The widower of the SUV driver killed in the horrific 2015 Metro-North crash in Valhalla charged that the public remains imperiled at problematic grade crossings in the region despite the MTA claiming improvements have been made. Alan Brody, whose wife
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County Legislator Margaret Cunzio (C-Mount Pleasant) announced this week she will be seeking a fifth term on the Board of Legislators. “It’s an honor to serve on behalf of our community’s residents,” Cunzio said in a statement. “Together we have
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The CEO of the organization that operates the Pleasantville Cottage School last week denied there are any attempts by the residential treatment center to begin accepting youths who are in need of psychiatric care. Ronald Richter, the head of the
Read MoreA 34-year-old homeless man was arrested last Tuesday morning by Mount Pleasant police after he punched a Valhalla resident in the face just after his daughter boarded a school bus, triggering an altercation. Police said the incident occurred at Bradhurst
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The Mount Pleasant Town Board approved the demolition of an abandoned house in Hawthorne last week and officials are hopeful they will eventually recoup the back taxes and the cost of the work. While the teardown of the one-and-a-half-story wood
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Route 9A in Hawthorne was closed for several hours last Tuesday afternoon when a large dump trailer overturned after the driver of a passenger car lost control of his vehicle and struck the truck’s right tire. The accident occurred at
Read MoreThe Town of Mount Pleasant is awaiting the submission of a formal site plan application to begin review of the first phase of North80, a three million-square-foot science and technology development near Westchester Medical Center. The Town Board unanimously approved
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Mount Pleasant officials are increasingly likely to authorize demolition of an abandoned house in Hawthorne that has been deemed unsafe, with evidence that the structure has been infested with vermin and raccoons. The Town Board opened a public hearing last Tuesday
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The Draft Environmental Impact Statement (DEIS) for a 31-lot cluster subdivision on the shores of Pocantico Lake was accepted as complete last week by the Mount Pleasant Planning Board. The document for Meadows at Briarcliff, located on about 36 environmentally
Read MoreFor the second time in recent weeks, the Mount Pleasant Building Department last week shut down a vape shop in town that had opened illegally less than two days earlier. Supervisor Carl Fulgenzi said that within the past month a
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