News from The White Plains Examiner, mostly covering the City of White Plains along with stories from communities across the southern portion of Westchester County, NY.
By Brian Kluepfel It took more than the pending arrival of Hurricane Ophelia to keep New York’s birding community away from the 2023 New York State Birder’s Conference in Tarrytown. Featuring dozens of vendors, several area bird walks and lectures
Read MoreThe long-awaited redevelopment plans for the former Galleria shopping mall site in downtown White Plains were unveiled last week. The estimated $2.5 billion open space, mixed-use residential and retail project, called The District Galleria, was jointly announced by Pacific Retail
Read MoreWhen White Plains Councilwoman Jennifer Puja kicked off a backpack drive this summer to benefit students in the city, her goal was to collect 100 backpacks. However, Puja’s grassroots effort grew quickly as neighbors, friends and family members turned out
Read MoreBy Ary Hammerman As the 22nd anniversary of the September 11 attacks approaches, Westchester residents will once again have the chance to turn the tragic events of that day to help others in their community. Last week Westchester County Executive
Read MoreAs a teenager, Daniel Smith started drinking and taking drugs, as he described it, to help him deal with the problems and obstacles he faced in life. In three years, he attended six different high schools, kicked out of school
Read MoreBy Ary Hammerman Since the late 1980s, saxophonist Mike Phillips has played music in Westchester, his home county. He grew up surrounded by jazz at Mount Vernon High School and went on to perform with Prince, Stevie Wonder and Micheal
Read MoreA new law to limit the use of plastic utensils and other items associated with food establishments will go into effect this weekend in Westchester to reduce the county’s volume of waste. Starting this Saturday, all food service establishments can
Read MoreWestchester County Executive George Latimer emphatically asserted that there has been no crime or unbudgeted expenses stemming from the roughly 400 migrants that were taken in by the county from New York City this spring. During his weekly briefing Monday
Read MoreSusan Adams, a legendary coach who led the White Plains High School girls’ basketball team to four consecutive Section 1 championships from 2004 to 2008, died Aug. 24 at White Plains Hospital surrounded by family following a yearlong battle with
Read MoreA White Plains resident is one of two Westchester college students that have been named to American Jewish Committee’s (AJC) Campus Global Board, which is dedicated to empowering Jewish campus leaders as they confront increased antisemitic and anti-Zionist sentiment at
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