News from The Northern Westchester Examiner, covering Yorktown Heights, Shrub Oak, Jefferson Valley, Mohegan Lake, Crompond, Ossining, Peekskill, Cortlandt, Croton, Somers, Westchester County, NY
A funeral mass for a decorated U.S. Marines veteran who reportedly has no surviving family will be held Friday, April 26 at 10 a.m. at St. Elizabeth Ann Seton Church, 1377 East Main Street, in Shrub Oak. Robert Graham, 97,
Read MoreMohegan Lake was scheduled April 23 to be the recipient of a state funded pilot project to treat a long-standing nuisance of blue green algae that has forced the 103-acre natural waterway to shut down at times to swimmers and
Read MoreThe Somers school community is mourning the unexpected loss of a popular longtime physical education teacher at Primrose Elementary School. Dominic Narcisco, a 17-year teacher in the district, died in his sleep April 15. He was 39. “It is with
Read MoreA ceremony to mark National Former Prisoner of Way Recognition Day was held in the Town of Cortlandt last week. The event was led by the New York State Division of Veterans’ Affairs to recognize April 9 as the presidentially
Read MoreBy Tim Bradbury Alyse Mackey, a 27-year-old Lakeland High School Alumni, has dreamed of competing in the Special Olympics World Games for years. She has been participating in sports for nearly her whole life and is said by her peers
Read MoreJohn Mattis, a longtime member of the Cortlandt Zoning Board of Appeals and active participant in many community organizations, died unexpectedly April 10 at his home in Buchanan. He was 72. “We are all very saddened to hear about the
Read MoreJust in time for spring, two multi-purpose turf fields at the Granite Knolls Sports Complex off Stony Street in Shrub Oak are being targeted to open for use next week. Yorktown Parks Superintendent Todd Orlowski said final preparations are being
Read MoreA group of Mahopac and Somers residents is asking the Somers Town Board to follow in the footsteps of the Carmel Town Board and Putnam County Legislature in passing a resolution stating its opposition to state legislation approved earlier this
Read MoreHe never played in the NBA, but Angelo-Guiseppi “Hank” Luisetti was a master of his craft—a basketball legend in the 1930s who achieved such celebrity status that he starred in a movie as himself opposite Betty Grable. In a new
Read MoreAn application for a zoning law amendment that would allow a homeless shelter to be located in any commercial zone in the City of Peekskill still has not been withdrawn by a non-profit organization that was seeking to relocate the
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