New School-Based Clinics a Potential ‘Game-Changer’ Let me start off with a not-so-little news nugget I learned last week. Within the next two to three years, there might be as many as about 80 school-based mental health clinics (run by
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Our Special Report Shows How Area People in Need ‘Fall Off a Cliff’ After High School This is the second installment in a continuing series about issues impacting local people with disabilities, and the need for improvement. By Adam Stone
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New Rochelle’s Ann Chiappetta, like most blind people, maneuvers around all manner of challenges on a daily basis that most folks likely never consider. For instance, in our digital age, just imagine what it’s like to navigate a website that
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With his best friend and sister Dollyne Bohn living hours away, in Delaware County, Pa., the 2020 pandemic year was a punishing time for our late digital editor, Robert Schork. Holed up in his Yonkers home, Robert was devastated to
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Nowadays, in her free time, you might find Mia Wheeler flashing her incredible street roller skating skills. It’s a hobby that helps divert her mind temporarily from the ghastly memories. But before she turned her life around, Wheeler had no
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The funding of political campaigns, as we already know, is heavily influenced by big money contributions, to put it mildly. In fact, here in New York, just the top 200 donors last year contributed nearly $16 million, surpassing the combined
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It was October 2013, and the opioid overdose epidemic was raging. Ardsley’s Harris Marquesano, 19, had a job interview the next day. Popular, kind and athletic, Marquesano had been diagnosed years earlier with an anxiety disorder, and later with ADHD.
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The owner of The Hangout Cafe, a local restaurant in Carmel, filed a police report last week after being the target of anti-LGBTQ hate. Friends and colleagues have taken to social media to rally to the restaurant proprietor’s support. The owner,
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The Kids are Not All Right I went into this reporting process loaded for bear. The target of my ire was homework – especially for high school students – and what seems to be the preposterous volume of after school
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