Thursday, April 12, 2012
Will interact with Patch audience, offer tips to young athletes.
Patch has appointed Mark Teixeira, four-time Gold Glove winner, as the Commissioner of Patch Baseball. The two-time All-Star and Greenwich, CT, resident will interact with Patch users by regularly responding to questions, sharing baseball tips, and posting exclusive videos. Teixeira will also offer young athletes advice on how to stay in shape and why healthful eating is so important for optimal performance. “I live in a Patch town now and I keep tabs on my original hometown via the Patch site there, so I’ve seen the ways that Patch supports its communities,” Teixeira said. “I’m excited to be a part of that by connecting with Patch users who have the same passion for baseball that I do. I’m eager to see what kinds of questions they …
Wednesday, January 25, 2012
Claiming your business on Patch offers huge rewards.
Call it a thoroughly modern dilemma. You can get any style of shoe delivered right to your door in 24 hours via the Internet, but must sort through five pages of random Google results just to find the right number for the pizza joint down the street. Oh and P.S. the hours on some robo-generated listing are completely wrong. Well Patch would hate to see anyone pizza-less and hungry (or without those killer boots) so that's why we launched Port Chester Patch in June of 2010 with the area's most comprehensive and detailed business directory, called "Places." You can find descriptions, hours, what credit cards are accepted, even parking — all verified by an actual human being, and all 100 percent local. And no more driving around to a shop …
Thursday, January 12, 2012
We're looking for a few good bloggers.
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Thursday, January 12
Are you a sports fan with more opinions than a screaming WFAN host? Do you teach or volunteer with local kids? Do you have a job that provides you with hilarious or insightful local anecdotes just waiting to be shared with people in our community? Why not blog about it? We'd like to hear from local bloggers, would-be writers and people with strong passions for all things local. If you're an artist, food enthusiast, historian or political junkie, we'd like to hear from you. If you're a business owner or manager, we'd like to hear your ideas for a local blog – think more narrative and anecdote than press release space. Our readers would love to hear stories about the people that come into your store or the products you make locally. We're …
Monday, September 5, 2011
We're looking for a few good bloggers.
Are you a sports fan with more opinions than a screaming WFAN host? Do you teach or volunteer with local kids? Do you have a job that provides you with hilarious or insightful local anecdotes just waiting to be shared with people in our community? Why not blog about it? We'd like to hear from local bloggers, would-be writers and people with strong passions for all things local. If you're an artist, food enthusiast, historian or political junkie, we'd like to hear from you. If you're a business owner or manager, we'd like to hear your ideas for a local blog – think more narrative and anecdote than press release space. Our readers would love to hear stories about the people that come into your store or the products you make locally. We're …
Friday, September 2, 2011
We're looking for a few good bloggers.
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Friday, September 2, 2011
Are you a sports fan with more opinions than a screaming WFAN host? Do you teach or volunteer with local kids? Do you have a job that provides you with hilarious or insightful local anecdotes just waiting to be shared with people in our community? Why not blog about it? We'd like to hear from local bloggers, would-be writers and people with strong passions for all things local. If you're an artist, food enthusiast, historian or political junkie, we'd like to hear from you. If you're a business owner or manager, we'd like to hear your ideas for a local blog – think more narrative and anecdote than press release space. Our readers would love to hear stories about the people that come into your store or the products you make locally. We're …
Tuesday, February 22, 2011
If you have a blog or a website and want to stream local news, here's your chance.
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Tuesday, February 22, 2011
The Patch Widget has arrived. What's a widget, you may ask? It's a very cool new feature that allows you to stream news from Patch on your website or blog. By embedding a Patch widget on your website, you’ll be able to quickly and easily add fresh, local content to your site. It's also customizable by topic, so if you just want sports, you can limit to sports, or if you just want school news, you’ll get just school news. Why would you want one? A widget can add awesome functionality or content to your site, with you barely lifting a finger to get it. For example, our first Patch widget is a cool local news feed. So if you have a local business, government or school website, or maybe a local blog, the Patch News Widget can be an easy …
Monday, September 20, 2010
The kids go to concerts and leave mom and dad at home.
Our daughter, at 16, is the age where she wants to go to concerts and she doesn't want to go with me. I miss the good old days of escorting her to Miley Cyrus concerts, with special guests the Jonas Brothers! It seems like just last year she went with another family to see Taylor Swift. It was just last year. Now she wants to go to hipster venues and see hipster bands I've never even heard of and, frankly, I feel old. Last week, she wanted to know if she could go see Vampire Weekend and Of Montreal. I wanted to pick Of Montreal because it sounded less threatening than Vampire Weekend. But Vampire Weekend was playing Radio City Music Hall and I know what that is. Of Montreal was at Terminal Five and I don't know what that is except I drove …
Tuesday, August 17, 2010
Six weeks ago, Port Chester Patch was the company's newest site, bringing the total number to 70. Today, we mark an important milestone with 100 sites, but we're not slowing down!
It's been a whirlwind ride for Patch. Starting with a handful of local sites in New Jersey in early 2009, Patch was a tiny start-up jumping head-first into the uncharted waters of online journalism. Today, barely a year-and-a-half later, we're celebrating an important milestone -- the 100th Patch site, Morristown, N.J. With a million photos and 55,000 articles under our belt, we're not taking the opportunity to sit back and admire our work. Patch still has that start-up feel, that sense of immediacy so crucial to online journalism, and we hope the road ahead will be marked by more great stories and a stronger bond with the communities we cover. Port Chester was Patch site #70, and we're heading into our seventh week as the village's newest…
Monday, August 16, 2010
With encouraging words for her 5-year-old on the tip of her tongue, columnist Susan Konig remembered a psychologist's advice - and decided not to follow it.
Cleaning our house this weekend during a frantic "Dear Lord, we have company coming in twenty minutes" sweep, I accumulated from every corner various pieces of molded plastic of all sizes and shapes belonging to various children of all sizes and shapes. As the clock was ticking, I happily "recycled" (read: "threw out") assorted Lego blocks, Hot Wheels tracks, and Silly Bandz. Our 5-year-old son (who was wearing a jaunty fedora for no apparent reason) caught me in the act. He quickly rummaged threw the disposed treasures and dug out a gem, a small round disc. "What's this?" he asked. "It's a compass," I told him. "It tells you where you are going." "Oh, I know where I'm going," he said confidently, and marched away with the toy still in …
Sunday, July 18, 2010
It was another hot week in Port Chester, but the village's busiest characters didn't miss a beat. Patch's writers chronicled their efforts during these lazy summer days.
People in Port Chester love Al Collins. And, judging by the feedback we've gotten, so do Patch readers. Collins and his soccer clinic were the subjects of a Thursday feature by contributor Edouard Boulat, and readers showed their appreciation for "Big Al" in comments and e-mails. For the third straight year, Collins is running a camp for local kids to hone their soccer skills under dedicated instructors for six weeks -- they get soccer balls, uniforms and equipment, and it's all free. Collins, who fondly remembers barbecues and games in the park as a kid, raises the money himself every year and delivers it to the rec department to buy the equipment. Recreation Superintendent Thomas Hroncich recalled Collins walking into his office the year…
Bedford Brown
12:52 pm on Monday, January 23, 2012
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