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A 28-year-old Yorktown Highway Department employee died Wednesday from injuries suffered when he was hit by a car while working on a drainage project on London Rd. Jake Arcara, a four-year town employee, was working as a flagger near the
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The Mohegan Volunteer Fire Association will be celebrating 100 years of service to the community with a parade to honor the fire department on Saturday, Sept. 17. The parade, which is being held in conjunction with the 116th Annual Westchester
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A 48-year-old Peekskill man died Wednesday from stab wounds following an altercation at 7 North James St. According to Peekskill Police, officers responded to the scene at approximately 12:25 a.m. and immediately provided medical assistance to Edward Reeves, who was
Read MoreTeed off Yorktown officials are using all the clubs in their regulatory bags to pressure the operator of a new Par 3 golf course in Jefferson Valley. During a meeting Tuesday, the Yorktown Town Board passed a resolution to terminate
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This is a partial excerpt of a piece published first in our Examiner+ email newsletter. The state’s largest electric school bus company will be moving to the abandoned site of a former Yorktown car dealership to provide new buses, maintenance
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Hundreds of residents attended a vigil at Nelson Park in Ossining last Wednesday to mourn a 22-year-old village man who died in a motorcycle crash Aug. 28. Kasheem Trotter was pronounced dead at the scene on the night of
Read MoreA public forum on the Lakeland School District’s plans to perform $57 million in capital projects is scheduled to be held Thursday, Sept. 8 at 6:30 p.m. at Lakeland High School. The meeting, which is advertised as a question-and-answer session
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The deadline for the Town of Cortlandt to make its case to New York State for millions of dollars in grant money is less than a month away. Cortlandt has until Sept. 25 to submit an application for the Downtown
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Fresh mozzarella, prosciutto and cannoli were flying off the shelves Friday as hundreds celebrated the opening of the new location of Uncle Giuseppe’s Marketplace in downtown Yorktown. Uncle Giuseppe’s Marketplace, an Italian American specialty grocer founded in 1998 in East
Read MoreThe Westchester County Industrial Development Agency (IDA) recently voted preliminary approval of financial incentives for the redevelopment of a vacant car dealership on Route 202 in Yorktown into a 16,000-square-foot school bus storage facility. The 2.7-acre property, which had been
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