Chapel School students Michelle Restaino, 7, left, and Leo Shatzoff, 6, plant impatiens flowers as after-school program coordinator Lynn Lena leads at the school and attached Village Lutheran Church on White Plains Road in Bronxville on April 29, 2011. Goldman Sachs community volunteers donated time to the project. ( Xavier… Read More →
Village Hall: Police are investigating the theft April 21 of an unspecified sum of money from a village employee’s handbag in the building at 1001 Post Road. Post Road: A wallet was stolen from a 2009 Lexus parked at the Scarsdale High School track at 8:30 p.m. April 21. A… Read More →
Singer Pat Farenga will be featured at a performance to benefit Multiple Sclerosis research slated for 8:15 p.m. May 19 at Toscana Ristorante, 214 Main St., Eastchester. The benefit, “A Tribute to Frank, Dean, Perry and Bobby,” features an ala carte menu with dinner beginning at 6 p.m. followed by… Read More →
The fifth annual “Dance With Our Stars” to benefit Gilda’s Club is set for 7 p.m. tomorrow (Friday) at Eastchester High School. Students and teachers will dance to raise funds and awareness for Gilda’s Club Westchester, a regional source for social and emotional support for people living with cancer. Programs… Read More →
On May 26th from 7-9 pm, Oscar winner Aaron Sorkin will be speaking at the Scarsdale High School in a two-hour benefit appearance for the Scarsdale Drama Club. A Scarsdale alumn, Sorkin has won Oscars for The Social Network and the West Wing, as well as being nominated four other… Read More →
The “5th Annual Adult Night of Rock” will take place this year on Saturday, May 7th at the Wicked Wolf Tavern, 166 Mamaroneck Avenue in White Plains. The event, which will be hosted by Jimmy Fink from The Peak 107.1, is a fundraiser for the Scarsdale Teen Center. Bands performing… Read More →
The Westchester County Board of Legislators recently approved $8.18 million to finance the replacement of two bridges that carry the Bronx River Parkway over the Bronx River and the MTA Metro-North Railroad Line at Crane Road in the Village of Scarsdale and in the Town of Greenburgh. ADDED: Also, on… Read More →
Jamie Schneider, a Scarsdale resident, held a silent auction earlier this month at Yeshiva University to benefit Gift of Life Bone Marrow Foundation. Gift of Life is one of North America’s public bone marrow, blood stem cell, and umbilical cord blood registries; finding matches for patients suffering from leukemia, lymphoma,... Read More →
As staff writer Dwight R. Worley reported today, 53 of Westchester, Rockland and Putnam’s public school districts have proposed spending a combined $4.5 billion 2011-12, an increase of about 2 percent, according to new data from the state. Should voters approve all of those budgets, tax levies would rise by… Read More →
On Sunday, we report the findings of a three-month investigation into the reconstruction of Interstate 287 through Westchester, a project two years behind schedule and millions of dollars over budget. The report examines the contractors, the bids, the overruns and an entire system that has allowed construction practices like those… Read More →