News from The Northern Westchester Examiner, covering Yorktown Heights, Shrub Oak, Jefferson Valley, Mohegan Lake, Crompond, Ossining, Peekskill, Cortlandt, Croton, Somers, Westchester County, NY
The Yorktown Town Board held a public scoping session last week for a proposed large-scale housing project in Jefferson Valley. Yorktown Development AMS LLC is planning to construct 250 luxury, multi-family apartments and for sale townhouses on a 35.5-acre property
Read MoreThe Westchester County District Attorney’s Office, Peekskill NAACP, Peekskill Police Department and the City of Peekskill will be hosting a community gun buyback event on Sat., April 22 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the United Methodist Church located
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The company that operates the Algonquin Gas Pipeline will be paying the Town of Yorktown $1,050,000 as compensation for the three-month closure of Woodlands Legacy Fields due to a sinkhole created in December. Yorktown Supervisor Tom Diana negotiated the compensation
Read MoreElected officials and environmental activists are applying full-court pressure on Holtec International despite the company’s decision last week to postpone dumping 45,000 gallons of radioactive wastewater from Indian Point’s spent fuel rods into the Hudson River. On April 13, Holtec,
Read MoreThe Hendrick Hudson Board of Education surprisingly voted last week to postpone an expected change to the Princeton Plan structure in the district’s elementary schools. Following pleas from teachers’ union members, former board members and parents, the board decided in
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Located along the Hudson River in Peekskill, Dain’s Lumber is one of the country’s oldest retail lumberyards. Founded in 1848 by Nathaniel Dain, the company has been owned and operated by the Dain family from before the Civil War through
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A bill to equip school buses throughout Westchester County with stop arm cameras has been introduced to the Board of Legislators, which would enable fines to be levied against motorists caught on video passing stopped busess. County Executive George Latimer
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A plan to dump more than one million gallons of radioactive wastewater into the Hudson River as part of the decommissioning of the Indian Point nuclear power plants earlier than expected is being widely criticized by elected officials and environmental
Read MoreEsther St. in Peekskill will remain off limits to vehicles after the city was inundated with requests from residents to keep the short roadway between South Division St. and Brown St. permanently closed. On March 27, the Common Council was
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Erin and Jason Cohen had looked for years to find a way they could offer young athletes a year-round facility to train and be properly coached. The parents of three active boys, a 14-year-old and 12-year-old twins who play and
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