It was the 1980s, and Jeffrey Veatch’s girlfriend’s mother offered an invitation to her workplace that would ultimately change the trajectory of Veatch’s creative life. Veatch accompanied his girlfriend Marina to Camp Berwick, at Dyer Island in Maine, where
Read MoreOur Local Equity Fights are the Latest Chapter in an Old Story He was a Black baseball trailblazer. Organized pro ball’s first known African-American player. A Hall of Famer who starred right here in New York, a car ride from Westchester.
Read MoreYou’re reading a sample from the Examiner+ newsletter, available in full for subscribers. Join our partial access option for free here: Examiner News This is the first week of the fall when we take a bit of a quick breath. After
Read MoreLet me say right out the gate, the remnants of uncertainty remain over whether it’s right to be updating our readership on The Examiner’s internal story. For a good dozen or so years, I was largely quiet and believed the
Read MoreThis column first appeared in our Examiner+ email newsletter. Hey all, Let me start today with a local story I just can’t shake from my mind. Examiner Editor-in-Chief Martin Wilbur reports how a pair of northern Westchester school districts —
Read MoreThis column first appeared in our Examiner+ email newsletter. It was a pretty wild night of election coverage as Democrats staved off the predicted “Red Wave” across the map but endured a black eye in a key local race with
Read MoreThis 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
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