Greenburgh to offer Virtual Summer Internships for High School and College Students

  For the past twelve summers, the Greenburgh Town Hall Summer Internship Program has engaged close to two-hundred area students in the process of learning about local government through authentic […] Read more »

Groundwork Hudson Valley’s Science Barge Responds to Community Needs during Coronavirus

Public environmental education center is changing course to provide fresh produce for food insecure residents and virtual programming for remote learner While the Science Barge is on PAUSE as a […] Read more »

Sleepy Hollow Tarrytown Chamber Awards Scholarship to Local Student

Kinga Orban, a senior at Sleepy Hollow High School, has been awarded a $1000 scholarship by the Sleepy Hollow Tarrytown Chamber of Commerce. This is the seventh annual award which […] Read more »

Irvington High School student earns National Hispanic Recognition Award 

Irvington High School student Chloe Garcia has been honored by the College Board with a National Hispanic Recognition Award.   Established in 1983, the National Hispanic Recognition Program identifies outstanding high school students […] Read more »

CHHOP Receives $6,000 Grant from the Westchester Community Foundation

The money was used to provide technology for staff to work from home Caring for the Hungry and Homeless of Peekskill (CHHOP) received a $6,000 grant from the Westchester Community […] Read more »

Congratulations to the May 2020 Pet of the Month

  Meet Cletus!   In January of 2019, a dog warden in Ashtabula County, Ohio found a 60lb hound mix running along a local route. He brought him in to the […] Read more »

Chemistry Students at Irvington High School Calculate Heat of Combustion 

Drawing upon their knowledge of chemistry and heat exchange, Irvington High School students in teacher David Whitehead’s Chemistry Honors classes recently conducted a laboratory investigation. While working in groups, they learned how […] Read more »

Blue Mountain Middle School Students Shine in Chemistry Competition

Eight Blue Mountain Middle School students participated in the Chemical Education Foundation’s (CEF) You Be the Chemist (YBTC) Challenge at BASF Corporation’s headquarters in Tarrytown, NY in March.   The YBTC […] Read more »

Arts Groups Embrace E-vents Under Prolonged Social Distancing

Rather than cancel events and programming because of pandemic restrictions, arts groups throughout the Lower Hudson Valley are moving more of their programing online to stay engaged with audiences and […] Read more »

Author-Illustrator Opens the Book on His Creative Process   

As third-grader Sabastian Rios stood in line for author-illustrator Bryan Collier to sign his copy of Martin’s Big Words: The Life of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.,” the connection dawned on […] Read more »