Westchester residents participated in a daylong vigil in White Plains Wednesday to join the chorus of voices nationwide that halted the Trump Administration’s policy of separating children from their migrant parents when crossing the border. The first group of about
Read MoreThousands of Westchester residents marched through White Plains on Saturday to demand stricter gun laws in hopes of putting an end to the rash of gun violence and mass shootings in schools. The White Plains March For Our Lives rally
Read MoreSeveral hundred Westchester residents demonstrated outside county Republican headquarters in White Plains on Sunday demanding that gun control legislation be enacted to stop gun violence after 17 people were gunned down at a Florida high school last week. Members of
Read MoreA second Republican announced last week he would vie for the party’s nomination for the 37th Senate District special election two days after Assemblywoman Shelley Mayer was endorsed by the Democrats. Dan Schorr, a former City of Yonkers Inspector General
Read MoreA Bedford attorney is the first Republican to officially announce his candidacy in hopes of filling the 37th state Senate District seat that will soon be vacated by County Executive-elect George Latimer. Political newcomer Sarmad Khojasteh, a commercial litigation lawyer
Read MoreIt didn’t take long for one potential candidate to emerge for County Executive-elect George Latimer’s soon-to-be-vacated state Senate seat. Katherine Brezler, a White Plains resident and a second-grade teacher in the Bronx, announced Thursday that she would seek the Democratic
Read MoreWestchester residents and organizations gathered on the steps of the county building in White Plains late Monday urging officials to drop its plan to privatize Westchester County Airport. With the event attracting more than 100 people carrying signs reading “No
Read MoreWestchester Community College (WCC) students and their families can look forward to no tuition increase for the upcoming academic year, the fifth consecutive year the college and the county will keep the cost steady. County Executive Rob Astorino and WCC
Read MoreLast Wednesday, Annetta Greco made sure to complete her exercise in the morning, then had lunch with friends. Her day was capped off with everyone gathered around singing “Happy Birthday” and watching her blow out the candles. That seems like
Read MoreThe U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit upheld a lower court’s ruling Friday that Westchester County violated terms of the 2009 affordable housing settlement. The bluntly worded seven-page decision concluded that the county has been “engaging in total
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