News from The Northern Westchester Examiner, covering Yorktown Heights, Shrub Oak, Jefferson Valley, Mohegan Lake, Crompond, Ossining, Peekskill, Cortlandt, Croton, Somers, Westchester County, NY
The Justin Veatch Fund will be honoring two seniors from Yorktown High School and one from Walter Panas High School this week with scholarship awards. Mark McIntyre and John Venezia from Yorktown and Virginia Croft from Panas will each receive
Read MoreThe decision by longtime Supervisor Mary Beth Murphy to not seek another term to run for Westchester County clerk has set in motion a competitive race for three seats on the Somers Town Board with the town Republicans and Democrats
Read MorePeekskill officials reached back into their past to choose a new city manager when they announced last week the appointment of Anthony Ruggiero. Ruggiero, 45, had worked for the city for 13 years before leaving in January to become
Read MoreYorktown High School seniors who attended a picnic at FDR State Park during school hours were barred from Senior Day activities the next day, angering some parents who gave permission for their children to skip classes. District officials received an
Read MoreIt appears opting out of contracts in school districts has become a pattern for departing Peekskill Superintendent of Schools James Willis.Willis, who announced last month he was exiting Peekskill in July halfway through a four-year contract, made a similar move
Read MoreThe co-chairman of Yorktown’s Democratic Committee is confident the party will be united in supporting Councilman Nick Bianco for supervisor following a failed effort by a former committee chairman to block the endorsement. “It’s a united party going forward,” said
Read MoreLike most people, Jim and Denise Poulin of Mohegan Lake have experienced co-workers, friends and relatives who have been stricken by cancer. In the early 1990s, Denise’s secretary, who was only 26 years old, was diagnosed with thyroid cancer and
Read MoreMembers of the League of Women Voters of Somers and the head of the town’s Affordable Housing Board last week blasted the Somers Town Board for not approving a zoning change to allow for the potential approval of a major
Read MoreFor Darwin Morales of Somers, a $20 tip he received while working as a gas attendant at a Bedford service station turned out to be more than good fortune on May 4. Morales, 25, a native of Guatemala who moved
Read MoreA “credible threat” made on Facebook from a 17-year-old male student at Peekskill High School towards other students has forced district officials to move graduation ceremonies later this month from the traditional school field to the Paramount Theater. During
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