The Carmel Board of Education voted unanimously earlier this month to repeal a $10.9 million bond that was approved by voters in 2019 to construct a bus maintenance facility. It was the first time in 70 years that a Board
Read MoreBoard of Education seats in five local Northern Westchester Examiner area school districts will be contested on May 16. In Hendrick Hudson, where district parents, teachers and board members have been divided over The Princeton Plan elementary school setup, five
Read MoreThe developer of a mixed-use project on Underhill Avenue in Yorktown is seeking a tax abatement agreement for planned road improvements that are considered a key component of receiving site plan approval. During a special Planning Board work session on
Read MoreThe Yorktown Town Board held a public scoping session last week for a proposed large-scale housing project in Jefferson Valley. Yorktown Development AMS LLC is planning to construct 250 luxury, multi-family apartments and for sale townhouses on a 35.5-acre property
Read MoreThe Westchester County District Attorney’s Office, Peekskill NAACP, Peekskill Police Department and the City of Peekskill will be hosting a community gun buyback event on Sat., April 22 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the United Methodist Church located
Read MoreThe company that operates the Algonquin Gas Pipeline will be paying the Town of Yorktown $1,050,000 as compensation for the three-month closure of Woodlands Legacy Fields due to a sinkhole created in December. Yorktown Supervisor Tom Diana negotiated the compensation
Read MoreBy Louise Rose Grant Clutching battery operated candles, a crowd of Westchester County residents, along with federal, state and local political leaders, came together last Thursday night to urge Governor Kathy Hochul to sign into law tenant protection rights for
Read MoreElected officials and environmental activists are applying full-court pressure on Holtec International despite the company’s decision last week to postpone dumping 45,000 gallons of radioactive wastewater from Indian Point’s spent fuel rods into the Hudson River. On April 13, Holtec,
Read MoreA Yonkers man was sentenced Friday to 35 years in federal prison for the March 2011 murder of a 21-year-old White Plains man. According to Damian Williams, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, Darnell Kidd,
Read MoreThe Hendrick Hudson Board of Education surprisingly voted last week to postpone an expected change to the Princeton Plan structure in the district’s elementary schools. Following pleas from teachers’ union members, former board members and parents, the board decided in
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