Japan Fes lands today, The Haunt runs its last weekend, and early voting wraps Sunday

Japan Fes lands today, The Haunt runs its last weekend, and early voting wraps Sunday the festival moved from Saturday to today at Anderson Plaza, Little Haunters owns Halloween afternoon at Wildcliff, and the last early voting day is Sunday (3 min)

By Sabrina

Halloween weekend in New Rochelle used to be one big Saturday. This year it split into three days, and the split works in your favor. Japan Fes moved from Saturday, October 31 to today, 10:00 AM to 6:00 PM at Anderson Plaza, and the move checks out on both ends: the organizers announced it, and the city calendar now lists the festival under today. One day for the street festival, one day for the haunted house, one day to vote.

The weekend as it stands this morning: today brings Japan Fes 10:00 to 6:00, early voting 8:00 AM to 4:00 PM, and The Haunt 7:00 to 10:30 at Wildcliff Mansion. Saturday is Halloween, sunny with a high near 60, with early voting 10:00 to 6:00, Little Haunters from 4:00 PM, and The Haunt again at 7:00. Sunday, everything winds down together: early voting takes its last ballots 10:00 to 6:00, and The Haunt's final show starts at 6:30.

One catch before Saturday. The producer's own page lists Little Haunters at 4:00 to 8:00 PM, while the city calendar's listing says 4:00 to 7:30. Plan around the earlier end and neither version can burn you. The family version runs with the lights, sound and fog on and no jump scares, with trick-or-treating at the end, timed entry at 12 dollars a person per the city's listing.

If the week got away from you, one of the three days still fits. Check the Japan Fes move against the organizer's page before you head downtown, because street festivals move, and this one did. Saturday stacks everything, so build in time for crowds.

Sources: city calendar, Japan Fes at Anderson Plaza, Oct 30 · Japan Fes, New Rochelle event page · The Haunt at Wildcliff, dates and times · city calendar, Little Haunters, Oct 31 · Westchester County Board of Elections, early voting 2026 · NWS point forecast, New Rochelle

The number under the LINC moment, and a homegrown sustainability award 5,500 vehicles an hour, six intersections flagged in 2023, and a New Rochelle company takes a global nod (2 min)

By Sabrina

The moment people noticed in Tuesday's State of the City was the mayor getting emotional about the LINC. The number worth keeping sits underneath it: 5,500 vehicles an hour on the corridor. Reporting after the speech paired that figure with the city's 2023 environmental impact study, which flagged six intersections where engineers predicted problems the proposed design could not fix. The Memorial Highway overpass removal still sits ahead, so the traffic question is open, and it stays open until the city shows where the cars go.

The good news on the same beat is homegrown. Dwayne R. Norris, co-founder and chief operating officer of a New Rochelle clean-energy training company, won a 2026 Global Sustainability Individual Changemaker Award. He co-founded the company in 2013, and it has put training and employment within reach of more than 14,000 people, built on clean-energy skills, construction skills and workplace safety. The company name sits one click away in the source link below. This is the same lane the city's own workforce programs run in, which makes the recognition feel less like a trophy and more like a signal.

Okay. Two ways to follow both: LINC answers will surface in board and IDA agendas before anywhere else, and the award coverage links to the company's own site. Watch the documents, not the speeches.

Sources: Talk of the Sound, LINC traffic questions, Oct 29 · City of New Rochelle, 2026 State of the City Address · Talk of the Sound, Norris sustainability award, Oct 27