By Rick Pezzullo The Town of Greenburgh has created a GoFundMe page to support the children of former town police dispatcher Frank Cavaliere who died in February at the age of 53 of complications from COVID-19. Cavaliere, who resided in
Read MoreFrom the seed of an idea, of a school on a farm, to becoming an internationally known education and human services organization, Green Chimneys in Brewster has achieved a major milestone yet: 75 years of service to children and animals. Green Chimneys has
Read MoreBy Rick Pezzullo U.S. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer is making a push for municipalities surrounding the Indian Point nuclear power plants to receive federal assistance to help offset the loss of revenue following the plant’s closure. Earlier this month,
Read MoreBy Rick Pezzullo U.S. Senator Kirsten Gillibrand visited the YWCA White Plains & Central Westchester last week to announce she had secured $640,000 in federal funds for the organization as part of the bipartisan omnibus appropriations agreement for 2022. Gillibrand,
Read MoreBy Rick Pezzullo The Yorktown Trail Committee has been awarded a $2,900 grant from the Hudson River Valley Greenway for the installation of signs designed to increase awareness of many of Yorktown’s underutilized trails. The project includes a combination of
Read MoreThe owners of the Millwood Supply property pitched a conceptual plan to the New Castle Town Board last week for a mixed-use development at the former lumberyard site. Preliminary plans call for up to 50 units of housing over ground-floor
Read MoreBy Rick Pezzullo The Cortlandt Planning Board approved the expansion of an existing Sinclair gas station and convenience store on Route 6 in Cortlandt earlier this month. Palisades Enterprises LLC was seeking site plan approval to expand the current gas
Read MoreBy Rick Pezzullo NewYork-Presbyterian announced last week that it will establish a state-of-the-art, multi-specialty ambulatory care facility in White Plains. Featuring care from ColumbiaDoctors clinical teams, the new facility will give patients access to in-demand specialties for adults and children.
Read MoreBy Bailey Hosfelt The White Plains Common Council announced at its meeting on March 7 that it did not object to financial incentives granted for a new downtown residential development, which were approved by the Westchester County Industrial Development Agency
Read MoreThe labor market in this country has been a fast-changing landscape from high unemployment during the pandemic, then swerving to an overflowing job market with some 10.6 million job openings in this country. Today, the national unemployment rate is hovering
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