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The Saw Mill River Parkway will be reduced to one lane in each direction between the Sprain Brook Parkway and Grant Street in Pleasantville to begin improvements, the state Department of Transportation (DOT) advised last week. The project, scheduled to
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A Pace University student who was shot and killed by a Pleasantville police officer 10 years ago had his football jersey number retired last week on what would have been his 31st birthday. What was intended to be a social
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Weeks or even months after people fell ill from COVID-19, thousands are still suffering the lingering and debilitating effects of the disease. The sometimes unusual and inexplicable symptoms long after a patient has supposedly recovered from the coronavirus prompted doctors
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Hundreds of events have been postponed because of the coronavirus but not Westchester’s Winter Wonderland. It’ll just be different. Instead of attractions such as ice skating, rides and food, the county and the Westchester Parks Foundation announced Wednesday a drive-thru
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A caravan of Mount Pleasant residents traveled through a portion of the town last Saturday afternoon in support of the police, who participants contended have been unfairly maligned while their jobs have been made increasingly difficult. Several dozen vehicles, most
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Early on a Sunday morning in late August, John Carminucci received a call that his sign at his Thornwood car repair shop had been vandalized. When Carminucci, owner of JC Automotive on Broadway across the street from the Thornwood Town
Read moreRonald McDonald House of the Greater Hudson Valley has launched Dashing for Dylan: Walk, Run or Cycle, the sixth annual Dylan J. Hoffman Memorial event for the entire month of October. Dashing for Dylan will support the families at Ronald
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More than 50 students demonstrated last Friday in support of a Westlake High School teacher who touched off a firestorm with a controversial political cartoon but students argued the episode exposed deep divisions within the community. The rally, held on
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Outraged Westlake High School parents called for disciplinary action against a teacher after a controversial political cartoon was recently used in a history class to discuss the Black Lives Matter movement and racism in America. While a group of 50
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Mount Pleasant Planning Board members asked for additional information last week before moving ahead with a public hearing for a proposed solar array on a portion of Gate of Heaven Cemetery’s land in Hawthorne. CES Hawthorne Solar, LLC is asking
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