News from The Northern Westchester Examiner, covering Yorktown Heights, Shrub Oak, Jefferson Valley, Mohegan Lake, Crompond, Ossining, Peekskill, Cortlandt, Croton, Somers, Westchester County, NY
Budgets for 2019 were adopted by boards in four local municipalities recently. Yorktown In Yorktown, a $58.6 million budget with a 2.5% tax hike for residents was approved unanimously last week. Spending increased by $1.2 million from this year. Supervisor
Read MorePeekskill residents last week answered a call from Mayor Andre Rainey to turn out and voice their concerns about the proposed relocation of the only year-round, 24-hour shelter for homeless adults in northern Westchester. For nearly two hours last Monday
Read MoreThe vandal who defaced a copy of The Northern Westchester Examiner with swastikas and the letters KKK should be criminally charged, the newspaper’s lawyer contends in a letter he’s preparing to send to the Peekskill Police Department, the District Attorney’s
Read MoreA Peekskill man was arrested Thursday for allegedly using an axe to forcibly take a holiday gift from a co-worker in Putnam Valley. According to State Police in Cortlandt, at approximately 8:45 a.m., troopers were dispatched to Oscawana Lake Road
Read MoreRising country singer Jessica Lynn is bringing the holiday cheer to the Paramount Hudson Valley in Peekskill this weekend for her annual Christmas spectacular. On Saturday evening, Lynn will return to her home county with her family band and
Read MorePeekskill police have located the suspect who defaced a November copy of The Northern Westchester Examiner with swastikas and the letters KKK. Although the suspect admitted to writing the racist symbols, the police department maintained criminal charges cannot be brought,
Read MoreLocal officials were joined by area veterans Friday at Buchanan Village Hall to remember the savage attack on Pearl Harbor. During the hour-long ceremony, the roughly 40 veterans and community members in attendance commemorated the 77th anniversary of the surprise
Read MoreThe results of water tests taken in the surrounding area of a proposed luxury substance abuse hospital on Quaker Ridge Road in Cortlandt were unveiled to the town’s Planning Board last week. Water concerns have been one of several issues
Read MoreA Peekskill U.S. Post Office employee was arrested Tuesday for allegedly stealing thousands of dollars worth of stamps over a four-month period. Antonio Pinheiro, 44, a resident of Westtown in Orange County, was charged with grand larceny in the third
Read MoreSpirited debate erupted at the Croton Free Library last week during a raucous public forum addressing the possibility that New York State lawmakers will legalize recreational marijuana next year. With state officials weighing legalization, Assemblywoman Sandy Galef (D-Ossining) hosted a
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