Pleasantville School District voters handily voted down a highly controversial school capital proposition Tuesday evening to fund largescale upgrades and renovations at all three district schools. Just over 56 percent of voters rejected the district’s request to borrow up to
Read MoreThe Mount Pleasant Town Board adopted its 2025 budget of more than $64 million last week with a 1.54 percent tax levy increase after originally fearing that the tax cap would be exceeded. At its meeting last Tuesday evening, which
Read MoreThe basketball court in White Plains High School’s Harry Jefferson Gymnasium was named Friday in honor of two Tigers coaches who are in the school’s Athletics Hall of Fame. A ceremony took place Dec. 13 between the White Plains boys
Read MoreRepresentatives of a proposed mixed-use development in Yorktown urged the town board last week to enable the project to move forward by including the almost 50-acre property in the Lake Osceola Overlay District. The property, known as Navajo Fields, is
Read MoreA dispute between the Town of New Castle and a Chappaqua property owner has surfaced as the town is restarting an eminent domain proceeding in hopes of acquiring land to site a larger DPW facility. Officials opened a public hearing
Read MoreThe newest professional sports league made a stop in Westchester last weekend. Major League Table Tennis (MLTT) scheduled the Westchester Table Tennis Center in Pleasantville as one of its venues last Friday through Sunday, with four of the league’s eight
Read MoreThe new year will be a new beginning for two area business advocacy organizations. As of January, the Hudson Valley Gateway Chamber of Commerce and Yorktown Chamber of Commerce will be merging under the Hudson Valley Gateway name. “We’re very
Read MoreA $300,000 settlement has been reached between the Putnam Valley Volunteer Fire Department, the contractor and a recycling facility in connection with unauthorized dumping of fill at the construction site of the new firehouse. Over the next six years, John
Read MoreBy Martin Wilbur Advocates for the environment and working-class New Yorkers held rallies last Thursday across the state to pressure Gov. Kathy Hochul to include money in next year’s budget that would cap energy prices for residents. A local rally
Read MoreA company proposing a battery energy storage system (BESS) in Valhalla had its request for a hardship waiver from the Town of Mount Pleasant’s moratorium denied last week. New Leaf Energy had sought relief from the prohibition, asking the Town
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