Mt. Pleasant Obtains $100G State Grant to Dredge Carroll Park Pond
The Town of Mount Pleasant has been approved for a $100,000 state grant that will be used toward dredging the pond at Thornwood’s James M. Carroll Park and other improvements at the facility. The money...
View ArticleDEP Rejects Latimer’s Appeal to Reopen Kensico Dam Road
County Executive George Latimer called on the New York City Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) last Friday to consider a limited re-opening of Kensico Dam Road, but the agency immediately...
View ArticlePatient at NWH Tests Positive for COVID-19; Byram Hills Closed Until April
An unidentified patient who tested positive for COVID-19 is in Northern Westchester Hospital, one of three cases confirmed by Northwell Health Core Lab. The Village of Mount Kisco issued a statement...
View ArticleTwo Mt. Kisco Fitness Centers Close; Mt. Pleasant Schools Shut
Two popular Mount Kisco fitness centers closed Saturday afternoon after a member of one of the facilities tested positive for COVID-19. Saw Mill Club and Saw Mill Club East have temporarily closed...
View ArticleFulgenzi Declares State of Emergency in Mt. Pleasant
Mount Pleasant Supervisor Carl Fulgenzi declared a state of emergency for at least the next five days throughout the town Sunday night. Effective at 9 p.m., all town facilities closed to the public....
View ArticleState of Emergency: Schools Closed, Non-essential Workers Told to Stay Home...
Westchester County declared a state of emergency in the escalating battle against coronavirus Monday afternoon, a decision that will shutter schools and many businesses and keep thousands of workers...
View ArticleRed Cross Pleads for Blood Donors at Upcoming Westchester Drives
Calls for hospital masks, protective gowns and ventilators have reached a critical point for many hospitals and healthcare facilities looking to protect staff while tending to patients during the...
View ArticleValhalla Limo Company Battles for Survival
Like any prudent CEO, Jeff Nyikos planned for unexpected disruptions to business and recessions. But the brightest and most successful business leaders or Wharton School graduates couldn’t have...
View ArticlePhotographer’s Front Steps Project to Help Local Businesses Through Crisis
By Lindsay Emery Photographer Donna Mueller is encouraging families to sit outside their homes and be photographed from at least six feet away. Mueller has brought the Front Steps Project to her home...
View ArticleDoctors Are Left Jittery About Their Health and Their Families
Dr. Marc S. Arkovitz I work in a hospital that is starting to see a surge in cases and deaths from COVID-19. As a pediatric surgeon I am not working directly with many affected patients. Luckily, most...
View ArticleWoman Seriously Injured in Wrong-Way Saw Mill Crash in Mt. Pleasant
A wrong-way driver on the Saw Mill River Parkway in Mount Pleasant collided with another vehicle Tuesday night seriously injuring the woman who was operating the other car. Westchester County police...
View ArticleAppellate Division Upholds Democrat’s Bid to Challenge Abinanti
The state Supreme Court’s Appellate Division last Thursday validated a Democratic challenger’s petition to be on the June 23 primary ballot against Assemblyman Tom Abinanti (D-Pleasantville). It now...
View ArticleFour Districts to Have Contested Board of Education Races
Voters in the Chappaqua, Pleasantville, Bedford and Mount Pleasant school districts will have the chance to decide who will serve on their local Board of Education. The elections and budget votes were...
View ArticleWestchester Cancels First Seven of This Year’s Cultural Festivals
Seven of Westchester’s 12 spring and summer cultural festivals have been canceled for this year with the county unable to ensure proper social distancing protocols at the events. Each year, thousands...
View ArticleGroup Home Residents Navigate a New World During COVID-19
By Sherrie Dulworth Community inclusion has long been an important part of life for individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities. Before the emergence of COVID-19, some went to day...
View ArticlePleasantville Closes Municipal Pool, Village Camp for This Summer
There will be no pool season or summer camp in the Village of Pleasantville this year. The closures, which were announced at the board’s Monday evening work session, were driven mainly by the numerous...
View ArticleMountain Bike Jumps at Mt. Pleasant Park Leaves County Nervous
Westchester officials are grappling with how to respond to a small mountain bike jump and skills park that was illicitly built in the county-owned Graham Hills Park in Mount Pleasant during the past...
View ArticleMt. Pleasant Board of Ed Adopts $65.4M Budget; Braces for State Cuts
The Mount Pleasant Board of Education adopted a $65.4 million budget last Wednesday that proposes a 1.44 percent tax rate increase for most district residents while school officials keep a wary eye out...
View ArticleYouth Baseball Leagues Hold Out Hope for a Summer Season
One by one, towns across the area have been canceling summer camps. Last week, Greenburgh, Mount Pleasant, Yorktown and Cortlandt joined several other local municipalities that had already made that...
View ArticlePair of Mt. Pleasant Incumbents, Former Trustee in Board of Ed Race
Familiar names are on the ballot for this year’s Mount Pleasant Board of Education race. Two incumbents, current Vice President Laura Michalec Olszewski and Trustee Sara Beaty, are vying with former...
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