Indy Talks with Lee Kennedy, U.S. Flag Historian and Collector
He’s spent half a century collecting flags–American flags, from the Revolution through Ft. McHenry on to the Civil War and beyond. Hear and see what Sleepy Hollow’s Lee Kennedy knows about the...
View ArticlePlanned ICE Raids Discredited By Congresswoman Lowey
by Robert Kimmel Congresswoman Nita Lowey takes a dim view of the Immigration and Customs Enforcement, (ICE,) nationwide raids scheduled to begin this weekend to apprehend and deport undocumented...
View ArticleStone Barns’ James Ford Dead at 53
The following was posted yesterday on the web site of Pocantico Hills’ Stone Barns Center for Food & Agriculture, one of the nation’s leading exemplars of farm-to-table gastronomy and sustainable...
View ArticleTwo Irvington High Seniors Create an On-Line Legacy Linked to Scenic Hudson Park
by Barrett Seaman – All around the smooth, silent stones that lie beneath young trees in Irvington’s Scenic Hudson Park, children play, mothers push strollers, basketballs thump on the Bobby Speisman...
View ArticleIrvington, Tarrytown Residents Among Westchester Villages to Get New Garbage App
By Barrett Seaman Now, Irvington and Tarrytown residents can manage even their garbage and recycling on their home computers or cell phones. The respective village DPW departments, working in...
View ArticleCounty Launches Online Mental Health Service List and Map
By Barrett Seaman Westchester County has just unveiled a new internet-based service that provides easily-accessible information on where to find help when behavioral health problems arise. The...
View ArticleTuesday Deadline For Written Public Comment on Sleepy Hollow’s Waterfront...
Along with its more sweeping Comprehensive Plan, the Village of Sleepy Hollow is finalizing a Local Waterfront Revitalization Plan (LWRP) that, in its present form, includes a proposal to build a...
View ArticleStewart-Cousins to Lead the Democrats’ Efforts to Take Back State Legislatures
By Barrett Seaman If you can make it in New York, the saying goes, you can make it anywhere. That appears to be the reasoning of the Democratic Party’s Legislative Campaign Committee in their choice of...
View ArticleLetters: Thanks for Keeping Politics Out of Medical Exam Room
To the Editor: I write in praise of our New York State government leaders. Where other states pass laws that force women to endure unnecessary pelvic exams (Missouri) and government-forced pregnancy...
View ArticleLetters: An Open Letter on Campaign Finance Reform to Senator Harckham:
Congratulations on surviving your first session as our state senator! The new Democratic majority in the State Senate built an impressive record of success in the pursuit of long overdue reform in...
View ArticleInquiring Photographer: “How Do You Try to Beat the Summer Heat?”
by Alexa Brandenberg Scott Klami Tarrytown “Eat watermelon, jump in the pool, and AC.” Patrick Leavy Sleepy Hollow “Iced Coffee.” Stephen Sciame Works in Tarrytown and Sleepy Hollow “I work outdoors...
View ArticleCelebrating “The Legend” Bicentennial: What Washington Irving Means to Me
by Maureen Petry, Director, Warner Library As a young child, I went on a class trip to Washington Irving’s home Sunnyside. We were shown the 1922 black and white film The Headless Horseman: The Legend...
View ArticleUnsong Heros: In Time of Need, TVAC is There in a Flash
by Tom Pedulla – When Alaric Young was asked to describe the satisfaction he derives from being a member of the Tarrytown Volunteer Ambulance Corps (TVAC) for more than 25 years, he told of a woman...
View ArticleOne-Stop Shopping on Tap in Dobbs Ferry for Craft Beer and Gourmet Coffee...
by W.B. King – Gourmet coffee and craft beer aficionados will have more reasons to celebrate when the soon-to-be-launched collaboration between Coffee Labs Roasters and Climbing Wolf Craft Beer Bar...
View ArticleObituaries – June & July 2019
Theodorus Verheven, 84 Theodorus “Teddy” A. Verheven, who lived most of his life in Tarrytown, died June 27. He was 84. Born in the Netherlands, during WWII his father was drafted into the military and...
View ArticleDexter’s Den Delivers Divine – Hamburgers – and More
Food For Thought by Linda Viertel – Feliciano has, herself, designed an inviting, fresh, and welcoming spot in which to enjoy her unique creations, located in the space formerly occupied by Wolfert’s...
View ArticleFrench Students in Cultural Heritage Exchange Engage in Archival Work at...
by Linda Viertel – French students, in cooperation with the French Heritage Society, have been learning about American cultural heritage at the Lyndhurst Estate in Tarrytown this summer. The exchange...
View ArticleSleepy Hollow Receives $375,000 Grant from State DEC
by Rick Pezzullo – The New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) has awarded the Village of Sleepy Hollow a $375,000 grant, which is provided by funding though the New York State...
View ArticleDobbs Ferry Players Look to Build Chemistry in Summer League
by Tom Pedulla – Call it the Dobbs Ferry difference. While other teams wore T-shirts showing they are part of the East Coast Panthers Summer League at Masters School, Dobbs Ferry sported uniform tops...
View ArticleInterim SH High Athletic Director Looks to Revive Sports Programs
by Tom Pedulla – Michael Gulino, who became the interim athletic director at Sleepy Hollow High School on July 1, is thinking big while admitting he has relatively little time to revive some of the...
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