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Peekskill Celebrates Opening Of Southern Waterfront Park, Trailway Peekskill Celebrates Opening Of Southern Waterfront Park, Trailway
Peekskill Celebrates Opening Of Southern Waterfront Park, Trailway PEEKSKILL, N.Y. -- Peekskill Mayor Frank A. Catalina recently announced the opening of the Southern Waterfront Park and Trailway on the Hudson River waterfront. This latest achievement includes a new 1-mile paved ADA-accessible waterfront trail, a 3-acre expansion of Riverfront Green, a walkway across Travis Cove, two boat docks, two gazebos, an iconic sculpture and a prominent overlook near Charles Point Park, all with views of the Hudson River, at a cost of $4.7 million.  “The Southern Waterfront Park and Trailway is a gem in the city’s necklace of riverfront parks, which will attract tens…
Mount Pleasant Library Accepts Donations For Spring Book Sale Mount Pleasant Library Accepts Donations For Spring Book Sale
Mount Pleasant Library Accepts Donations For Spring Book Sale MOUNT PLEASANT, N.Y. -- Book lovers who have tons of books sitting around their home can do a little spring cleaning and help the Friends of the Mount Pleasant Public Library get ready for the spring book sale.The sale will run from Friday, April 29, to Monday, May 2, at the Main Library, 350 Bedford Road, Pleasantville. Donations can be dropped off at the library until Monday, April 25. The Friends of the Mount Pleasant Public Library is a nonprofit organization that raises funds to supplement the services offered by the Mount Pleasant Public Library. The group is celebrating its 50th anniv…
Panda TV Urges Residents To Rally For Station Panda TV Urges Residents To Rally For Station
Panda TV Urges Residents To Rally For Station RED HOOK, N.Y. -- For more than 20 years, PANDA TV23 has aired thousands of programs for subscribers to Time Warner Cable in the towns of Red Hook, Rhinebeck and others, but now it faces being silenced if the Village of Red Hook drops its funding from the town's 2016-17 budget.If it does, this will likely to lead to extinction of our local television station, said PANDA Chairman David Miller. "Panda is a strong and vibrant voice in our community. Whether it was a board meeting, a local sporting event, a town or village celebration, a historical program or an original video produced by a…
Yorktown Letter To The Editor: The Definition Of 'Foolish' Yorktown Letter To The Editor: The Definition Of 'Foolish'
Yorktown Letter To The Editor: The Definition Of 'Foolish' YORKTOWN, N,Y. -- The Yorktown Daily Voice accepts signed and original letters up to 350 words. To submit your letter, email yorktown@dailyvoice.com. To the Editor:  I don’t understand how Yorktown Supervisor Michael Grace can call spending money on needed infrastructure projects “foolish.”  What’s foolish is not protecting the health and safety of town residents.  It's difficult to forget last year’s Baptist Church Road fiasco. After Grace failed to replace the culvert under the bridge in 2014, the culvert and bridge collapsed in 2015, forcing the road to be closed for nine months. And du…
Ex-Dutchess County Legislator Faces Sexual Abuse Hearing Tuesday Ex-Dutchess County Legislator Faces Sexual Abuse Hearing Tuesday
Ex-Dutchess County Legislator Faces Sexual Abuse Hearing Tuesday POUGHKEEPSIE, N.Y. -- A pretrial hearing was set for Tuesday to review the information police have obtained against former Dutchess County Legislator Michael Kelsey, accused of sexually assaulting two Boy Scouts, according to the Poughkeepsie Journal.  Kelsey, a former assistant Boy Scout leader in Fishkill and a Dutchess County legislator for the 25th District, was charged in December 2014 with sexually abusing the two Scouts, including touching a 15-year-old male for sexual gratification and trying to do the same to another, said the Poughkeepsie Journal. Kelsey was indicted by a grand ju…
Four Students Win Assemblywoman Paulen's 'There Oughta Be A Law' Contest Four Students Win Assemblywoman Paulen's 'There Oughta Be A Law' Contest
Four Students Win Assemblywoman Paulen's 'There Oughta Be A Law' Contest PELHAM, N.Y. -- Assemblywoman Amy Paulin recently announced that four students from the 88th District were selected as the winners of her “There Ought To Be A Law” contest. Middle school students in Paulin’s district, which covers, Scarsdale, Eastchester, Tuckahoe, Bronxville, Pelham, Pelham Manor, and parts of New Rochelle and White Plains, were asked to identify a problem impacting New Yorkers and suggest a law that would rectify the issue. Seventy-two students submitted proposals for legislation. Sarah Jane O’Connor, an eighth-grader at Pelham Middle School, was awarded first place for p…
Candidate For Congress Participates In Tax Day Protest Candidate For Congress Participates In Tax Day Protest
Candidate For Congress Participates In Tax Day Protest HASTINGS, N.Y. --Concerned Families of Westchester members met for their annual tax day at the Veterans of Foreign Wars Plaza in Hastings on-the Hudson recently to protest and speak out against the huge proportion of U.S. taxes that is allocated to war and military intervention and spending. U.S. House of Representatives candidate, Derickson K. Lawrence, took part in the protest. “I am joining you to today because we have an incumbent that has voted for military intervention at every opportunity – Afghanistan; regime change in Iraq; regime change in Libya—at an incalculable cost to the Ameri…
Man Charged After Road-Rage Incident At Greenwich Hospital Parking Lot Man Charged After Road-Rage Incident At Greenwich Hospital Parking Lot
Man Charged After Road-Rage Incident At Greenwich Hospital Parking Lot GREENWICH, Conn. -- A New Canaan man was arrested by Greenwich police following a road-rage incident in the parking lot of Greenwich Hospital, according to Greenwich Time. Police said that when they responded to a report of a verbal dispute in the hospital parking lot on Friday, they were met by a woman who told them a man had followed her for a few miles and then parked behind her and began yelling about an incident that had occurred earlier in the week, said Greenwich Time.  Police said the woman was shaking and crying. The man, John Slattery, 43, was charged with misdemeanor breach of pe…
Monroe Police Take Part In Autism Awareness Campaign Monroe Police Take Part In Autism Awareness Campaign
Monroe Police Take Part In Autism Awareness Campaign MONROE, Conn. -- The Monroe Police Department recently took part in the April 2 "Lighting it up Blue" for autism awareness campaign held by Autism Speaks each year.  According to the Autism Society of America, "Autism is a complex developmental disability that typically appears during the first two years of life and is the result of a neurological disorder that affects the functioning of the brain, impacting development in the areas of social interaction and communication skills. Both children and adults on the autism spectrum typically show difficulties in verbal and non-verb…
Stamford Police Hold Drug Take-Back Day Stamford Police Hold Drug Take-Back Day
Stamford Police Hold Drug Take-Back Day STAMFORD, Conn. -- If your medicine cabinet is overflowing with old, outdated medications, then the upcoming Stamford Police drug take-back day is the perfect time to get rid of them safely.  The event will be held on Saturday, April 30 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at police headquarters, 805 Bedford St. All you need to do is drive up to headquarters where officers will have a "drive-thru" set-up to accept any unused or expired medications. Liquid medications and needles will not be accepted. The effort is part of a national drive to rid households of dangerous drugs that children or t…
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