Let me say right out the gate, the remnants of uncertainty remain over whether it’s right to be updating our readership on The Examiner’s internal story. For a good dozen or so years, I was largely quiet and believed the
Read MoreThis column first appeared in our Examiner+ email newsletter. Hey all, Let me start today with a local story I just can’t shake from my mind. Examiner Editor-in-Chief Martin Wilbur reports how a pair of northern Westchester school districts —
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This column first appeared in our Examiner+ email newsletter. It was a pretty wild night of election coverage as Democrats staved off the predicted “Red Wave” across the map but endured a black eye in a key local race with
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This column first appeared as a segment in our daily Examiner+ email newsletter. Anyone involved with civic life in Mt. Kisco almost certainly knows Mike McNamee and Mike’s wife, Bridget. Bridget and Mike McNamee are the people who shoot their
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IT’S COOL TO BE A NERD, JUST OWN IT Eric Webb loved comic books as a kid growing up outside of Albany in the 1980s and 90s. But he worried about the social implications of embracing the interest. Webb’s young
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Local Man Honored for Affordable Housing Advocacy Imagine coming of age this way: 1) It’s the civil rights era. 2) You’re a white boy. 3) You live in the deep South. 4) Your family opposes segregation. 5) Black people are
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Local Parents Deliver Love, Independence Sam Chason was just an adolescent, about 12 or 13, when a neighbor on Byram Lake Rd. in Mt. Kisco was about to ditch a ride-on mower. One person’s junk was another young man’s
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They say (and don’t ask who they are, because I’ll give you a long-winded answer) it’s important for publishers to engage readers in conversation. I was thinking on this topic Saturday afternoon when picking my older daughter up from
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Pong Records, Peekskill Apartments, Solar Energy, Staffing Local Job Market From our Examiner+ member newsletter Before I get into this week’s local news roundup, three quick interconnected Examiner sports shoutouts. First, to Examiner Sports Editor Ray Gallagher, who earned his Ripken nickname
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My Friend Deserves Your Vote; ‘Supremely’ Qualified It was more than 20 years ago, and I was at a local restaurant/bar, about to meet my wife’s (then girlfriend) old high school friends for the first time. Alyson introduced me
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