By 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
Read MoreThe 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
Read MoreA 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
Read MoreA 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
Read MorePleasantville residents debated whether the village should pursue the regulation of leaf blowers during a live-streamed public forum last Thursday. In August, village trustees viewed a presentation by the Pleasantville Conservation Advisory Council (CAC) about the noise and environmental and
Read MoreA secret write-in campaign engineered by Pleasantville Board of Education member Angela Vella in last month’s delayed village elections has rankled officials and lit up local social media boards by residents questioning the ethics of the move. It was recently
Read MoreAfter adapting to the challenges of running Westchester’s largest farmers market during the COVID-19 pandemic, the Pleasantville Farmers Market is ready for its next hurdle: falling temperatures. The Pleasantville Farmers Market will continue outdoors at Memorial Plaza through the winter.
Read MoreTreatment for those suffering from substance abuse has evolved over the years, where a key goal is to provide help before the person becomes ensnared in the criminal justice system – or experience an even worse outcome. A new program
Read MoreThe long-awaited Manville Road streetscape and civic space project has once again been put on hold after fiscal uncertainties caused by the pandemic have driven Pleasantville officials to postpone the work until 2022. At last week’s Village Board work session,
Read MorePleasantville Middle School will close for two weeks after someone tested positive for COVID-19. In a letter to the community on Saturday, Superintendent of Schools Mary Fox-Alter said the Westchester County Department of Health confirmed late Friday that the building
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