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
Read MoreMy 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
Read MoreMembership Program Launches After 30 months of tweaking, fiddling, and ultimately fundamental change, we’ve finally arrived at a place I can foresee (generally speaking) as our new normal. The Examiner has always been a fun but bumpy ride with many
Read MoreThe 16-year-old young man stepped up to bat four years ago, knowing only swings and misses in his baseball career. Almost every spring and fall Saturday for a decade, since he was seven, he’d failed to make contact. After 10
Read MoreIt was two decades ago, in late 2000, and I was 22 years old, seated in my goofy ill-sized suit in the corner office of a Head Honcho at The Journal News, interviewing for a position as a reporter. Growing
Read MoreOne bleary-eyed night in the bleary-eyed year that was 2020, I was poking around Facebook trying to determine how to get our Examiner Media business page verified. One link led to another until, somehow, my journey through a late-night rabbit
Read MoreI don’t know about you, but doubts regularly creep into my mind over my own views. If my bent is slightly different today than when I was younger and different from the shape it’ll take in older age, how much
Read MoreClaire was a young woman in love, with her whole life in front of her, a life with her handsome fiancé, her future husband, and presumably their future children. But then it happened. The unthinkable happened. Her fiancé Carl (Karoly
Read MoreThe youth softball player cuts the shape of a young pro, strutting to the on-deck circle with quiet confidence, twirling her bat for fun with the ease and dexterity of a baton artist. She unleashes a series of fierce and fluid practice swings. Sporting
Read More(Editor’s Note: Subscribe to Examiner+ to join and support our community: https://www.examiner-plus.com/subscribe) Inside the suffocatingly crowded work session meeting room in Peekskill City Hall, a fellow weekly newspaper reporter plops down next to me on the comfortless seat where my
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