News from The Examiner, covering Armonk-North Castle, Briarcliff, Chappaqua-New Castle, Mount Kisco, Mount Pleasant, Pleasantville, Westchester County, NY.
The Mount Pleasant Industrial Development Agency (IDA) selected an Elmsford builder last week to construct a mixed-use project on an empty parcel in downtown Hawthorne across the street from the Metro-North station. Trinity Associates has entering negotiations with the IDA
Read MoreThe attorney for the applicant proposing a Mount Kisco solar farm appealed to the village’s Planning Board last week to move the project forward as questions about mitigating tree loss on the 25-acre property persists. William Null, representing SCS Sarles
Read MoreThe Bedford School District’s Finance Committee has recommended reducing the district’s planned $70 million district-wide facilities bond for this spring by $10 million to $15 million to provide school officials greater flexibility over the next decade. Three board members who
Read MoreNorth Castle officials are prepared to fight a local state senator’s bill to allow for as-of-right accessory dwelling units statewide by galvanizing other municipalities to raise opposition to their state representatives and Gov. Kathy Hochul. Last week, the Town Board
Read MoreThe first major benchmark for the Village of Pleasantville’s Manville Road Corridor Improvement Project has finally been reached. At last week’s Village Board meeting, Rich Williams from Insite Engineering, the company that is overseeing engineering for the work, told officials
Read MoreNew Castle will schedule a public hearing on extending the town’s affordable housing requirement into two commercial zones, an issue that elicited some strong words last week between Councilman Jeremy Saland and the board majority. Officials are contemplating legislation that
Read MoreAn 8,400-square foot home within Whippoorwill Country Club is one of the more exclusive neighborhoods in Westchester County and may be the last place you would expect a police raid. But on Jan. 25, North Castle police, along with personnel
Read MoreFrom the time that Adam Cohen first saw the Michael John LaChiusa musical “See What I Wanna See” after its 2005 debut, the music and the story has never left him. Cohen, the artistic director at Pleasantville’s Arc Stages, now
Read MoreOn Jan. 1, there was a major change to the well-known youth mentoring organization Big Brothers Big Sisters but the outfit’s mission hasn’t changed at all. For the first time in 65 years, the local chapter of Big Brothers Big
Read MoreNew Castle fire commissioners have agreed to delay the $17 million firehouse expansion and modernization referendum, citing challenges created by this winter’s COVID-19 surge and the need for more time to plan the project. The New Castle Fire District No.
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