The Northern Westchester Examiner

The Lakeland Board of Education has selected School Leadership, LLC as its superintendent search firm. The vote took place at its board meeting on November 7 where the firm was approved unanimously by the board members in attendance. Current Superintendent Dr. George Stone

Get your talents rehearsed and come win big cash prizes with local celebrity judges. On the evening of Friday, February 7, 2020, Yorktown’s Got Talent will be held at the Yorktown Stage. The event is a fundraiser for local Cub Scout packs.

The controversial proposal to create Special Sewer District #2 for residents of the Lake Lincolndale and Lake Shenorock sections of Somers is on hold. A referendum for residents of the two lake communities had been set for December 11 but

  Democrat Maritza Fugaro-Norton defeated 12-year incumbent Dan McCarthy in the race for Cortlandt Town Justice Tuesday. Fugaro-Norton, who has resided in Cortlandt for the last 14 years and has been a Court Attorney in the Westchester County Family Court

Matt Slater was elected Yorktown Supervisor Tuesday with a convincing victory over incumbent first-term Supervisor Ilan Gilbert. With 100% of the votes reported by the Westchester Board of Elections, Slater, 33, received 5,543 votes (53%) to 4,936 (47%), for Gilbert,

Peekskill Mayor Andre Rainey was reelected to a second term Tuesday, while incumbent councilwomen Vivian McKenzie, Patricia Riley and Kathleen Talbot were also returned to office by voters in a Democratic sweep. According to unofficial results from the Westchester Board

It appears the friendship Frank Catalina and Colin Smith shared prior to the two attorneys going head-to-head for a seat on the Westchester County Board of Legislators this year may have been fractured by campaign mudslinging. Catalina took to Facebook

Ralph Martinelli, the longtime publisher of Westchester Magazine, died on Saturday at 57. An Ossining resident, Martinelli was a legendary Westchester figure, and his magazine’s events attracted the county’s business, political and social elite. With more than a quarter century

Frances S. Gibbs, the first woman elected mayor of the City of Peekskill, died Wednesday at her home. She was 93. A lifelong resident of Peekskill, she graduated from NYU where she was the University’s first woman to hold the

A father and son both in desperate need of kidney transplants received a new lease of life this summer. The Cancro family of Cortlandt first went public with their household crisis in January in The Northern Westchester Examiner. James Cancro,