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Before the 2021 Westchester County budget is finalized, come and share your priorities for County programs and services. This year’s information is as follows: Monday, October 19 7 P.M. New Rochelle...
View ArticleJazz Forum @ Home vol. 32: Akiko Tsuruga, Joe Magnarelli & Dred Scott!
We’re live with Jazz Forum @ Home including weekly free-of-charge Facebook Live Streaming series from artists’ homes on THURSDAYS at 7 pm EDT, presented by Montefiore Health System. This Thursday, Oct...
View ArticleCOVID Update: Getting Too Close to Home
By Barrett Seaman— It’s one thing to insist that folks coming from Alaska and Nevada have to quarantine for 14 days after arriving in New York State. But telling visitors—in many cases commuters—from...
View ArticleGreenburgh Council Considers Providing Mutual Aid to Assist Village Emergency...
By Rick Pezzullo– The Greenburgh Town Board last week discussed the possibility of assisting local villages by offering mutual aid Emergency Medical Services (EMS) town-wide. Town officials said during...
View ArticleThe Wishing Wall: Well Worth the Walk
By Barrett Seaman— At first it was just a wall—a 520-feet long, 10-feet high barrier separating the vast Edge-on-Hudson construction project from the RiverWalk along the banks of the Hudson, out by the...
View ArticleEarly Voting Starts Saturday. Here’s the Deal:
By Barrett Seaman— Whether you have submitted an absentee ballot or not, you still have the option of voting in-person—either on election day, November 3rd or over the nine-day early voting period that...
View ArticleGreenburgh Offers Flu Vaccination For Early Voters
By Robert Kimmel– Those who choose to vote early at Greenburgh Town Hall will be able to get a two-fer: cast their ballots and get flu shots given outdoors. The Town has joined forces with the...
View ArticleHarckham, Astorino Vie for 40th State Senate District Seat
By Rick Pezzullo– Two former colleagues in Westchester County government will be squaring off on Election Day for the 40th State Senate District seat. Incumbent Democrat Peter Harckham is seeking a...
View ArticleCOVID Update: This time, the Pause is Good
By Barrett Seaman— The recent concerning rise in COVID infections in Westchester, combined with the flare-ups across the river and in the city, appears to have reversed itself…at least for the time...
View ArticleGreenburgh Offers Livestream Video of Voting Lines
For those hoping to avoid long lines on early voting days, there will be a live stream video camera installed at the entrance of Greenburgh Town Hall, 177 Hillside Ave. Click on the town website...
View ArticleIn His State of the County Address, Latimer Asserts That Westchester is...
By Robert Kimmel– Speaking to a small physically-distanced audience from the Board of Legislature’s chambers, Thursday night, Westchester Executive George Latimer allowed that “storm clouds still hang...
View ArticleWestminster Dog Show Comes to Lyndhurst
The 145th Annual Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show will be held at Lyndhurst on Saturday, June 12 and Sunday, June 13, 2021, with live coverage across FOX Sports networks. Due to ever-changing...
View ArticleIndy Student Intern Honored by National Scholastic Press Association
Kira Ratan, a junior at The Masters School in Dobbs Ferry and an intern for The Hudson Independent for the past year, has been honored by the National Scholastic Press Association, which, along with...
View ArticleWatch for a New Video Series on Westchester’s Role in the Revolution
Revolutionary Westchester 250 Launches Video Series Explore Westchester County’s Revolutionary War Sites Irvington, New York — October 24, 2020 Revolutionary Westchester 250 (RW250) announced today...
View ArticleIndy’s Robert Kimmel Selected for County’s Senior Citizen Hall of Fame
Robert Kimmel, a founder of The Hudson Independent and chairman emeritus of its editorial board, has been selected for induction into the Westchester County’s Senior Citizen Hall of Fame. “This year...
View ArticleHistoric Start to Early Voting
By Barrett Seaman– Undeterred by the cold and a constant drizzle, Westchester County voters turned up in droves at polling places across the county on Monday, as they had on Saturday, the start of the...
View ArticleCOVID Update: Whack-a-mole
By Barrett Seaman The tinderbox represented by the “Red Zone” hotspots in Orange, Rockland, Brooklyn and Queens did not burst into flame over the weekend, as feared. The positivity rate for what...
View ArticleOlive “Joyce” Mazzurco, 97
Olive “Joyce” Mazzurco, a resident of Tarrytown, died October 22. She was 97. She was born October 2, 1923 in Braintree Essex, England. She met and married her future husband during WWII and came to...
View ArticleEileen Fisher Employee arraigned for embezzling $390,000
By Barrett Seaman— Catherine Johnson, 56, an accounts payable manager at Irvington’s Eileen Fisher headquarters, turned herself in on Monday, October 26, and was arraigned before Judge Desmond Lyons in...
View ArticleWestchester Dinner Theatre Takes Its Final Bow
By Linda Viertel– After 46 years, The Westchester Broadway Theatre (WBT), Westchester’s longest running Equity theatre, will be closing its doors, another victim of the COVID-19 pandemic. “Over the...
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