News from The Examiner, covering Armonk-North Castle, Briarcliff, Chappaqua-New Castle, Mount Kisco, Mount Pleasant, Pleasantville, Westchester County, NY.
The three-year process to update New Castle’s Comprehensive Plan is expected to conclude this fall as the town board may vote as soon as November to approve the plan’s first substantive revisions since 1989. Kevin Dworka, a land use consultant
Read MoreThe Horace Greeley High School speech teacher and drama coach who was placed on paid leave in June after being investigated by police for alleged misconduct with students resigned his position Friday afternoon. Christopher Schraufnagel, a teacher for 12 years
Read MoreThe criteria for getting affordable housing in Westchester development projects is a complicated formula and time is of the essence, a county housing official told New Castle officials at the town’s Aug. 26 planning board meeting. The planning board is
Read MorePleasantville resident Eileen McFadden has always opened her heart and her home to animals. As a child, she often enticed many of the neighborhood pets to come home with her, then tell her mother it was urgent that they take
Read MoreA longtime North Castle resident is charging that the town is proposing an illegal method of paying for much-needed repairs of Long Pond Dam and has asked the state comptroller’s office to step in. An Aug. 13 letter written on
Read MoreA proposal to bring a Modell’s to the former Borders site in Mount Kisco sparked some debate at last week’s village planning board meeting between an owner of an independent sporting goods store and another merchant. The roughly 20,000-square-foot space
Read More“It doesn’t really smell like coconuts,” said Heath Steelman, a project manager for Global Turf. “It smells like dirt.” Steelman was talking about a new type of eco-friendly turf field surface being installed for the first time on the
Read MoreWestchester County Police are seeking the public’s help in identifying a man who robbed a Wells Fargo bank branch at 195 N. Bedford Rd. in Mount Kisco Saturday morning. The man, who was wearing a hard hat and a reflective
Read MoreBy Sarah Bonanno The Pleasantville Village Board approved Monday night the village’s participation in a Community Choice Aggregation Energy Program (CCA), a pilot program through Sustainable Westchester designed to save residents money on their energy bills. Sustainable Westchester, a nonprofit
Read MoreCounty officials are considering a series of small property acquisitions that would sprinkle one to three units of affordable housing on parcels in hopes of helping the county comply with the federal housing settlement. Board of Legislators Chairman Michael Kaplowitz said
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