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The Valhalla Union Free School District is the latest Westchester County location to shutter a school due to several teachers and staff members in quarantine following a COVID-19 exposure. Valhalla Middle School will transition to a fully remote learning model
Read moreA Yonkers man will spend the next seven years in prison after killing a fellow inmate while serving time in Westchester County Jail. William Johnson, 21, was sentenced on Thursday after pleading guilty in October to assault in the second
Read moreTwo Democratic incumbent state legislators recently learned that they will have an opponent in November. State Sen. George Latimer and Assemblyman Thomas Abinanti will be involved in contested races this fall after each saw a Republican challenger beat the
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By Jon Craig Dog walkers have been grumbling and runners have been rumbling around a “no trespassing zone” that sealed off most of Kensico Dam Plaza in Valhalla this winter. While a Harrison woman walking her dog assumed the park
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By Janine Bowen The new $1.5 billion Catskill/Delaware Ultraviolet Treatment Facility celebrated its grand opening last Tuesday in Valhalla. The facility, operated by the Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) and has been under construction for the last seven years, is
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More than 600 National Guardsmen converged on Valhalla last weekend, all of them there to prepare for the worst-case scenario—a chemical disaster. About 400 members of New York’s National Guard soldiers and airmen, along with another 200 members from the
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Photos from Valhalla High School’s graduation ceremony for its class of 2012. ANDY JACOBS PHOTOS.
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Officials celebrated the reopening of Kensico Dam Road in Valhalla last week for recreational access following the recent completion of a $42 million rehabilitation project. The road, which runs across the top of the dam, has been periodically closed to
Read moreKensico Dam Plaza in Valhalla is about to get a little more educational. A Born Learning Trail, developed by the United Way of Westchester and Putnam, was installed at the county-owned park on Monday by executives at Siemens, which has
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