New Owner to Propose Using Villa Lewaro as a Training Center for...
by Barrett Seaman – The actual sale of Irvington’s Villa Lewaro, home more than a century ago to Madam C. J. Walker, the black entrepreneur who made a fortune selling skin and hair care products to...
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View ArticleNew Parking Spaces Available—and Just in Time!
By Barrett Seaman Just as the holiday shopping season is coming to a peak, Tarrytown Village Administrator Richard Slingerland announced that 35 additional parking spaces were available. Following...
View ArticleBridge Officials Refute Reports That Mario Cuomo Bridge Is Endangered By...
By Barrett Seaman NBC New York’s Jonathan Dienst and members of the station’s I-Team have thrown a possible wrench into the gears of the nearly complete Mario Cuomo Bridge construction. The local NBC...
View ArticleNew Owner Outlines Plans for Irvington’s Villa Lewaro
by Barrett Seaman – Most applicants for non-traditional uses of prominent properties in Irvington can expect to be greeted by skeptical regulators and nervous neighbors worried about disruption of...
View ArticleNew Team Named to Monitor Tarrytown’s Comprehensive Plan
by Robert Kimmel – Tarrytown’s new Comprehensive Plan will have a team of dedicated residents monitoring its successful implementation over the coming years. Eight persons were appointed last month by...
View ArticleIt’s Official: Juniper and Bread & Brine Have Merged to Create a Seafood...
Food for Thought by Linda Viertel – For those of us who have missed Chef Alex Sze’s inventive cooking at Juniper in Hastings (both locations), customers can now experience his culinary skills at the...
View ArticlePleasantville’s Village Bookstore Under New Management
by Linda Viertel – Inveterate booksellers, Roy Solomon and Yvonne vanCort, owners of Pleasantville’s iconic Village Bookstore, have handed the reins to Jennifer Kohn who took over on December 8. After...
View ArticleIrvington Girls Basketball Coach Maher Notches 700th Career Win
by Tom Pedulla – Gina Maher recently reached an extraordinary milestone when she earned her 700th victory at Irvington, an unprecedented total for a New York State Athletic Association girls...
View ArticleIrvington Theater to Bring Acclaimed New York City Comics to Westchester
by Mitchell Bard – New York City is a comedy hot spot. Every day, 365 days a year, you can find talented performers — from grizzled veterans to up-and-coming youngsters — plying their trade in the...
View ArticleMayor Wray to Seek Sixth Term in Sleepy Hollow
by Robert Kimmel – Mayor Ken Wray, along with a trio of incumbent trustees, will be pursuing a return to their posts in Sleepy Hollow’s March election. The mayor and the trustees, Glenn Rosenbloom,...
View Article6th Annual Winter Blues Rocks The Music Hall
On Saturday, January 5, the Tarrytown Music Hall once again becomes a serious scene by welcoming the 6th annual Winter Blues concert. Produced by the Sleepy Hollow Performing Arts Boosters, this year’s...
View ArticleCommunity Voices Heard Concert Fundraiser at Jazz Forum: January 31
Increased political activism in the lower Hudson Valley has resulted in activists from different communities working together to support a wide range of initiatives. Community Voices Heard (CVH)’s...
View ArticleState Grant Aids East Parcel
by Robert Kimmel – The development of the East Parcel, a 29-acre segment of the former GM assembly plant off Sleepy Hollow’s waterfront, into a Commons for the village, received a hefty financial...
View ArticleDate and Time Set for TZ Detonation
By Barrett Seaman On Friday, TZ Constructors, the builders of the new Mario Cuomo Bridge and simultaneous dismantlers of the old Tappan Zee Bridge, alerted local officials that they plan to set off an...
View ArticleIndy Talks interviews Andrea Stewart-Cousins
Indy Talks, the Hudson Independent’s monthly cable TV interview show this month features Andrea Stewart-Cousins, the new majority leader of the New York State Senate and arguably one of the three most...
View ArticleNew Date Set for Bridge Demolition
TZ Constructors, the folks responsible for both the construction of the Mario Cuomo Bridge and the destruction of the old Tappan Zee Bridge, just announced that they will try again to blow up the...
View ArticleJan. 15 Plans for Bridge Demolition and Traffic Diversion Outlined
Following Friday’s announcement of plans to close the Mario Cuomo Bridge to traffic in both directions on Tuesday morning, Tappan Zee Constructors has issued details of what roads and access points...
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