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Skip Pearlman

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spearlman@dailyvoice.com

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Skip Pearlman is an award-winning photojournalist who has been photographing and covering news, sports and features in Westchester, Putnam and Dutchess counties for three decades, and currently resides in Dutchess County.

Skip was formerly a photographer and reporter at Daily Voice.

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Lifestyle
Fishkill Man Gets Photo Of Bobcat In His Backyard Fishkill Man Gets Photo Of Bobcat In His Backyard
Fishkill Man Gets Photo Of Bobcat In His Backyard FISHKILL, N.Y. - Matt McGilvray got quite a surprise Saturday morning at his Fishkill home. McGilvray has a field camera set up in his backyard with a motion sensor and has captured a number of wildlife shots over the years. But Saturday morning when he stepped out to his backyard and looked at his photos, he saw that it had - just moments earlier - captured the shot of a bobcat. In fact, it was his footsteps that had the cat looking over its shoulder, then heading quickly away into the woods. "To see the photos, and realize that it was only about 30 yards away from me... and I never…

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by Skip Pearlman
Neighbors
Country Star Blake Shelton Gives Boost To Somers Couple, Accident Victim Country Star Blake Shelton Gives Boost To Somers Couple, Accident Victim
Country Star Blake Shelton Gives Boost To Somers Couple, Accident Victim A Westchester couple got the best Christmas present they could've hoped for Thursday. Lindsay Baker of Somers and boyfriend Jonathon Daniels of Peekskill (both Somers High grads) are huge country music fans, and had tickets to see country star Blake Shelton in September. The tickets were to celebrate Lindsay's 23rd birthday. A week prior to the concert, Daniels was badly injured in a motorcycle accident, and suffered two collapsed lungs, one punctured lung, brain bleeding, a lacerated liver, kidney, and spleen, as well as injuries to his neck, back and shoulders. Daniels spent 15 days in t…

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Business
Mahopac Flower Shop Blooms Into Bustling Business Now In 28th Year Mahopac Flower Shop Blooms Into Bustling Business Now In 28th Year
Mahopac Flower Shop Blooms Into Bustling Business Now In 28th Year It may sound simple, but for Michael Bothe and William Fitzgerald - owners of the Mahopac Flower Shop - success and longevity have come through a basic formula: hard work and doing the right thing for the customer and community. The pair took over their shop in the middle of Mahopac 28 years ago - and were one of seven flowers shops at the time. Now those competitors have virtually disappeared, leaving Bothe and Fitzgerald as the last men standing. The pair was honored by the Greater Mahopac-Carmel Chamber of Commerce Tuesday evening at the Business Person of the Year Awards, earning the 20…

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Lifestyle
Glazed Over Has Beacon Scrambling For Fresh, Made-To-Order Doughnuts Glazed Over Has Beacon Scrambling For Fresh, Made-To-Order Doughnuts
Glazed Over Has Beacon Scrambling For Fresh, Made-To-Order Doughnuts BEACON, N.Y. - Anyone parking their car in the vicinity of 315 Main Street in Beacon on Friday got a pleasant surprise, as the smell of freshly made doughnuts filled the air, enticing and inviting all who noticed to find the source. Beacon has been waiting patiently for its new artisan doughnut shop to open, and Thursday was the day. Glazed Over Specialty Donuts, owned and operated by longtime Beacon residents Ron and Lisa Tompkins, brings a little slice of doughnut heaven to the neighborhood. And judging by the standing room only crowds that packed the place the first two days, not a secon…

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Sports
Rye's Egan, Boehning Among Honorees At 44th 'Golden Dozen' Award Banquet Rye's Egan, Boehning Among Honorees At 44th 'Golden Dozen' Award Banquet
Rye's Egan, Boehning Among Honorees At 44th 'Golden Dozen' Award Banquet WESTCHESTER COUNTY, N.Y. -- Senior varsity football standouts who excel both on the football field and in the classroom were honored as Westchester's chapter of the National Football Hall of Fame held its 44th annual Golden Dozen award banquet Thursday evening at the Westchester Country Club in Rye. The Golden Dozen has become one of the area's most prestigious awards. Ian Esliker of Pleasantville High School, who was among the honorees, was named the recipient of the Chris Mello Award, a scholarship named after a Rye graduate and former Golden Dozen player who was killed on 9/11. Others n…

