News from The Examiner, covering Armonk-North Castle, Briarcliff, Chappaqua-New Castle, Mount Kisco, Mount Pleasant, Pleasantville, Westchester County, NY.
The state Office of Mental Health (OMH) has rejected an application from a California-based residential treatment center to open a facility for teenagers in Armonk. In an Oct. 11 decision, OMH Commissioner Ann Marie Sullivan cited Paradigm Treatment Centers’ failure
Read MoreEscalating tensions between opponents of the Sunshine Children’s Home and Rehabilitation Center’s proposed expansion and New Castle Supervisor Robert Greenstein have erupted with allegations that the supervisor is trying to portray them as anti-Semitic. Emotions have been running high after
Read MoreBy Jon Craig A panel of psychiatrists, parents and representatives from nonprofit organizations offered personal and professional insights into treating potentially deadly addictions to prescription painkillers and heroin during last week’s fourth annual HealthTech conference in Tarrytown. Panelists agreed that
Read MoreWestchester County police have launched an investigation into two swastikas on an exterior wall of Bet Torah synagogue in Mount Kisco last weekend. Synagogue staff discovered the two 2-foot-by-2-foot swastikas on Sunday morning on the wall of the synagogue’s nursery
Read MoreThe process of updating North Castle’s Comprehensive Plan is scheduled to move forward next week when the town’s Steering Committee hosts a public hearing on the draft plan. A hearing has been set for Tuesday, Oct. 24 at Hergenhan Recreation
Read MoreNew Castle officials will draw up the paperwork to borrow as much as $18.2 million to pay for the Chappaqua infrastructure and streetscape project and a series of additional improvements throughout town. Last week, the Town Board submitted the list
Read MoreWhen Victor Ramon decided to join Boy Scouts in sixth grade, he had some catching up to do. Many of his fellow Scouts in Mount Kisco Troop 1 had started out at a much younger age. But six years later,
Read MoreFamilies from throughout the tristate area will descend on downtown Chappaqua this Saturday to meet popular authors and illustrators at the Chappaqua Children’s Book Festival. The event will take place outside Robert E. Bell Middle School from 10 a.m. to
Read MoreA 47-year-old Pleasantville man was arrested Thursday for allegedly pocketing the money sent to him by his business clients to pay their state and federal government withholding taxes and unemployment insurance premiums. Stefan Malagrinos, owner of the Hawthorne-based Manos Business
Read MoreRepresentatives from a company that builds assisted living units have revised their proposal to build a facility at the United Methodist Church property in Pleasantville. In a letter to the Village Board last week, Jerry Liang, senior vice president of
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