Dangers of Potholes Should Be Addressed
To the Editor: Many NYS roads continue to be full of potholes and in desperate need of repaving. Unfortunately, NYS does not have adequate funds to repave roads in a timely manner or to promptly repair...
View ArticleHonoring Veterans
World War II veteran and Pearl Harbor survivor Armando “Chick” Galella (right), 98, a resident of Sleepy Hollow, helped honor veterans from North Tarrytown/Sleepy Hollow September 8 at the Morse...
View ArticleTown Hall Meeting at Warner Library Focuses on “Revisiting the Founding Era”
by Robert Kimmel – The issues which confronted America during its earliest years and how they continue to resonate in our lives today will be the subjects of “Revisiting the Founding Era,” a Town...
View ArticleTarrytown Purchases Parking Spaces at Former Citibank Lot
by Robert Kimmel – Recent negotiations with Citibank have resolved Tarrytown’s quest to purchase, for metered public use, approximately half of the parking lot space adjacent to the bank’s long-vacant...
View ArticleDobbs Ferry Football Program Reloads with New Coach Cox
by Tom Pedulla – “We Reload.” The slogan on the backs of the practice jerseys worn by Dobbs Ferry High School football players says everything about the hopes, expectations and pressure that annually...
View ArticleIrvington Theater to Host Award-Winning Play by Local Playwright Richard...
The Irvington Theater will host a special performance of the play A Two Hundred Dollar Rhinoceros by local playwright Richard Lobel on Sunday, October 6th at 4:00 p.m. The play was originally...
View ArticleLocal Couple Starts Innovative Theatre Company
by Susan Tolchin – He is an accomplished tap dancer and stage actor who performed at Lincoln Center, The Kennedy Center and in various Off Broadway productions before turning to arts and...
View ArticleTryouts for TCBL Travel Teams Announced
TNT Basketball presents Tri-County League Basketball (TCBL) for the 2019-20 season. Basketball is a competitive league for more skilled players. Games are scheduled around the county. TNT Basketball...
View ArticleSleepy Hollow International Film Festival Debuts October 10-13
Celebrating “outstanding genre cinema in the historic cradle of the American supernatural,” the first annual Sleepy Hollow International Film Festival (SHIFF) will happily haunt the rivertowns October...
View ArticleHow the Headstone of the Son of a Revolutionary War Hero was Returned to its...
A Sleepy Hollow Homecoming by Dana White – This fall, scores of Halloween tourists will descend on the Old Dutch Burying Ground and Sleepy Hollow Cemetery. While Washington Irving’s Headless Horseman...
View ArticleW@tercooler
Heard around the W@tercooler by Maria Ann Roglieri – Local National Merit Scholarship Semifinalists Congratulations to the following students for outstanding performance on the PSAT’s which made them...
View ArticleThe Great Jack O’Lantern Blaze Back for Record 49 Nights
by Rick Pezzullo – Halloween is just around the corner, and for the last 15 years The Great Jack O’Lantern Blaze at Van Cortlandt Manor in Croton-on-Hudson has wowed hundreds of thousands of visitors....
View ArticleFor the Area’s Latin Communities, It’s Not Halloween That Counts
by Barrett Seaman – While most kids and their families in the area, as well as costume stores and supermarkets, will be spending this month preparing for Halloween, the big event that falls each year...
View ArticleDr. Gregg Semenza, Sleepy Hollow High Grad, Wins Nobel Prize
Dr. Gregg L. Semenza, a 1974 graduate of Sleepy Hollow High School, was one of three researchers awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for their groundbreaking work on how cells sense and...
View ArticleWomen Take Action at Irvington Theater October 18
by James Miranda – The Irvington Theater (IT) Commission will host its first 2019-20 Diversity Series event on Friday, October 18 at 7:30 p.m. The event, “Women Take Action: An Evening About Women...
View ArticleThanks to Community for Supporting Dobbs Ferry Library
To the Editor: On behalf of the board of the Friends of the Dobbs Ferry Library, I would like to extend a huge “thank you” to our local community for its generosity and support in ensuring that our...
View ArticleLocal Doulas Working to Keep Women Safe During Childbirth
by Katherine Cain – Amidst a still rising maternal mortality rate that has more than doubled from 1991 to 2014, there is a growing need to tackle the issue and keep mothers healthy and safe during...
View ArticleNew Tulip Tree Honors Tarrytown’s Patriots
By Barrett Seaman For more than two centuries, the giant Tulip Poplar provided shade for visitors to Tarrytown’s Patriot Park. It was there that in 1780, colonial militiamen captured British Major John...
View ArticleCongresswoman Lowey Will Not Seek Reelection in 2020
By Rick Pezzullo Congresswoman Nita M. Lowey (D-NY17/Westchester and Rockland) announced Thursday that she will not seek reelection next year. Lowey, 82, chairwoman of the House Appropriations...
View ArticleSleepy Hollow Craft and Street Fair Draws Thousands
Thousands of people, from near and far, attended Sleepy Hollow’s 23rd annual Craft and Street Fair on Beekman Avenue on Saturday, October 12. Sleepy Hollow Mayor Ken Wray said it was by far the largest...
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