News from The Northern Westchester Examiner, covering Yorktown Heights, Shrub Oak, Jefferson Valley, Mohegan Lake, Crompond, Ossining, Peekskill, Cortlandt, Croton, Somers, Westchester County, NY
Major Clayton O. Carpenter, a Lakeland High School and West Point graduate who was killed in January 2014 flying a helicopter in a training mission in Georgia while serving in Operation Iraqi Freedom, was recently inducted in the New York
Read MoreFamily, friends and local officials gathered together Saturday morning to honor a Yorktown resident who died five years ago in Afghanistan during Operation Enduring Freedom. The Hunterbrook Bridge on Route 129 that crosses over the Croton Reservoir was renamed the
Read MoreAnother corporate giant is packing its bags and leaving the Town of Somers. During a site wide meeting with employees last Monday, IBM officials made the announcement that it would be selling its more than 700-acre site off Route 100
Read MoreThe design of the City of Peekskill’s recently opened Southern Waterfront Park and Trailway on the Hudson River has caught the eye of onlookers from afar. Peekskill officials announced last week the city will be recognized on June 2 by
Read MoreA formal complaint filed by Peekskill Mayor Frank Catalina against Philipstown Town Justice Alan Steiner for professional misconduct in March was dismissed by the New York State Commission on Judicial Conduct earlier this month as “without merit.” In a May
Read MoreSchool budgets in seven districts in northern Westchester were comfortably approved by voters on Tuesday despite glaring low turnouts. The largest spending plan in the area, $161 million, in the Lakeland School District passed 917-243. As a result, Yorktown homeowners
Read MoreA town sports club feels Yorktown officials are off base after balking at approving funds to make needed repairs at three fields in the Downing Park complex off Route 202. Members of the Yorktown Athletic Club (YAC), including young players,
Read MoreThree incumbents are hoping to retain their seats on the Lakeland Board of Education for the next three years in the May 17 districtwide election, but first-time candidate Mike Sancimino is looking to oust one of the current trustees. Sancimino,
Read MoreFour candidates are seeking three available seats on the Hendrick Hudson Board of Education in the May 17 election. Two longtime incumbents, Marion Walsh, who has been a trustee since 2007, and Carson Jacobs, a trustee since 2010, have decided
Read MoreAllegations made by a Cortlandt family that their son was subjected to “intentional bullying” and discriminated against by staff at Van Cortlandtville Elementary School on the basis of a learning disability has caught the attention of the U.S. Department of
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