Mount Pleasant officials on Wednesday demanded that New York State close JCCA’s Westchester campus after an escalating number of serious police calls have raised safety concerns for youth, staff and local residents. Supervisor Carl Fulgenzi and Police Chief Paul Oliva
Read MoreThe Town of Mount Pleasant is exploring the potential of entering into a public-private partnership to build a roughly 20-unit apartment building for seniors on a small piece of land behind the community center in Valhalla. Supervisor Carl Fulgenzi said
Read MoreThe Mount Pleasant Democratic Committee charged last week that the current town administration has permitted out-of-control development threatening the town environmentally and angering a broad swath of residents. The committee adopted a resolution at its last meeting on Mar. 22
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Westchester County police took three teenage suspects into custody last Wednesday night on the Taconic State Parkway after the vehicle they were traveling in had been reported stolen in Yonkers a short time earlier. Patrol officers stopped a 2009 Acura
Read MoreOpponents of a controversial 31-lot cluster subdivision proposal in an environmentally sensitive area near Pocantico Lake harshly criticized the applicant’s Draft Environmental Impact Statement (DEIS) as defective and failing to offer a viable alternative. More than two dozen speakers lined
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Investigators from the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OHSA) continue to probe the cause of last Friday’s crane collapse at the site of what will be the new Amazon warehouse on Route 9A in Hawthorne. Two construction workers were critically
Read MoreLuxury homebuilder Toll Brothers has agreed that a 162-unit townhouse project at the Legion of Christ property in Thornwood would be an age-restricted project and that all full-time residents must be over 18 years old. The arrangement with the Town
Read MoreMount Pleasant officials are weighing a new local law that would impose harsher penalties against retail establishments that sell cannabis products in town after two convenience stores were recently caught violating the law. On Mar. 14, the Town Board will
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Mount Pleasant Supervisor Carl Fulgenzi and Councilwoman Danielle Zaino are running for re-election later this year but Councilman Jerry Schulman has decided to bow out and forego seeking re-election. Fulgenzi, who has served as supervisor since 2014, will be challenged
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Congressman Mike Lawler (R-Pearl River) blasted Gov. Kathy Hochul for preparing to press forward with her proposed housing plan that he and other officials have charged would irreparably damage many of the region’s communities. Joined by state and local elected
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