North Castle officials are planning improvements to the wastewater treatment plant for the sewer district that serves downtown Armonk rather than opting for the far more expensive facility expansion to accommodate additional downtown development. Last week, the Town Board agreed
Read MoreThe Progress 4 Peekskill slate of Democrats running for Peekskill Mayor and Common Council have released the “forward-thinking” environmental segment of their campaign platform. The four members of the slate — Conor Greene, Councilwoman Vanessa Agudelo, Amy Perlow and Amy
Read MoreThe Village of Mount Kisco celebrated Earth Day last Thursday by cutting the ribbon on Westchester’s first municipal community solar and battery storage project on a capped landfill to help support renewable energy. Generating 575 kilowatts, the repurposed 1.5-acre parcel
Read MoreThe Town of Yorktown has launched a roadside litter campaign that requires the watchful eye of the public to help to identify problems. Last week, work crews from the Yorktown Refuse & Recycling Department cleaned roadside litter at Wood and
Read MoreMount Kisco will consider the regulation of leaf blowers and other landscaping equipment after a plan proposed last week would limit months and hours of operation and eventually phase out a certain type of engine. In a presentation by Village
Read MoreAbout 100 feet from Danielle and Gibson Craig’s Pollywiggle Lane home in Pleasantville, a tall, clanging pile driver repeatedly hammers pressure-treated wood piles to help raise a 1.3-mile section of the Saw Mill River Parkway. Ear-splitting decibel levels from the
Read MoreA public hearing has been scheduled for May 17 to hear comments on the 5.6-megawatt ground-mounted solar farm proposed for an unused portion of Gate of Heaven Cemetery in Hawthorne. The Mount Pleasant Planning Board set the date after the
Read MoreThe City of White Plains and developer, Distributed Solar Development (DSD), broke ground last week on a nine-project, 6.8-megawatt community solar portfolio in the city that will triple the amount of solar energy produced in Westchester County. When constructed by
Read MoreImprovements to the plans of a proposed Mount Kisco solar farm would cause minimal neighborhood and environmental impacts, representatives for the applicant told the village’s Planning Board last week. Sunrise Community Solar, which hopes to install a 2.5 million-kilowatt ground-mounted
Read MoreEnergy efficiency, reducing heating and electric costs and limiting one’s carbon footprint have become increasingly critical for a growing number of Westchester residents. For homeowners in the town and village of Ossining and the Village of Briarcliff Manor, that mission
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