Irvington Author’s Fire and Flood Examines Climate Crisis 

The American Meteorological Society, composed of the 13,000 weather men and women who deliver our daily weather predictions, has picked its book of the year: Fire and Flood by Eugene […] Read more »

The River Runs Through It

Martin Munroe’s roots run deep into the soil of Sleepy Hollow, or North Tarrytown as it was called when he grew up there. Both sets of his grandparents arrived in […] Read more »

Daisy Jopling Dreams Big – Music with a Greater Purpose

Don’t Miss Daisy Live at the Tarrytown Music Hall on Oct 29. Use the QR code for information and tickets. British-born classical/rock violinist, composer and improviser Daisy Jopling lives in […] Read more »

In the Darkness, a Little Light – Local Volunteers of All Ages Needed!

Creatures of romance and fairy tale, celebrated by the Japanese and mentioned in Dante’s Inferno, fireflies – or glowworms, or lightning bugs – are one of nature’s miracles, not to […] Read more »

From the Forest to the Jungle – How The Lion King Changed My Life

  There’s a man who volunteers with the Croton-on-Hudson Fire Department and EMS team who has been nominated for 14 Tony Awards, and has won two of them – for […] Read more »

The Art of the Do-Able 

Although only seven months into the job, the Rev. Patricia Calahan, the new pastor at the Union Church of Pocantico Hills, is already fulfilling her hopes for change.  “Shifting the […] Read more »

Music for Mothers, and Others

Mother’s Day is on the horizon – on Sunday 14 May, in fact – and the internet is filled with eye-popping gift suggestions, from heart-shaped tea bags to foot spa […] Read more »

A Place of Earthly Delight: A World Class Garden Next Door

If you enjoy spending time visiting gardens, perhaps you already know about Open Days at the Garden Conservancy? If you don’t, welcome to a wonderful opportunity to peek inside some […] Read more »

Local Concert to Benefit Ukrainian Children and Musicians

Irena Portenko is indefatigable. “I am doing something all the time,” she says, about her efforts to fund-raise for her homeland of Ukraine. “People are always asking: ‘How can I […] Read more »

Rahul’s Remarkable Recovery

Rahul Krishnan, a pupil at Briarcliff High School, remembers nothing about his motor cycle accident in Peekskill last August. But friends and family have told him he overtook a parked […] Read more »