The Peekskill Common Council last week unanimously approved a $35 million budget for 2014 that carries a 1.88% tax increase, half of what was proposed in the city manager’s spending plan. The budget, the last under Mayor Mary Foster, falls
Read MoreTwo running mates of Peekskill mayor-elect Frank Catalina will be joining him on the Common Council in January. According to the final results of the November 5 election that were posted on Thursday following the tabulations of 176 absentee
Read More‘There was something about the way he loved that stood out, and people gravitated to that.’—Rev. Michael Morrow Reverend Monsignor Francis J. Ansbro was given a heartfelt sendoff Friday morning at Church of the Assumption in Peekskill fitting for someone
Read MoreSeveral eyebrows were recently raised in Peekskill after it was learned the operators of the Paramount Hudson Valley Theater were seeking $1 million from investors by next year. However, the principals of Red House Entertainment, which took over the former
Read MoreThe longtime insurance carrier for the City of Peekskill has alleged officials are putting some residents in grave danger by neglecting structural issues with the Wiccopee Dams in Putnam Valley that the city owns. Mike Vanderwerker, president of MHB Insurance,
Read MorePeekskill City Manager Anthony Ruggiero has submitted a proposed 2014 budget that calls for a 3% tax increase. At the same time last year, the city was facing a $4.9 million deficit and the Common Council ended up eliminating nine
Read MoreIn his day job, Larry Del Casale is choral director at Peekskill high school and middle school, a position he has held for the last six years. The Cortlandt resident spends most of his other time making sweet music as
Read MoreThe Peekskill Common Council has responded to a melee at a recent meeting by changing some of the rules for public speakers. “We simply won’t tolerate disruptive behavior at council meetings,” Mayor Mary Foster said. “These eight measures are designed
Read MoreA Peekskill-based home heating oil business was sued by the state attorney general last week for defrauding more than 70 customers of over $80,000 in services with “illegal and deceptive conduct.” In the lawsuit filed in state Supreme Court against
Read MorePolice backup was called in to restore order after a minor melee erupted last Monday night at a Peekskill Common Council meeting. The fracas took place about one hour into the public meeting during the sometimes contentious courtesy of the
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