The Northern Westchester Examiner

  Westchester County Legislator John Testa, the board’s Republican minority leader, announced this morning he will not seek reelection in 2019. Testa, who will be completing his fifth term as a Westchester legislator, served the last six years as minority

Caring for the Hungry and Homeless of Peekskill, Inc. (CHHOP) has officially filed for a zoning text amendment with the City of Peekskill to relocate the Jan Peek House Shelter from North Water Street to 851 Washington Street. If a

Improvements to athletics fields and other playing surfaces at Lakeland and Walter Panas high schools are being planned over the next two years. Lakeland School District officials outlined plans and cost estimates before about 40 residents at a community forum

Residents of a Peekskill housing complex suffering from weeks of inconsistent heat and hot water continue to plead for help, and many community members have answered the call. Two frustrated residents of Dunbar Heights, Sandy Allen and Sheena Lee, launched

After a controversial vote last year in Ossining established the Emergency Tenant Protection Act (ETPA), some members of the Ossining Village Board are now taking steps to repeal legislation that provides rent stabilization to more than 2,000 tenants throughout the

The body of what appeared to be a white man was pulled from the water in the Croton Reservoir in Yorktown on Sunday. A rescue crew from the Department of Environmental Protection retrieved the body shortly after it was discovered

A Somers man has been identified as the driver killed in a one-car crash on the Saw Mill River Parkway in Bedford Hills Thursday that closed northbound traffic for more than six hours. Robert Leff, 51, a resident in the

The historic Paramount Theater in downtown Peekskill has closed its doors, but only for a few months to do some refurbishing. Abigail Adams, a spokesperson for Red House Entertainment, which has operated the Paramount since 2013 through a lease with

Could Westchester County be looking to consolidate police services with the Village of Buchanan as it has in the past with the towns of Cortlandt and Ossining and the Village of Mount Kisco? Westchester County Executive George Latimer made reference

Three activists who crawled into a 42-inch diameter steel pipe set to be pulled under the Hudson River near the Indian Point nuclear power plants in Verplanck in October 2016, halting construction of a fracked gas pipeline for 18 hours,