The Mount Pleasant Planning Board granted final approval to a 153,000-square-foot warehouse and office facility on Route 9A in Hawthorne despite strenuous opposition from the board’s chairman. Acquest Development Company, a western New York-based developer, obtained the approval on July
Read MoreA consultant who inspected an illegally built short track jumping trail in a Westchester County park concluded the site is too dangerous as currently constructed but it could be transformed into a properly functioning attraction. The consultant, Jim Dellavalle, principal
Read MoreFive-term Assemblyman Thomas Abinanti (D-Pleasantville) is in a virtual dead heat in his race with insurgent challenger Jennifer Williams in the 92nd Assembly District after the Westchester Board of Elections updated its results late Wednesday afternoon. The two candidates in
Read MoreChanges in voting locations, inconsistent communication, unreliable mail service to deliver absentee ballots and applications along with mistakes by the Westchester Board of Elections has sparked concern about voting for this year’s primary elections. To limit crowds at in-person polling
Read MoreBudgets were approved Tuesday night throughout Westchester and incumbents were re-elected in the area’s contested Board of Education races. Many districts were slow in reporting results with all voting done through absentee ballots this year because of the coronavirus pandemic.
Read MoreBy Madeline Rosenberg Raising Black Lives Matter signs and posters with other messages, area residents huddled around the Pleasantville gazebo at an early Tuesday evening vigil – grieving George Floyd’s death and standing against systemic racism. “We are overcome by
Read MoreFamiliar names are on the ballot for this year’s Mount Pleasant Board of Education race. Two incumbents, current Vice President Laura Michalec Olszewski and Trustee Sara Beaty, are vying with former trustee Thomas McCabe for two seats. McCabe looks to
Read MoreOne by one, towns across the area have been canceling summer camps. Last week, Greenburgh, Mount Pleasant, Yorktown and Cortlandt joined several other local municipalities that had already made that decision earlier in the month. It’s a near certainty that
Read MoreThe Mount Pleasant Board of Education adopted a $65.4 million budget last Wednesday that proposes a 1.44 percent tax rate increase for most district residents while school officials keep a wary eye out for potential state education cuts. The 2020-21
Read MoreWestchester officials are grappling with how to respond to a small mountain bike jump and skills park that was illicitly built in the county-owned Graham Hills Park in Mount Pleasant during the past two months. More than a week ago
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