Four Briarcliff Seniors Receive All-State Music Honors  

Four Briarcliff High School seniors were selected for All-State ensembles with the New York State School Music Association, and will perform in a virtual concert this month.      Harrison Beckler will sing bass in the All-State Mixed Chorus, Ari Mirsky  will play percussion in the All-State […] Read more »

Young Tarrytown Scientists Study Digestion 

There are numerous benefits of hands-on learning, including better retention and engagement of the senses. While remote learning has made many hands-on projects a challenge, Washington Irving students in Mrs. DeVivo’s fourth grade class had […] Read more »

Holocaust & Human Rights Education Center Announces Spring Schedule for Memory Keepers Story Hour

The Holocaust and Human Rights Education Center (HHREC) of White Plains, NY, has announced their Spring 2021 Memory Keepers Story Hour. These events will be offered on a virtual online platform, and […] Read more »

Congratulations to the March 2021 River Journal Pet of the Month 

Meet Vail.    Vail Sanders, PhD, is a nine-year-old Australian Shepherd who leads an active life on Pocantico Lake where he serves as mayor.    Vail was born at Steve Miller’s Frog Hollow/Karri Aussie […] Read more »

OHS Student Is One of Four Neuroscience Research Prize Winners  

Ossining High School senior Meagan Ryan is one of four winners of the American Academy of Neurology’s 2021 Neuroscience Research Prize and the only student selected to present her work at […] Read more »

Irvington High School Science Research Students Earn Medals at JSHS 

Members of Irvington High School’s Science Research program participated in the Junior Science and Humanities Symposium, held virtually on Januargy 30. They presented their work through a PowerPoint presentation and earned several medals.  […] Read more »

The Salvation Army Greater NY Reached Milestone of More than 7 Million Meals Served Since March 2020

As we head into a full year of the COVID-19 pandemic, The Salvation Army Greater New York marks a historic number of more than 7 million meals served since the […] Read more »

Phelps Commemorates One Year Anniversary of Covid

On March 10th,  Phelps Hospital participated in a Northwell Health system wide remembrance of those lives lost to the Covid pandemic in 2020.  Phelps participated in a moment of silence […] Read more »

New Exhibit at Rockefeller State Park Preserve Art Gallery

The Art Gallery at the Rockefeller Park Preserve presents, “Spacial Impressions”, a photography exhibition representing artistic selections from five exceptional multi-talented photographers. Co-curator Michael Garber, Walter LeCroy, Bobbi Lane, Lee […] Read more »

Former Pace Campus Future Unclear After Sale to Rockland Congregation

Briarcliff Manor residents and officials are waiting for the other shoe to drop after learning the former Pace University campus had been sold to a Monsey religious congregation linked to […] Read more »