Community Housing Innovations will hold a housing lottery for first-time homebuyers interested in purchasing homes at Minerva Place Condominiums for as low as $265,000 for a two-bedroom apartment and $210,000 for a one-bedroom. The lottery will take place at 2 p.m. Saturday at 5 Minerva Place in White Plains. Assistance… Read More →
The Collaborative for Palliative Care will host its fourth annual conference on palliative and end-of-life issues from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. April 8 at the Westchester County Center, 198 Central Ave., White Plains. The interdisciplinary and interfaith conference will include workshops on caring for children with serious illnesses, veterans… Read More →
Good Thursday morning. Here’s a look at opinion content published today in The Journal News: Superintendent salary caps: Editorial We cast a glance south and west to New Jersey, where a new cap on school superintendent salaries supported by Gov. Chris Christie has education leaders fleeing over the border. Our… Read More →
Watch and participate in a LIVE Editorial Spotlight interview at 1 p.m. Thursday with representatives from the French-American School of New York. The private school plans to build a $60 million campus for up to 1,200 students at the former Ridgeway Country Club in White Plains. The plan has run… Read More →
Friends and colleagues of Petty Voight, former managing editor of the Bronxville Review-Press Reporter, are hosting a Friendly Gathering from 2 to 4:30 p.m. on Saturday, April 11, at the Bronxville Public Library to honor her memory. Friends, colleagues and co-workers will share pictures, clippings and memories of Voight, a… Read More →
Last year, two Scarsdale women, Wendy Kleinman and Jodi Shapiro, organized a successful mah jongg tournament to honor their mothers, who had died of cancer, and raise money for a cancer charity. This year they are at it again, with the event set for Wednesday, May 25 at the Willow… Read More →
Good Wednesday morning. Here’s a look at opinion content published today in The Journal News: Roach for White Plains Mayor: Editorial We endorse acting Mayor Tom Roach, a Democrat who also serves as president of the Common Council, in the Thursday special election to fill the term of Adam Bradley…. Read More →
Lynn Sykes and Klaus Jacob, both retired professors and seismologists affiliated with Columbia University’s Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory in Palisades, met Tuesday with the Editorial Board to discuss the Indian Point nuclear power plant in Buchanan. Sykes and Jacob argue that the plant’s location along the Ramapo fault could make it… Read More →
The mayoral special election is coming this Thursday, with polling places open from 6 a.m. to 9 p.m. The candidates are acting Mayor Thomas Roach (D, I, WF), local businessman Bob Hyland (R, C) and former city Councilman Glen Hockley, an independent. You can find your polling place through the… Read More →
Reporter Leslie Korngold filed this report from the Larchmont police: LARCHMONT Boston Post Road: A White Plains woman was accused of driving while intoxicated after she was involved in a 10:15 p.m. motor vehicle accident March 22. Courtney Epps, 32, of Ethelton Road was charged with felony driving while intoxicated… Read More →
