![By Rick Pezzullo— Budgets in local school districts for the 2025-26 school year and Board of Education candidates will be in the hands of voters on Tuesday, May 20. Polls in most districts will be open from 6 a.m. or 7 a.m. to 9 p.m. at designated locations. The following is a summary of what residents will find at the polls in districts in the rivertowns. Ardsley The proposed budget of $85.6 million represents a 1.6% spending increase from this […]](https://thehudsonindependent.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/2025-HI-May-Voting.jpg)
Cracking The Tight World of Artificial Intelligence
Wall Street Journal reporter Keach Hagey, an Irvington resident, shares with The Hudson Independent what it took to report and write The Optimist: Sam Altman, Open AI, and the Race to Invent the Future (W.W. Norton & Company)... More »
Rivertowns Activists Take Their Ambitious Plastics Recycling Campaign to Albany
By Sue Treiman– A pair of proposed laws that would make New York the state with the most comprehensive plastic recycling requirements in America got a Rivertowns boost last week from roughly 50 local activists. Representing D... More »
Red Herring
RED HERRING: Is not an endangered species By Krista Madsen In these dark times, sometimes I enjoy going darker still: like lamenting my personal big bang when scientists declared the universe “open” and all meaning lost. But ... More »
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Cracking The Tight World of Artificial Intelligence
Wall Street Journal reporter Keach Hagey, an Irvington resident, shares with The Hudson Independent what it took to report and write The Optimist: Sam Altman, Open AI, and the Race to Invent the Future (W.W. Norton & Company). Hagey previously wrote The King o... More »
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Proposed School Budgets, Board of Ed Candidates at a Glance
By Rick Pezzullo— Budgets in local school districts for the 2025-26 school year and Board of Education candidates will be in the hands of voters on Tuesday, May 20. Polls in most districts will be open from 6 a.m. or 7 a.m. to 9 p.m. at designated locations. T... More »
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Hostile Crowd Steals Show at Lawler Town Hall in Westchester
By Abby Luby— A raucous crowd of about 600 people showed up at Republican Congressman Mike Lawler’s Westchester town hall meeting Sunday in northern Westchester and spent the better part of two hours jeering and booing at the New York representative for the 17... More »
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Proposed School Budgets, Board of Ed Candidates at a Glance
By Rick Pezzullo— Budgets in local school districts for the 2025-26 school year and Board of Education candidates will be in the hands of voters on Tuesday, May 20. Polls in most districts will be open from 6 a.m. or 7 a.m. to 9 p.m. at designated locations. T... More »
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Cracking The Tight World of Artificial Intelligence
Wall Street Journal reporter Keach Hagey, an Irvington resident, shares with The Hudson Independent what it took to report and write The Optimist: Sam Altman, Open AI, and the Race to Invent the Future (W.W. Norton & Company). Hagey previously wrote The King o... More »
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Rivertowns Activists Take Their Ambitious Plastics Recycling Campaign to Albany
By Sue Treiman– A pair of proposed laws that would make New York the state with the most comprehensive plastic recycling requirements in America got a Rivertowns boost last week from roughly 50 local activists. Representing Dobbs Ferry, Hastings-on-Hudson and ... More »
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SLEEPY HOLLOW RESIDENT WORKS TO ADDRESS GLOBAL HEALTH INEQUITY
By Maria Ann Roglieri– At a time when the U.S. government is turning inward and pulling funding for critical health care projects around the world, it is encouraging to learn that there are remarkable American physicians and administrators who are still tryin... More »
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Tarrytown YMCA Team Competes in Nationals
By Robert Kimmel– For the third year in a row, the Family YMCA at Tarrytown’s Elite All Stars Cheers program team is competing in the Nationals, the most prestigious invitational in the sport of Cheer. The girls are vying for a title at the ESPN Wide World of ... More »
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Red Herring
RED HERRING: Is not an endangered species By Krista Madsen In these dark times, sometimes I enjoy going darker still: like lamenting my personal big bang when scientists declared the universe “open” and all meaning lost. But other moments, in more of a PB&J ki... More »
Letters & Commentary
MoreTarrytown’s Fire Truck Purchase
To the Mayor and Trustees of the Village of Tarrytown, I am writing as a concerned resident and taxpayer to strongly object to the recent decision to enter into a $2.945 million contract for the replacement of Fire Apparatus Truck 78—an expenditure that raises... More »
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Irvington Celebrates Its Long-Lived Local Newspaper, The Gazette
By Barrett Seaman– Once upon a time, villages in the rivertowns had their own newspapers. Shortly after the turn of the century (the 1899-to-1900 one), several sprang up: the Dobbs Ferry Register, the Ardsley Tribune, the Hastings News—all weeklies, and the Ta... More »
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