Trustee Krista Berardi resigned her post on the Brewster Board of Education Friday night following a public outcry over her racially-charged social media posts that have roiled the community in recent days. “We recognize the events of the last few days
Read MoreBrewster Board of Education President Sonia Mesika is calling on Trustee Krista Berardi to resign over racially-charged social media posts that have roiled the community in recent days. “The Board of Education recognizes that Board Trustee Berardi has free speech rights as
Read MoreMontrose’s Don Simons sits in his driveway playing the accordion every evening at 7 as a daily tribute to first-responders and healthcare workers amidst COVID-19. Simons’ neighbor, Joe Duraes of Bookmark Design & Media public relations, created a short video clip about
Read MoreAs a black woman living in this fragile moment, lifelong Mt. Kisco resident Nicole Wright knew she had to do something. She felt obligated to take action and the result was today’s modest-sized but enthusiastic rally outside the library in
Read MoreInstagram on Monday afternoon finally deactivated a hate-filled account created anonymously last week by a Somers High School freshman designed to “slut-shame” classmates. The account was deactivated just hours after The Northern Westchester Examiner reached a company public relations professional
Read MoreA Somers High School freshman who allegedly “slut-shamed” classmates anonymously last week on social media has now admitted to creating the hateful Instagram accounts, a Northern Westchester Examiner investigation has found. This newspaper has obtained screenshots of a direct message
Read MoreWhite Plains police on Friday evening arrested a local man who has groped at least two women late at night in the Battle Hill neighborhood over the last two weeks. After receiving a description of the alleged groper, plain-clothed officers
Read MoreWhite Plains police have arrested a 25-year-old city resident for the murder earlier this week of Deron Strange. On Wednesday night Strange, a 35-year-old White Plains resident, had a dispute with the alleged murderer, Brandon Williams, police said. The two
Read MoreThe facts surrounding the Somers social media hate controversy are starting to crystalize, with several students telling The Northern Westchester Examiner of a freshman seeking to “slut-shame” classmates on Instagram while anonymously posting nasty comments about herself too in order
Read MoreWhen Shannon Becker was just a 10-year-old fifth-grader, commanding the mound for the Empire State Huskies, she uncorked a memorable pitch she recalls to this day. It was a wildly errant toss, hurled past the catcher, past the umpire, past
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