Our Local Equity Fights are the Latest Chapter in an Old Story He was a Black baseball trailblazer. Organized pro ball’s first known African-American player. A Hall of Famer who starred right here in New York, a car ride from Westchester.
Read MoreBy Ray Gallagher, Examiner Sports Editor @Directrays MAHOPAC – The rain held off for Friday morning’s Class D championship but the Class A final was played amidst a steady rain at Mahopac High where two blowouts prevailed, but the sun
Read MoreBy Jessica Medoff Brewster senior Mia Palladino is a tennis wunderkind. A nationally ranked tennis player, seventh in New York, she finished third most recently at the New York State Tennis Championships, and has been recruited to play for a
Read MoreState-Ranked (No.4) Blue Devils Upset No.1 Avon, No.3 Maple Hill to Claim 1st NYS Title By Ray Gallagher, Examiner Sports Editor @Directrays History is special when you make it, and there’s a group of young men at Haldane High who
Read MoreThis column first appeared in our Examiner+ email newsletter. Hey all, Let me start today with a local story I just can’t shake from my mind. Examiner Editor-in-Chief Martin Wilbur reports how a pair of northern Westchester school districts —
Read MoreMahopac’s Koch Scorched Earth, Runs for 6 TDs, 319 yards in Record-Setting Effort By Ray Gallagher, Examiner Sports Editor @Directrays It was business as usual for the state-ranked powers that be upon the Section 1 grid circuit. No.4 Class AA
Read MoreBriarcliff Falls to Lourdes on PKs in NYSPHSAA Opening Round By Ray Gallagher, Examiner Sports Editor @Directrays YORKTOWN HEIGHTS – And then there was one: HALDANE is the last Examiner-area soccer team standing after Coach Ahmed Dwidar’s state-ranked (No.5) Blue
Read MoreBy Ray Gallagher, Examiner Sports Editor @Directrays The sprawling campus of Lakeland High played host to the Section 1 soccer championships last Sunday and the action was fast and furious. As always, Lakeland Coach Tim Hourahan, his staff, and A.D.
Read MoreAnthony “Tony” J. Diaz, beloved father, grandfather, brother, uncle and friend, died Oct. 13 at the New York State Veterans Home at Montrose. He was 75. He was born to Alice Griffin and Emmanuel Diaz on June 28, 1947, in Peekskill. He
Read MoreMahopac Survives Jay, Yorktown Rolls on Lakeland, Greeley Shocks Panas By Ray Gallagher, Examiner Sports Editor @Directrays SOMERS left little doubt, not that there was a whole lot going into Friday’s showdown between the state-ranked (No.1) Tuskers (6-0) and previously
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