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 is seeking permission from New York State officials to paint a unity mural at the site where hate speech was discovered earlier this month. On Tuesday, the Town Board adopted a “Hate Has No Home” resolution
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The Town of Yorktown will be spending $1.2 million to renovate the Albert A. Capellini Community & Culture Center and Yorktown Stage in downtown Yorktown Heights. Improvements at the complex will include a new roof, new air conditioning and heating
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An Ossining deli owner was found guilty recently by a jury after a two-week trial of sexually abusing an employee in 2021. Patrick Patierno, 54, of Yorktown, could face up to seven years in state prison when he is scheduled
Read MoreSeveral area school superintendents addressed the mass shooting at a Texas elementary school in messages to their communities. Top officials in the Lakeland, Hendrick Hudson, Peekskill and Croton-Harmon school districts all ensured parents and families there would be increased police
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By Nora Lowe Brian Russell, Hendrick Hudson High School Class of 1968, was killed in the Vietnam War. Now, two of his high school classmates Bruce Fulgum (1967) and Guy Van Benschoten (1970), are embarking on a project to make
Read More“Hate speech” discovered Saturday on the northbound overpass on the Taconic State Parkway on Croton Dam Road in Yorktown is being investigated by law enforcement agencies. Yorktown Police were notified of the incident Saturday and covered the reported racist comments
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Before local residents take off for the long Memorial Day weekend, Victor Massick is hoping community members will stop by the Hendrick Hudson Free Library in Montrose on Thursday for what he believes is a film that Americans should experience.
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An interfaith prayer gathering and vigil attracted about 50 Yorktown and Somers residents and clergy members late Sunday afternoon to remember the victims of the May 14 mass shooting at a Buffalo supermarket. The event, held outside the First Presbyterian
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The Village of Ossining has issued a request for proposal (RFP) from a qualified developer for the adaptive reuse of a National Register-listed historic building built in 1908, which sits on a village-owned parcel located at 200 Main Street. Located
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Calling it “a sham” and politically motivated, Yorktown Supervisor Matt Slater has vowed to vigorously defend the town against a lawsuit recently filed over the implementation of an Overlay Zoning District in downtown Yorktown Heights. “Here we go again,” Slater
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