Beacon resident Alex Davashi had previously owned a Key Food store in Mahopac but lost his lease in mid-May. At the end of May, he opened his new food store, Peekskill Green Grocers, to replace a closed Key Food store.
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Mike Ford, owner of Safe Cloud Studios in Peekskill, did not struggle to find himself in terms of what he wanted to for a living. “I’ve been doing this all my life,” he said last week. “I made my first
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The sports training facility Be First received its name for many reasons. The non-for-profit in Peekskill has been stressing those many positive ideals since it opened about eight years ago. Cortlandt resident Westley Artope, Be First’s executive director, said last
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It has a logo of a white cross and the initials CPR. No, the establishment does not provide first aid or cardiopulmonary resuscitation. In the Beach Shopping Center in Peekskill, CPR are the initials of Cell Phone Repair., which opened
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Physical fitness is a dominant part of both the professional and personal life of Peekskill resident Gabriela DeSilva. DeSilva is a physical fitness trainer and a body building competitor. She trains her clients at Dana’s Efficiency Training Gym in
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Lifelong Peekskill resident Z. Smith did not have a difficult time determining his career path. Since childhood he has loved various types of pets and he has turned that passion into his profession. As a youth he owned fish and
Read MoreGoldens Bridge resident Gregory Beobide began working on cars at the age of 12. That passion has grown into owning the Ultimate Auto Body chain, which has a location in Peekskill that opened in August. His other locations are in
Read MoreSeveral hundred residents gathered with friends and neighbors alongside total strangers early Thursday evening for a prayer vigil at Peekskill’s Riverfront Green to find comfort and healing following last weekend’s horrific shooting in Orlando. Speakers during the roughly hour-long event
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Peekskill resident Scott Sailor recalled last week he has been collecting books for three decades. His passion translated into a business as he opened Bruised Apple Books and Music on Central Avenue in Peekskill in 1993, which offers used and
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Peekskill resident Kecia Palmer-Cousins and New Rochelle resident Gay Wheeler-Smith said they created the Peekskill-based G&K Sweet Foods LLC, in part, to pass along the legacy of the southern baking which they grew up with. But the eight-year-old business has
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