News from The Examiner, covering Armonk-North Castle, Briarcliff, Chappaqua-New Castle, Mount Kisco, Mount Pleasant, Pleasantville, Westchester County, NY.
By Abby Luby It was a clear, sunny day on Saturday — a perfect setting for volunteer painters of all ages helping to create Pleasantville’s “Walking Mural” on the Jackson Alley wall off Wheeler Ave. From morning to afternoon, painters
Read MoreBy Abby Luby This year’s Pleasantville Music Festival had the weather on its side, which is always a wild card when it comes to the daylong outdoor event. After an initial spell of overcast skies, the sun came out for
Read MoreBy Adam Stone Chabad of Bedford was granted permission last night to hold its Rosh Hashanah Tashlich service at Leonard Park in Mount Kisco, resolving a weeks-long dispute over the park’s use and questions about deed restrictions and municipal authority.
Read MoreBy Idan Yedid, Horace Greeley High School senior When Yali, a Jewish-Israeli teenager, entered the program Through Others’ Eyes (TOE) to learn photography alongside Arab teens, he had some doubts about meeting the other side. The feeling was mutual. But
Read MoreBy Adam Stone Assemblyman Chris Burdick convened a high-stakes meeting in his Mount Kisco office yesterday, bringing Rabbi Arik Wolf of Chabad of Bedford and Mayor Michael Cindrich together for the first time since controversy erupted over Chabad’s request to
Read MoreBy Adam Stone For years, Rabbi Arik Wolf and his congregation have gathered peacefully by the Leonard Park pond for a brief Rosh Hashanah ceremony — a 20-minute service of reflection, prayer, and the sounding of the shofar. This year,
Read MoreBy Adam Stone One cool Friday night in March, over pasta and red wine at Locali in Mount Kisco, my wife Alyson and I swapped stories with our newish friends, Warren Berger and Laura E. Kelly, a husband-and-wife publishing duo.
Read MoreBy Adam Stone When veteran local journalist David McKay Wilson walks into St. Mark’s Church in Mount Kisco, his family history surrounds him. His great-grandfather helped lead the congregation there more than a century ago, and Wilson himself now serves
Read MoreBy Rin Fenster Tom Bisogno remembers sitting in the halls at Purchase College in the 1980s, staring at two centuries of paint layered on the old walls. One day, he looked up and suddenly saw a Japanese garden forming in
Read MoreBy Abby Luby When Dr. Eric Lutinski announced his retirement as Rye Neck Schools superintendent last December, he considered going back to teaching. Starting as a high school social studies teacher in the Rye Neck School District in 1995, Lutinski
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