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News from The Examiner, covering Armonk-North Castle, Briarcliff, Chappaqua-New Castle, Mount Kisco, Mount Pleasant, Pleasantville, Westchester County, NY.
Pace University is planning a full return to campus for the fall semester with full in-person classes, activities and events at all three of its campuses, including Pleasantville and White Plains. In announcing a return to a more traditional campus
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Lighthouse Youth Theatre, one of Westchester’s preeminent creative programs for children, is relocating from its Armonk studio to the Saw Mill Club in Mount Kisco this week. John Fanelli, Lighthouse’s founder and artistic director, said as the year-long pandemic-induced closure
Read moreThe Mount Kisco Planning Board will prepare to make a determination on Homeland Towers’ proposed cell tower next month despite the applicant having failed to appear before the board for the past two months’ meetings. In February, the Village Board
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About 100 feet from Danielle and Gibson Craig’s Pollywiggle Lane home in Pleasantville, a tall, clanging pile driver repeatedly hammers pressure-treated wood piles to help raise a 1.3-mile section of the Saw Mill River Parkway. Ear-splitting decibel levels from the
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It’s official: Pleasantville summer camp will start June 28 and run through Aug. 6. Parents can choose from two three-week sessions or one six-week session. The first three-week session is scheduled for June 28 through July 16, and the second
Read moreMount Kisco residents face a modest 1.25 percent tax rate increase for the village’s upcoming fiscal year that raises taxes on the average homeowner by about $47. Village Manager Ed Brancati presented the municipality’s $23.7 million proposed budget for 2021-22
Read moreMany homeowners want to do their part in contributing to a cleaner environment, and if they can save money on energy bills along the way, that’s even better. A company that recently expanded and moved to Mount Kisco is looking
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A public hearing has been scheduled for May 17 to hear comments on the 5.6-megawatt ground-mounted solar farm proposed for an unused portion of Gate of Heaven Cemetery in Hawthorne. The Mount Pleasant Planning Board set the date after the
Read moreMillwood Fire District taxpayers received encouraging news recently after commissioners decided to reissue bonds that will retire the firehouse expansion project debt two years earlier than scheduled, which will save about $1.1 million in interest. Fire district Treasurer Rose Cohen
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A former Mount Kisco village trustee has proposed a four-story, 16-unit apartment building on land he owns downtown behind the AT&T store and Frannie’s Goodie Shop on Main Street. Isi Albanese has introduced a conceptual plan that calls for 12
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