By Rick Pezzullo— The Tarrytown and Sleepy Hollow police departments are joining forces to make the holiday season brighter for children in the area. The 18th Annual Holiday Toy Drive is underway where the police departments are collecting new and unwrapped to... More »
At its annual Champagne Ball fundraiser at Sleepy Hollow Country Club on October 18, Northwell Phelps Hospital raised a record raised $686,250—in part for the expansion of its Health and Wellness Center at the Northwell Health Cancer Institute. Honored at the ... More »
By Barrett Seaman and Solace Church– As far back as the late 17th century, citizens of New England towns decided communal matters at “Open Town Meetings,” in which public issues and elections were discussed by the entire population gathered in one place at one... More »
In our small sample survey of Tarrytown voters, conducted on the promise not to attribute views by name, the following observations stood out: On choice for President: 17th District Democrat: “I would like to make sure that our local and national candidate is ... More »
By Rick Pezzullo— Angelina “Angie” Torrisi of Hastings-on-Hudson was born in 1920—the same year the 19th Amendment was ratified, giving women the right to vote. Just a few days before the next presidential election, Torrisi will be celebrating her 104th birthd... More »
By Rick Pezzullo— The executive director of a Tarrytown-based nonprofit organization is departing later this year to join a Mount Kisco-based advocacy group for immigrants. Jeanette Gisbert, who has led Volunteer New York! for the last four years but has been ... More »
By Barrett Seaman– It just seems to keep growing—and with it, the crowds that come from nowhere and everywhere. By the time the annual Tarrytown Halloween Parade got underway around 5:00 p.m. Saturday, spectators had already filled every space along the parade... More »
By Jeff Wilson– Local residents gathered in Tarrytown’s Warner Library on October 23 for a public feedback session about the prospect of adopting Project MOVER, an e-bike sharing program currently up and running in Ossining. The program is available there ... More »
By Barrett Seaman— With a crowd of doctors, administrators, local politicians and community leaders present, Phelps Hospital officially dedicated a new 22,754-sq. ft. “Maternal Child Health Center” on the hospital’s fourth floor, where some rooms with Hudson R... More »
By Rick Pezzullo— A ribbon cutting ceremony was held Thursday for Mirabella Cocina Latina, an eatery in Dobbs Ferry located next to LOOK Dine-In Cinemas at Rivertowns Square. The restaurant that features Latin American cuisine and cocktails opened in July but ... More »
By Barrett Seaman– You can’t, as they say, make this stuff up. In the days leading up to the June 25th New York State primary, some 200 voters, many of them former Republicans with no prior affiliation with the Working Families Party, registered just in time t... More »
By Barrett Seaman– One of the many roles the Rivertowns Chamber of Commerce plays is as cheerleader for new businesses that open in any one of the four villages it covers. Thus, an important physical asset of the chamber is a giant pair of red-handled scissors... More »
By Barrett Seaman– When Tara Scheller launched her yoga program using stand-up paddleboards (SUPs) as a core-strengthening exercise, the little beach at Horan’s Landing on the Sleepy Hollow/Tarrytown border seemed an ideal place to introduce novices. Later, in... More »
By Barrett Seaman– It has been voted the best parade in the county eight years in a row by Westchester Magazine. Last year, blessed by unseasonably warm weather, the Tarrytown Halloween parade drew upwards of 20,000 people—almost twice the population of the vi... More »
By Barrett Seaman— Midday traffic to the east was backed up to the Saw Mill River Parkway; to the south, it touched the Irvington border. Cars were parked for miles around, and the pedestrian traffic on Broadway ran seamlessly from Main Street Tarrytown all th... More »
It should be part of every driver’s routine: adjust the side and rear-view mirrors; move the seat to allow your feet to reach the pedals comfortably and place the adjustable steering wheel (of the vehicle has one) to a comfortable position. How soon we forget,... More »
By Rick Pezzullo— Funeral services will be held this week for the wife and daughter-in-law of Greenburgh Councilman Francis Sheehan who were killed in a fiery car crash September 16 in White Plains. Family and friends will have the chance to pay their respects... More »
Under the watchful eye of Margaret Horan, local merchants and artisans set up a circle of tents on the lawn at Horan’s Landing to sell their wares and raise money for the Beekman Avenue food pantry that has registered 580 families in Tarrytown and Sleepy Hollo... More »
By Barrett Seaman– Two hundred forty-four years to the day, September 25, local historians, elected officials and American history buffs gathered in the cavernous “car barn” on the Rockefeller estate in Pocantico Hills to examine and admire a display focused o... More »
By Sue Treiman– Few people associate Vernon Jordan, Cab Calloway, Roy Campanella, “Moms” Mabley and Gordon Parks with Westchester County and Greenburgh Township. That’s about to change. A new African-American History Museum is the goal, but as an incremental s... More »
