Category: Ossining

Mary Ann Roberts

1. Freedom Of Information Compliance And Knowledge Ratings:

Ossining Town Clerk Mary Ann Roberts acknowledge all Freedom of Information requests and quickly process them even though the information we asked for was difficult to obtain. We rate Ms. Roberts with five stars. The citizens of Ossining are very well served by this Ms. Roberts.

2. Email Address For Filing FOI Requests

mroberts@townofossining.com

3, Mailing Address For Filing FOI Requests

Town Clerk
16 Croton Avenue
Ossining, NY 10562

4. Experience:

MaryAnn Roberts is Clerk to both the Village and the Town of Ossining.

Ms. Roberts has held the position of Town Clerk since taking office on January 1, 2000, as well as being appointed  Village Clerk for the same term.

Ms. Roberts was elected to her first four-year term in a two-way race in 1999.

Ms Robertshas has been a resident in the Village of Ossining nearly all of her life and is married with two grown children who have gone through the Ossining School System.

5. From The Town Website:

Office Hours are Monday – Friday, 8:30 am – 4:30 pm. The following services are available in the Town/Village Clerk’s Office.

Town of Ossining Schedule of Fees: schedule consists of a compilation and consolidation of provisions pertaining to fees for the various applications, licenses and permits required or provided for under the Town Code, rules and regulations.

pdf Schedule of Fees (39 KB)

Freedom of Information Request Form: application for public access to records.
pdf FOIL Request Form (40 KB)

• Licensing:
  • Conservation (Hunting, Fishing)
  • Dog
  • Marriage
  • Games of Chance
  • Bingo
  • Peddler
  • Refreshment
  • Taxi Driver
  • Taxi Owner
  • Laundromat
  • Coin Operated Devices
  • Cabaret
  • “Going Out of Business”

• Parking Permits:
  • Railroad Station Parking (Annual)
    – For Residents of Town of Ossining only
  • Municipal Lots

• Birth Records:
  • Certifications of Birth Records from 1881 to present

• Death Records:
  • Certifications of Death Records from 1881 to present

• Minutes Archive and Meeting Agendas:
  
  • Minutes and agendas of regular meetings of the Ossining Town Board and Village of Ossining Board Trustees are available for review in the Town/Village Clerk’s Office
  • folder Visit the online archive of Town Board Documents here…

NYS Dept. of Health – Vital Records (Birth, Death, Marriage & Divorce Records)

7. Notes

This Ratings Page Has Been Updated With Additional Information

About Ossining, New York

Ossining is a town located along the Hudson River in Westchester County, New York, United States. The population was 37,674 in the 2010 census. It contains two villages, the Village of Ossining and part of Briarcliff Manor.

The rest is located in the Town of Mount Pleasant. It is the location of Sing Sing maximum-security prison.

Frederick Philipse bought the area which presently constitutes the Town of Ossining from the Sint Sinck Indians in 1685. The Sint Sinck were members of the Matinecock (Algonquin) tribe, who originally resided in the area of Cow Neck Peninsula on Long Island, New York. His Manor extended from Spuyten Duyvil Creek on the border between present day Manhattan and the Bronx to the Croton River. The last Lord of the Manor, Frederick Philipse III, was a Loyalist in the American Revolutionary War who fled to England. The State of New York confiscated the manor in 1779.

In 1813, the village of Sing Sing was incorporated. Sing Prison, now known as Sing Sing Correctional Facility, which is a maximum-security prison, opened in 1826. The prison was opened to replace the Newgate Prison that was located in New York City. In 1845, the New York State Legislature created a new town out of the northern part of what had been the Town of Mount Pleasant. A local Indian authority suggested the town be named Ossinsing, a different form of the name Sing Sing. One year later the last “s” was removed for ease in pronunciation. In 1881, the town considered changing its name to “Garfield Plains” to honor the recently assassinated President of the United States, James Garfield, but dropped the idea after the much larger city of White Plains in southern Westchester County objected. In 1901, to prevent confusion of goods made in the village with Sing Sing prison-made items, local officials had the village name changed to Ossining as well.

In 1902 an area east of the village of Ossining, then known as Whitson’s Crossing, was incorporated as the village of Briarcliff Manor.

The Jug Tavern and Scarborough Historic District are listed on the National Register of Historic Places…..

Please Read More here:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ossining_(town),_New_York