More than 250 people filled Peekskill’s Depew Park field to celebrate the city’s 11th annual Juneteenth Freedom Day on Saturday as local performers were joined by youth groups who proudly strutted their talents throughout the afternoon. The focus for this
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Three familiar faces in local government will be squaring off June 28 in a pivotal Democratic primary for the 95th Assembly seat being vacated by Sandy Galef, who is retiring at the end of the year. Vying for the key
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Peekskill High School students organized Westchester’s only March for Our Lives rally Saturday morning, urging leaders locally and around the nation to pass gun control measures as a result of the recent mass shootings. The rally was one of more
Read MoreSeveral area school superintendents addressed the mass shooting at a Texas elementary school in messages to their communities. Top officials in the Lakeland, Hendrick Hudson, Peekskill and Croton-Harmon school districts all ensured parents and families there would be increased police
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Voters in six northern Westchester school districts handily approved budgets Tuesday for the 2022-23 school calendar. Most incumbents running were reelected, other than in the Hendrick Hudson School District. Yorktown A $108 million budget was approved 1,677-578. In the six-candidate
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Jay Ungar and Molly Mason, who wrote and performed “Ashokan Farewell,” the theme song for the Ken Burns PBS-TV series on the Civil War, will headline the entertainment at a Lincoln Lawn Party on Saturday, May 14 in Peekskill. The
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The race to replace retiring longtime Assemblywoman Sandy Galef in the 95th District is down to three Democratic hopefuls as former Peekskill mayor Andre Rainey was removed last week from the June 28 primary ballot. Rainey was informed by the
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The 5th Annual Cherry Blossom Festival and Plant Sale will be held on Saturday, April 30 at the Riverfront Green in Peekskill. The free festival, which will be held from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., rain or shine, features a
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By Rick Pezzullo A Yorktown man was sentenced Friday to state prison in connection with a wrong-way, head-on crash he caused while driving drunk on Route 9 in Peekskill that claimed the life of an Ossining woman. Mark Cope, 41,
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The Bedford Central School District is losing another member of its central administration at the end of the school year. On Apr. 5, the Peekskill City School District Board of Education appointed Cynthia Hawthorne as the district’s new assistant superintendent
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