All Entries Tagged With: "Mt. Pleasant"
Pace, Mt. Pleasant Begin Master Plan DEIS Review
A major renovation plan proposed for Pace University was discussed without public opposition during the May 3 Mount Pleasant Planning Board meeting. The plan to consolidate Pace’s Briarcliff and Pleasantville campuses is outlined in the project’s Draft Environmental Impact Statement. Under the plan, Pace would sell its 35-acre Briarcliff site, which opened in 1977, and [...]
Aide Cuts Sought in Mount Pleasant School Budget
Mount Pleasant Superintendent of Schools Dr. Susan Guiney introduced the final pieces of her proposed $50, 855,456 2012-13 budget that will maintain current educational programs for students, but would result in the layoffs of 10 teacher aides. Under Guiney’s proposed spending plan for next year, the property tax levy would rise by 2.4 percent to [...]
Federal Judge Rules Henry Documents Released
Documents related to the October 2010 shooting of Pace University student Danroy Henry were ordered released by a federal judge in White Plains last week. The documents, which were previously deemed confidential, were released on the website of Michael Sussman, the attorney for the Henry family, on Monday. The documents contain statements of the passengers [...]
County, Mt. Pleasant Seek Med Research Development Complex
Westchester County Executive Rob Astorino and Mount Pleasant Supervisor Joan Maybury are backing a plan to develop a 60-acre parcel on the Grassland Reservation into a high-tech, research and development complex. Astorino, who resides in Mount Pleasant, and Maybury addressed the issue on March 1 in White Plains. Following the press conference, Maybury said the [...]
World Heritage Cultural Center Set to Open in Thornwood
When Sattie Persaud arrived in the United States 15 years ago from Suriname, she thought she was already accustomed to a cultural melting pot. In Persaud’s homeland, there are citizens who can trace their ancestry to a multitude of nations, including Italy, Greece, Indonesia, and in her case, India. But unlike the small South [...]
Maybury, Republicans Coast to Re-election Wins in Mt. Pleasant
The anger expressed in polls by Americans against incumbents has apparently not filtered down to Mount Pleasant. Republican Supervisor Joan Maybury and fellow GOP-Conservative Party town board incumbents Carl Fulgenzi and Mark Rubeo were overwhelmingly re-elected Tuesday night. According to the Westchester County Board of Elections, with 93 percent of the districts reporting, Maybury, was [...]
Nonna’s Steady Hand Needed on Board of Legislators
Bipartisanship has become one of the more popular buzzwords in politics. Most officeholders claim cooperation but in an era where the political discourse has become increasingly strident, it can be elusive. What is equally important is for representatives to vote their conscience while keeping the best interests of their constituents in mind.
Irene Brings ‘Historic’ Rain, Power Outages to Mount Pleasant
Hurricane Irene wrecked havoc in Mount Pleasant, causing thousands of homes to lose power. In an interview on the afternoon of Aug. 28, town Supervisor Joan Maybury said the town received about five inches of rain, which she described as an “historic” amount. About 2,000 households in town, including her Hawthorne home, were without power, [...]
Mount Pleasant Board OKs Lakeview Ave. Bridge Bond
Relief is on the way for Mount Pleasant residents who have been inconvenienced by the closure of the Lakeview Avenue Bridge. The Mount Pleasant Town Board voted unanimously to borrow up to $650,000 to replace the structure at its Aug. 9 meeting. “We hope to get the project done within the next few months,” Supervisor [...]
Mount Pleasant Library Seeks $1.5M Bond
The Mount Pleasant Library is pursuing a $1.5 million bond for a series of capital projects. Library Director John Fearon, members of the library board and architect Ronald Cosentino gave Mount Pleasant Town Board members their first look at the proposal for the main library branch in Pleasantville on Aug. 2. Library representatives are scheduled [...]
Mount Pleasant Board Hears Pace University Plan
The long process of approving the consolidation of Pace University’s Briarcliff and Pleasantville campuses began on June 28 when the Mount Pleasant Town Board unanimously referred three zoning text amendment change proposals to the planning board for its review. Under the plan, which was originally announced in the fall of 2010, Pace would sell its [...]
Bio-Tech Development Near Westchester Medical Center Mulled
Mount Pleasant Supervisor Joan Maybury said last week she was receptive to the concept that calls for a bio-tech business near the Westchester Medical Center that would also include a children’s museum, hotel, assisted living facility and retail on the 80-acre site. At the June 21 town board work session, developer John Fareri and his [...]
Westlake Campus Fields to be Studied
The Mount Pleasant School District will study the possibility of upgrading its athletic fields on the combined middle school/high school campus. During the June 8 board of education work session, representatives from the Mount Kisco-based KG&D Architects came to discuss ways to renovate or replace the bleachers that accompany the Westlake campus field used for [...]
Guiney Contract Extension Under Fire
A group of Mount Pleasant residents are criticizing the recent move by the board of education to extend the contract of Superintendent of Schools Dr. Susan Guiney by an additional two years. About 30 residents packed the district’s administration building during the June 8 work session. The school board’s move to extend Guiney’s contract was [...]
P’ville, Chappaqua Voters Pass School Budgets
Voters in four local school districts gave the thumbs up to the 2011-12 budgets. In Pleasantville, district officials breathed a sigh of relief as the $44.8 million spending plan for next year, carrying a 1.69 percent tax increase, was approved 1,140 to 1,006. Last year, the budget narrowly passed by 11 votes. Lois Winkler was [...]
Mount Pleasant Questions Lakeview Avenue Owernship
The Town of Mount Pleasant is seeking to learn who owns property in the Lakeview Avenue area in an effort to prevent it from spending hundreds of thousands of dollars to replace a local bridge. After the town Highway Department discovered deterioration of the bridge located beneath Lakeview Avenue where it crosses Davis Brook in [...]
Mount Pleasant Schools Budget Set for Public Vote
After weeks of discussion, the Mount Pleasant Board of Education made it official last week. A $51.3 million 2011-12 budget, which includes a 3.9 percent property tax hike, will be put for voter approval on May 17. North Castle residents of the district would have their property taxes rise by 9.8 percent if voters okay [...]
