Form-Based Code critics repeatedly told New Castle officials last week that the town’s consultants’ responses in the draft Final Generic Environmental Impact Statement (FGEIS) failed to address many of the public’s key questions and comments. Opponents of the effort continually
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Opponents of New Castle’s proposed Form-Based Code for downtown Chappaqua continued to express skepticism over assumptions and responses from the town’s consultants last week, this time mainly concerning traffic and developers’ return-on-investment projections. Two more sections of the consultants’ responses
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Like millions of other high school seniors through the generations, Rebecca Bachenheimer was looking forward to life as a college student. She made it through the balance of her junior year at the outset of the pandemic and was excited
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The smoldering controversy over the Form-Based Code in Chappaqua erupted again last week after two residents called for Councilwoman Lauren Levin to recuse herself because they believe she would benefit from a proposed revision. Last Monday’s New Castle Town Board
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A Yonkers man who paid a Chappaqua School District employee more than $5,000 in bribes and kickbacks faces five to 15 years in state prison after being found guilty of two felony counts last week. Ricardo Jimenez, 57, was convicted
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If you’re still leery of going to a large gym due to COVID-19 or just want more privacy or personal instruction, there’s a new fitness center in the area to try. Sam Gomes is opening G-Fit Training & Health Solutions
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by Grace Bennett I had come home from a lunch date with a friend to learn that Gov. Cuomo resigned. I remain beset, to be perfectly honest, with competing feelings of relief but also with a “better-the-devil- you-know” feeling swirling
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Over the past year, New Castle residents and stakeholders – including the Planning Board and Board of Education – have made hundreds of public comments on an environmental study draft of the proposed Form Based Code that has the potential to
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On the evening of Aug. 11, Dr. John A. Scrocca of Chappaqua died after fighting a courageous battle with cancer. He was 78. Scrocca was born May 1, 1943, in the Bronx to John C. Scrocca and Stefania “Stella” (Goralczyk). He
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The New Castle Town Board will consider reprising a mask mandate for the town as COVID-19 cases fueled by the Delta variant continue to multiply throughout Westchester County. Councilwoman Lori Morton raised the possibility last week of crafting legislation that
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