Nextdoor - A Way To Get To Know Your Neighbors & Make Your Neighborhood Stronger

Would you like to get to know your neighbors better?

Nextdoor may be the answer.

Nextdoor writes in its mission statement—which comes in the form of a poem—that "we believe technology is a powerful tool for making neighborhoods stronger, safer places to call home" and "we believe strong neighborhoods not only improve our property value, they improve each one of our lives."

So how does it work? See here....

Remembering Ann Marie Murphy And Five Ways You Can Help Sandy Hook Victims

Anne Marie Murphy, 52 years old, a native of Katonah New York, died Friday protecting the children she loved at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn where she worked as a special education teacher.

Murphy's family asks that donations be sent to Autism Speaks, 1060 State Rd., 2nd Floor, Princeton, NJ 08540 or donated online at www.autismspeaks.org

Anne's parents, Hugh McGowan and Alice McGowan are residents of Katonah.

Here is the link for ways you can help the Sandy Hook victims.

Will President Obama or Mitt Romney Have The Biggest Impact On Your Wallet?

Politify is a recently launched web application that uses IRS and Census data to show a simulation of how President Obama and Mitt Romney's economic plans will impact areas of the country by zip code, even allowing users to zoom in on their own neighborhood. The simulator shows side by side comparison of the net change to your income (2015) in the Obama vs. Romney economic plans.

Want To Improve Your Town? There is an app for That.

SeeClickFix is a web application, also available for iPhone, Android and Blackberry, that empowers active citizens with a simple and easy avenue to reach their local government about non-essential issues they see within their communities.

Here is a SeeClickFix link to issues posted re: Katonah, New York.

5 Sites for Shopping Local Food Online

Here is a reference tool to find websites for shopping locally online.

5 Sites for Shopping Local Food Online

Put Your Neighbors To Work With Zaarly, A Local Market for Odd Jobs

Let’s say you need to assemble a piece of IKEA furniture. You dislike doing it so much that you would be willing to pay somebody $50 to put it together for you. Perhaps one of your neighbors is an unemployed carpenter who would take the offer. But how are you going to find him?



This is the basic problem Zaarly tries to solve.Put Your Neighbors To Work With Zaarly, A Local Market for Odd Jobs

MapQuest Vibe Helps You Feel Like a Local Anywhere

MapQuest Vibe Helps You Feel Like a Local Anywhere This is a new service offered by MapQuest. Just checked it out. Katonah comes in with a vibe score of 6.3 with Katonah Avenue being the local hotspot. Mapquest Vibe also ranks local businesses, services, etc.