News from The Northern Westchester Examiner, covering Yorktown Heights, Shrub Oak, Jefferson Valley, Mohegan Lake, Crompond, Ossining, Peekskill, Cortlandt, Croton, Somers, Westchester County, NY
Westchester County Executive Rob Astorino Friday announced $400,000 in funding to preserve the 172-acre Stuart’s Fruit Farm in Somers. The county’s contribution is the final financial piece of a broader $2.94 million effort to preserve the privately owned and operated
Read MoreYorktown’s self-proclaimed tax watchdog filed a lawsuit against the Town Board last week for voting to spend taxpayer funds to defend Supervisor Michael Grace against a conflict of interest grievance filed by former Supervisor Susan Siegel in his role as
Read MoreA ceremonial groundbreaking was held Thursday for a new Lowe’s home improvement store on Route 202 in Yorktown. The 124,000-square-foot project, being constructed on a 24-acre site just off the Taconic State Parkway that has been vacant for years after
Read MoreTwo brothers from Yorktown pled guilty in federal court Thursday to charges associated with taking part in a scheme to steal, transport and sell a shipment of approximately 1,200 computers, valued at more than $1 million, bound for two
Read MoreThe Town of Somers is in solid financial shape, the town board was told by a representative of its outside auditing firm on Oct. 12. Alan Kassay, a partner with O’Connor Davies, said his firm had given the town a
Read MoreYorktown and Somers residents were notified earlier this month that the Northern Westchester Joint Water Works (NWJWW) will no longer add fluoride to its drinking water produced at the Amawalk Water Treatment Facility. While nearly 100 percent of Somers’ daily
Read MoreIt was in late December of 2015 when Maria Lucas stepped on a wet rug in the basement of her home at 119 Friends Road in Yorktown that she discovered there was a flooding problem on her property. Nearly
Read MoreThe Town of Yorktown is hoping to get more control over a gas pipeline replacement project being performed by Con Edison that has created problems and complaints. Two weeks ago, town officials issued a stop work order on any future
Read MoreLike many people, Denise Giordano woke up in the early morning hours of October 2, turned on the television news and learned about the horrific actions of a gunman in Las Vegas that killed 58 people attending a country music
Read MoreA Cortlandt man died Wednesday from injuries suffered in a construction accident in Brewster. Keith Bonnes, 52, was pronounced dead at Danbury Hospital several hours after falling about 20 feet from Hydro Mobile scaffolding at a Honda dealership project on
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