By Ray Gallagher Examiner Sports Editor New eras are usually an exhilarating time, a period of renewed vim and vigor, a time when a fresh message rings within the ears of the players within a particular program. A new epoch
Read MoreBy Ray Gallagher Examiner Sports Editor Last year was one of the greatest basketball seasons in the history of Northern Westchester and Putnam County, possibly the best ever in Putnam, what with Class AA semifinalists Mahopac, Class B finalists Putnam
Read MoreA Pleasantville parents group is urging school district officials to avoid artificial turf for next year’s scheduled replacement of fields at the district’s three schools because the surface includes known or suspected carcinogens. Parents Advocating Clean TurfGrass (PACT) formed a
Read MoreBy Ray Gallagher Examiner Sports Editor I can’t remember a time when the young gals of Northern Westchester and Putnam County were the leading ladies on three separate stages; fashioning three NYSPHSAA championships in soccer (2) and field hockey while
Read MoreAs reported in my story in the White Plains Examiner, on October 7, 2014, due to the Stepinac varsity football team’s success this season and the establishment of the newly formed Catholic High School State Football Championship this year, the
Read MoreBy Ray Gallagher Examiner Sports Editor Try as I may, I don’t always get it right. Doling out credit where credit is due is often hard to do when there is so much good stuff going on and the All-Americans
Read MoreBy Ray Gallagher Examiner Sports Editor MAHOPAC — Last Saturday night, Livingston to DeGraw was to Section 1 football what Manning to Thomas is to the NFL, a spellbinding form of chemistry. Rye QB Andrew Livingston and WR Tim DeGraw
Read MoreBy Monica D’Ippolito Byram Hills came out Saturday afternoon like a team that had won 12 straight games – firing on all cylinders — but for a while the score did not reflect the play on the field as Bobcat
Read MoreBy Ginny and Ken Ryan, owners of Somers Custom Framing Did you ever think, “Why should I shop local…what does it do for me? With the volume of information and buying opportunities online it seems easier to click a
Read MoreBy Ray Gallagher Examiner Sports Editor The stage was set for the biggest football game in Northern Westchester history, but the curtain never rose. The theatrics were set to officially begin after No.2A Somers checked in with a semifinal defeat
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