News from The Northern Westchester Examiner, covering Yorktown Heights, Shrub Oak, Jefferson Valley, Mohegan Lake, Crompond, Ossining, Peekskill, Cortlandt, Croton, Somers, Westchester County, NY
Two of the so-called “Montrose 9” protestors who were arrested last November for disorderly conduct for blocking access to Spectra Energy’s construction yard on Route 9A took the stand Thursday as their trial resumed in Cortlandt Town Court. Linda Snider
Read MoreTwo recent Somers High School graduates were charged by State Police with vandalizing about 43 school buses in January, causing more than $29,000 worth of damage. Jonas Moseby, 18, and an unidentified 18-year-old male, both of whom graduated from Somers
Read MoreU.S. Congressman Sean Patrick Maloney (D) and Hudson Riverkeeper President Paul Gallay called Monday for the immediate shutdown of Unit 2 at the Indian Point nuclear power facility in Buchanan to analyze the cause of 227 bolts recently having been
Read MoreThree 23-year-old men were charged by Peekskill Police with possessing a loaded handgun following a traffic stop June 13 on the Bear Mountain Parkway. Officer Jonathan Mosquera pulled over a 2005 Audi after observing the driver, Garfield Holland, a resident
Read MoreSeveral hundred residents gathered with friends and neighbors alongside total strangers early Thursday evening for a prayer vigil at Peekskill’s Riverfront Green to find comfort and healing following last weekend’s horrific shooting in Orlando. Speakers during the roughly hour-long event
Read MoreNeighbors who opposed the rezoning of a property on Lexington Avenue that was unanimously approved by the Yorktown Town Board last week are considering taking legal action. The board voted to rezone the site at 3574 Lexington Avenue, located near
Read MoreThe federal Nuclear Regulatory Committee told those on hand for an annual hearing in Tarrytown last week the Indian Point nuclear power facility in Buchanan is running satisfactorily. But many of the hundreds of people in attendance for the June
Read MoreA year after being enthusiastically welcomed as the new Ossining village manager, Abraham Zambrano has exited Village Hall. Zambrano’s May 31 departure from his $190,000 annual position was announced by Mayor Victoria Gearity as a footnote in a press release
Read MoreAt its May 23 meeting, the Yorktown Board of Education appointed Lisa O’Shea to the position of Assistant Superintendent for Curriculum and Instruction, effective July 1. The post had been held for 10 years by Dr. Florence O’Connor, who announced
Read MoreA new era will soon begin at New York-Presbyterian/Hudson Valley Hospital in Cortlandt. After 29 years as president, John Federspiel is retiring July 1 and will be succeeded by Stacey Petrower, a resident of Peekskill and current chief operating officer
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