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News from The Examiner, covering Armonk-North Castle, Briarcliff, Chappaqua-New Castle, Mount Kisco, Mount Pleasant, Pleasantville, Westchester County, NY.
The pandemic has changed so many lives, including how and where we work. Until the last year-and-a-half, nursing was a profession that seemed to always attract enough young adults to the profession. But COVID-19 has seemingly changed all of that,
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Residents of White Plains and local history lovers are invited this Sunday to attend a pair of simultaneous celebrations that have been as much as three centuries in the making. Not only is the White Plains Historical Society holding its
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Four Latina women in Westchester were honored last Thursday by state Sen. Peter Harckham (D-Lewisboro) for outstanding contributions to their communities in commemoration of Hispanic Heritage Month. Ruth Ayala-Quezada, Dinora Pacheco, Karine Patiño and Diana Loja were featured at a
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North Castle’s environmental consultant reported last week that the storage of road millings at the town’s Middle Patent Road highway yard and at the Highway Department site in downtown Armonk poses no threat to drinking water. Ryan Manderbach, vice president
Read moreThe Mount Pleasant Town Board last week adjourned the ongoing public hearing on the proposed Comprehensive Plan update and form-based code after Supervisor Carl Fulgenzi indicated officials have received increased feedback from residents. At the scheduled continuation of the hearing
Read moreThe New Castle Town Board accepted the environmental review for the proposed Form-Based Code as complete last week, another step toward enacting the code and potential zoning changes for a portion of downtown Chappaqua. Despite continued heavy criticism from a
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A nearly two-mile-long tunnel is being planned by the New York City Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) to carry water between the Eastview ultraviolet facility to its Kensico Reservoir campus in Valhalla. The DEP is conducting environmental reviews for what
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Sue Larsen no longer has to worry about rushing out of the house each morning to go to work, so she can now indulge herself in her true passion. After years of splitting her attention between her full-time work as
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A group of Bedford School District parents lambasted the Board of Education at its last meeting, scolding members for expending efforts to form a Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) committee while the district sees lagging test scores. Nearly three hours
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Seven Mount Pleasant police officers were honored last week for each saving a life using the overdose-reversing drug Naloxone. The officers – William Brunke, Conor Elliott, Brian Givney, Jonathan Kramel, Andrew Mancusi, Kiana Oliva and Andrew Texeira – were joined
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