Five pristine acres on the southern edge of Shadow Lake in Yorktown were purchased last month by the Westchester Land Trust and transferred to Teatown Lake Reservation. Adjacent to existing Teatown land, the tract was the last remaining unprotected property
Read MoreProperty in the Town of Cortlandt that was once approved for 13 residential homes and envisioned to house a solar farm will instead be preserved as open space. The Cortlandt Town Board last week approved a resolution to spend $380,000
Read MoreBy Brian Kluepfel It’s a tale of bootlegging, brickmaking and Benedictine betrayal. It’s a legacy of mammoths, manatees, menhaden and middens. Over six millennia, Croton Point has been a nexus of pre-colonial, colonial and American history. Two local outdoor enthusiasts,
Read MoreThe Putnam County Legislature passed a resolution last week asking Gov. Kathy Hochul to veto legislation that would advance state water protections, specifically, greater protection of the state’s “Class C” streams. The state legislation, which passed in both the Senate
Read MoreAn increasingly popular community energy program that had to be paused at the end of June because of surging costs will resume on Nov. 1. Sustainable Westchester will restart the Westchester Power Community Energy Program after the terms for a
Read MoreThis is a partial excerpt of a piece published first in our Examiner+ email newsletter. The state’s largest electric school bus company will be moving to the abandoned site of a former Yorktown car dealership to provide new buses, maintenance
Read MoreThe Westchester County Industrial Development Agency (IDA) recently voted preliminary approval of financial incentives for the redevelopment of a vacant car dealership on Route 202 in Yorktown into a 16,000-square-foot school bus storage facility. The 2.7-acre property, which had been
Read MoreThe Kent Conservation Advisory Committee (KCAC) is collecting photos of Kent’s special places (lakes, the fire tower, stone chambers, etc.) as well as specific plants and animals for the Natural Resources and Biodiversity Inventory (NRI). The Kent NRI will document key naturally
Read MoreReconstruction projects of Fleischmann Pier and improvements to Charles Point Park in Peekskill are set to begin in late August. City officials announced last week the work will start on Monday, Aug. 29 and is anticipated to be completed in
Read MoreThe New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) will be holding a virtual public session next week to discuss cleanup plans at a former manufactured gas plant at 189-199 North Water St. in Peekskill. The session will take place
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