The Town Board is planning to hire an attorney to help negotiate an agreement and avoid a potential lawsuit with a wireless company whose plan to install antennas throughout the town has been stalled. Town Supervisor Paul Feiner said the board will hold a special meeting Tuesday on whether to… Read More →
U.S. Rep. Nita Lowey and abortion rights advocates called today on Westchester legislators to pass legislation beefing up protections for people entering reproductive health clinics. The Board of Legislators public hearing on the legislation will be tonight at 7:30 at the county office building in White Plains. “it’s embarrassing to… Read More →
The Greenburgh school district has chosen Ronald Ross as its next superintendent, saying the education veteran’s “broad experience” will best serve the district and its students. Ross, who has served as the Greenburgh school district’s interim superintendent since January, signed a letter of intent today notifying him that he is… Read More →
Archbishop Stepinac High School in White Plains will honor John P. Cahill, co-founder of the Pataki-Cahill Group who served as secretary and chief of staff to Gov. George Pataki at its Trustees Awards Reception on May 8. Cahill, who graduated from Stepinac in 1977, is to receive the Distinguished Graduate… Read More →
Things are not going well for former White Plains public safety commissioner Frank Straub out in Indiana. Here’s the latest based on an Associated Press report: INDIANAPOLIS – Frank Straub, White Plains’s former public safety commissioner, is resigning as the public safety director of Indianapolis after more than a year… Read More →
Greenburgh Town Supervisor Paul Feiner’s plan to convert a vacant homeless shelter into a school for the developmentally disabled has little support from the county and is unlikely to proceed, according to several legislators. Feiner is scheduled to meet Tuesday with a committee of the Westchester Board of Legislature to… Read More →
This came in today from the White Plains League of Women Voters: The White Plains League of Women Voters will host a School Board Candidates Forum at 7:30 p.m. May in Room B-1 at the White Plains High School. The electorate in White Plains will vote on the school… Read More →
Some 41 authors and illustrators will be featured at a special event held May 3 at Post Road Elementary School, 175 W. Post Road, White Plains. The event is held every other year. Books will go on sale at 6 p.m. The writers and artists will be available to sign… Read More →
The Greenburgh Town Board has passed a law that will require residents to bag leaves for pickup, potentially saying more than $100,000 a year, according to Supervisor Paul Feiner. The town will no longer use a vacuum truck to remove leaves raked into piles on streets in front of residents’... Read More →
Ronald Ross, the Greenburgh school district’s interim superintendent and a candidate for the permanent post, outlined a broad vision for education Wednesday evening at the first of three community forums spotlighting the three final superintendent candidates. From today’s story in The Journal News: (Ross) laid out a broad vision for… Read More →
