Every time King Cuomo discusses sports and/or athletics, I feel like we’re taking advice from a guy who thinks he can inbound a basketball to himself, a guy that lacks some of the basic instincts regarding competitive sports. For instance,
Read MoreShenorock and Lake Lincolndale residents held sharply divergent views on Somers officials’ controversial plan to create a sewer district to serve those communities during a contentious and occasionally unruly public hearing last Thursday. The town is moving through the public
Read MoreDavid Zaslaw and company really came through when we needed folks to come through for us. Zaslaw’s Greater Hudson Valley Baseball League summer season ran its course last Sunday, providing thousands of kids from 8 to 18 the opportunity of
Read MoreRecently Ray Gallagher made a plea to Gov. Cuomo for news about fall sports for our high schools. In his piece he said that, “If we follow data, common sense and science, we would likely have a 100 percent chance
Read MoreExaminer Sports Editor@Directrays A couple of hard-nosed 10U Greater Hudson Valley Baseball League teams got after each other last week when the host Putnam Valley Miners (11-4) avenged a previous loss to the mighty New Castle Mustangs (13-6) by posting
Read MoreI cannot imagine a world without high school football, without Friday Night Lights at Somers and Yorktown High, without Putnam County bigwigs Carmel and Mahopac packing the stands, without a Saturday afternoon at Parkway Field on Marble Avenue in Pleasantville.
Read MoreBy Chele Farley “The power’s out again.” It’s become a frustrating and familiar refrain in my hometown of Tuxedo and the entire 18th Congressional District, where consistently poor service by electric and cable providers have left thousands of residents in
Read MoreRose “Brew” Grunther, a fashionable, opinionated matriarch of her beloved family who lived life on her terms, bound by a keen sense of right and wrong, died on Aug. 7. She was 98. She died following a stroke at her
Read MoreRobert DiAntonio, 77, of Somers, New York, passed away on August 1, 2020, after a long battle with lung cancer. Robert was born in 1942 in Bronx, New York to Samuel and Margaret DiAntonio. He grew up in Yonkers, New
Read MoreIn the 1960s, when Judith Schmidt was living in Greenwich Village, she protested every Saturday in support of the civil rights movement and against the Vietnam War. She would stand on Sixth Avenue in lower Manhattan with countless others holding
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