Irvington Middle School student Cameron Weiner has been named a 2025 National Junior Honor Society Outstanding Achievement Award recipient. The prestigious recognition includes a $500 contribution to a 529 college savings account and celebrates the student’s e... More »
In celebration of Earth Day, fourth and fifth graders at Main Street School came together to raise more than $764 for environmental organizations during a weeklong fundraiser. Led by the school’s Environmental Club, the students took initiative to educate thei... 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 »
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 Shana Liebman– ASIFF, the internationally renowned film festival,returns to Irvington’s Town Hall Theater, its historic venue, after a 5-year hiatus. The annual festival of animated, live-action, and documentary shorts from around the world, which ran from ... More »
By Rick Pezzullo— Four Irvington Middle School students recently earned writing awards from the Hudson Valley Writers Center’s Environmental Writing Contest. Seventh graders Finlay Albright-Cook, Sophie Katz and Addie Schutzman and sixth grader Charlotte Dolin... More »
Irvington High School has named its accomplished seniors Scarlett Zumbro and Scott Zinman as valedictorian and salutatorian of the Class of 2025. These outstanding students have demonstrated exceptional dedication to academic excellence, leadership and service... More »
By Rick Pezzullo— Dr. Stephanie Peborde Burke, an instructional innovation coach in the Irvington Union Free School District, has been recognized with the TELL (Technology in Education through Leadership and Learning) Outstanding Instructional Technology Coach... More »
By Rick Pezzullo– A social media post from a student forced schools in the Irvington School District to go into lockdown Monday. According to Superintendent of Schools Dr. Mara Ratesic, a “concerning” post containing a photo of a teenage student with a threate... More »
On March 29th, the second annual charity benefit produced by Irvington middle schoolers Aria Arinella-Rashid (age 11) and Hannah Leffler (age 11) will take place at The Irvington Presbyterian Church. Arinella-Rashid and Leffler say they hope the benefit, inten... More »
By W.B. King– Following his sci-fi novel Deep Past (2019), author Eugene Linden has picked up where he left off with Resurrecting Bart (2025). The idea for the former book, he told The Hudson Independent, grew out of a ponderance: “If natural selection could p... More »
Irvington High School senior Gabriella Brenner has been selected to perform with the prestigious National Association for Music Educators Eastern Division’s honor ensemble. She will play in its 2025 festival concert in April. Brenner, an alto, will sing as a m... More »
Following a rigorous application process, more than 80 Irvington High School students who demonstrated exceptional achievement and commitment to service were recently inducted into the National Honor Society (NHS). The students were recognized for exemplifying... More »
By Shana Liebman– This Friday, February 28, Red Hat on the River will introduce an award-winning cocktail: The Darth Veda, created by Irvington resident Melinda Chappelear, who won the Veda Mushroom Liquor cocktail contest at Irvington’s wine and spirits store... More »
By Barrett Seaman— Irvington’s Democrats gathered in Town Hall Theater Tuesday evening to finish voting for mayoral and trustee candidates. More than 350 registered party members selected incumbent trustee Arlene Burgos as their candidate to succeed retiring m... More »
By Rick Pezzullo— Time is running out for sponsors and artists to register to participate in what has become a much- anticipated annual tradition in Irvington. The Bulldog Gallery, a public art installation along Main Street in the village, is returning for a ... More »
By Barrett Seaman– The Irvington Democratic Party holds its nominating convention on Tuesday night in the Town Hall Theater. Barring write-ins, there are two candidates to succeed retiring Mayor Jon Siegel and three candidates vying to fill two open seats on t... More »
By Jeff Wilson— The educated audience came to the Irvington Library to inquire about the health of Mother Nature’s beautiful but abused child: the Hudson River. That was the focus of a February 5 forum by Tracy Brown, president of the not-for-profit organizati... More »
By Jeff Wilson— With friends like these, who needs tax revenue for the library’s special programs? The Twelfth Community-Wide Spelling Bee, presented by Friends of the Irvington Library at Town Hall Theater on January 31 (after a five-year hiatus), nearly pack... More »
By Shana Liebman– When the new Irvington Theater Commission (which I co-chair with Jessica Arinella) got together after the theater’s grand reopening, the only sensible topic of conversation was: What kind of surreal hell is happening in Los Angeles? The still... More »