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Lifestyle
Glazed Over Has Beacon Scrambling For Fresh, Made-To-Order Doughnuts Glazed Over Has Beacon Scrambling For Fresh, Made-To-Order Doughnuts
Glazed Over Has Beacon Scrambling For Fresh, Made-To-Order Doughnuts BEACON, N.Y. - Anyone parking their car in the vicinity of 315 Main Street in Beacon on Friday got a pleasant surprise, as the smell of freshly made doughnuts filled the air, enticing and inviting all who noticed to find the source. Beacon has been waiting patiently for its new artisan doughnut shop to open, and Thursday was the day. Glazed Over Specialty Donuts, owned and operated by longtime Beacon residents Ron and Lisa Tompkins, brings a little slice of doughnut heaven to the neighborhood. And judging by the standing room only crowds that packed the place the first two days, not a secon…

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Sports
Rye's Egan, Boehning Among Honorees At 44th 'Golden Dozen' Award Banquet Rye's Egan, Boehning Among Honorees At 44th 'Golden Dozen' Award Banquet
Rye's Egan, Boehning Among Honorees At 44th 'Golden Dozen' Award Banquet WESTCHESTER COUNTY, N.Y. -- Senior varsity football standouts who excel both on the football field and in the classroom were honored as Westchester's chapter of the National Football Hall of Fame held its 44th annual Golden Dozen award banquet Thursday evening at the Westchester Country Club in Rye. The Golden Dozen has become one of the area's most prestigious awards. Ian Esliker of Pleasantville High School, who was among the honorees, was named the recipient of the Chris Mello Award, a scholarship named after a Rye graduate and former Golden Dozen player who was killed on 9/11. Others n…

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Lifestyle
Family Feel, New Latin Flair Make Ramiro's 954 A Mahopac Destination Family Feel, New Latin Flair Make Ramiro's 954 A Mahopac Destination
Family Feel, New Latin Flair Make Ramiro's 954 A Mahopac Destination MAHOPAC, N.Y. - Ramiro Jimenez is one of those lucky people who happens to love what he does. What Jimenez does is bring a new Latin flair, award-winning Mexican/Latino cuisine, and a family atmosphere to Ramiro's 954, one of Mahopac's most popular restaurants. Jimenez, who was executive chef of La Puerta Azul in Salt Point, New York (a 2010 Best of Hudson Valley pick for Mexican/Latino cuisine) and Noche in Manhattan, smiles when he talks about delivering his recipes to customers. His Pernil con mojo - or braised pork shank - is the restaurant's most popular item and known far and wide. …

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Sports
Hopewell's Pedatella Living Her Dream As Both Hockey Player, Model Hopewell's Pedatella Living Her Dream As Both Hockey Player, Model
Hopewell's Pedatella Living Her Dream As Both Hockey Player, Model Brianna Pedatella is living proof that you can do anything if you follow your dreams. When the 17-year-old John Jay-East Fishkill High School senior isn't playing defensive stopper for her state champion Brewster Bulldogs ice hockey team, she's probably strutting her stuff on the runway during NYC Fashion Week. Pedatella, of Hopewell Junction, has been playing ice hockey since she was eight, and was part of the Brewster Bulldogs' 2016 state championship team. But there was always another desire in Pedatella's heart - to be a model. "Me and my sister used to have fashion shows whenever…

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Sports
Former Mahopac HS Soccer Star Signs With New York Red Bulls Former Mahopac HS Soccer Star Signs With New York Red Bulls
Former Mahopac HS Soccer Star Signs With New York Red Bulls MAHOPAC, N.Y. - The dream just got a little more real for Mahopac's Arun Basuljevic. The former Mahopac High (2014 grad) and Georgetown soccer standout signed his first pro contract with the New York Red Bulls, the team announced Tuesday. "It is an amazing feeling, a dream come true," Basuljevic told Daily Voice Tuesday night. "To achieve a childhood dream is something truly indescribable.  "I always said that when this moment came that I would make sure to thank my amazing parents who gave me every platform to succeed," he added. "They constantly believed in …

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