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Today’s 5 Things: Cop Dies, Swastika Found, Mascot Banned, Piano Returned, Hoops Begins

November 29, 2022 Adam Stone

You’re reading a sample from the Examiner+ newsletter, available in full for subscribers. Join our partial access option for free here: Examiner News Hey all, Even as a community news organization, striving to highlight all the good works and happy moments

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50 Years After Landmark Equity Law, Fox Lane Softball Says Fight for Rights Continues

November 28, 2022 Adam Stone Bedford,  Mt. Kisco

District Emphasizes Program Progress Underway  Half a century ago, when Indiana Senator Birch Bayh helped shepherd Title IX into existence, he noted in a statement the limitations of federal legislation — gender equity written in the law books wouldn’t be

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Pro Baseball’s First Known Black Player (No, not Jackie)

November 17, 2022 Adam Stone

Our Local Equity Fights are the Latest Chapter in an Old Story  He was a Black baseball trailblazer. Organized pro ball’s first known African-American player. A Hall of Famer who starred right here in New York, a car ride from Westchester.

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Today’s 4 Things: Pedestrian Peril, Holiday Trains, Teacher Returns, Championship Dreams

November 16, 2022 Adam Stone

You’re reading a sample from the Examiner+ newsletter, available in full for subscribers. Join our partial access option for free here: Examiner News This is the first week of the fall when we take a bit of a quick breath.  After

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Examiner Wins Spot in Google News Initiative-Sponsored Program

November 11, 2022 Adam Stone

Let me say right out the gate, the remnants of uncertainty remain over whether it’s right to be updating our readership on The Examiner’s internal story. For a good dozen or so years, I was largely quiet and believed the

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Today’s 4 Things: Bad Motorists 🚗, Unhinged Parents 😱, One-Man Shows 🎭, Pigskin Previews 🏉

November 10, 2022 Adam Stone

This column first appeared in our Examiner+ email newsletter. Hey all, Let me start today with a local story I just can’t shake from my mind.  Examiner Editor-in-Chief Martin Wilbur reports how a pair of northern Westchester school districts —

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A Little (Moot) Inside Baseball On Last Night’s Election Coverage ✅

November 9, 2022 Adam Stone

This column first appeared in our Examiner+ email newsletter. It was a pretty wild night of election coverage as Democrats staved off the predicted “Red Wave” across the map but endured a black eye in a key local race with

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Mt. Kisco Man Preps for Flight of a Lifetime With Vet Father

November 3, 2022 Adam Stone

This column first appeared as a segment in our daily Examiner+ email newsletter. Anyone involved with civic life in Mt. Kisco almost certainly knows Mike McNamee and Mike’s wife, Bridget. Bridget and Mike McNamee are the people who shoot their

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Deep South to Pleasantville: An Activist’s Journey

October 20, 2022 Adam Stone

Local Man Honored for Affordable Housing Advocacy Imagine coming of age this way: 1) It’s the civil rights era. 2) You’re a white boy. 3) You live in the deep South. 4) Your family opposes segregation. 5) Black people are

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Mt. Kisco Native Enters ‘Shark Tank’

October 13, 2022 Adam Stone Mount Kisco

Local Parents Deliver Love, Independence   Sam Chason was just an adolescent, about 12 or 13, when a neighbor on Byram Lake Rd. in Mt. Kisco was about to ditch a ride-on mower.  One person’s junk was another young man’s

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