New Rochelle resident Kimberly Davis, president of the JPMorgan Chase Foundation and the company’s managing director of Global Philanthropy, will be honored at the Turnaround Impact Awards Dinner, to be held April 18 at the Plaza Hotel in New York City. (Kimberly Davis, photo provided) Turnaround for Children is a… Read More →
While most New Rochelle residents will spend Thursday night in the comfort of their homes, students and faculty at Blessed Sacrament Saint Gabriel High School will be spend it outside. To experience a hint of what homeless people endure on a nightly basis, students and teachers will sleep out on… Read More →
One-hundred-and-sixty-two college students in the country were awarded a Newman Civic Fellowship this year. Akosuah Agyei, a senior at the College of New Rochelle, is one of them. The fellowship is administered by Campus Compact, a coalition of college and university presidents, which honors students committed to civic engagement. So… Read More →
In its first budget cycle since admitting to, and remedying, years of shoddy bookkeeping practices, the New Rochelle Public Library Board of Trustees has released its proposed spending plan for 2012-2013. The new budget calls for a 2.2 percent increase in the tax levy, a hike of $93,209. Overall spending,... Read More →
Chickens won’t be coming home to roost in New Rochelle. The City Council voted 4-3 Tuesday night not to change its the city’s code to allow backyard chickens. Several local residents had requested the change, hoping they’d be be able to raise chickens, for their eggs, mostly, in coops in… Read More →
New Rochelle is getting a Key Food Superstore. The grocery chain will open the 33,000 square-foot store at 366 Pelham Road on Wednesday at 10 a.m. A press release from the company said the store created more than 125 permanent jobs and is influenced by Uncle Giuseppe’s Marketplace, a Long… Read More →
Interested in helping out New Rochelle’s young people and the greater community? The city is looking for volunteers to serve on the Board of Commissioners of the New Rochelle Youth Board. There are several vacancies, open to teens currently in the 9th and 10th grades and adults. Applications are available… Read More →
Westchester County’s own Lou Del Bianco, actor and storyteller, or, as he puts it, “storymaker,” will perform Thursday night at Jefferson Elementary School as part of the school’s month-long Spring Book Fair. The show begins at 7 p.m. Del Bianco, who lives in Port Chester, has been touring the Northeast… Read More →
The Westchester County Department of Health will hold a blood drive at 45 Huguenot St. in New Rochelle on Tuesday, March 20, from 9 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. The county’s Blood Mobile (that’s a name, for you) will be parked on Huguenot Street and open to anyone in the public… Read More →
The New Rochelle Police Department released its annual crime report. We’ll get into all the details in a full story shortly. For now, here are the big numbers: Total arrests climbed by 5 percent over the past year. Part 1 Crimes (which include aggravated assault, murder, robbery, burglary and several… Read More →
