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Westchester County is considering tightening its mask policy for people entering county-owned facilities to try and slow down the accelerating number of COVID-19 cases. County Executive George Latimer said Monday that sometime this week there may be new guidelines for
Read moreThe success of public transportation can be traced to one of the late President Lyndon Johnson’s greatest accomplishments, which continues benefiting many Americans today. On July 9, 1964, he signed the Urban Mass Transportation Act of 1964 into law. Subsequently, this has resulted in the investment
Read moreWith high temperatures expected to reach into the mid-90s coupled with high humidity Tuesday and Wednesday, Westchester and Putnam counties each issued a heat advisory on Monday. Residents should avoid strenuous activity outside, drink lots of water, avoid alcohol and
Read moreVideographer Chris Casaburi of Executive PhotoVideo and Lisa Kaslyn of Prosper Communications, both Lake Carmel residents, were named Community Event Activism/Rallies Independent Producer category winners of the 2021 Hometown Media Award from the Alliance for Community Media Foundation. The awards program was established to honor
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Candidates across several municipalities in Westchester and Putnam counties will be going head-to-head during the June 22 Primary Election. See our Primary Election coverage. Download the print version here – Examiner 6-15-21 Election
Read moreIt’s not just Westchester and Putnam counties that have had plunging COVID-19 positivity rates, but the entire state of New York. New York State had the lowest positivity rate in the nation on Wednesday, prompting Gov. Andrew Cuomo to laud
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By Alexa Jindal and Annie Dineen As vaccination eligibility opens up to children as young as 12 years old, many Westchester County teenagers who saw their age group allowed to take Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine for weeks, have had to grapple
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By Lindsay Marr The whole world is busy, always on to the next thing. We are constantly moving, hardly paying attention to the present. But not Eleanor Rahim. Rahim, an abstract painter, focuses on the simplicities of life through texture
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Voters in Putnam County school districts approved most budgets for the 2021-22 school year and elected board of education members Tuesday but the Carmel budget went down. In Carmel, the budget was voted down 1,296-1,125. In the Board of Education race
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The Putnam County Department of Health will be starting to vaccinate children 12 to 15 years of age this week, based on expanded authorization of the Pfizer vaccine, approved last week by the New York State Department of Health. Parents and caregivers should be aware that to receive
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