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After weeks of discussion, the Mount Pleasant Board of Education made it official last week. A $51.3 million 2011-12 budget, which includes a 3.9 percent property tax hike, will be put for voter approval on May 17. North Castle residents
Read moreThe Summercliff Players are getting ready to hear the sound of music. The theater company will be performing “The Sound of Music” in July. An interest meeting will be held on Monday, April 26 at 7 p.m. at the Briarcliff
Read moreThe N.A.T.U.R.E. Club at Pace University in Pleasantville will be hosting Atka the wolf on Friday. Atka, an Arctic gray wolf from the Wolf Conservation Center in South Salem, will be at Setter’s Café in the Kessel Student Center at
Read moreDays after chairing a controversial Homeland Security Committee hearing, Sen. Greg Ball reported receiving a package containing a threatening letter and stuffed animal, both containing anti-Semitic messages. The letter, addressed from Jameela Barnette from Georgia, calls Ball a “Dead Man
Read moreWestchester County Legislator Bill Burton announced he would not seek reelection to the seat he has held since 2005. Burton represents Briarcliff, Cortlandt, Croton and Ossining. An Ossining resident, Burton was the town supervisor from 1991 to 1997. Burton currently
Read moreThe Yorktown Examiner will be working this month towards once again expanding its reach for the newspaper’s readers and advertisers. This week, in earnest, the paper introduces Peekskill coverage to its news and editorial pages. (see this week’s print edition
Read moreDemocratic Congresswoman Nita Lowey, responding to the budget plan unveiled by House Republicans, labeled the 2012 proposal “extreme and radical.” “It would privatize Medicare, turning a program that has served senior citizens well since 1965 into a voucher system that
Read morePleasantville High School’s self-proclaimed second most-famous alumnus is coming home. Humorist Dave Barry, a 1965 Pleasantville High School graduate, will be on hand for a talk and book signing at the White Plains City Center Barnes & Noble on Wednesday,
Read moreWhen Patricia Konjoian’s daughter Jennifer was about eight years old, her behavior at times was alarming. Routine situations at home with her parents and two siblings would tee Jennifer off into outbursts. After trips to doctors and prescriptions to various
Read moreThe hit musical, Singin’ in the Rain, a singing and dancing extravaganza based on one of the most celebrated and beloved movies of all time, has tapped it way onto Westchester Broadway Theatre’s stage. It is showing through June 12.
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