News from The White Plains Examiner, mostly covering the City of White Plains along with stories from communities across the southern portion of Westchester County, NY.
Westchester County’s first probation officer, William E. Mounteney was honored last week, 100 years after his appointment. During his tenure, he was known for helping to establish best practices in probation and lived a rather remarkable and profound life. Sadly,
Read MoreFollowing the release of a video purportedly showing a Kentucky school resource officer handcuffing and mistreating an eight-year-old student with disabilities, New York State Assemblyman Tom Abinanti (D-Greenburgh) is urging the state to take action to prevent a similar incident from
Read MoreBobby Lance, a Tarrytown native and Greenburgh Middle School music teacher, has recently had two solo albums rereleased by Real Gone Music as a one disc double album entitled “First Peace/Rollin’ Man.” Lance, a singer and songwriter, is best known
Read MoreSince 2003, Elton Brand, who is undoubtedly the most prestigious basketball player in Peekskill High School history, returns home each year to conduct fitness and basketball clinics for children during Elton Brand Youth Day. Brand’s charitable contributions each year to
Read MoreYou have to give Michele Kilgallen credit. Kilgallen is the manager, coach and catcher for the newly sponsored Brewskis Softball Team in the White Plains Recreation Women’s Softball League. Brewskis is the former Lazy Boy’s Saloon Women’s Softball team, who
Read MoreScott Yandrasevich (DOB 2/25/1964) of Danbury, Connecticut, was sentenced August 6 to an indeterminate term of one to three years in prison on his November 2014 guilty plea to grand larceny and falsifying business records. Between April 10, 2007 and
Read MoreArtsWestchester has issued an open call to photographers – both hobbyists and professional – for images documenting Westchester’s most memorable moments of the last 50 years. “2015 is a golden year for ArtsWestchester,” said the organization’s CEO Janet T. Langsam.
Read More(This story has been updated.) The “Yes” votes outweighed the “No” votes (4 to 3) on the French American School of New York’s (FASNY) request to close a portion of Hathaway Lane, but the closure of a public street and
Read MoreThe City of White Plains has released its Request for Proposals (RFP) for the MultiModal Transportation Center Redevelopment Project. The White Plains MultiModal Transportation Center Redevelopment Project (“the Project”) will provide an enhanced MultiModal Transportation Center that serves all modes
Read MoreThere is a thief or thieves with horticultural knowledge running amok in White Plains, stealing bushes and plants from gardens built and maintained by the White Plains Beautification Foundation. The most recent theft, noticed July 27th, is the removal of
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