Westchester County Legislator MaryJane Shimsky (D-Dobbs Ferry) scored an impressive victory over six-term incumbent Assemblyman Tom Abinanti in the 92nd Assembly District’s Democratic primary Tuesday night. With 100 percent of the districts reporting, Shimsky won by more than 900 votes
Read MoreMount Pleasant will reconvene the public hearing next week on the Draft Generic Environmental Impact Statement (DGEIS) for what officials hope will lead to the town’s first Comprehensive Plan update in more than a half-century. The Town Board has scheduled
Read MoreAssemblyman Tom Abinanti (D-Pleasantville) is seeking a seventh two-year term in the 92nd Assembly District, a position he has maintained since winning the seat in 2010. But Abinanti will have to first beat County Legislator MaryJane Shimsky (D-Dobbs Ferry), who
Read MoreThe Town of Mount Pleasant paid tribute to former county legislator Suzanne Swanson on Sunday, one of its most beloved and dedicated public servants, by renaming a street in her honor. Local and county officials, friends and family members gathered
Read MoreA fierce opponent of Mount Pleasant’s proposed Comprehensive Plan update has filed an Article 78 to gain access to the town’s list of residents’ e-mail addresses to share information with the public about town events and issues. Hawthorne resident James
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 MoreTwo serious accidents last month on highly traveled roads in Mount Pleasant has renewed a couple of outspoken residents’ focus on traffic volume and how development-related decisions by officials is impacting travel in town. A pair of head-on collisions on
Read MoreA resolution recommending Westchester County consider buying a 36.8-acre parcel in an environmentally sensitive area of Mount Pleasant was unanimously approved by a county advisory board last month creating a possibility that the land could be preserved from development. The
Read MoreMount Pleasant officials are closing in on adopting a revised Comprehensive Plan for the first time in more than 50 years, with a few key revisions including removing references to a form-based code. Town planning consultant Patrick Cleary reviewed the
Read MoreMount Pleasant School District’s $9.7 million athletics facilities referendum that promises to markedly improve the high school and middle school complex’s sports fields was resoundingly approved Tuesday night. Passed by a 3-to-1 margin with an impressive turnout of nearly 1,600
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