The organizers of the Pleasantville Music Festival plan to search for additional funding sources and ways to hold down expenses after last summer’s 16th annual festival ended in the red by $36,000. In July, the popular all-day music event returned to Parkway
Read MoreAssemblywoman Amy Paulin (D-Scarsdale) has represented the 88th Assembly District) since 2001. She chairs the Assembly Committee on Corporations, Authorities and Commissions and serves on the Rules, Education and Health committees. Challenging Paulin is Thomas Fix Jr., making his first
Read MoreAssemblyman Chris Burdick (D-Bedford) is running for a second term representing the 93rd Assembly District that includes the towns of Bedford, Harrison, Lewisboro, Mount Kisco, New Castle, North Castle, North Salem, Pound Ridge and part of White Plains. A longtime
Read MoreDemocrat Julie Shiroishi is running against Republican Poughkeepsie Mayor Robert Rolison in the newly-created 39th Senate District, which spans Putnam Valley and Philipstown in Putnam County and parts of Dutchess and Orange counties. Since 2007, Shiroishi has lived in Beacon
Read MoreFull natural light, wide open spaces, a dynamic children’s room, an outdoor amphitheater, and meeting rooms are part of a new design proposed for the Mount Pleasant Libraries — the main library and the branch library in Valhalla. The plan
Read MoreFor two years residents living near the Saw Mill Parkway in Pleasantville and Mount Pleasant have endured day-long ear-splitting noise from pile drivers and generators and the nighttime glare of floodlights. The jarring disturbances were from construction by the state
Read MoreRecent property sales and proposals to build new homes and a variety of living spaces in Pleasantville have agitated some residents concerned that runaway development is taking over the village. Escalating negative sentiment against new development heard at meetings and
Read MoreLow-income communities in Westchester, particularly people of color, are disproportionately harmed by having far less broadband access, a newly-published survey revealed. The Westchester Children’s Association (WCA) partnered with Pace University to produce the “Digital Access Survey: Perceptions of Parents in
Read MoreThe Pleasantville Village Board opened a public hearing last week to amend the village residential R-2A zoning district, which if adopted, would require the entire frontage of two-family homes to face Bedford Road. Susan Favate of BFJ Planning, who helped
Read MoreA mixed-use project for the former Chase Bank building at 444 Bedford Rd. and adjacent lots in Pleasantville is being considered as several residents voiced objections last week to the pace of development in the village. Property owner Beldotti LLC
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