Tis the season to light houses! Fa la la la lah, la la la lah Lavish pageants that arouse us Fa la la la lah la la la lah Don we now our brightest baubles Fa la la la lah la la la lah (You get the point) They say you can see the lights emanating from the Luxor... More »
By Shana Liebman– A new maker-market pop-up in Irvington could provide the solution to this season’s wishlist. Make Your Mark[et]NY, which occupies the former electronics/balloon store on Irvington’s Main Street through December 24, features items from 79 loca... More »
By Tom Pedulla– Does Sleepy Hollow have one huge effort left in an unprecedented season that already holds its place in the hearts and minds of fans? It will almost surely take that if the Horsemen are to return from Syracuse’s JMA Dome with the first state Cl... More »
The EF International Language Campus in Tarrytown welcomed the community to its annual Culture Fair on November 7 in Marian Hall, on EF’s Marymount Avenue campus. This year’s event brought together more than 700 EF students representing over 50 nationalities, ... More »
By Elizabeth Tucker– A new rule proposed to Congress by the EPA and the Army Corps of Engineers would drastically curtail the area previously subject to protection as wetlands. The Clean Water Act of 1972 makes it illegal to fill in wetlands or discharge pollu... More »
By Tom Pedulla– One win away. Sleepy Hollow is that close to playing for the ultimate football prize, the Class B state championship, after dispatching Saugerties 46-26 on Nov. 22 at Middletown High School in Middletown, N.Y. With Saugerties intent on stoppin... More »
By Barrett Seaman– Are local officials happy or unhappy with Con Ed’s electric and gas rates proposed over the next few years? Should we, the consumers, be? That’s hard for the average homeowner to tell, based on a series of public pronouncements—first from th... More »
Dear Friends and Neighbors: Families of all backgrounds are on the precipice of losing access to their SNAP benefits amid the current government shutdown, with no immediate relief in sight. Even when the shutdown concludes, new and permanent eligibility requir... More »
The following ruling by the county’s Fair Campaign Practices Committee elicited a response from the Unite Sleepy Hollow campaign that can be read further down the page. FINDING IN THE COMPLAINT OF MARJORIE HSU AGAINST THE UNITE SLEEPY HOLLOW SLATE, CANDIDATES ... More »
By Barrett Seaman— More than a thousand scary creatures, interspersed by 128 phantasmagorical floats, rumbled their way from Patriots Park down Broadway and Main Street in Tarrytown’s 23rd annual Halloween Parade on Saturday. Lining the route were an estimated... More »
Out of this year’s annual American Cancer Society’s Making Strides Walk last Sunday emerged a first-of-its-kind bra drive, the creation of a team from Phelps Hospital Northwell. Starting with hundreds of gently used and new specialized bras, collected both at ... More »
By Elizabeth Tucker— Still/Moving, an exhibition spanning two venues, presents a thirty-year retrospective of the Chinese artist Shen Wei. He first trained as an opera singer and studied painting and Chinese calligraphy before co-founding a modern... More »
By Barrett Seaman– On most of the stated goals of the candidates competing in November’s Sleepy Hollow mayoral and trustee election, the two contending parties—Unite Sleepy Hollow (USH) and TAG (Transparent Accountable Government)—have many of the same goals. ... More »
Millions of Americans turned out at some 2,000 rallies against Trump policies across the country but only brushed by the rivertowns. At a rally outside Greenburgh Town Hall, launched by the two-week-old group, Central Westchester Indivisible, Town Supervisor P... More »
By Barrett Seaman– More than six years after Journal News Tax Watch columnist David McKay Wilson wrote a series of articles asserting that Jesse Lubinsky, then the Director of Technology for the Irvington Union Free School District (IUFSD), was being paid by a... More »
By Barrett Seaman— The League of Women Voters of the Rivertowns hosted a candidate forum with Democrat Arlene Burgos and her opponent, Independent Robert Grados responding to more than a dozen questions submitted by Irvington voters. Topics ranged from village... More »
By Barrett Seaman– As Grand Opening ribbon cuttings go, this one was slow on the uptake—about five years from the time brothers Chris and J.B. Gomez opened Climbing Wolf Coffee & Beer at 78 Main Street in Dobbs Ferry until the Saturday in mid-October when the ... More »
By Sue Treiman– The year that John Glenn first orbited earth, the Rolling Stones formed their historic band and the Cuban missile crisis simmered, 86 Dobbs Ferry teens gathered for their 1962 high school graduation photo. Twenty-two of them (plus some spouses)... More »
By Barrett Seaman– In a small pocket of land nestled beneath Phelps Hospital’s main building is a small oasis with benches, a fountain, shelter provided by a pavilion, embraced by plantings arrayed so as to highlight each of the four seasons. On Tuesday, in th... More »
