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Of the thousands of families that come to the trauma center at Westchester Medical Center each year, only about half expected to be there. The other half arrive following a medical emergency, like Ben and Debbie Lieberman of Chappaqua, whose
Read MoreA candidate for New Castle Town Board accused Supervisor Robert Greenstein last week of trying to haul him before the town’s Board of Ethics in a politically motivated attempt to sully his reputation as Election Day approaches. Jeremy Saland, one of the town’s three prosecutors and running on the Democratic slate opposing the Republican-backed Team New Castle 2.0 ticket
Read MoreDemolition has begun at a former Pleasantville business complex that will soon become a luxury townhouse development. Mayor Peter Scherer made the announcement at last week’s village board meeting, saying he had received calls from residents curious about the now-bustling
Read MoreA proposal to bring Modell’s Sporting Goods to the site of the former Borders bookstore was thrown into doubt last week as most of the Mount Kisco Planning Board expressed opposition to the application. Four of the five board members
Read MoreIn 2011, Dan Foster headed to Lincoln Center to take in a new Off-Broadway play and was enthralled with what he saw. Foster, co-founder of Hudson Stage Company and a longtime actor and stage director, was at the original production
Read MoreFaced with a shortage of parking spaces at the Hawthorne and Valhalla Metro-North station lots, Mount Pleasant officials favor a plan to end nonresident annual parking passes and establish a fund to maintain the lots. Town Clerk Patricia June Scova,
Read MoreA newly formed task force designed to solicit public feedback regarding important family issues reached out to Mount Kisco and northern Westchester residents last week in its latest stop around the county. The roughly 40-member Family Task Force, comprised of
Read MoreThe Village of Pleasantville and the Pleasantville Special Education Parent Teacher Association (SEPTA) are looking for state and county help to expand the popular VIP Program for keeping developmentally disabled youths safe. The topic was discussed extensively at Safety Summit
Read MoreThe planned temporary closure of a massive watershed pipeline will force additional chemical treatment of drinking water at the Pleasantville plant and an expansion of the facility. New York City Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) officials told village planning commission
Read MoreFocus on Nature, a series that has been held annually at the Jacob Burns Film Center in Pleasantville since 2010, returns this week with films addressing the importance of environmental protection. This year’s series, scheduled for Oct. 8-28, includes six
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