The White Plains School District budget 2014-15 passed Tuesday with 81.6 percent voting yes, 894 yay votes to 202 nays. Held within the tax cap, the $199,900,000 budget is 3.36 percent higher than 2013-14. New York State aid of about $3 million
Read MoreBy Janine Bowen and Adam Choy The Pleasantville School District’s $47.4 million 2014-15 budget and $4,065,000 bond issue were comfortably approved Tuesday night, each by more than a 2-1 margin. District voters approved the budget, with a 1.9 percent tax
Read MoreBy Bill Primavera For several years now, I’ve noticed that my Home Guru column has often shared the same page as the Miracle Home Improvements advertisement. I didn’t know anything about the company, so I thought I’d call and introduce
Read MoreWestchester County Executive Robert Astorino issued a proclamation declaring May 19-23 as the County’s ninth annual Upstander Week, the culmination of hundreds of educators and students participating in the Human Rights Institute for High School Student Leaders. The week honors students in 25
Read MoreBy Jon Craig For more than four decades, Ronald O. Ross, 69, has built a mostly stellar – but sometimes rocky – reputation as a teacher, principal and most recently, superintendent for the Greenburgh Central School District. So a federal
Read MoreBy Bill Primavera When I rented my first apartment without roommates, my first purchase for it, even before I bought a bed, was a rug. It was a beautiful Karastan with a tree of life pattern in predominantly blue and
Read MoreBy Jon Craig – If you’ve ever strolled by The Art of Astrology at 242 Harrison Ave. in Harrison, Elm Street in Rye, or Boston Post Road (Route 1) in Larchmont or Mamaroneck, you may have wondered what goes
Read MoreBy Jon Craig A new firestorm has erupted in Greenburgh after the Fairview Board of Fire Commissioners held an unannounced meeting last week to promote two firefighters as Chief and Deputy Chief. Howard Reiss, the new Fire Chief, is a 27-year
Read MoreBy Jon Craig More than a dozen residents and business owners upset with continued noise, air and truck pollution in and around the Lake Street Quarry in West Harrison told the Town Board on Thursday that they’re tired of words
Read MoreBy Janine Bowen Following the announcement of his appointment to the position of Director of Code Enforcer, Patterson Councilman Robert McCarthy is looking forward to getting to work. McCarthy has nearly thirty years of experience in construction, having logged 11
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