This column first appeared as a segment in our daily Examiner+ email newsletter. Anyone involved with civic life in Mt. Kisco almost certainly knows Mike McNamee and Mike’s wife, Bridget. Bridget and Mike McNamee are the people who shoot their
Read MoreIT’S COOL TO BE A NERD, JUST OWN IT Eric Webb loved comic books as a kid growing up outside of Albany in the 1980s and 90s. But he worried about the social implications of embracing the interest. Webb’s young
Read MoreLocal Man Honored for Affordable Housing Advocacy Imagine coming of age this way: 1) It’s the civil rights era. 2) You’re a white boy. 3) You live in the deep South. 4) Your family opposes segregation. 5) Black people are
Read MoreLocal Parents Deliver Love, Independence Sam Chason was just an adolescent, about 12 or 13, when a neighbor on Byram Lake Rd. in Mt. Kisco was about to ditch a ride-on mower. One person’s junk was another young man’s
Read MoreThey say (and don’t ask who they are, because I’ll give you a long-winded answer) it’s important for publishers to engage readers in conversation. I was thinking on this topic Saturday afternoon when picking my older daughter up from
Read MorePong Records, Peekskill Apartments, Solar Energy, Staffing Local Job Market From our Examiner+ member newsletter Before I get into this week’s local news roundup, three quick interconnected Examiner sports shoutouts. First, to Examiner Sports Editor Ray Gallagher, who earned his Ripken nickname
Read MoreMy Friend Deserves Your Vote; ‘Supremely’ Qualified It was more than 20 years ago, and I was at a local restaurant/bar, about to meet my wife’s (then girlfriend) old high school friends for the first time. Alyson introduced me
Read MoreMembership Program Launches After 30 months of tweaking, fiddling, and ultimately fundamental change, we’ve finally arrived at a place I can foresee (generally speaking) as our new normal. The Examiner has always been a fun but bumpy ride with many
Read MoreThe 16-year-old young man stepped up to bat four years ago, knowing only swings and misses in his baseball career. Almost every spring and fall Saturday for a decade, since he was seven, he’d failed to make contact. After 10
Read MoreIt was late winter in Kyiv when Putin’s military began to upend Ukraine and the world. As a second winter of war now looms, Yorktown’s Max Bukhover reflects on watching the horrifying news late that evening, on Feb. 24, as
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