Anti-Gun Violence Demonstration Planned by Rivertown Students
By Robert Kimmel Hundreds of students in the rivertowns will demonstrate their support for tougher gun laws and their sympathy for the victims of the Parkland, Florida school massacre last month, when...
View ArticleIrvington and Tarrytown Schools Reviewing Security Measures
By Robert Kimmel In the wake of the Florida school shooting, and recent similar tragedies, school district leaders in Irvington and Tarrytown are reviewing existing security measures within their...
View ArticleAlleged Sexual Assault Victims Speak Out Against Irvington Voice-over Coach
by W.B. King In a concerted effort to permanently silence voice-over actor/coach and Irvington resident Peter Rofe, 55 women have come forward accusing the owner of PDR Voice Over Coaching of sexual...
View ArticleStudent Anti-Gun Protests Draw Political Support
By Robert Kimmel Political leaders in the Rivertowns have lined up behind local student demands for tighter gun laws and are offering support for the planned demonstrations in March. “It’s important...
View ArticleSecond Nor’easter Sends a Body Blow to the Region
by Barrett Seaman March came into the Hudson Valley like a lion—a lion on steroids. Less than a week after a surprisingly powerful “bomb cyclone” swept up the eastern seaboard on March 2nd, a second...
View ArticleTarrytown Comprehensive Plan: 3rd Workshop Held
by Robert Kimmel More than 120 residents attended the third and final Tarrytown Comprehensive Plan workshop late last month at Warner Library as the Plan’s team gathered more public input. The...
View ArticleLocal Students Join Nationwide “Walkout” Against Gun Violence
by Barrett Seaman – Joining millions of their peers around the country one month to the day after the slaughter of 17 students at Parkland, Florida’s Marjorie Stoneman Douglas High School, middle and...
View ArticleCoast Guard Report Submerges Hudson River Anchorages Plans
By Robert Kimmel – The Coast Guard’s controversial proposal to establish 43 new barge anchorage locations in the Hudson River for shipping industry use, first introduced two years ago, has been...
View ArticleLetter to Nita Lowey U.S. House of Representatives
The Honorable Nita Lowey U.S. House of Representatives Washington, D.C. 20515 Dear Representative Lowey, A Chinese proverb says, “The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is...
View ArticleLetters – Re: Point/Counterpoint on Broadway Bike Lanes
Editor Hudson Independent February 1, 2018 Re: Point/Counterpoint on Broadway Bike Lanes Mr. Convissor’s article in favor of bike lanes on the Broadway-Route 9 corridor requires clarification and...
View ArticleWhat’s Happening – April 2018
Friday 6 Lyndhurst Opening Weekend: A series of events, including the Spring Blossoms Flower Show, have been scheduled for this weekend for the opening of the 2018 season at Lyndhurst, 635 S. Broadway,...
View ArticleDecorating “The Rock” at Sleepy Hollow High School
by Julia Ann Friedman – Every year just before school starts in the fall, it is tradition that the seniors at Sleepy Hollow High School paint “the rock.” This tradition started many years ago and has...
View ArticleIrvington Activists Continue Efforts to Promote Progressive Agenda
by Barrett Seaman – They are organized. They are committed. And they are local. But, in many ways, they are emblematic of what has been happening on a national scale. Like similar political...
View ArticleHeard Around the Watercooler – April 2018
by Maria Ann Roglieri – Tarrytown’s Make-A-Wish Foundation Honors Andrew C. Quinn Andrew C. Quinn, wish dad and board member of Make-A-Wish Hudson Valley, will be honored at the annual Wish Ball on...
View ArticleContinued Vigilance Urged on Hudson Anchorage Issue
by Robert Kimmel – The Coast Guard has shelved its proposal to add 43 barge anchorage locations on the Hudson River, but environmental organizations are keeping a watchful eye on how the plan might be...
View ArticleTarrytown’s 6-6 Named “Flotilla of the Year” by Coast Guard
by Alexander Roberts – At a Change of Watch Ceremony in Ossining on March 18, Tarrytown’s Flotilla 6-6 was named “2017 Flotilla of the Year” by the U.S. Coast Guard. The honor singled out Tarrytown’s...
View ArticleThousands Attend Anti-Gun Violence Rally in White Plains
by Pascaline Comas – Arms are for hugging,” “Gun rights do not equal the right to endanger our children,” “USA or NRA?,” and “Throw them out” were some of the protest signs waved March 24 in White...
View ArticleLetters – Local Consignment
Dear Editor, I am the proprietress of a small business in Tarrytown called Trilogy Consignment. It’s a lovely place that makes me very proud. Owning a consignment shop is not only my vocation, it is a...
View ArticleLocal and International Programming Defines Irvington Town Hall Theater
Beneath a vast skylight of Tiffany snowflake glass that crowns the 116-year-old building, Irvington Town Hall Theater (ITHT) has countless stories to tell. Although the theater’s stately columns and...
View ArticleDavid Rockefeller’s Art to be Auctioned in May
For many years, David Rockefeller, along with his wife Peggy, lived surrounded by great art in their 11,343-square-foot mansion, Hudson Pines in Pocantico Hills. Peggy died in 1996, and after David...
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