I could not agree more. While on one hand this is a great small town tradition, its a serious accident just waiting to happen. Surely there must be some other way to celebrate an exciting win.

Oh "lighten up" !!! While your concern is understandable...would it not be enough perhaps to suggest that an adult ride in the back with the celebrating youths? Those celebratory "spins" are in fact part of what makes this town the "Norman Rockwell" community that it is. Baseball and apple pie...what could be more endearing on a summers eve??

I don't think keeping kids from being seriously injured or killed is a matter of "lightning up". Its against the law. Period.

Your absolutely correct the baseball is part of the great American tradition and a great Cornwall tradition (too bad more people don't actually show up for the Little League games as Cornwall as some of the best teams and fields in the area). That doesn't mean riding around crammed into the back of an open pickup at night should be encouraged.

Our police department is paid to enforce the law. They should start doing it.

Oh, give us all a break! Fireworks are potentially dangerous to our young..should we stop that in Cornwall? A pie eating contest? why...someone could potentially choke! Parade? What if a youth trips or worse...slips on the dong of the NYMA horse parading in front of them? Youth is intended for the young...responsibility is left to adults. Let's trust each other to do the right thing while allowing our kids the privelege of experiencing what will be "Cornwall" childhood memories. We've survived worse...our police dept. has more to worry about. We would be better served remembering that children share a place in this community of ours. They would be better served by your allowing them their experiences while keeping a safe distance behind the vehicles their riding in!!

Huzzah! for common sense. There are WAY too many people that think that we need more laws, new laws, special laws to keep us safe from ourselves. If the adults in the community have half a brain they are aware of the dangers of riding in the back of pickup trucks and take precautions to safeguard their children. It even made an entry into the Police Blotter for pete's sake! (see this issue CoH Police Blotter)
If you are concerned about safety, let's get Driver's Ed. back into the school program. The people that the police need to be watching (and ticketing)are the aggressive, inconsiderate, inexperienced, high speed drivers zipping through town. They are much more dangerous than a bunch of screaming ballplayers in the back of a truck.

THE VILLAGE OF CORNWALL ON HUDSON IS SICK OF THE HONKING!!!!!!!!!! The fact is that this isnęt a string of cars honking ONCE around the town, they drive up and down the street repeatedly honking. There are elderly, children and sick people in this town who want to rest many of the late evenings that this is going on, but the little league parents have no concern for others. I have personally gone to the little league and the police about the matter and the answer is always the same, they have the right to have fun and celebrate ... but what about the rights of everyone else??? It seems in Cornwall the rights of little league surpass the rights of everyone else in the town. If the parents of these children are so happy that they want to shout and celebrate I commend them for taking the time. BUT BUT BUT --- WHY DO YOU PEOPLE THINK WE CARE IF YOUR KIDS ARE HAPPY????? The fact is Cornwall that we donęt. Just because you have freedom of speech, and America is supposed to be about free right, WHAT ABOUT THE FREE RIGHTS OF THE REST OF THE VILLAGE THAT DONT WANT TO HEAR IT?
Please, if you feel the need to honk and cheer, do it around the little league complex and donęt spread it around to others who donęt want to share. It doesnęt make us feel proud of you and your kids, it just makes us resent you.

Melissa Vellone

Alright!
All of you people -Off my Island. NOW!

Fritz, my dear man, (right?) where (as in 'location')have you been? Of COURSE
Cornwall is an Island - and we have been doing our darnedest (yes, it is a word) to keep the unsavory elements out for the last several decades.
And we are not talking "safty"( invest in a good German-English Dictionary, dear), we are talking about the total inability of people here to tolerate others' happiness/frolic/activities without feeling some insane need to squash/control/thwart it all. Can we not just briefly put aside our neuroses and enjoy someone else's joy? Next time the screaming jocks ride by making unholy racket, just sigh and and smile and try to remember what joyful abandon feels like. Trust me, it might even make you want to shake your butt and do a little dance. Joie de vivre! is what the French call it.

