Letters

Let’s see if I have this straight: COVID positivity in Putnam County is up 49 percent, Carmel schools moved to remote learning on Dec. 17, professional sports teams have postponed games and Radio City has canceled the Christmas show but our

As the owner of The Pub, located on Commerce Street in Yorktown Heights, I can tell you that the Yorktown Heights Business District needs help. The kind of help that the Overlay District legislation can provide, and I am officially throwing

As I see it, you break it, you own it. Putnam County (and any other county that refuses to enforce a governor’s order relating to infectious disease) should not be eligible for any additional taxpayer funded COVID-19 rescue funds that may

No shirt, no shoes, no service, no problem.  No shirt, no shoes, no mask, no service…Oh my God the sky is falling!  This is the logic of Putnam County Executive MaryEllen Odell. Store management and employees routinely refuse to serve

The outdoor dining and retail initiative that was put in place to facilitate commerce for our impacted businesses is set to expire on Dec 31. If you recall the initiative, which the Yorktown Chamber of Commerce helped craft and advocated

The publisher of The Examiner recently appealed to readers to join the evolving world of media subscriptions and to subscribe to The Examiner. Newspapers and journalism coexisted for a long time. In fact, I delivered newspapers on a bicycle when

Recently, I received correspondence from Assemblyman Kevin Byrne declaring his candidacy to serve as our next Putnam County executive. I then read about his announcement in this newspaper. I was excited with Kevin’s decision and I contacted him to offer

Is Yorktown teetering on the verge of becoming a metropolis? Can Yorktown remain a sleepy bedroom community with “overlay mania” planning to steamroll through neighborhoods building several Yonkers-esque 150-plus-apartment complexes with no end in sight?  In January, Yorktown will have an entirely Republican Town

A big thank you to the Putnam County Department of Health’s nurses and employees for their tireless efforts since the beginning of the year to make the COVID-19 vaccine available through their clinics. They are doing a wonderful job. And

There was a time when political candidates were willing to face the voters in forums, no matter the party they belong to. It was expected of them. How else would people know what their platforms were, what made them different