North Castle residents raised deep concerns last week over the cost of buying an acclaimed law firm’s building and converting it into a new municipal headquarters as well as potential redevelopment of the current Town Hall parcel. Many of the
Read MoreFor 70 years, a private gun club has been nestled in a wooded area on 86 acres in Mahopac, bordering the Town of Somers. The sounds of gunfire from experienced and novice sharpshooters taking aim at stationary targets at the
Read MoreProtecting Pedestrians on Village Streets Pedestrian safety has always been a key concern for Pleasantville – a community that prides itself on being a walking village. On Monday, the Pleasantville Pedestrian Committee presented its quarterly report citing two problem areas
Read MoreBy Joseph Dunnigan In an effort to help foster trust, Pleasantville Police Chief Erik Grutzner and Village Trustee Paul Alvarez held a public discussion over Zoom on Feb. 6 about the local police department’s role in immigration matters. The conversation
Read MoreAlice E. Roker, a local trailblazer who became the first African-American elected to local office in Yorktown’s history, has passed away, an advisory last night from the Yorktown Democratic Committee announced. She was 77. Roker passed away Monday afternoon at
Read MoreBy Abby Luby After a quarter century of serving several Westchester communities with original, local TV programs, PCTV is closing its Pleasantville-based cable station, headquartered on Lake St. The not-for-profit organization will no longer produce shows after May of this
Read MoreBy Larry Epstein As federal immigration enforcement ramps up, fear is gripping immigrant communities across Westchester. Director of Legal Services at Neighbors Link Community Law Practice Karin Anderson Ponzer knows better than most. “People are terrified,” Anderson Ponzer observed. “They
Read MoreNorth Castle officials agreed to open a public hearing next month on acquiring the property and building that has housed a high-powered law firm in downtown Armonk to serve as the next Town Hall. The hearing on buying the building
Read MoreLast November, after weeks of drought, more than 130 brushfires in Westchester had county officials and residents on high alert. That same month a wildfire in Jennings Creek in Orange County burned over 3,500 acres; weeks before that, dozens of emergency
Read MoreA formal request to amend the zoning for property just outside the Valhalla business hamlet was submitted last week to the Town of Mount Pleasant. The 0.89-acre parcel at 75 N. Kensico Ave. could be the future site of a
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