I am 14 years old and I attend Pleasantville Middle School. Pleasantville is a walking school district and doesn’t provide busing for students. Because of this, a lot of students walk to school. Pleasantville is mostly safe to walk, but
Read MoreYou can’t have it both ways. You can’t have a beautiful, family-friendly town and an industrial city at the same time. And that, unfortunately, is where Yorktown is headed. You can’t just allow developers to cut down thousands of trees, pave over
Read MoreBy Ben Gurwitch The Hudson Valley Box Lacrosse League continues to expand. Now in year three, the league is primed for its most successful summer yet. We sat down with Coach Bryan O’Gorman to discuss the league and its future.
Read MoreAdam Stone, Examiner Media’s publisher, pictured here with Joe Berger, president of the Silurians Press Club, at the club’s 79th Annual Journalism Awards on June 12 at the National Arts Club in Manhattan. Stone was honored with a Merit Award for
Read MoreBy Michael Malone It was 30 years ago that a novel about a serial killer in late 1800s Manhattan landed. “The Alienist” told the story of Dr. Laszlo Kreizler, a child psychologist, or “alienist,” in the parlance of the times, teaming
Read MoreYorktown Boys’ Lacrosse: Coach Tim Schurr’s 2024 Cornhuskers (15-6) repeated and won the program’s 42nd Section 1 title before falling, 10-8, in the NYSPHSAA Class B semifinals to eventual state champion South Side, falling one win short of challenging for
Read MoreBy Brian Kluepfel Need some summer movie recommendations? The following are not blockbusters on the scale of “Rio,” but are great portraits in social realism – and naturally, a bird is at the center of both films. Pull up a bowl
Read MoreBy Dayna Heller Spanko It’s disappointing but predictable that the Democratic primary race for New York’s 16th Congressional District between incumbent Rep. Jamaal Bowman and his challenger, Westchester County Executive George Latimer, is mired in the same misinformation and divisive
Read MoreBy Robert Kirkwood Volunteerism is one of the critical underpinnings to our self-governing model. Our community is diminished if we fail to recognize and celebrate the critical contribution of volunteers in our community. Two New Castle Planning Board members recently
Read MoreBy Bill Primavera There are lots of synonyms for the word stale, and none of them are pretty. Cliche, stereotyped, tired, hackneyed, trite, boring, commonplace, shopworn. Do these descriptors spell a living environment that you’ve known or experienced? By comparison,
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