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By Rick Pezzullo Since December 2018, an estimated 260 nurses employed at NewYork-Presbyterian Hudson Valley Hospital in Cortlandt have been seeking a new contract. Frustrated from stalled negotiations and weary from working shifts throughout the COVID-19 pandemic with reduced staff,
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By Tony Pinciaro When Julia Cunningham and her Putnam Valley varsity field hockey teammates learned of who their new coach would be in 2020, they could hardly contain their excitement. “We were exhilarated, as a team, to have Coach Parchen
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By Rick Pezzullo A Mahopac man was charged last week as one of the individuals that stormed the U.S. Capitol in Washington D.C. on Jan. 6 and unlawfully entered the building. Anthony Vuksanaj, 52, was arrested by the FBI on
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Several speakers at a public hearing last week criticized Mount Pleasant’s proposed rezoning of its downtown hamlets fearing a concentration of mixed-use developments would alter the town’s character and negatively impact quality of life. The Sept. 28 hearing on the
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By Rick Pezzullo The Board of Directors of Westchester County’s Local Development Corporation (LDC) last week voted final approval of tax-exempt bond financing for the development of a senior learning community on the SUNY Purchase campus. The LDC increased the
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It had been a longtime dream of Dan Schorr to author his first novel. So when he sat down in early 2019 to make his literary debut, he turned to what he knows best. Schorr, a former prosecutor in the
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