On The Street

By Michael Gold Mount Pleasant recently purchased $15,000 of electric lawn equipment for its parks and pools, another step in the town’s efforts to lower carbon emissions. The leaf blowers, weed whackers and pruning chainsaws will be used primarily during

By Michael Gold Pat Selleck’s battalion, 450 men, was surrounded by more than 2,000 North Vietnamese soldiers in the central Highlands of South Vietnam, mid-November 1965. This was Ia Drang, the first major battle of the Vietnam War. Selleck, a

By Michael Gold Imagine a Westchester with more shade trees planted in town centers, reduced plastic packaging for take-out foods and other products and parking lots with permeable surfaces to absorb storm runoff. Rand Manasse and Larry O’Connell, co-presidents of

By Michael Gold Westchester and Putnam residents, and everybody in New York State, will suffer financially if Donald Trump is re-elected President in November, predicted Jay Jacobs, chair of the New York State Democratic Party, in an interview with me

By Michael Gold The Santa Express toy train hadn’t worked right in almost a year. The wheels didn’t turn. The lights didn’t go on. The train whistle didn’t whistle. The toy didn’t make the sounds a train is supposed to

By Michael Gold New York State is greatly increasing its protection of wetlands, starting this January. New regulations, proposed by the state’s Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC), will protect vernal pools and other “small wetlands of unusual importance,” possibly affecting commercial and residential

By Michael Gold If home is the place where they have to take you in, then the Emmanuel Lutheran Church of Pleasantville is the place where everyone will be welcomed when they walk in the door no matter what. “We

By Michael Gold Several teams of students at the Environmental Leaders of Color (ELOC) Summer Academy exhibited their environmental solutions at the annual summer showcase of the organization. The E-Messiah team demonstrated how to take a battery out of an

By Michael Gold Combustion-powered school buses aren’t like “The Magic School Bus” books for kids – full of the adventure of learning. In fact, they’re downright harmful to children. Diesel and gas school buses emit something called particulate emissions, in

By Michael Gold Gary Goldfinger has met a number of characters with names that sound like they’re part of a comic book gang – The Claw, Dabzilla and the Cyborg Cockroach. Disappointingly, they’re not. They’re the names of climbing routes showing how