The YMCA …so much more from A – Z is the message new President and CEO Cynthia Rubino wants to get out to the Westchester community. Based at 250 Mamaroneck Avenue in White Plains, the YMCA of Central and Northern
Read MoreBallard-Durand Funeral Home knows that losing a loved one is always a difficult experience, but celebrant Marisol Fuentes can offer a unique and personalized send off for friends and family. Fuentes has been a funeral director at Ballard-Durand for the
Read MoreNational Night Out. “Giving Crime & Drugs a Going Away Party” 6 to 9 p.m., Public Safety Headquarters, 77 S. Lexington Avenue, White Plains. Open house and safety fair, live band, free giveaways. National Night Out promotes awareness, safety and neighborhood unity. It
Read MoreElected officials from Washington, New York State, Westchester County and White Plains, Greenburgh, Harrison and other local municipalities gathered on the steps of White Plains City Hall at 5 p.m. Thursday to express a bi-partisan stance of solidarity in the
Read MoreThere are always obstacles when launching a new event, but those responsible for Thursday evening’s Corporate FunRun at Purchase College certainly appeared to hit one out of the park. Close to 50 Westchester-based corporations and more than 1,000 runners and
Read MoreFrom the early plantings of the Romans in pre-Christian times through the evolution into a favored sparkling wine in the 17th century, Champagne was subjected to political and winemaking upheaval. Last week we left the region in the heady experimental
Read MoreWhite Plains Recreation Department Residential C Men’s Softball League is never boring, especially when Mansion Broadway and Brazen Fox take the field for an evening match-up on the diamond. On Thursday, July 10, last year’s Residential C League Champs Mansion
Read MoreJune 25th marked the 119th anniversary of the laying of the cornerstone of The Chapel of the Divine Compassion in White Plains. An article in the June 23, 1895 edition of The New York Times described the groundbreaking ceremony and
Read MoreWestchester County Legislators Benjamin Boykin (D-White Plains) and Catherine Parker (D-Rye) co-sponsored new legislation last week to ban use of heavy, dirty heating oils #6 and #4 in the county, gradually phasing them out until 2018. Heating oil #6 is
Read MoreThere will be a special election this fall for the White Plains Common Council seat currently held by Nadine Hunt-Robinson, a member of the Independence Party, who was appointed to the position by a unanimous vote of the all-Democrat council
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