Dance Company’s Performance Touches on Raw Emotions

For one night only – on May 22 – fierce Spanish energy and percussive rhythms will fill the stage at Irvington Theater, as A Palo Seco Flamenco Company arrives with […] Read more »

Three River Town Teams Ripe with Imagination

Have you heard of the Briarcliff Bears, Ossining’s Biggy Smalls or Destruction Industries? No, they’re not rappers, or wrestlers, instead they are the three local teams of kids whose creative, […] Read more »

Butterflies Leave an Impression

Devoted readers of River Journal may remember an article about the Mayor’s Monarch Pledge, published late last year, which highlighted the steep decline in monarch butterflies specifically, and pollinating insects […] Read more »

We Are a Motley Crew

The Route 9 River Journal Heroes have one thing in common – our wish to clean up and keep (as far as possible) trash-free one particular stretch of the highway […] Read more »

Mayors Making Meaningful Moves to Protect Endangered Butterfly

Have you heard about the Mayors’ Monarch Pledge? It’s an initiative launched by the National Wildlife Federation in 2015 to encourage heads of local and tribal government across the U.S., […] Read more »

Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow: Briarcliff Past and Present

Times change, and so does architecture.   This topic fascinated young Michael Feist, an 18-year-old student at Briarcliff High School in 2014, tasked in a school project to intern locally. Michael’s […] Read more »

Our River Runs Through It – What’s New at the Hudson River Museum

When Masha Turchinsky took up the role of director and CEO of the Hudson River Museum in Yonkers in 2017, she inherited plans for an extension to be added to […] Read more »

Peace, Love and Community in Pocantico Hills

It’s been a celebratory year at the Church of the Magdalene in Pocantico Hills, and the festivities are far from over. Marking the 130th anniversary of its founding, the small […] Read more »

Local Authors, Local Books: Bridging the Gap

“I feel like it’s an absolute crisis, that we refuse to see nuance and complexity,” says Daphne Uviller, whose recently-published new novel This Was Not the Plan tackles this topic […] Read more »

NOW and Then: A Life Fighting for Women’s Rights

Not many people publish their first book at age 96, but Muriel Fox has spent a lifetime working against outdated expectations, and she’s not stopping now.  Her book, The Women’s […] Read more »