If you have thoughts on how New Rochelle can prosper, and what the city should look like in the future, you’ll have an unusually direct opportunity to tell it to those who matter. EnvisioNR, the effort to create a new comprehensive plan for Westchester’s second-largest city, will hold a series… Read More →
Several local people who have worked hard to raise money for cancer support and research will be honored at the upcoming gala to benefit southern Westchester cancer patients and their families. The benefit, set for 6 p.m. April 19 at the New York Botanical Garden in the Bronx, is titled… Read More →
Three-year-old Nadia Ortiz, at right, was one of the children who appeared at the podium during tonight’s Port Chester school board meeting as parents gave an emotional appeal to keep full-day kindergarten in place next year. A switch to half-day kindergarten is by far the most serious cut being proposed… Read More →
The Blind Brook school board is formally rejecting the recommendation of a fact-finder in its negotiations with the union representing 83 non-teaching employees—teachers aides, clerks, custodians, nurses and others. The contract expired June 30, 2009, and the two sides arrived at an impasse. The board criticized the finding as ignoring… Read More →
Congresswoman Nita Lowey is taking another opportunity today to rally for Social Security with local seniors, this time observing the anniversary of the first checks being issued under the program Jan. 31, 1940. Rep. Lowey marked the program’s 75th birthday in August at the same venue, the Anthony Posillipo Community… Read More →
Here is the prepared text of Rye Mayor Douglas French’s 2012 “State of the City” address given during Wednesday night’s council meeting. You can watch the video here (Item 3). * Good evening, it is an honor to once again stand before you as Mayor of the City of Rye… Read More →
It’s hard to think of any type of food store that Port Chester lacks. The village has everything from Costco to corner bodegas; your standard Stop and Shop, your gourmet Tarry Market, and your specialty La Placita, with whole sections devoted to Colombian and Peruvian goods. So it’s no small… Read More →
Longtime Scarsdale resident and poet Ann Cefola will launch her newest book, “St. Agnes, Pink-slipped” from 3 to 5 p.m. Oct. 15 in the newly restored library at Trinity St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, 311 Huguenot St., New Rochelle. Cefola got inspiration for the title of her book after hearing that… Read More →
The JCC of Mid-Westchester in Scarsdale is holding its fourth annual look inside the college admissions process with a special discussion set for 7:30 to 9 p.m. Oct. 18. The discussion, moderated by Mamaroneck-based college admissions consultant Betsy F. Woolf, features deans from several top colleges and universities and is… Read More →
The Waldenbooks in Rye Ridge Shopping Center held out longer than most, but it’s closing as a result of the Borders bankruptcy. Customers were lamenting the loss today. But despite that departure and the lagging economy, the busy shopping center is gaining occupancy with the arrival of new stores: the… Read More →
