The snow was gone but the air was damp and raw as thousands–marchers, watchers, family members–gather along Main Street and up and down Broadway for the annual St. Patrick’s Day parade on Sunday. More »
by Barrett Seaman – Public school capital bond issues to fund projects beyond the scope of a district’s current accounts budgets come up only every decade or so. Irvington’s last one was in 2004, so it was not unexpected that the need for more money to pay fo... More »
by Barrett Seaman – Following months of examining traffic and usage patterns and weighing the trade-offs, Irvington trustees, in early January, passed a new set of parking regulations bound to please some residents at least some of the time. The goal was to “... More »
By Barrett Seaman Apparently convinced by a preliminary review of Jesse Lubinsky’s activities beyond his job as the Irvington School District’s Director of Information and Technology, the Board of Education has referred the case to the Westchester County Distr... More »
by Barrett Seaman – Days before The Journal News tax columnist David McKay Wilson published the results of his four-month long investigation into alleged moonlighting by Jesse Lubinsky with tech giant Google’s education partner EdTech, the Irvington school bo... More »
Public Lecture Series by Barbara Moroch – Galileo Galilei. Isaac Newton. Albert Einstein. All easily recognizable names of renowned physicists who have made quantum leaps in our understanding of the universe and our place in it. Physics is arguably the bedroc... More »
by Barrett Seaman – At first blush, the transfer of ownership of Irvington’s Villa Lewaro last year from Ambassador Harold Doley and his wife Helena to a foundation run by cosmetics entrepreneur Richelieu Dennis appeared to be a linear event between prominent... More »
by Tom Pedulla – Gina Maher recently reached an extraordinary milestone when she earned her 700th victory at Irvington, an unprecedented total for a New York State Athletic Association girls basketball coach. Her remarkable resume also includes five state cha... More »
by Barrett Seaman – Most applicants for non-traditional uses of prominent properties in Irvington can expect to be greeted by skeptical regulators and nervous neighbors worried about disruption of their placid village lifestyle. But not Richelieu Dennis. The ... More »
by Robert Kimmel – The Town of Greenburgh is anticipating a formal application within the next several months from a company that has proposed building a solar farm in East Irvington. Representatives of the company, Cap Vert Energie (CVE), met preliminari... More »
By Barrett Seaman NBC New York’s Jonathan Dienst and members of the station’s I-Team have thrown a possible wrench into the gears of the nearly complete Mario Cuomo Bridge construction. The local NBC affiliate has a story quoting a whistleblower who says tha... More »
by Barrett Seaman – The actual sale of Irvington’s Villa Lewaro, home more than a century ago to Madam C. J. Walker, the black entrepreneur who made a fortune selling skin and hair care products to African-American women, took place last summer, but the ident... More »
