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.
On Wednesday, Feb. 26, Westchester County Executive Rob Astorino announced a prospective plan to join with The Madison Square Garden Company to make the Westchester County Center the home of the New York Knicks-affiliated National Basketball Association (NBA) Developmental League
Read MoreBy Jon Craig For married women or same-sex couples who once encountered problems and high costs changing their legal names on driver’s licenses or registrations, a local assemblyman managed to prompt change. In response to inquiries from Assemblyman David Buchwald
Read MoreCelebrating the wearing of the green has been a longtime tradition in White Plains that begins with a bright green line painted down Mamaroneck Avenue along the St. Patrick’s Day Parade route and continues until the last of the festivities
Read MoreIt was a fun and interesting time for local history buffs at the Jacob Purdy House National Historic Site on Sunday as members of the White Plains Historical Society, government officials, citizens and members of the local militia that reenact
Read MoreSitting on the balcony of the Aston Waikiki Beach Hotel, in Honolulu, while enjoying my first two-week vacation in many years, I noticed on my laptop that the White Plains Tigers dealt Ketchum High School a decisive blow in the
Read MoreBy Jon Craig It was “game on” last Wednesday for the Town of Greenburgh and residents opposed to rezoning Dobbs Ferry Road so that an indoor sports bubble can be built there. During a public hearing at the Town Board
Read MoreBy Jon Craig – The Town of Harrison approved a tax agreement last week that allows Life Time Fitness to move ahead with its plan for a 200,000-square-foot athletic center at the former Gannett Newspaper offices on Corporate Park Drive,
Read MoreThe winter of 2013-14 is going to go down in the record books as one of the region’s worst. In the six weeks beginning the day after New Year 2014, White Plains and the surrounding area had received from 50
Read MoreAs the first quarter of 2014 opened with several store closings in White Plains, all within a few blocks of each other along Mamaroneck Avenue from Quarropas to Main Street, residents and other business owners were asking the same questions:
Read MoreThe City of White Plains is designated as an Entitlement Community by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) and as such, receives annual funding through the Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) program. The CDBG Program is a
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