Old Traditions, New Beginnings – A Recipe for Christmas Joy

Ingredients:  1 Jolly Gentlemen & His Wife  1 Snowy-White Beard  1 Red Velvet Suit  A Pinch of Mischief  Add:  2 Kind Hearts  Boundless Generosity  A Heaping Cup of Holiday Spirit  Preparation: Jolly […] Read more »

Old Traditions, New Beginnings: Share a Thought, Make a Friend 

“I can rhyme a grocery list, but I can’t make a meal,” says 20-year Cortlandt Manor resident, Barbara Schore, with a laugh. The widowed mother and grandmother has had a life-long love for rhyming words. The […] Read more »

Living Through a Century: A Conversation with Valeria Masullo

Change is the one constant in life, and in the past 100 years, much has happened to precipitate change. A world that experienced the Great Depression and World War II […] Read more »

Local Seniors Embrace their Inner Storyteller 

Ice cream and baseball have long been associated with the lazy, hazy, crazy days of summer because what could be better than a brown bonnet cone or a cherry-topped sundae […] Read more »

School Holidays – What Makes the Grade?

River Town school districts have recently added two holidays to their calendars—Juneteenth, in commemoration of the emancipation of enslaved people, and Lunar New Year, an Asian holiday celebrated on the […] Read more »

Vietnamese Delegation Visits Peekskill to Study WIN’s Waste-to-Energy Technology

in Da Nang City, landfills have reached, or are near, capacity Read more »

Rebuilt Fleischmann Pier Gins Up Charles Point Park

Peekskill City and New York State officials gathered with the community for a ribbon-cutting at Charles Point Park on John Walsh Boulevard in October to celebrate the reopening of Fleischmann […] Read more »

Extensive Restoration Ahead at Croton Historic Site

A late July morning shower did not dampen enthusiasm at Van Cortlandt Manor in Croton-on-Hudson, municipal sponsor for the Manor’s multi-million-dollar site restoration project.    Historic Hudson Valley welcomed Croton Village […] Read more »

Free Resource Connects Community to Quality Childcare

Childcare costs are often the largest household expense. Parents struggle to find quality, reliable, affordable care, and many are unaware The Child Care Council of Westchester (the Council) serves as […] Read more »

Lesley Phillips Brightens Blythedale Patients with Light and Color

Croton-on-Hudson artist Lesley Phillips has been painting since childhood. “I just kept coming back to it, trying to master it. I am still learning, but with each painting I feel […] Read more »