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New Castle Supervisor Ivy Pool admonished residents in her town this week who are pointing fingers at fellow residents for contributing to a recent spike in active COVID-19 cases. Pool spent nearly 10 minutes at the start of this week’s
Read moreNew Castle Police arrested a Chappaqua man Tuesday night for allegedly stealing a Black Lives Matter yard sign from a private home last weekend. Vincent LaDuca, 57, was charged with one count of Petit Larceny, a class A misdemeanor, upon
Read moreFour men have accused a former Mount Kisco camp coordinator and Horace Greeley High School employee of sexual abuse, harassment and exploitation when they were minors in the 1980s and ‘90s. The plaintiffs, Gregory Ardanowski and Scott Roth and two
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The Chappaqua Fire Department extinguished a structure fire early Tuesday morning at a location a cable company occupied at 25 Memorial Drive. It took firefighters about a half-hour to knock down the main body of the fire and another approximately 90
Read moreNew Castle police are investigating another three hate incidents last week as Black Lives Matters signs were stolen from two churches and anti-Semitic and racist graffiti was discovered in a Chappaqua train station parking lot. Last Thursday morning, a local
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By Lindsay Emery Aayan Bilal, an incoming fourth-grader at Douglas E. Grafflin Elementary School in Chappaqua, was compelled to do something to help his younger brother. His brother, Yonas, was diagnosed at two-and-a-half years old with the rare genetic disorder
Read moreAs power restoration in Westchester’s hardest hit areas neared its conclusion Tuesday night, local and county officials are demanding answers from utilities on what went wrong while appealing to the state to make much-needed changes. A week after Tropical Storm
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New Castle and state police are investigating a potential hate crime after a Black Lives Matter sign was set on fire early last Thursday morning outside the Chappaqua Friends Meeting House. The fire, which was reported at 1:48 a.m. on
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Supervisors of Westchester towns hard hit by Tropical Storm Isaias last Tuesday leveled searing criticism against Con Edison as 9,700 households in the county were still without power early Monday evening. The towns of New Castle and North Castle were
Read moreLocal school districts submitted September reopening plans to the state Education Department last week with an emphasis on hybrid models, while at least two districts will be able to accommodate five-day in-person schedules for their youngest students. The most common scenario
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