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As part of a nationwide day of action, thousands of local residents gathered Saturday at the Mount Kisco Train Station for the “No Kings” protest — a festival-style rally blending patriotic pride with pointed criticism of former President Trump’s policies.
Read MoreBy Toby Rosewater For anyone who attended Pleasantville High School baseball games last season, a new, roughly 20-foot-high structure was hard to miss. Outfitted with wheels, white scaffolding, and a robust sound system, the glistening new press box sang over
Read MoreBy Chloe Kohl When Scarsdale residents Ron Schulhof and Michelle Sterling first started knocking on doors and posting flyers about food scrap recycling, they didn’t know how many locals would actually listen. Eight years later, their grassroots effort has helped
Read MoreNames of some people in this story have been changed to protect their safety. By Miriam Gold Kelly Cruz (a pseudonym), a Mexican immigrant who has lived in Yonkers for more than two decades, worries constantly about being deported—and so
Read MoreBy Spenser Walsh Despite gloomy skies and serious political themes, thousands gathered Saturday at Mount Kisco Train Station for the “No Kings” protest — a passionate, festival-style event where organizers created a carnival-like atmosphere to mirror what they called the
Read MoreBy Tomás Thor One might spot a honeybee mid-flight; or a Lord of the Rings movie playing on a Chromebook; or the word “belonging,” between bursts of color. No matter what catches the eye first, the beauty of Chappaqua is
Read MoreBy Anna Carpinelli With tensions rising over battery storage projects near schools and neighborhoods, the Mount Pleasant Town Board will hold a work session next Tuesday, June 17, to discuss new zoning rules with its planning consultant as proponents cite
Read MoreBy Caroline Haviland A new national study warning of a major spike in childhood tooth decay, combined with a headline-making fluoride ban in Florida, is putting fresh focus on Yorktown’s decision last year to suspend fluoridation of its public water
Read MoreThis week on Local Matters Westchester, we spoke with Larry Beilenson, board co-chair of Westchester Residential Opportunities (WRO) and son of the late founder, Nick Beilenson. Larry shared insights on WRO’s founding in 1968 to combat housing discrimination, what he
Read MoreThe Town of Mount Pleasant announced Tuesday that it has reached a settlement with the JCCA in federal court, resolving a lawsuit the agency filed earlier this spring challenging the town’s emergency orders aimed at blocking the sheltering of migrant
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