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Opponents of a pediatric nursing home’s proposed major expansion urged the New Castle Zoning Board of Appeals last Wednesday to call for an environmental impact study citing disappearance of wetlands and increased traffic as chief concerns. Critics of the 128,000-square-foot
Read MoreThe race on Tuesday for the open seat in the state Supreme Court’s Ninth Judicial District includes five counties in the lower Hudson Valley but the election has a distinctly local flavor. Democrat Gretchen Walsh, a Pleasantville resident, is up
Read MoreBy Arthur Cusano Westchester County Executive Rob Astorino helped kick off the annual Hudson Valley Restaurant Week in Pleasantville Thursday, and received a small honor of his own in the process. Astorino was joined by Pleasantville Mayor Peter Scherer at
Read MoreThe former Horace Greeley High School theater teacher who resigned following a complaint of inappropriate contact with students was arrested this morning for having engaged in sexual assault and multiple instances of improper sexual contact. Christopher Schraufnagel, 41, of Manhattan,
Read MoreFor the second time this month, a Pleasantville Cottage School student was arrested and charged with assaulting a fellow student, Mount Pleasant police said. Dastina Myers, 17, was arrested on Oct. 21 and charged with second-degree assault, a class D
Read MoreBy Neal Rentz and Arthur Cusano Loyal patrons of the All Westchester Saw Mill Multiplex Cinemas in Hawthorne will soon have to find another venue to see the latest movies. The Mount Pleasant Planning Board unanimously granted site plan approval
Read MoreA quarter century after Millwood Fire Department officials first explored building a new firehouse their dream became reality on Saturday morning. The department decommissioned its antiquated 91-year-old Fire Station No. 1 on Route 120 and moved into the just completed
Read MoreSolarize Westchester has selected the towns of Somers and New Castle to participate in a solar discount program that makes installing solar electric systems simpler and more affordable for residents and businesses. The Solarize Somers-New Castle program will launch with
Read MoreOf 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
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