Bianca Braun of Shrub Oak became the 11th student in Westchester Community College (WCC) history to win the highly competitive Jack Kent Cooke Foundation Undergraduate Transfer Scholarship. This scholarship provides selected students with up to $40,000 a year to complete
Read MoreBy Morris Gut A warm, friendly greeting from Erin, the bartender, and Rob, the manager, was a welcoming start to my lunch at The Barley House on Commerce Street in Thornwood. The wraparound bar area, with its barn wood accents
Read MoreThe Mount Pleasant Planning Board is expected to issue a negative declaration next month for a 170-unit residential project for seniors near a congested area in Valhalla. Brightview Senior Living is proposing to build a “service enriched” project that would
Read MoreIn a year where so many have been hit financially, and charities have struggled to get donations, the Alzheimer’s Association Hudson Valley Chapter has received $41,810 in donations from Kensico Cemetery in Valhalla. The cemetery raised the funds primarily through
Read MoreRonald McDonald House of the Greater Hudson Valley recently launched a COVID relief plan to enable the organization to continue providing critical services to families experiencing medical emergencies during the pandemic. Donations will allow the non-profit organization to provide immediate
Read MoreThe Valhalla Union Free School District is the latest Westchester County location to shutter a school due to several teachers and staff members in quarantine following a COVID-19 exposure. Valhalla Middle School will transition to a fully remote learning model
Read MoreA Yonkers man will spend the next seven years in prison after killing a fellow inmate while serving time in Westchester County Jail. William Johnson, 21, was sentenced on Thursday after pleading guilty in October to assault in the second
Read MoreTwo Democratic incumbent state legislators recently learned that they will have an opponent in November. State Sen. George Latimer and Assemblyman Thomas Abinanti will be involved in contested races this fall after each saw a Republican challenger beat the
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By Jon Craig Dog walkers have been grumbling and runners have been rumbling around a “no trespassing zone” that sealed off most of Kensico Dam Plaza in Valhalla this winter. While a Harrison woman walking her dog assumed the park
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By Janine Bowen The new $1.5 billion Catskill/Delaware Ultraviolet Treatment Facility celebrated its grand opening last Tuesday in Valhalla. The facility, operated by the Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) and has been under construction for the last seven years, is
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