News from The Northern Westchester Examiner, covering Yorktown Heights, Shrub Oak, Jefferson Valley, Mohegan Lake, Crompond, Ossining, Peekskill, Cortlandt, Croton, Somers, Westchester County, NY
School budgets in all local school districts were approved by voters by wide margins Tuesday night. Meanwhile, in the contested Board of Education races, Michael Simpkins, Jillian Clausen and Marie Pereira prevailed in Peekskill; Iris Cross-Bugliosi and Joshua Diamond won
Read MoreFor nearly 100 years, Burke Rehabilitation Hospital has been helping patients recover from disabling illnesses and injuries at its White Plains campus. Now, residents in northern Westchester in need of services won’t have to travel as far for care since
Read MoreYorktown Councilman Nick Bianco is not happy with the direction of the town under Supervisor Michael Grace and he has decided to do something about it. The 41-year resident and 16-year Town Board member interviewed with the Democratic Committee Monday
Read MoreCity officials, leaders and residents officially welcomed the new operators of the renamed Paramount HudsonValley theater Wednesday afternoon during a lease signing/ribbon cutting ceremony outside the historic marquee. “It’s wonderful to see how excited everyone is,” Mayor Mary Foster said.
Read MoreVoters in local school districts will be going to the polls on Tuesday, May 21 to decide on proposed budgets for the 2013-14 school year and candidates for the Board of Education. The following is a quick glance on what
Read MoreA seven-month joint police investigation resulted last week in five Cortlandt men being charged with heroin trafficking in northern Westchester. According to Westchester District Attorney Janet DiFiore, each of the five suspects was observed making multiple sales of heroin to
Read MoreLast summer, Brittany DiDonato, 24, went in for a routine medical exam and was told her liver functions were not normal. Surgery was scheduled to remove a cist, and then a large tumor was discovered. The tumor was removed and
Read MoreYorktown Supervisor Michael Grace accused the majority of the Town Board and the co-chairman of the town’s Democratic Committee of staging an “orchestrated political stunt” following the denial of advertising a public hearing for a wetlands permit for a winery
Read MoreAn employee at the A&P supermarket in the Triangle Shopping Center in Yorktown was charged May 9 with stealing more than $10,000 over an eight-month period. According to Yorktown Police, between October 2012 and May 2013, Jillian Barnes, 22, of
Read MoreThe driver who killed a popular Yorktown man who was walking his dog not far from his home on Farmwalk Road in November was charged Friday with criminally negligent homicide. Brett Nelson, 18, of Gomer Street in Yorktown was indicted
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