The Westchester County Board of Legislators recently approved $8.18 million to finance the replacement of two bridges that carry the Bronx River Parkway over the Bronx River and the MTA Metro-North Railroad Line at Crane Road in the Village of Scarsdale and in the Town of Greenburgh. ADDED: Also, on… Read More →
As staff writer Dwight R. Worley reported today, 53 of Westchester, Rockland and Putnam’s public school districts have proposed spending a combined $4.5 billion 2011-12, an increase of about 2 percent, according to new data from the state. Should voters approve all of those budgets, tax levies would rise by… Read More →
On Sunday, we report the findings of a three-month investigation into the reconstruction of Interstate 287 through Westchester, a project two years behind schedule and millions of dollars over budget. The report examines the contractors, the bids, the overruns and an entire system that has allowed construction practices like those… Read More →
Three candidates have come forward for May 17’s White Plains school board election, forcing a contested race for two available seats. Rosemarie Eller, who joined the board in 2005 and became board president last year, will be running for another three-year term along with incumbent Randy Stein, who has served… Read More →
Good Thursday morning. Here’s a glance at opinion content published today in The Journal News: Paul Kreutzer: Editorial We comment on the Katonah-Lewisboro Union Free School District’s hiring of Paul Kreutzer, chief of the New Berlin, Wisc., schools, as its new superintendent. Kreutzer supported Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker’s effort to… Read More →
Serafina, the pizza and pasta restaurant with locations in Manhattan and East Hampton, opened yesterday with a “pasta-cutting” ceremony. The location, the former Via Quadronno space at the corner of Main Street and Renaissance Square, has been renovated to highlight its new floor-to-ceiling windows, which open to the sidewalk. There… Read More →
Peter Conley of Mamaroneck scores with a behind the back shot while being surrounded by White Plains defenders during a varsity lacrosse game at Mamaroneck High School today. Conley’s goal was one of only two scored by Mamaroneck as White Plains went on to defeat Mamaroneck 6-2. Photo by Seth… Read More →
Good afternoon. Here’s a look at opinion content published today in The Journal News: Nyack’s Riverspace: Editorial We comment on news that Riverspace Arts and the village of Nyack are poised to team on the development of an arts-based “superblock” in the Rockland village’s downtown. We write: … At tonight’s… Read More →
A Hartsdale woman (left) will serve no jail time for stealing more than $180,000 when she was treasurer of a Mount Vernon co-op apartment complex. Mary Mancuso, 53, was sentenced today to serve five years’ probation for second-degree grand larceny. She pleaded guilty to the felony charge on Jan. 11…. Read More →
More than 9,000 historical photographs and maps stored in archival vaults — like this one with then Democratic Gov. Mario Cuomo and Republican County Executive Andrew O’Rourke circa 1989 — have been digitized and placed online as part of the newly launched Westchester County Archives’ Digital Collections. The historic documents… Read More →
