Westchester County Legislator Vedat Gashi is setting his sights on Congress. Gashi, a Yorktown resident who was elected to his second term on the Board of Legislators last November, is gathering signatures to run a Democratic primary against incumbent Rep.
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By Rick Pezzullo Yorktown resident Jacqueline Baker was honored by State Senator Pete Harckham last week during a special virtual online ceremony in recognition of Black History Month. Baker, founder of Westchester Sickle Cell Outreach, was presented with a Commendation
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Everywhere you turn, a familiar lament from baseball fans has been the interminable length of games and lack of action on the field. Over the past 10 to 20 years, strikeouts have soared and managers and Major League organizations too
Read MoreA mixed-use development on Underhill Ave. proposed under Yorktown’s recently adopted zoning overlay district was referred to the Planning Board last week. Choosing not to schedule a public hearing first as Supervisor Matt Slater had favored, the Town Board decided
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A standing-room-only crowd filled the Lakeland High School auditorium as police guarded the lobby and aisles and were on stage with trustees during the Board of Education’s tense but orderly meeting Thursday evening. The tense atmosphere came one week after
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More than 80 people gathered last Friday on a Yorktown cul-de-sac waving their latest electric bills in protest over prohibitive rate hikes imposed by Con Edison over the past month. The demonstration at Jefferson Village, a 1,000-unit age-restricted condominium community,
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With spring on the horizon, the Town of Yorktown is giving a few of its parks’ facilities some needed upgrades. At Railroad Park in downtown Yorktown Heights, town officials are preparing to solicit bids for an estimated $70,000 renovation of
Read MoreThe number of housing units planned on the property of the former Soundview Preparatory School on Underhill Ave. in Yorktown has been reduced. Representatives of Unicorn Contracting informed the Yorktown Town Board on Jan. 25 that the original proposal for
Read MoreThe Yorktown Town Board voted last week to continue waiving fees for businesses for sidewalk sales and outdoor dining. The permit-fee waiver began in 2020 as part of the town’s effort to help local retailers during the pandemic. “Our small
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A long-vacant supermarket in the Yorktown Green shopping center will soon be occupied by another grocer already located in town who needs more space. Uncle Giuseppe’s Marketplace, which replaced Turco’s two years ago, is planning to move across the street
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