The Northern Westchester Examiner

Taxes in Peekskill are slated to increase 2.31% under the 2018 tentative budget released by City Manager Richard Leins Friday. If approved unchanged by the Common Council, the average single-family home residence in the city, assessed at $8,800, would pay

A bi-partisan citizens’ committee is asking the six major candidates in Yorktown to pledge if elected they will honor 10 principles for an ethical and transparent town government. The newly formed Subcommittee on Ethics and Transparency of Yorktown Together sprang

  An executive session discussion and apparent vote by the Yorktown Town Board last week regarding a proposed resolution to hire outside counsel to defend Supervisor Michael Grace over an ethics complaint has town officials pointing fingers at each other.

Local officials learned last week that a portion of site that houses the Indian Point nuclear power plants in the Village of Buchanan could be set aside for possible development while the facility is being decommissioned. During the second meeting

A Yonkers man was charged Tuesday with burglarizing a jewelry store and a barber shop in the Roma Building in Yorktown Heights. Yorktown Police received an anonymous call at approximately 3:44 a.m. on September 26 of a possible burglary in

Amending the Town of Yorktown’s Zoning Code to allow a fitness center to take over the bottom level space currently occupied by Sears at the Jefferson Valley Mall was met with some resistance last week. Most of the concerns were

St. Patrick’s Church in Yorktown was one of several parishes in Westchester that was the victim of a fraudulent scheme of a Las Vegas travel agent who was charged earlier this month with stealing more than $220,000 in connection with

By Rick Pezzullo Clayton Carpenter first left his mark in the community as a scholastic track and field athlete at Lakeland High School. He went on to graduate from the U.S. Military Academy at West Point in 2005 and was

  The Yorktown Town Board is facing criticism for its recent support of Westchester County Executive Rob Astorino’s controversial veto of the Immigration Protection Act, a bill approved by the Board of Legislators that would restrain Westchester from using its

By Rick Pezzullo Twenty years of patience and persistence will soon pay off for Peekskill and 16 future homeowners of newly built townhomes. Last Thursday, Ginsburg Development Companies (GDC) Principal Martin Ginsburg and city officials held a groundbreaking ceremony to