All Entries Tagged With: "Siegel"
Grace Wins Yorktown Supervisor Race
With 100 percent of the districts reported Michael Grace has unofficially won the Yorktown town supervisor race, according to the Westchester Board of Elections website. In the latest tallies Grace, a former town attorney who has a law practice across the street from town hall, beat his opponents former town supervisor Don Peters and incumbent [...]
Yorktown Supervisor Race Undetermined; GOP Leads Otherwise
With only two votes separating the Democratic and Republican challengers in the race for Yorktown supervisor the race was too close to call on Tuesday night. Former supervisor Don Peters, a Democrat, was leading the pack 2,301 votes with GOP candidate Michael Grace right behind him with 2,299 votes, with 86 percent of the districts [...]
Audit Claims Cablevision Owes Yorktown $350,000
An audit of Cablevision franchise fees initiated by the Yorktown Town Board in mid-2009 has proven that Yorktown is owed over $350,000 because of irregularities in franchise fee payments. Yorktown participated at the request of then-supervisor Don Peters, who suspected there was a problem. “I worked with seven other municipalities to fund the audit because [...]
Yorktown to Discuss Potential Use of Shallow Creek Golf
The Yorktown Town Board will consider whether the former Shallow Creek Par 3 Golf Course on Route 6 in Shrub Oak should be become a multipurpose recreational facility at the work session to be held on August 9. Shallow Creek closed and was donated to the town in 2007. It has since remained vacant. The [...]
HUD Pulls CDBG Funds from Westchester
Housing and Urban Development has pulled more than $4 million of federal funding from approved community development block grant (CDBG) projects in Westchester after it rejected the county’s Analysis of Impediments to Fair Housing Choice. The analysis, submitted by the county on July 11, was supposed to identify problems and determine solutions that would assist [...]
Yorktown Supervisor and Town Sued for Defamation
The Town of Yorktown and Supervisor Susan Siegel are being sued for defamation by two employees who claim she spread false rumors that they were having an affair. Highway Superintendent Eric DiBartolo and Patricia Cole, a 25-year employee for the highway department, had the suit filed on June 1 in Westchester County Supreme Court in [...]
