Peter Parente, a U.S. Marine from New Rochelle who pulled the plane wreckage from Flight 175 out of the building at the center of the controversy over the proposed site of an Islamic Center and Mosque, will appear live on WOR 710 AM at 4 PM today. Parente will recount his story first published here on Talk of the Sound: New Rochelle Marine Disputes Defenders of 'Ground Zero' Mosque in New York City.

You can listen live on the web here: http://www.wor710.com/. Talk of the Sound will attempt to record Parente's appearance and upload an .mp3 file here. Steve Malzberg Show web page on WOR710.com.

Parente is currently a candidate in the November 2nd Special Election for City Council District 3. He is running against Jared Rice.

UPDATE: You can download/listen to an mp3 file of Peter's interview by clicking here

UPDATE: The show is also available on the Steve Malzberg site in the archive.

Well you can bet this show is going to be certain people's worst nightmare.

The folks over at WVOX have offered me an amazing opportunity to have my own 1 hour show on WVOX, Fridays at 11 AM. They asked me for a name of the show. I figured "Talk of the Sound" might be a good name. What do you, my loyal readers, think?

Bob Marrone is going to start promoting the show tomorrow in the morning drive time slot.

This is all just happened but I figure an hour a week doing a roundup of the week's top stories and previewing the following week might by good. Now, if someone will just teach me how to hit the 5 second delay when Eye on New Roc calls I will be all set.

In another unexpected series of isolated incidents, all of which occurred in close proximity and within a very narrow time frame, a group of four young people, ages 19 to 21, two male and two female, were arrested Wednesday by New Rochelle Police after passing counterfeit one hundred dollar bills up and down North Avenue from Bonnifoy to Huguenot. Victims of the counterfeit ring including Battaglia Brothers where some of the group purchased 2 gallons of water with what police have determined is a fake bill. At the liquor store down the street they bought a fifth of liquor. The Dollar Store on North was also hit. The various items purchased were found in the vehicle driven by the suspects, sources say.

Police are going up and down the street to determine what other retailers were hit.

The suspects are said to be age 19 to 21. One female is described as blonde/white the other is described as light-skinned/black. No description of the two male suspects.

Over the weekend I noticed that New Rochelle Patch editor Allison Esposito used without a permission an image of the three suspects in the murder of Kevin Williams on her site that I had created from three mug shots provided to me by the New Rochelle Police Department. This is commonly known as plagiarism. I might have also made a case that I owned a copyright on the photo as I had "transformed" (a legal term) the images into a new image. I wrote about, pointed out that the two images were the same and sent emails to Esposito, her boss Katie Ryan O'Connor and Hudson Valley Regional Editor for Patch.com asking that the image be taken down while pointing out that had they asked, and given attribution, they would have been welcome to use the photo.

Rather than acknowledge their "error" they chose to ignore me. I then sent an email to a journalism list of which I am a member seeking advice and was urged to contact their bosses Patch.com publisher Warren Webster and Editor-in-Chief Brian Farnham. To date I have not heard back from any of them. The story was then picked up two journalism web sites: Romenesko and Media Bistro.