Dozens of Port Chester residents turned out at the senior center Thursday night for a citizen-led, town hall-style discussion that touched on everything from building-code violations to taxi service. Keith Morlino, who organized the meeting through the Facebook group “Making Port Chester a better place,” said it was high time… 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 →
I had the honor of meeting Tina Strobos at her apartment at The Osborn in Rye two years ago. She shared stories – as she had done with many children, teachers and others – about her efforts to save Jews in her native Amsterdam during the Holocaust as part of… Read More →
Assemblyman George Latimer brought the school budget discussion straight to the students today at Port Chester middle school and high school, acknowledging that this is not foremost on their young minds. “It’s not talking about Jeremy Lin,” he told them. “It’s a little harder, it’s less cool, but it’s important.”... Read More →
Journal News columnist Phil Reisman follows up today on the mail carrier who helped an older couple escape their burning home in Rye Brook last week. Jason Dang spoke humbly about his efforts at the Port Chester post office, where one of the WPA-era murals (pictured) acknowledge the mail carrier… Read More →
John Gitlitz is being honored Wednesday with a Martin Luther King Jr. award for his efforts in Mamaroneck, helping to address the clash over immigrant laborers and their right to seek work from street corners. He is a familiar face locally on the board of the Hispanic Resource Center, which… Read More →
The national StoryCorps project, which you may know from the moving audio segments that air on NPR, visited Port Chester last week to record interviews for its National Teachers Initiative. Kristin Pascuzzi and Judy Diaz, below, were among those who took part. Only a few stories actually make it on… Read More →
The Hispanic Resource Center in Mamaroneck will use a $93,000 federal grant to provide safety training to construction and landscaping workers. The money is part of the $10.7 million in Susan Harwood Training Grants awarded today by the U.S. Labor Department’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration. Local workers will be… Read More →
Maria Renda, an Italian-born New Rochelle resident who has had a green-card for more than 50 years, was released by immigration officials last night after a month-long detention triggered by a 10-year-old drug charge. Her situation was highlighted in a Journal News article Wednesday. Renda still faces deportation to Italy… Read More →
Initiatives to catch and deport “criminal aliens” have been a hot topic in New York lately, but the proceedings against a 55-year-old New Rochelle woman are a twist on the typical story. I have an article in today’s Journal News about the case of Maria Renda, who was born in… Read More →
