| By Rick Pezzullo | The tax levy increase in the proposed budget for the 2015-16 school year in the Tarrytown School District falls well below the allowable state tax cap. The $72.57 million budget, which increases spending by 1.92% ($1.36 million) from thi... More »
| By Rick Pezzullo | Two longtime trustees and the treasurer of the district’s Foundation for the Public Schools of the Tarrytowns are running unopposed for three available seats in the May 19 Tarrytown Board of Education race. Board President Mimi Godwin, w... More »
| By Rick Pezzullo | School taxes are slated to increase 3.5% in the $57.66 million 2015-16 Irvington School District budget. For the average homeowner in the district, the increase would translate to $585. School taxes make up about 60% of a property owner’... More »
| by Rick Pezzullo | Two of the five seats on the Irvington Board of Education are up for grabs in the May 19 election. With board Vice President Maria Kashkin opting not to seek reelection, Robyn Kerner, a former board president and vice president, is the l... More »
| by Janie Rosman | Uncertainty about state aid has left the Irvington School District with a lot of unanswered questions, according to Superintendent of Schools Dr. Kristopher Harrison. The absence of state aid and unknown savings associated with the refi... More »
| by Janie Rosman | Educators from the Tarrytown Union Free School District’s elementary, secondary, middle school and high schools discussed needs for next year at last month’s budget workshop. Assistant Superintendent for Business John Staiger said the p... More »
| by Janie Rosman | For the past four years, Irvington Education Foundation (IEF) board member Rob Firpo-Cappiello has been one of the foundation’s biggest boosters – in the community and beyond. IEF was formed in 1997 by several parents after a school pla... More »
| by Rick Pezzullo | One of the battle cries of the Irvington High School girls’ basketball team is “play hard and good things will happen.” Another is “hold the rope,” which reinforces the need for every player to contribute for the team to be successful. T... More »
| by Morey Storck | Anything Goes, is a classic 1930’s Broadway musical comedy; the audience came to the theater to be entertained and to escape, at least for one evening. It was The Depression, after all. Theatre-goers expected campy jokes, convoluted roma... More »
| by Katy Kachnowski | On March 7, high school students from all across Westchester gathered in the Sleepy Hollow High School gymnasiums to compete in the annual Westchester Science and Engineering Fair (WESEF). This year’s event hosted 423 projects from ... More »
| by Robert Kimmel | Along with maintaining quality educational standards, preserving a small amount of tax relief for homeowners is one of the primary motivators of local school district authorities preparing their budgets for the coming year. As part of th... More »
