Latest local news about COVID-19
Westchester County Executive George Latimer expressed a high degree of confidence Wednesday that the local region will enter the second phase of the reopening process next week as COVID-19 hospitalizations and deaths continue to dwindle. Based on the two-week spacing
Read MoreState Sen. Peter Harckham (D-Lewisboro) proposed legislation Tuesday to extend the voting period for this year’s school board and budget votes until June 16 because paper ballots for at least 30 districts have been delayed in arriving. A Buffalo area
Read MoreWestchester County named more than two dozen people affiliated in a wide range of services and industries to a newly-constituted Reopening Task Force on Monday hoping to help businesses successfully transition back into operation. Led by County Legislator Catherine Parker
Read MoreIf you’re entering a store or place of business anywhere in New York State, it will now be a requirement to wear a mask. Gov. Andrew Cuomo said Thursday he is signing an executive order that would allow a shopkeeper
Read MoreBy Marion M. Walsh As Mental Health Awareness month ends this weekend, let us remember Tiffany Kingwood and other sensitive souls. Ms. Kingwood was 37 years old. On October 18, 2019, she drove her car into the Hudson in Verplanck
Read MoreOne by one, towns across the area have been canceling summer camps. Last week, Greenburgh, Mount Pleasant, Yorktown and Cortlandt joined several other local municipalities that had already made that decision earlier in the month. It’s a near certainty that
Read MoreTuesday’s Phase I reopening of the local economy comes with a hefty list of responsibilities for business owners in order to prevent an uptick in COVID-19 infections and a delay in the gradual expansion of commerce. The reopening’s first phase
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Dear Readers, It was St. Patrick’s Day, my sister’s birthday, and, as a result of the simmering COVID-19 crisis, my dad and I had just regretfully canceled plans for all of us to visit my grandmother on Long Island to
Read MoreNew Castle resident Sam Baughn ordered some Domino’s Pizza for dinner last month but was disappointed when the order wasn’t delivered. He decided to turn a negative into a positive by challenging Domino’s to make it up to him by providing a
Read MoreWestchester and Putnam counties are on target for a Phase I reopening sometime next week provided COVID-19-related deaths continue to fall and contact tracers are in place, Gov. Andrew Cuomo said Friday morning. The Mid-Hudson region, in which the two
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