All posts published in April 2025
By Rick Pezzullo— The Dobbs Ferry Board of Trustees took a major step last week to try to turn three village-owned lots into affordable housing. At its April 22 meeting, trustees voted to enter into a partnership with Kearney Realty & Development Group to cr... More »
By Barrett Seaman– It was clear from the staging of Sunday night’s first open “Town Hall” appearance before voters that 17th District Congressman Mike Lawler and his staff were concerned about the growing number of similar public appearances by Republican offi... More »
Hundreds of children and adults turned out at Patriots Park in Tarrytown Sunday for the 18th annual Rotary Club of the Tarrytowns’ Duck Derby and the Family YMCA’s Healthy Kids Day. The event, which featured six preliminary Derby races and a Grand... More »
Dows Lane Elementary School third graders recently demonstrated their math skills during the First in Math Virtual Regional Tournament. Competing against students from across the region, they tackled challenging problems using addition, subtraction, multiplica... More »
SCAPEGOAT 2: The elephant in the room By Krista Madsen Since I outed the scapegoats (the animals and others blamed for our human foibles), it would be wrong not to mention the unwieldy unmentionable, that burdensome beast we’re not directly addressing but attr... More »
Mary Middleton Obituary January 30, 1921 ~ April 17, 2025 Mary Ballas Middleton, 104 years young, peacefully passed on April 17, 2025, surrounded by love at her home in Cortlandt Manor, New York. Mommy was born in Heilwood, PA on January 30, 1921 to Blaze and... More »
By Rick Pezzullo— A 40-year-old Sleepy Hollow man was sentenced Friday to 20 years to life in state prison for shooting his ex-girlfriend in her village residence in the presence of her young children last year. Ruben Santiago was violating an order of protect... More »
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 »
By Rick Pezzullo— Westchester County Executive Ken Jenkins delivered his first State of the County address Wednesday night, declaring “We’re not repeating history, we’re making it.” Standing in the front of a packed Board of Legislators Chambers in White Plain... More »
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 »
By W.B. King– Long before he was flying “Eight Miles High” as the frontman for The Byrds, Roger McGuinn called Tarrytown home. “My folks had a rented house there. I went to second and third grade in Tarrytown. My dad was working in Manhattan at an advertising ... More »
By Rick Pezzullo— A 55-year-old Ardsley woman with cerebral palsy has partnered with a non-profit organization to raise funds to meet her basic needs and living expenses. Helene Ferester, who has lived in Ardsley since she was six years old, relies on an elect... More »
Richard Gabriel Toomy Jr. (Dick, Dad, ACE, Ricardo), 88, died peacefully at Andrus on Hudson, Hastings, New York on April 18,2025. He was born July 8,1936 in Hoboken, New Jersey; he grew up in Brooklyn, New York, the eldest of three children born to Mary Annet... More »
The River villages are known for our artists. This Saturday three local artists from Dobbs Ferry and Ardsley will join over forty other artists from around Greenburgh and will be exhibiting their works at our second annual artist market- Richard Presser Park, ... More »
To the Editor – Last week, I sent Congressman Lawler a petition signed at the time by about 750 constituents (signatures keep rolling in) demanding that he conduct his taxpayer-funded District town halls, held in public spaces, in more open way, so that he ac... More »
By Barrett Seaman– New York’s 17th District Republican Representative Mike Lawyer, now in his second term, is seen as a solid “retail” politician who actively caters to his constituent’s needs. He is not shy about touting the $2.5 million in federal funds he h... More »
SHOW & TELL: MAYDAY!: “Do me a favor? Make me braver” By Krista Madsen Show and Tell has been an ongoing theme for me in this column, and in life. For what else do we writers do but share in these ways, words paired with an image (literal or evoked). As a word... More »
By Rick Pezzullo— Residents and local officials spent two days last week telling the New York State Department of Public Service (NYSDPS) that under no uncertain terms should Con Edison be given permission to increase electric and gas rates again in 2026. The ... More »
SERENITY NOW! See the light through the trees By Krista Madsen By miracles (gumption), I traded in my little land upstate for a bigger parcel—for the same price, all of one closing date apart after many months of benumbing bureaucracy and knuckle-biting stagna... More »
