News from The Examiner, covering Armonk-North Castle, Briarcliff, Chappaqua-New Castle, Mount Kisco, Mount Pleasant, Pleasantville, Westchester County, NY.
Some of the top young table tennis players in the world made their way to Westchester last week in one of the sport’s premiere events for youth competitors. The Westchester Table Tennis Center in Pleasantville for the first time hosted
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A familiar face in local government has a new job with Westchester County. On Monday, Deputy County Executive Ken Jenkins announced that former Mount Kisco mayor Gina Picinich has been appointed deputy commissioner of human resources. Picinch, who completed six
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A prominent Pleasantville resident and business owner was seriously injured at the dangerous Saw Mill River Parkway-Grant Street intersection recently, once again prompting angry community members to call for safety improvements at the location. Freya Martens, the co-owner of Soul
Read MoreThe principal partner for the Summit Club in Armonk told North Castle officials he intends to ask the town for 88 luxury condominium units in what would be an additional phase of the project. The surprise remarks from Jeffrey Mendell
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The rush of being on stage and feeling the excitement of the audience appreciating your work may be the greatest satisfaction a musician can receive. While Carlo Capano has certainly experienced that during his career, it has been the nearly
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By Anna Carpinelli After 44 years of teaching music at Horace Greeley High School, Dr. Raymond Lucia is putting down his baton this week. Since learning of an open position at the Chappaqua school in The New York Times ad
Read MoreThe Mount Kisco Zoning Board of Appeals (ZBA) determined in an interpretation last week that a proposed Battery Energy Storage System (BESS) does not meet the standards to operate in the village. Despite pleas by the attorney for applicant New
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The largest organization that serves the developmentally disabled community in Westchester County has begun the next phase of improvements to its facility and grounds at one of its day centers. Representatives of The Arc Westchester celebrated the recent groundbreaking for
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A development team has floated a preliminary plan to build 34 rental units on the site of a former church in Valhalla, but will first need a zoning amendment before being able to move forward. The proposal, pitched last week to
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There couldn’t have been a more appropriate place for the family, friends and neighbors of Jon Lieb to be last Saturday. Many of the people who knew the public relations professional and sports enthusiast, were on the softball diamonds at
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