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Some Pleasantville residents said they want officers to be more involved with the Black community, while others questioned the types of weapons in use during the village’s latest forum on police reform. Pleasantville High School graduates Milton and Ian Esliker,
Read moreAs previously announced, the Pleasantville Farmers Market will stay outdoors in Memorial Plaza this winter, and the market’s policies are evolving to make it work. “This has been by far our most challenging year ever,” said Steven Bates, executive director
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When construction began on a single-family house on Ashland Avenue in Pleasantville some months ago, neighbors began to notice the footprint was larger than most other houses in the area. Some residents on the block contacted both the village board and
Read moreGovernment transparency and election mishandling became a hot-button item at last week’s annual joint meeting of the Pleasantville Village Board and the Pleasantville School District. As contentious as some of the exchanges were, by the end of the three-and-a-half-hour meeting,
Read moreFor the past five years, Pleasantville STRONG has shifted the discussion on how the community views the threat of illegal drugs, alcohol abuse and tobacco to youngsters. But despite widespread support, the organization will be challenged to remain active and become fiscally
Read moreThe 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
Read moreBy Abby Luby and Martin Wilbur The Village of Pleasantville and the Town of New Castle opened their police reform forums last Thursday evening, the first in a series of public meetings in each community to consider potential revisions to
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The Jacob Burns Film Center in Pleasantville will remain closed until at least early January after rising COVID-19 caseloads has put the brakes on any reopening. “With local COVID-19 infection rates on the rise, we have made the difficult decision
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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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A car operated in reverse fell from Pleasantville’s Memorial Plaza parking lot to the area down below near the southbound Metro-North tracks shortly after noon on Friday. Pleasantville Police Chief Erik Grutzner said a male driver in his late teens
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