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As a Mount Pleasant resident, I was shocked to learn that a developer is proposing a 31-home subdivision on the shores of Pocantico Lake. This is a county park enjoyed by residents throughout Westchester, and our Mount Pleasant community has an
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After the pandemic forced senior centers and programs throughout the county to close or drastically limit their offerings, most are trying to slowly return to normal. During the past year the most pressing concern has been for older seniors living
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Last May 31, Melissa Feola thought that her then-four-year-old son Owen had injured his pinky. It was swollen and red, prompting his doctor to prescribe an antibiotic. But the medication didn’t help ease the swelling or the discomfort. Feola, a
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A civil rights lawsuit brought by the Legion of Christ against the Town of Mount Pleasant accusing the municipality of religious discrimination has been dismissed in state Supreme Court. The Legion of Christ sued the town after it determined that
Read moreOne of Westchester County’s great treasures, Pocantico Lake Park, is a 164-acre park that sits adjacent to the Rockefeller Preserve in the Town of Mount Pleasant. The county park includes the 27-acre lake and surrounding wetlands in addition to trails
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The Town of Mount Pleasant is considering regulations on the use of gas-powered leaf blowers, which would make it the latest municipality in the area to take up a form of the measure. The issue, which was introduced to the
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It was supposed to be a different kind of celebration for Ronald McDonald House of the Greater Hudson Valley’s 10th anniversary. Having opened in 2011 across the parking lot from Maria Fareri Children’s Hospital in Valhalla, under more normal conditions
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Mount Pleasant took the next step toward its first Comprehensive Plan update in 50 years last week, opening the public hearing with limited but pointed comments. Three residents spoke during the hearing on various aspects of the 234-page Draft Generic
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Mount Pleasant Planning Board members and neighboring residents of Gate of Heaven Cemetery indicated last week that they are apprehensive about a proposed 4.375-megawatt solar farm on an unused 32-acre portion of the cemetery’s grounds. The ground-mounted solar array pitched
Read moreA prominent Westchester developer with an extensive age-restricted housing portfolio is mulling whether to pursue a project on the 165-acre Legionnaires of Christ property in Thornwood, according to Mount Pleasant officials. Wilder Balter Partners has been in discussion with the
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