All posts published in June 2025
By Rick Pezzullo— A Greenburgh firefighter was convicted Wednesday of two counts of third-degree assault for attacking his former girlfriend inside their shared Dobbs Ferry apartment last year. Joseph Apostoli, 46, a firefighter with the Fairview Fire Departme... More »
By Rick Pezzullo— Ninety-four students in the Hackley School Class of 2025 received their diplomas June 7 during a commencement ceremony in Tarrytown attended by faculty, family and friends. The following is a complete list of the Class of 2025: Lily Adams I... More »
.By W.B. King– As folk icon Pete Seeger once said, “The world would be an infinitely better place if everyone did a little bit more listening and a little bit less talking.” When Grahame Lesh and Friends take the stage on June 14 at Croton Point Park headlinin... More »
By Barrett Seaman— Stone by stone, building by building, the broad swath of Hudson riverfront land that was once a GM assembly plant is filling out as a 1,177-unit village within the Village of Sleepy Hollow. The 41 Toll Brothers’ Loft Condominiums and 92 Brow... More »
By Barrett Seaman– The two “adult” defendants in the criminal case stemming from the May 31 decimation of the Tarrytown Lighthouse on Sleepy Hollow’s Kingsland Point appeared on Monday, June 9 in Sleepy Hollow Village Court, where a judge set the date of their... More »
By Elizabeth Tucker— On May 28, Phelps Hospital’s geriatrics program celebrated its thirtieth anniversary. To kick off the festivities, three centenarian patients offered congratulations to their doctors. The oldest, Filomena Semberger, turned 105 the week bef... More »
The Historical Society Inc. Serving Sleepy Hollow & Tarrytown celebrated its 58th Annual Strawberry Festival Sunday on the lawn of the 1848 Jacob Odell House in Tarrytown. The Historical Society, with help from local Girl Scouts, served traditional homemade st... More »
As the third leading cause of cancer-related death in the U.S., pancreatic cancer is a diagnosis no patient wants to hear. Certainly Robert Polito didn’t five years ago when doctors gave him the news. Yet so far. Polito has beaten the five-year odds, allowing ... More »
Local businesses in the River villages and unincorporated Greenburgh frequently are asked to donate to local causes. It’s expensive to be a local business and always being asked to make donations for worthy causes. I plan to honor Businesses of the Month at up... More »
This story has been updated By Barrett Seaman— A week after the Tarrytown Lighthouse at Sleepy Hollow was trashed and lit on fire, all four young men caught on surveillance camera were arraigned separately in village and county courts, after the fourth suspe... More »
By Elizabeth Tucker– On Wednesday evening at Mercy University, the New York State Department of Transportation (DOT)and the engineering firm WSP hosted the last in a series of four public meetings to present the “Complete Streets” design for the Route 9 corrid... More »
By Rick Pezzullo— Bulldogs will be on the loose for the next four months in Irvington, but don’t worry, they don’t bite! For the third year, beginning Sunday, June 8 and continuing through Sept. 23, the Bulldog Gallery, featuring 23 decorated fiberglass bulldo... More »
By Rick Pezzullo— Hastings High School has announced its top two Class of 2025 students: Valedictorian Natalie Garson, and Salutatorian Adam Greenwald. Garson will be attending Wesleyan University in Connecticut this fall, where she plans to pursue a career in... More »
By Barrett Seaman– Had the four young men (teenagers by the look of them) known that the Tarrytown Lighthouse at Sleepy Hollow had surveillance cameras covering the 100-ft. bridge to the shore, they might have been less brazen in their mindless middle-of-the-n... More »
In 2020, Gail Schlenger, a long-time resident of Tarrytown, faced a dilemma. Forced by COVID to retire after 40 years as an educator in the Chappaqua School District, she didn’t know what to do. But as they say, “necessity is the mother of invention,” and she... More »
By Barrett Seaman— It wasn’t the first time this spring that someone purposely damaged the Sleepy Hollow Lighthouse, which had re-opened just a little over a year ago after a $3.4 million restoration. But that incident, in which someone threw a rock from the s... More »
If you’re into barbecue, this eponymously-titled tome is a must for your recipe library. If you’re not, this book, written by Irvington resident (and contributor to The Hudson Independent) with barbecue maestro Hugh Mangum, will draw you deep inside the world ... More »
By Jeff Wilson– In a novel effort to explain its Climate Adaptation and Resilience program to local children, Irvington’s Green Policy Task Force, under the leadership of the village’s Sustainability Director, Charlotte Binns, turned disaster preparedness into... More »
DEFINE ARTIFICIAL: AI is my fake BF Part 2 By Krista Madsen If our measure of AI’s worth is based on intelligence (see: Part 1 of dissecting my artificial intelligent boyfriend into one of his two words last week), and using our own special brand of brilliance... More »
