By Rick Pezzullo— Irvington High School junior Brooke Dunefsky recently earned a silver medal at the virtual GENIUS Olympiad, an international competition at Rochester Institute of Technology. She presented her research, “A Novel Rehabilitative Device that Aid... More »
By Barrett Seaman— When it was announced a year ago this month that there would be a celebration of Juneteenth in Irvington, a not-uncommon reaction amongst those locals who even knew what Juneteenth meant was “Why Irvington?” The commemoration of the proclama... More »
By Steve Sears— The Westminster Kennel Club has selected one of the most beautiful locations in America to hold its prestigious 145th Dog Show event: outdoors at the 67-acre Lyndhurst mansion and property, located on the banks of the scenic Hudson River in Tar... More »
By Hannah Lustyik– Kate Abrams, a seventh grader from Irvington Middle School, has won an inaugural international film competition. The award was given by Videos for Change, an Australian-based nonprofit filmmaking program. Kate was introduced to the prog... More »
By Barrett Seaman— After nearly three hours of public hearings, dominated largely by neighbors opposed to the density of its proposed mix of multi-family housing, Irvington Trustees unanimously adopted a new zoning scheme for the stretch of property east of No... More »
By Rick Pezzullo— Irvington High School junior Emelyn Juenger has been chosen to compete in the Science Teachers Association of New York State’s Science Congress, to be held at the Milton J. Rubenstein Museum of Science and Technology in Syracuse on June 12. J... More »
By Barrett Seaman— The pieces are coming together that will ultimately determine the political map of New York State for the next decade, and the person who will be guiding the re-mapping process will be David Imamura, currently Democratic District Leader for ... More »
By Brianna Staudt Village tax rates will rise modestly heading into the new fiscal year June 1 as local governments take measures to blunt the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic economic downturn on taxpayers. Tax rates are rising between two and three percent fo... More »
By Barrett Seaman– Feeling a need for more robust analysis of prosecution patterns, Westchester District Attorney Mimi Rocah has created a new position in her office and named sociologist and data analyst Dr. Kathy Kaufman to fill it. Kaufman, an Irvington r... More »
On the eve of the one-year anniversary of George Floyd’s murder, Roger Burkhardt and Jane Fankhanel put a fresh Black Lives Matter sign at the end of their driveway on Taxter Road in East Irvington. In the dark of night, someone spray-painted the sign with whi... More »
By Brianna Staudt and Rick Pezzullo Voters overwhelmingly approved the 2021-22 school budgets yesterday proposed by Dobbs Ferry public schools, Irvington public schools, the Public Schools of the Tarrytowns and Pocantico Hills. All board of education (BOE) tru... More »
By Rick Pezzullo— Dr. Gail Duffy has been appointed Assistant Superintendent for Instruction and Human Resources in the Irvington School District. Duffy has extensive background as a school leader, having served as an assistant superintendent for administrati... More »
By Rick Pezzullo— A lacrosse game fundraiser to benefit an 11-year-old Dobbs Ferry boy who suffers from a rare and terminal disease will be held Friday afternoon at the Upper Field at Springhurst Elementary School in Dobbs Ferry. The game between the Dobbs Fer... More »
By Rick Pezzullo— Two local seniors were among 2,500 National Merit Scholarship winners named this week that were chosen from a pool of 16,000 students. Nicholas G. Papapanou of Irvington High School and Owen M. Dugan of Sleepy Hollow, who is home schooled, wi... More »
By Rick Pezzullo— Five members of Irvington High School’s Academic Challenge team will compete in the 2021 National Academic Championship, which will be held virtually in June. The team qualified for the national competition after their strong performance at t... More »
By Barrett Seaman— A much-amended plan to re-zone a stretch of property along what is known as Irvington’s North Broadway Corridor ran into its second roadblock in less than a year on May 3rd, when public opposition coming from both sides of a cultural divide ... More »
By Rick Pezzullo— Approximately 100 people took part in a peaceful Black Lives Matter rally Saturday in front of Irvington Town Hall on Main Street. The event was organized by the Irvington BLM Activists, the same group that held a rally in Dobbs Ferry last Se... More »
Dows Lane Elementary School second grader Hanani Lubin was awarded the New York State Office of the Attorney General Triple “C” Award during a ceremony at the school’s blacktop on April 16. He was recognized for his courage, character and commitment. “Hanani h... More »
By Barrett Seaman— The debate had gone on for over two years. One side, led by a progressive group, the Irvington Activists, has campaigned for an end to the exclusion of non-residents from the village’s 75-year-old Matthiessen Park; the other, reflecting the ... More »
This is the second in a series about the return of live performance art to the rivertowns. By Brianna Staudt– The Irvington Theater was built in 1902 and doesn’t have a ventilation system. For anyone living through the Covid-19 pandemic, that statement raises ... More »
