News from The Northern Westchester Examiner, covering Yorktown Heights, Shrub Oak, Jefferson Valley, Mohegan Lake, Crompond, Ossining, Peekskill, Cortlandt, Croton, Somers, Westchester County, NY
On Saturday, November 17, at 2 p.m., the Pines Bridge Monument Committee, the Yorktown Historical Society, and the Town of Yorktown will together unveil the Pines Bridge Monument at Railroad Park in Yorktown. The public is invited to join in
Read MoreA private boarding high school is being proposed for the 723-acre site that formerly housed IBM in Somers. The plan being proposed by Evergreen Ridge LLC for property owned by 294 Route 100 LLC was presented at the November 8
Read MoreA Yorktown High School graduate became the youngest woman ever elected to Congress last week. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, 29, a member of the Huskers 2007 graduating class, received 78% of the votes cast on Election Day in defeating Republican Anthony Pappas
Read MoreThe newly paved parking lot in the Cortlandt Crossing Shopping Center was packed to capacity and the lines inside were long as curious customers got up early Sunday morning to check out what the new state-of-the-art ShopRite supermarket had to
Read MoreOssining High School senior John Sukumar received a Rising Scientist Award last month from the Child Mind Institute and the City University of New York for his research on attention deficit hyperactivity disorder. The Child Mind Institute and the CUNY
Read MoreOssining Mayor Victoria Gearity convincingly defeated Trustee Omar Herrera Tuesday to earn a third two-year term leading the village of almost 30,000 residents. According to unofficial results tallied by Gearity’s campaign team at Sing Sing Kill Brewery on Spring Street,
Read MoreA part-time parking enforcement officer with the Town of Cortlandt remains hospitalized recovering from injuries sustained recently in an encounter with a deer on her property located on the Montrose/Verplanck border. Michael Preziosi, director of the town’s Department of Technical
Read MoreTwo-term incumbent Mayor Victoria Gearity and Trustee Omar Herrera will be squaring off for the second time in two months on November 6 for the mayoral seat in the Village of Ossining, which carries with it an annual salary of
Read MoreThe nomination of Bernard F. Curry III, dealer principal at Curry Honda in Yorktown Heights, for the 2019 TIME Dealer of the Year award was announced recently by TIME. Curry is one of a select group of 51 dealer nominees
Read MoreA 2003 Hendrick Hudson High School graduate and Army veteran who was injured during a mission in Iraq was honored last week with a plaque at Montrose Veterans Park. Kevin Cooke, 34, a Purple Heart recipient, was the fourth local
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