A politics class at Walter Panas High School is holding a Warm for Winter fundraiser to contribute to the current deprivation of socks among the homeless. The collection of new socks will run through Jan. 5, and all the proceeds
Read MoreBy Rick Pezzullo The City of Peekskill is proceeding with plans to usher in 2022 with a downtown New Year’s Eve Ball Drop, while the Town of Yorktown has canceled festivities over rising COVID-19 cases. The free Peekskill celebration kicks
Read MoreBy Rick Pezzullo The Peekskill Common Council appointed James E. Seymour IV as the city’s first paid full-time Fire Department Chief Monday night. Seymour, who began his fire service career as a volunteer with the City of Peekskill Fire Department
Read MoreThe annual Polar Plunge benefitting the This is Me Foundation is slated to return New Year’s Day at the Peekskill Riverfront Green after a one-year absence. The This Is Me Foundation, founded by Peekskill residents and sisters Caitlin and Lauren
Read MoreA Peekskill man was sentenced to 10 years in prison last week for the Nov. 2020 stabbing of a prominent Peekskill High School soccer player. Matthew Torres, 18, who pled guilty on Sept. 29, 2021 to manslaughter in the first
Read MoreBy Rick Pezzullo The City of Peekskill and Town of Ossining recently received Planning Achievement Awards from the Westchester Municipal Planning Federation (WMPF). Peekskill was recognized Nov. 29 during a virtual ceremony for the design of the Peekskill Central Firehouse
Read MoreThe Peekskill Winter Parking Ordinance went into effect December 1 and will last through April 15. Parking is prohibited on city streets from 8 p.m. to 8 a.m., except in designated areas where signs are posted for Winter Alternate Side
Read MorePeekskill Corporation Counsel Melissa Ferraro has been appointed as the village administrator in Dobbs Ferry. The Dobbs Ferry Board of Trustees voted Nov. 23 to hire Ferraro, effective Jan. 18, 2022, to head the village at an annual salary of
Read MoreWith the deadline looming for municipalities to make a decision, the Peekskill Common Council and several outspoken residents remain split on allowing retail cannabis dispensaries and/or consumption sites to set up shop in the city. In September, the majority of
Read MoreOne of the pedestrians hit by a car on Restaurant Row in downtown Peekskill after it careened onto the sidewalk Nov. 18 remains in critical condition at Westchester Medical Center. The driver of the vehicle, John Watson, 56, of Peekskill,
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