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To the applause of dozens of residents who packed Mount Pleasant Town Hall Wednesday night, officials announced that the controversial Hawthorne Cedar Knolls will be closing in six to nine months. The announcement was made by state Sen. Terrence Murphy
Read MoreDavid Gelber, creator and executive producer of “The Years of Living Dangerously,” the Emmy award winning series on Climate Change, and David Yarnold, president and CEO of the National Audubon Society, are the keynote speakers at this year’s annual Bedford 2020 Climate
Read MoreThe North Castle Town Board appeared disinterested last week in entertaining a request from Armonk developer Michael Fareri to relocate affordable units from his condominium project at the old lumberyard on Bedford Road. Fareri made another plea to the board
Read MoreIn the aftermath of the Jan. 22 incident in which a resident of the Hawthorne Cedar Knolls High School walked into a neighboring home and attempted to steal some items, Mount Pleasant Supervisor Carl Fulgenzi and state Sen. Terrence Murphy
Read MoreA GoFundMe fundraiser has been started following the suicide of a Pleasantville teen. Brian Halloran, a 19-year-old freshman at the University of South Carolina, apparently took his own life last Tuesday while at college. Despite the tragedy, the Halloran family
Read MoreA public hearing on Pleasantville’s proposed legislation to ban single-use plastic bags suddenly became contentious Monday night when the Key Food Marketplace owner threatened to short-circuit a planned expansion if the law was approved. Throughout the nearly three-hour hearing on
Read MoreA proposal for a community solar power project on a portion of the Oakwood Cemetery on Lexington Avenue received generally favorable comments during a joint Mount Kisco Village Board and Planning Board meeting last week. The project is proposed by
Read MoreFirst-term New Castle Councilman Jeremy Saland is pondering a run for the 40th state Senate District, a move that would see him attempt to follow in his father’s footsteps to the state legislature. Saland, 43, will decide in the next
Read MoreThe Village of Pleasantville announced the appointment Monday of its new village administrator. Fredrick (Eric) Morrissey will begin his tenure with the village on Feb. 15, succeeding longtime Administrator Patricia Dwyer. Dwyer, who is retiring from the position after serving
Read MoreMount Kisco officials last week expressed support for a proposal to move a ShopRite supermarket from Bedford Hills to the Diamond Properties complex on North Bedford Road. Diamond Properties has signed a lease to move ShopRite supermarket from its current
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