Republican Robert Scorrano was elected Somers supervisor on Election Day, defeating Democrat Stephanie Keegan, 3,668 to 2,412. Scorrano will succeed Rick Morrissey, who announced in January he would not be seeking a fifth two-year term. The supervisor seat carries
Read MoreVoters elected new leaders in Peekskill, Cortlandt and Somers last night. In Peekskill, Councilwoman Vivian McKenzie made history as the first Black female mayor in the city, besting Republican challenger Emiliano Perez, 2,374 (60%) to 1,211 (40%). Conor Greene picked
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Some Town Board members have been in place for over a decade, and this November, Mr. Cirieco and Mr. Faulkner are up for re-election after nine years, I believe. They profess that they bring financial experience, but watching Town Board
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By Ray Gallagher, Examiner Sports Editor @Directrays Week 2 on the Northern Westchester/Putnam side of Section 1 football witnessed a ton of gridiron blowouts, including Class A’s Somers over Brewster, 30-6; Mahopac 35-6 over Lourdes; Yorktown’s 41-0 win over Panas
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During the pandemic, Michael Nyikos, a Somers Senior High School graduate and current junior at Union College in Schenectady, wrote and self-published a sci-fi fantasy novel, The Colson Legend: Ice Queen. The story, which is written from the perspective of
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By Ray Gallagher, Examiner Sports Editor @Directrays While everyone was focused on the big dogs of Class A last Friday at SOMERS High, which narrowly defeated MAHOPAC, 17-14, in the DeMatteo Bowl II, it was Coach Ed Mulvihill’s BREWSTER Bears
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By Tony Pinciaro SOMERS opened the 2021 varsity girls soccer season against the same opponent it closed out the 2020 schedule — Mahopac. Unlike last year where the teams played to a 0-0 draw and shared the Northern Westchester/Putnam Large-School
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By Morris Gut While driving through the lovely byways of northern Westchester, we cruised around the glistening Amawalk Reservoir at routes 118 and 202, into the hamlet of Granite Springs, which is part of Somers. On one side of Old
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Thomas Chase Creamer of Somers passed away peacefully on July 4 after a courageous battle with cancer. He was 72. Tom was born on Dec. 20, 1948, in New York City to Janet Oman Watters and Thomas Fishback Creamer, both
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Longtime Lake Lincolndale resident Therese Driscoll, the wife of former Somers Police Department Chief Michael Driscoll Sr. and the mother of five sons, passed away peacefully on June 14. She was 84. Born Oct. 3 1936 to Helen and Patrick
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