News from The Northern Westchester Examiner, covering Yorktown Heights, Shrub Oak, Jefferson Valley, Mohegan Lake, Crompond, Ossining, Peekskill, Cortlandt, Croton, Somers, Westchester County, NY
Fireworks that were cancelled in July by inclement weather have been rescheduled for Saturday, September 7 at the annual Cortlandt Family Fun Day. The event will take place on Memorial Drive next to the Cortlandt Youth Center and the Cortlandt
Read MoreWhen Peekskill Councilman Don Bennett was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis last fall, he quickly learned he was not alone. In fact, more than 400,000 people in the United States currently have MS and an estimated 2.5 million nationwide have
Read MoreThe Indian Point 2 nuclear power plant in Buchanan will soon be setting a precedent by being the only nuclear facility in the nation to operate with an expired permit. The federal Nuclear Regulatory Commission notified Entergy, owners of the
Read MoreIt took some convincing from Supervisor Michael Grace, but the Yorktown Town Board agreed last week to study the cost of relocating the highway garage to make room for a possible mixed-used, town center-type building on Front Street. “It’s generated
Read MoreWestchester County Executive Rob Astorino proposed legislation under his “Safer Communities” initiative last week that will provide School Resource Officers (SROs) from the county’s Department of Public Safety to the Somers School District for the coming school year. Somers sought
Read MoreAll 14 businesses in Yorktown that were part of random alcohol compliance checks by undercover officers on August 7 refused to sell alcoholic beverages to the underage agent. The establishments that passed the checks were Courtesy Shell, Hess Mart Route
Read MoreStudents in most local school districts bucked the downward statewide trend by meeting or exceeding the ELA and math proficiency standards on assessment exams given last April. However, students in third through eighth grade in the Ossining and Peekskill school
Read MoreBilly Gallagher was the kind of person that made you feel good about mankind. A mild mannered, yet passionate soul, Gallagher, 52, succumbed to cancer while I was vacationing in LBI last week, so I never got to pay my
Read MoreOver the last nine years, 32 different sites have been explored for a proposed Yorktown Dog Park, and it appears that list is about to grow. Last week, the Yorktown Town Board failed to throw a bone to dog park
Read MoreThe owner of the Navajo Fields sports complex in Jefferson Valley was indicted Tuesday on 13 counts related to defrauding clients when he was an attorney. Charles (C.J.) Diven, Jr., 47, of Theresa Drive, Yorktown, pled not guilty to three
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