Brewster School District administrators, staff and students last week celebrated the opening of an accessible playground at C.V. Starr Intermediate School. The playground includes arching spider webs, four different colored slides, 12 swings, ninja pads, a climbing wall, sensory activity
Read MoreThe basketball court in White Plains High School’s Harry Jefferson Gymnasium was named Friday in honor of two Tigers coaches who are in the school’s Athletics Hall of Fame. A ceremony took place Dec. 13 between the White Plains boys
Read MoreRepresentatives of a proposed mixed-use development in Yorktown urged the town board last week to enable the project to move forward by including the almost 50-acre property in the Lake Osceola Overlay District. The property, known as Navajo Fields, is
Read MoreThe new year will be a new beginning for two area business advocacy organizations. As of January, the Hudson Valley Gateway Chamber of Commerce and Yorktown Chamber of Commerce will be merging under the Hudson Valley Gateway name. “We’re very
Read MoreBlue Mountain Middle School social studies teachers Sean Kelly and Michael Lynch and Hendrick Hudson High School history teacher Michael Witkowich were on the sideline as Army captured the Collegiate Sprint Football League Championship with a 21-16 victory at Shea
Read MoreA Brewster woman was arrested last week after severely injuring a dog with her vehicle and fleeing the scene. According to the Putnam County SPCA, on Dec. 2 at about 5:22 p.m., SPCA detectives responded to the Center St. area
Read MoreThe Yorktown Town Board adopted a 2025 budget last week that includes a tax increase of 6.6 percent. Town taxes represent about 10 percent of a property owner’s total tax bill. Based on calculations for the average home assessed at
Read MoreA large contingent of state and local elected officials and union leaders gathered in Montrose last week to call for increased funding for road safety improvements in next year’s state budget. During a Dec. 5 press conference at the International
Read MoreNew York State Education Department Commissioner Betty Rosa has denied a petition calling for Carmel School Trustee Jim Wise to be removed for remarks he made at a July board meeting that some view as being inherently antisemitic. In a
Read MoreTwo siblings are facing federal charges for allegedly cyberstalking and conspiring to extort victims for money by threatening to release sexually explicit videos and images. A complaint from Damian Williams, the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York,
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