By Nora Lowe On Friday, New Castle observed National Gun Violence Awareness Day at the gazebo in downtown Chappaqua. This year’s annual “Wear Orange” event was held against the backdrop of the shooting in Uvalde, Texas that claimed the lives
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It’s understandable why Horace Greeley High School senior Alexandra McCarthy cares so much about inclusion. For that matter, so does her entire family. McCarthy’s older brother, Brady, has Down syndrome, but that didn’t stop him from becoming the school’s first
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It was quite fortuitous that the New Castle Historical Society was able to come up with the idea for its latest exhibit that opens this weekend at the Horace Greeley House in Chappaqua. Its new president, Georgia Frasch, said the
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By Martin Wilbur and Nora Lowe Bedford School District voters gave their approval Tuesday night to more than $62 million in borrowing for major infrastructure repairs, new learning spaces at Fox Lane High School and improved athletic facilities. The two
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Like many school districts throughout the region, there is plenty of interest in this year’s Board of Education election in Chappaqua. Six candidates submitted petitions last month to run for two seats that carry the full three-year term and another
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Frank Shiner didn’t hesitate to help his former priest at Saint John and Saint Mary in Chappaqua after he learned he had started a school in Newburgh for disadvantaged children. The singer and actor who had put his music career
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New Castle officials have been given an approximate starting time for when Westchester County will begin construction of its sewage diversion project along Hunts Lane, but those in the area should prepare for two years of headaches. Town Administrator Jill
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Regina Velasco and Sara Asa are among many in their age group who are distressed at the potential consequences of climate change in the years and decades ahead. Instead of just talking about it or getting frustrated, the pair of
Read MoreThere will be highly competitive Board of Education elections next month in several local districts reversing a bit of a recent trend of uncontested races. The changing of the guard will continue in the Bedford Central School District as all
Read MoreThere was no explanation of what may have triggered the sudden resignations of two Chappaqua Library Board of Trustees members last week. The names of two members of the five-member board, Vice President Lane Shea and Trustee Nishat Hydari, disappeared
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