You could sense the collective sigh of relief from the four corners of northeast Putnam County; Kent, Carmel, Lake Carmel and Patterson when the Carmel Rams ended three years of misery, and then some, with a 57-50 double-overtime defeat of
Read MoreThey gathered at Kennedy Catholic a couple of weeks ago to celebrate the 10-year reunion of one of the greatest basketball teams this scribe has ever covered in a quarter century on the northern tier of the Section 1 hoops
Read MoreHad he busted off one more big gainer, YORKTOWN junior Nick Santavicca would have broken John Fennessy’s school record of 364 rushing yards. Instead, the horse that Yorktown rode to its 32-21 victory over host Horace Greeley last Thursday, settled
Read MoreWhen former NYS Football Coach of the Year Ron Santavicca left Yorktown High for a second time in 2004 there were some hurt feelings. Breakups are never easy, so parting ways can get a little messy. Besides some hurt feelings
Read MoreJohn Jay CR vs. Somers was everything we billed it to be, perhaps Section 1’s finest Class A regular season game of the 2014 campaign; complete with a 26-21 come-from-behind win by the host Tuskers before a capacity crowd on
Read MoreKarma can be a heck of a thing to battle. Lou Cilento, owner of Ciro’s Restaurant & Lounge, gets that. Of the scores of owners to have occupied the 115 Secor Rd. address in Mahopac, few have achieved the necessary
Read MoreEven the most avid exercise enthusiast dislikes heat and humidity. It is the one thing that can turn a miler into a couch potato. Heat and humidity are perhaps the two elements that, when combined, factor into the most skipped
Read MoreFormer Kennedy Catholic grad Matt Maher had slightly better-than-average speed coming out of Kennedy High back in 2005, but his skill sets were enough to earn the two-sport star a roster spot at Fairleigh Dickinson University where he played shortstop
Read MoreALBANY — Ossining High picked a bad time to have, perhaps, its only sub-par performance of the most remarkable girls’ basketball season in school history; a season that ended Saturday evening at the hands of Long Island Lutheran, who defeated Ossining 63-57 in
Read MoreBy Ray Gallagher I’m a proud Putnam County guy, through and through. Born and raised in the Bronx until I was nine, my roots were pulled from the heaving cement of 226 Naples Terrace and transplanted in the summer of
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