On The Street

By Michael Gold I’ve enjoyed the privilege of having a three-year conversation with our community. But I now have to take my leave of you, due to some health issues that require attention. A newspaper columnist gets a great education

By Michael Gold It’s the year 2084. New York City has been abandoned by the financial industry and most other corporations. New York’s airports have closed. Columbia University has relocated to Poughkeepsie. Most other surviving institutions have left the city,

By Michael Gold This Christmas let’s give less. That’s the advice of Pastor Kevin O’Hara, of Pleasantville’s Emmanuel Lutheran Church. O’Hara says we should give less of ourselves to social media and the internet and give more of ourselves to

By Michael Gold Kendal Williams is an eighth-grader who made the varsity field hockey team at Lakeland High School, the gritty bunch who plowed through the other schools in their section and made the state finals, losing only to the

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