WHAT THE COUNTY IS DOING THAT YOU OUGHT TO KNOW ABOUT
By Barrett Seaman— What happens in White Plains, seat of the county government, does not always stay in White Plains, as exemplified by three recent pieces of legislation passed by the Board of...
View ArticleWhat is a Repair Café?
By Suzie Fromer Repair Cafes are community events where volunteer repair coaches from your town help fix your beloved but broken items for free. The concept of a repair café was dreamed up by Martine...
View ArticleTrack Fire Lights Up Hudson Line in Tarrytown
Tarrytown residents living along the river east of the Washington Irving Boat Club, were awakened by flames lighting the early morning sky Wednesday as Metro North workers scrambled to contain a fire...
View Article300 Constituents Ask Mike Lawler to Back Out of Trump Donor Event
Rep. Lawler, It has come to our attention that this Friday, you plan to attend a Republican National Committee donor retreat headlined by Donald Trump in Nashville. This comes shortly after Donald...
View ArticleThree Charged in Residential Burglaries in SH, Dobbs Ferry
By Rick Pezzullo– Three men from Queens were charged last month in connection with residential burglaries in Sleepy Hollow and Dobbs Ferry. The arrests were announced by Westchester County District...
View ArticleIrena Portenko Plays Piano to Save Lives
By Barrett Seaman– It was a little over a year ago, March 27, when Dobbs Ferry resident and concert pianist Irena Portenko led a group of fellow musicians—most of them also of Ukrainian descent—in an...
View ArticleWestchester Tennis Anyone?
By Shana Liebman— On May 12th, the annual Westchester Tennis Ladder (WTL) will begin its fourth season — and for the first time will include an intermediate ladder in addition to its highly successful...
View ArticleA Win for New York and the Climate
With all the dire climate news these days, there was one piece of good news from last week. Governor Hochul prioritized New Yorkers and the planet when she withdrew the Barrett/Parker bill from the New...
View ArticleStop Holtec from Polluting the Hudson
The Town Board of Greenburgh unanimously passed a resolution supporting: (i) Senate Bill 5181 making it unlawful to discharge any radiological agents into the Hudson River and other water bodies...
View ArticleHoltec Pauses Plans to Discharge Wastewater from Indian Point
By Rick Pezzullo— Nine days after creating a community stir by announcing it would be moving up the date to dump radioactive wastewater from the closed Indian Point nuclear power plants into the Hudson...
View ArticleMulticultural Magic On Display In Dobbs Ferry Fair
By Jeff Wilson– Culture and cuisine carried the day on April 15 as Dobbs Ferry Schools’ PTSA International Fair showcased the wide range of ethnic diversity in the Village. Held in the Springhurst...
View ArticleKT Tunstall Returns to The Tarrytown Music Hall Armed with ‘NUT,’ a New Album...
By W.B. King– While perhaps a strange alchemy, elemental science and an appreciation for punk-folk music inspired a young girl from St Andrews, Scotland to pick up a guitar and write songs that would...
View ArticleA Pre-Earth Day Ambush of Killer Shrubs
By Barrett Seaman– Out in the Irvington Woods on a sunny afternoon, some two dozen men and women in jeans and t-shirts are getting a two-day jump on Earth Day, hacking away at patches of a prickly,...
View ArticleThe Era of the Heat Pump is Here
The Era of the Heat Pump is Here And left its silver alien tubes all over my house By Krista Madsen– To recap, my ongoing off-gassing journey so far has included essays on: Danger +...
View ArticleThursday Club Gala Funds Expansion of Paws Crossed Facilities
Adopting a Roaring Twenties theme in honor of its 101st year of raising money for local causes, the rivertowns-based Thursday Club held its annual gala on April 14 at Abigail Kirsch at Tappan Hill....
View ArticleScams Target the Elderly
The scams get trickier and the victims get older. On Wednesday, April 19th, a man approached an elderly woman in Tarrytown, claiming to be a close relative who had been in a car accident. Later,...
View ArticleCandidates Set for Local Board of Education Elections
By Rick Pezzullo— On Tuesday, May 16, residents in four local school districts will have the opportunity to go to the polls and vote on annual budgets and Board of Education members. However, in three...
View ArticleIrvington Middle School Seventh Graders Take a Field Trip to Philadelphia
The seventh grade journeyed to the great city of Philadelphia in April, where they extended their learning within their recent historical fiction and informational text units in ELA classes, and their...
View ArticleIrvington High School Students Design Habitat for Local Wildlife
On Earth Day, the Environmental Club at Irvington High School participated in a project to help increase the biodiversity of the High School and Middle School campus. The idea stemmed from a desire of...
View ArticleMetro North Employees Rescue Three-Year-Old From Tracks Near Tarrytown...
On Thursday, April 6 around 3:15 p.m., MTA Locomotive Engineer William Kennedy was operating a southbound Hudson Line train north of Tarrytown station when he noticed a toddler on the northbound track....
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