Facing intense public criticism, the Town of Mt. Pleasant announced at Monday’s work session that they would not approve a 110-foot high cell tower that was to be built in the Route 120 section of the town. Supervisor Joan Maybury
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A proposal to construct a 110-foot-high cell tower in a residential area of Mount Pleasant is coming under fire. Homeland Towers is working with Verizon to construct the tower on a roughly 3,780-square-foot town-owned parcel at the intersection of Bear
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The Mount Pleasant Public Library will be temporarily shutting its doors starting next week for the first phase of the roof replacement project. On Monday, July 23, the main library at 350 Bedford Rd. in Pleasantville will be closed for
Read MoreLocked out Con Edison workers who entered their third week of round-the-clock picketing accused the utility’s management of trying to divide the union with their settlement offer. Last week several hundred angry employees demonstrating outside the utility’s Valhalla campus
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Mount Pleasant’s two town justices appealed to the town board last week for the addition of a third court officer once a metal detector is installed outside the courtroom. Justices Nicholas Maselli Jr. and Robert Ponzini said once the equipment
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Marion Blumenthal Lazan implored fifth-grade students at Mount Pleasant’s Columbus Elementary School last week to be tolerant and accept differences in others. If there is tolerance and respect, Lazan reasoned, there can be peace in the world. As a Holocaust
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A major renovation plan proposed for Pace University was discussed without public opposition during the May 3 Mount Pleasant Planning Board meeting. The plan to consolidate Pace’s Briarcliff and Pleasantville campuses is outlined in the project’s Draft Environmental Impact Statement.
Read MoreMount Pleasant Superintendent of Schools Dr. Susan Guiney introduced the final pieces of her proposed $50, 855,456 2012-13 budget that will maintain current educational programs for students, but would result in the layoffs of 10 teacher aides. Under Guiney’s proposed
Read MoreDocuments related to the October 2010 shooting of Pace University student Danroy Henry were ordered released by a federal judge in White Plains last week. The documents, which were previously deemed confidential, were released on the website of Michael Sussman,
Read MoreWestchester County Executive Rob Astorino and Mount Pleasant Supervisor Joan Maybury are backing a plan to develop a 60-acre parcel on the Grassland Reservation into a high-tech, research and development complex. Astorino, who resides in Mount Pleasant, and Maybury addressed
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