Daniel J. Raftery was chief of the Greenville Fire District in Greenburgh when his department got the call on the morning of Sept. 11, 2001, to respond to the World Trade Center. Despite arriving before the collapse of the first
Read MoreMount Kisco officials are encouraging the public to participate in its transportation survey to allow the village and its consultant to study traffic, pedestrian and bicycle safety on its streets. The Mount Kisco Complete Streets Community Transportation Safety Survey was
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Vincent Masi believes he is onto something special. He just needs the horticultural world to understand what he’s doing has value. Masi, an Armonk auto mechanic, has for the last four years taken up magnetizing seeds, and when they sprout,
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Westchester’s Democratic state Assembly delegation sent a letter last week to the panel reviewing the state Foundation Aid formula urging the group to revise up to 10 points relating to education funding in New York. The seven Democratic Assemblymembers –
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On Sept. 11, 2001, when Jay Winuk heard that an airplane had crashed into each tower of the World Trade Center, he knew instinctively that his younger brother, Glenn, had rushed to the site to help. Glenn, 40, a partner
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As Westchester County executive in the 1980s and ‘90s, Andrew P. O’Rourke had several major accomplishments. Now the county plans to honor its second-longest tenured executive next year if the Board of Legislators approves the proposal for one of his
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Feedback from Mount Pleasant residents will be sought on a recently completed traffic study that evaluated portions of two state routes and a nearby residential neighborhood that has experienced high volume counts from cut-through traffic. Last week town officials discussed
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New Castle officials will be sending a land planning survey to residents in the coming weeks to help gauge public sentiment about potential future uses of town-owned land near Town Hall and the Chappaqua train station. The survey, the next
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When Mount Kisco officials, emergency responders and residents gather next Wednesday for the village’s 9/11 ceremony, for the 14th time they will commemorate the solemn occasion at the village’s September 11 memorial. It was members of the community’s volunteer fire
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It’s difficult to find any good to have come out of the national catastrophe 23 years ago on September 11. But thousands of people in New York and millions more across the United States take a step back around the
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