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When Dan Herzner was a child, he remembers being in the car with his mom and how she couldn’t pass up a church rummage sale, a flea market or a tag sale without stopping. “My mom was always into memorabilia
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Pleasantville may be the first municipality in Westchester to have two downtown street crossings with lights embedded in the pavement as part of a pilot program designed to enhance pedestrian safety at night. The village’s Department of Public Works Superintendent
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The escalating pace of development in Pleasantville prompted about 100 village residents to register deep concern last week about how the community is being negatively impacted. For more than three hours at a Nov. 16 special Town Hall-style meeting at Pleasantville
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If you go to Arc Stages in Pleasantville this weekend, you may recognize a story with a familiar theme. The theater is presenting the remaining three performances of “She Loves Me,” a story that has had multiple adaptations on the
Read moreThe post-pandemic era has educators dramatically pivoting to focus on the social and emotional growth of students. For two years, many students experienced academic performance loss coupled with fear and isolation from school closings, all contributing to a widespread mental
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Inspiration springs from many things such as literature, music, nature or travel. Visual artist David November is inspired by all of the above but is especially drawn to work by famous artists. In his comprehensive art exhibit currently at the
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By Jessie Jafet Following in the footsteps of his now 97-year-old father who worked as a barber until the age of 92, Alfonso Magnotta of Pleasantville Barber Shop on Wheeler Avenue has devoted his life to the same trade — cutting and trimming each
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The organizers of the Pleasantville Music Festival plan to search for additional funding sources and ways to hold down expenses after last summer’s 16th annual festival ended in the red by $36,000. In July, the popular all-day music event returned to Parkway
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Full natural light, wide open spaces, a dynamic children’s room, an outdoor amphitheater, and meeting rooms are part of a new design proposed for the Mount Pleasant Libraries — the main library and the branch library in Valhalla. The plan
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For two years residents living near the Saw Mill Parkway in Pleasantville and Mount Pleasant have endured day-long ear-splitting noise from pile drivers and generators and the nighttime glare of floodlights. The jarring disturbances were from construction by the state
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