Cleveland Avenue: Pasquale Romeo, 43, of 2 Cleveland Court in New Rochelle, was arrested for threatening another city man with a claw hammer during a dispute over snow plowing on Cleveland Avenue, police said. Police said Romeo and the 48-year-old New Rochelle victim argued about where the suspect was plowing… Read More →
Port Chester Trustee John Branca has declined the Conservative Party’s nomination to run for mayor, the village clerk said today. That leaves one challenger, Republican nominee and fellow Trustee Bart Didden, against Democratic Mayor Dennis Pilla. The Conservatives have until Wednesday to make their choice. The party’s “committee to fill… Read More →
Gov. Andrew Cuomo introduced legislation Monday that would cap annual increases in local property taxes at no more than 2 percent annually, unless local residents vote to override the cap. Budget experts say that a tax cap will surely force big cuts by schools, because so much spending is mandated… Read More →
MAMARONECK TOWN Hilltop Road: Someone tried to pass a $4,210 check using a Mamaroneck town man’s name at a Chase Bank branch on Jan. 25. The attempted fraud was reported Jan. 26. MAMARONECK VILLAGE Halstead Avenue: Two passenger-side tires were punctured on a car parked in a 600-block private lot… Read More →
Here’s a look at opinion content published in The Journal News on Saturday, Jan. 29, Sunday, Jan. 30 and today, Monday, Jan. 31: Saturday, Jan. 29 Egypt: Commentary Philadelphia Inquirer columnist Trudy Rubin assesses the unrest in the Middle East and what it may mean for the development of a… Read More →
MAMARONECK — Earlier this month we brought you the story of a Mamaroneck woman who plans to build a youth center for impoverished children in India by selling reprints of their artwork here in New York. Truike Boekholt-Daly, who lives in the village with her husband and 7-year-old twins, recently… Read More →
LARCHMONT — A Sherwood Drive resident who heads the village budget committee was recently named chair of the New York State Bar Association’s business law section. Paul Silverman, 64, a partner at the Manhattan firm McLaughlin & Stern, LLP, took the helm of the 4,421-member business section on New Year’s… Read More →
The Editorial Board will host two LIVE Editorial Spotlight interviews this week on LoHud.com: • At 1 p.m. Tuesday, candidates for the Westchester County Board of Legislators’ vacant 12th District seat discuss their candidacies and the issues. Democrat MaryJane Shimsky and Republican Nicholas DeCicco are seeking the office, vacant since… Read More →
MAMARONECK — Anna Murray had a lot of candles to blow out. On Jan. 16, the longtime Mamaroneck resident celebrated her 100th birthday with friends and family at the Jewish Home Lifecare Sarah Neuman Center, a nursing home on Palmer Avenue. The centenarian was born on Jan. 16, 1911, in… Read More →
A spokesman for the Bronx District Attorney’s Office said this morning that the October fatal shooting of a New York City man during a fight with a Pelham Manor police officer is still under review. Steven Reed said that the office is waiting for analysis of forensic evidence in the matter of Wardell Johnson’s… Read More →