What makes this town the "Those celebratory "spins" are in fact part of what makes this town the "Norman Rockwell" community that it is." is NOT little league ... what makes this town Norman Rockwell is the fact that it is supposed to be such a small community that it is family based, and everyone in it is supposed to act like family. What Kate posted in her last comment that everyone who dislikes the honking should shut up and smile because someone in town is happy is the exact OPPOSITE of the Norman Rockwell thought. It is saying that it is ok to disrespect ones family because "what I want is more important than what you want, and you cant stop me anyways, so nah nah!" The fact is that there are 9 separate little league teams, and if each drives up and down the street 3-5 times back and forth per win with a minimum of 4-5 cars/trucks per caravan then it amounts to nothing but a town nuisance. The attitude that the little league exhibits is nothing more than the town bully, yet they attempt to make out like they are the ones being bullied. Did you ever think that there would be more widespread support of the little league if your enjoyment didnt mean the utter blatant disrespect of the community? This has nothing to do with the Cornwall of old, the old Cornwall was a place where children were taught to be respectful, not disrespectful. And Kate, the next time you want to cry that people are attempting the squelch all of your fun look at your own comment for "get off my island" and realize that it is the little league supporters who are being exclusionary and hostile. Any my dear, you get what you give, so if you get hostility in return, dont wonder why.

How sad it must be to wake up every morning lacking a sense of humor and joy (the "Island" reference was clearly a joke!). How scary it must be to wake up with a sense of paranoia, conspiracy, and insult. You are certaintly entitled to dislike "village living" in all the ways that it's been described...I just wonder why you would choose to live here. Surely it is not unreasonable for you to expect consideration. I hope you get it...at least you've been honest enough to label your concern as a matter of "inconvenience" as opposed to hiding behind the "safety" excuse. My advice (though no one has asked for it)...seek JOY...(or medicate)...that's a joke. To Fritz...in fact I don't have children involved in LL...surprised???

How sad indeed. Please do not put words into my mouth, gump3b. My comment was not "shut up and smile". First, I don't use "shut up", it's ugly. To clarify: my advice was to encourage tolerance . When people see that their fun will not be taken from them they are less fearful and THEN the dialogue for manners is opened - that respect of old that you mentioned. My comment is in no (logical) way interpreted as "shut up and let me disrespect anyone I want" as you have read it.
I am not crying, I have my own fun and those who don't share my ideas of fun are, thankfully and intentionally, not in my world (my Island, as it were). And, in general, I don't "get a lot of hostility". I am mostly content, but when it does come it comes from those small pockets of fearful people who can't stand any else's joy (because they have so little of their own?)
Remember what your namesake, Forrest Gump said on his cross country trek, "S#*t happens" and "Have a nice day"

P.S.
I repeat; try to remember what joyful abandon feels like

By the pictures showing children in the backs of pickup trucks, all of the posts, and the fact that riding in a pickup that way is illegal, I would say that no, it is NOT being done in a safe fashion. No body ever argued that it wouldnt be really cool and fun for the kids to have these memories, the arguements were that it wasnt safe for the children and that it was disturbing to a large section of the town. Again I will reitterate, nobody wants to deny the kids an opportunity to have fun and take pride in a win, but I grew up in Cornwall my entire life, we did NOT have this tradition when I was young, and I have plenty of great memories of growing up in Cornwall. My dislike isnt that I want to deny anyone fun, it is that most of the great memories I have of fun summers in Cornwall are of a QUIET sleep community, that took pride in being a QUIET get away. The Cornwall summers I remember, and that bring a lot of people back and a lot of people up from the City are QUIET summers that lack the honking of car horns you would find in traffic. If you people need happy abandon why not try bringing the kids to the town pool, splashing around and LAUGHING to have fun, not honking horns and baning on the sides of a truck as kids are taught it is ok to break SOME laws, just not others

Fritz. Get a life.

Gump3B - Move. You are in the vocal minority.

The "honkers" are disrespectful and inconsiderate!

Hey, here's a thought...COHPD...Do your job!!! Horns are to be used as a "warning" not for excitement!!!

Rock on Gump...Let's take the village back!!!