23 girls. On Saturday, each high school team member will attempt to …

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Schools
Good Counsel Academy Celebrates Its New Elementary School In Valhalla Good Counsel Academy Celebrates Its New Elementary School In Valhalla
Good Counsel Academy Celebrates Its New Elementary School In Valhalla VALHALLA, N.Y. -- After a century located on North Broadway in White Plains, Good Counsel Academy has begun a new elementary school year in a former parochial school building in Valhalla.  Officials, staff and students from the private Catholic school celebrated the move on Monday during a ribbon-cutting ceremony at 2 Broadway in Valhalla. They were joined by Mount Pleasant Supervisor Carl Fulgenzi and Westchester County Legislator Michael Smith. Among the Good Counsel Academy officials in attendance were Frank Williams, chairman of its Board of Trustees, GCA Elementary School Principal Pam…

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News
Mariandale Nuns, County Exec Astorino Among Locals To Greet Pope Francis Mariandale Nuns, County Exec Astorino Among Locals To Greet Pope Francis
Mariandale Nuns, County Exec Astorino Among Locals To Greet Pope Francis WESTCHESTER COUNTY, N.Y. -- Rob Astorino of Hawthorne and seven nuns from Ossining are among the lucky faithful to greet Pope Francis this week when he visits New York City. Astorino, who is Westchester County executive, is a Spanish-speaking parishioner at Holy Rosary Parish. He has been invited to work among lay staff at both Manhattan Masses involving Pope Francis -- a Thursday night Mass at St. Patrick's Cathedral and a Papal Mass led by the Catholic Church's Holy Father on Friday at Madison Square Garden. Seven members of the Mariandale Convent in Ossining, meanwhile, have invitations/…

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News
Westchester Businessman Gets 5-Year Prison Term For Swindling Investors Westchester Businessman Gets 5-Year Prison Term For Swindling Investors
Westchester Businessman Gets 5-Year Prison Term For Swindling Investors RYE, N.Y. -- A 53-year-old Rye businessman was sentenced to five years in federal prison on Monday and ordered to pay $1.8 million in restitution to investors, according to a press release from the U.S. Attorney for the District of Connecticut. Charles Principato was sentenced in New Haven by Chief U.S. District Judge Janet C. Hall, who also ordered him to serve three years of supervised release. The $1,809,235 in restitution that Judge Hall ordered be repaid by Principato included additional money he owed to his victim-investors, according to Tuesday's press release. As Daily Voice report…

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Schools
Holy Child Celebrates New Field House At Girls' School Holy Child Celebrates New Field House At Girls' School
Holy Child Celebrates New Field House At Girls' School HARRISON, N.Y. -- More than 450 people joined together at School of the Holy Child on Monday to celebrate completion of a new field house. Father Matt Janeczko led a Mass of the Holy Spirit and blessed the new 22,000-square-foot facility as part of the ceremony held in The Kelly Gymnasium. Peggy and Al Kelly of Rye were honored during the school's annual gala and fundraiser in April for their longstanding dedication and generosity to the school, attended by girls in fifth through 12th grades. Peggy Parlatore, a Class of '77 graduate, and Al Kelly have been part of the Holy Child community f…

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News
Port Chester's First Dog Park Opens At Abendroth Park Port Chester's First Dog Park Opens At Abendroth Park
Port Chester's First Dog Park Opens At Abendroth Park PORT CHESTER, N.Y. -- A long-awaited dog park opened with a public ceremony on Sunday at Abendroth Park in Port Chester. Village residents including dog walkers have sought an exclusive area for pets for more than three years. Fundraising efforts by the Port Chester Dog Park Group -- and a $25,000 donation from the PetSafe brand earlier this year -- resulted in the special park off of Touraine Avenue. "We are very excited that hard work and persistence has paid off and we have a beautiful dog park to spend quality time with our four-legged family members,'' said Linda Turturino, a foun…

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Neighbors
Westchester Woman Celebrates 100th Birthday With Family, Mayor Westchester Woman Celebrates 100th Birthday With Family, Mayor
Westchester Woman Celebrates 100th Birthday With Family, Mayor This story has been updated. MAMARONECK, N.Y. -- Marge Santangelo LaBrusciano of Rye Neck celebrated her 100th birthday on Sunday in Larchmont. Repeating a line from the movie, "The Graduate," LaBrusciano boasted about working most of her adult life "in plastics,'' as a supervisor in a factory that manufactured handbags and other synthetic products as well as medical supplies. "I worked all my life,'' she said. As a teenager during the Great Depression, her father's Village of Mamaroneck grocery store was forced to close, so the family turned to farming in Pawling, N.Y.…

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Obituaries
Westchester's Everett C. Parker, Won Media Race Bias Case, Dies At 102 Westchester's Everett C. Parker, Won Media Race Bias Case, Dies At 102
Westchester's Everett C. Parker, Won Media Race Bias Case, Dies At 102 WESTCHESTER COUNTY, N.Y. -- The Rev. Everett C. Parker, a leading advocate for public rights in broadcasting, died on Thursday in White Plains. He was 102. Parker won a landmark court challenge in the 1960s over the federal government's renewal of a Jackson, Miss., television station license. Parker's death was announced by the United Church of Christ, where he served as director of the UCC's Office of Communication until 1983. A memorial service for Parker will be held at 11 a.m. on Oct. 3 at the Church in the Highlands, 35 Bryant Ave., White Plains. As national spokesman for the 1.75-mi…

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