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News from The Examiner, covering Armonk-North Castle, Briarcliff, Chappaqua-New Castle, Mount Kisco, Mount Pleasant, Pleasantville, Westchester County, NY.
The North Castle Town Board is likely to form a technology task force that will explore ways for officials to more effectively engage residents, respond to misinformation and bolster protection from cybersecurity threats. Councilman Saleem Hussain, who works at IBM
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Mount Pleasant’s preliminary 2022 town budget has a proposed tax levy increase of 2.9 percent as officials look to stay under the tax cap despite a nearly 13 percent spike in health insurance costs for next year. The $56.5 million
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New York State COVID-19 vaccination efforts for residents 12 years old and up transitioned from the County Center in White Plains to Westchester Medical Center last Friday. Also, vaccination for children ages 5 to 11 is available at WMCHealth’s Maria
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With a lot of hard work by volunteer organizers and the Town of North Castle, Armonk will be celebrating the return of Frosty the Snowman this Sunday afternoon. The 12th annual Frosty Day is ready to roll, an afternoon of
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After Thanksgiving Day, it’s time to celebrate the holiday season, and one way to do that is at Westchester’s Winter Wonderland Drive-thru Holiday Light Extravaganza at Kensico Dam Plaza in Valhalla. This is the eighth year the festival has taken
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For years, Shaul Dover has been hoping to open a jazz club somewhere in northern Westchester that contributes to the county’s arts scene. Dover will finally see his dream realized early next year with the planned opening of Jazz on
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New Castle officials are considering contracting with a global nonprofit organization to bring in artists from around the world to paint street art with social justice themes in downtown Chappaqua. Street Art for Mankind has attracted artists to paint public
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For those in the world of journalism, knowing and working with veteran reporter Herbert Hadad was a special honor. An award-winning journalist and storyteller, Hadad’s news stories always put the reader at the scene with the people involved, backed by
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The North Castle Town Board awarded a contract to a Dutchess County excavating contractor last week to remove road millings that are stored at the town’s highway department grounds over the next couple of months. Officials approved the base bid
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Chris Burke has found a way to make a living in the music business and continue to find a way to indulge in all the engineering and recording equipment he loves to use in his downstairs studio at his Chappaqua
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