Winter Blues Concert to Rock the Music Hall
by David Neilsen – On Saturday, Jan 6, the Tarrytown Music Hall will be transformed into a local dance club as the venue for the 5th annual Winter Blues concert. Produced by the Sleepy Hollow...
View ArticleRemembering Martin Luther King, Jr.
by Donald H. Whitely – Dr. King was honored with the Nobel Prize for Peace in 1964. He was the youngest man to ever receive the award at the age of 35. On April 4, 1968, my sister Tina and I had just...
View ArticleObituaries December 2017
Vincent Krizmancic, 94 Vincent “Vinko” Krizmancic, a resident of Sleepy Hollow, died peacefully in his home December 9. He was 94. He was born in Trieste, Italy on June 30, 1923 to Anton and Ana...
View ArticleInquiring Photographer – What is Your New Year’s Resolution?
by Alexa Brandenberg – Heather Hewett Sleepy Hollow “I am contemplating a New Year’s resolution inspired by the writer Ann Patchett, which is to give up personal shopping for the year.” Herinel...
View Article13 Years of Balanced Community Journalism
With this issue, The Hudson Independent begins its 13th year of bringing news and other relevant information to the rivertown villages we serve. With a readership of more than 20,000 each month, we...
View ArticleIrvington Town Hall Theater To Present “Rock the Winter Blues” Film Series...
The Irvington Town Hall Theater (ITHT) Commission, which oversees the historic 115-year-old, 432-seat theater in Town Hall of Irvington, New York has announced the launch of a two-date winter film...
View ArticleIce Skating on the Tarrytown Lakes is Back
The green flag flies above the Tarrytown Lakes January 3rd, signaling the first time in ten years, skaters have been permitted. Temperatures have stayed in the teens and twenties for a week already.
View ArticleWinning Poems To be Engraved On Sleepy Hollow Sidewalk
By Robert Kimmel – While Hollywood stars have their footprints and handprints immortalized in cement in front of Grauman’s Chinese Theater, local rivertown residents now have a chance to make a...
View ArticleThe Shames JCC’s Wellness Series
The Shames JCC’s wellness series continues: On Sunday, January 21st from 2-5PM, experience “Life without Fear”, a two-hour workshop on how meditation can relieve anxiety. The symptoms of anxiety,...
View ArticleSleepy Hollow Fire Chief Rescues Deer from a Frozen Pocantico Lake
by Barrett Seaman – Not every call to the fire department is about a fire. Certainly the one Sleepy Hollow Fire Chief John Korzelius took Tuesday morning was anything but. The call was from his...
View ArticleThruway Authority Offers One-Month Amnesty for Unpaid TZ Bridge Tolls
By Barrett Seaman – Sometime during the past two years, you might have crossed the Tappan Zee Bridge (or since October, its replacement, the Mario C. Cuomo Bridge), slipped under the overhead cameras...
View ArticleLetters – Interests of Irvington’s Residents Should Be First with Astorbuck
To the Editor: Thank you for your recent article concerning the Astorbuck corporation’s proposal to re-zone a residential neighborhood in the heart of Irvington into a 44-car commercial parking lot....
View ArticleLetters – Article on SALT Deduction was Misleading
To the Editor: Your lead article in January’s edition is misleading in one important respect. While it is true that the limitation of the SALT deduction to $10,000 disproportionately affects...
View ArticleToll Brothers Selected as Builder of Phase One on Edge-on-Hudson Project
by Robert Kimmel – The first structures to be built within Edge-on-Hudson, the mixed-use development at Sleepy Hollow’s riverfront are expected to be 11 free-standing homes, constructed by Toll...
View ArticlePoint/Counterpoint – Bike Lanes and Broadway
Let’s Move Forward on Bike Lanes for Broadway Let’s Go Slow on Bike Lanes Before Acting Let’s Move Forward on Bike Lanes for Broadway by Daniel Convissor – The rivertowns are collaborating on the...
View ArticleSleepy Hollow Seeks Public Input as it Kicks Off Comp Plan
by Rick Pezzullo – More than 150 residents turned out January 11 at the James Galgano Senior Center in Sleepy Hollow at the kickoff meeting for the village’s comprehensive plan. Mayor Ken Wray...
View ArticleThird Public Workshop Set for Tarrytown’s Comprehensive Plan
by Robert Kimmel – With the completion of Tarrytown’s new Comprehensive Plan expected by May, the village is providing another opportunity for residents to offer their input toward its advancement....
View ArticleIrvington: Late in Coming with Comp Plan, but Getting There
by Barrett Seaman – The draft report from Irvington’s Comprehensive Planning Committee is late by five months, and it’s still only just a draft. But a copy obtained by The Hudson Independent offers a...
View ArticleWater Usage Curbs Sought by Tarrytown Officials
by Robert Kimmel – “They would be looking for us to establish a new law local law within the Village Code for water conservation. Obviously, they want all the municipalities that buy water from them...
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