An intensive process to determine how stakeholders may want to see municipal land used in downtown Chappaqua could take three to nine months, but New Castle officials are confident that that timeline could be condensed. Town Director of Planning Sabrina
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A public hearing before the Cortlandt Zoning Board of Appeals on Hudson Wellness Center, a proposed luxury drug and alcohol rehabilitation specialty hospital that has been closely scrutinized for the last seven years was kept open last month. The ZBA
Read MoreNew Castle officials are preparing a Request For Proposal in hopes of attracting a planning consultant who would help lead charrettes to solicit ideas from the community about potential uses for downtown Chappaqua’s municipal land. The Town Board last week
Read MoreThe Chappaqua Library Board of Trustees accepted the resignation of Director Andrew Farber last Tuesday, the latest upheaval for the library in the past three months. Farber is scheduled to leave his post this Friday and will be heading to
Read MoreThe New Castle Board of Fire Commissioners has retained the public relations firm Thompson & Bender to help it communicate to the public the need for a referendum to pay for an expanded King Street firehouse. By a 3-1 vote
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The new Chappaqua Crossing owner is seeking relief from several site plan approval conditions to help it lease the complex’s vacant retail space and build a clubhouse rather than preserving an 1850s farmhouse. Representatives for an entity called HPV IV
Read MoreNew Castle Councilman Christian Hildenbrand will run in a special election for the unexpired term for the seat he now holds after submitting his independent party petition before the May 31 deadline. Hildenbrand said he put in his nominating petition
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By Nora Lowe On Friday, New Castle observed National Gun Violence Awareness Day at the gazebo in downtown Chappaqua. This year’s annual “Wear Orange” event was held against the backdrop of the shooting in Uvalde, Texas that claimed the lives
Read MoreNew Castle is now contemplating a proposed local law which would expand opportunities for housing in our community. I concur with the judgment of our community’s Planning Board, which has concluded that: “The local law would expand opportunities for the development
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It’s understandable why Horace Greeley High School senior Alexandra McCarthy cares so much about inclusion. For that matter, so does her entire family. McCarthy’s older brother, Brady, has Down syndrome, but that didn’t stop him from becoming the school’s first
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