Feeding Westchester Goes Orange for Hunger Action Month

September is Hunger Action month. It’s a time when people across the country stand together with Feeding America and the nationwide network of food banks to fight hunger. With your […] Read more »

“Eat, Play, Love” Fundraiser Raises $10,955 for Domestic Violence Shelter, My Sisters’ Place

Mother Nature cooperated with a welcome respite from the recent heat wave to help provide an incredible night for the 3rd Annual Eat, Play, Love tennis fundraiser on Saturday, July […] Read more »

Westchester Parks Foundation Teams Up with Regeneron to Clean Up Blue Mountain Reservation in Peekskill

Westchester Parks Foundation is teaming up with Regeneron to “adopt” Blue Mountain Reservation in Peekskill.  The reservation is located on Welcher Avenue in Peekskill. The “ADOPT-A-PARK” program is run by […] Read more »

The Nearly New Shop Closure: The End of an Era

The Nearly New Shop became an integral part of the Tarrytown community when it opened in 1942, as a part of the Junior League of Westchester on Hudson. The Junior […] Read more »

The Supermen and Clark Kents of the River Towns

  We all know how Clark Kent, the mild-mannered reporter for the Daily Planet, would transform into Superman to fight crime and keep the citizens of Metropolis safe. Although we […] Read more »

$750K in Hudson River Recreation Grants for Tarrytown and Sleepy Hollow 

The New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) has earmarked $1.1 million in grants to be used to increase storm resiliency and for recreation projects along the Hudson River, including $750,000 for projects along the Sleepy Hollow […] Read more »

Two Irvington Teens Honor Beloved Residents With ‘The Legacy Project’

Lexi Weintraub recalled the day that her mother took her best friend Sharon Draytsel and her to the Scenic Hudson Park on a beautiful afternoon back in 2017. She described […] Read more »

WIHD Dedicates Therapeutic Garden

Garden is brainchild of 24-year-old staff member with Developmental Disabilities With the help of community partners and the initiative of one of its staff members, Westchester Institute for Human Development […] Read more »

Ossining Second-Grader Appointed Ambassador for Maria Fareri Children’s Hospital’s Largest Fundraiser

Giovanni “Gio” Toribio, 7, was cheered on by his second-grade classmates in an assembly where representatives from  Maria Fareri Children’s Hospital presented him with an official sash designating him as […] Read more »

Op-Ed: Opposition to Family Separation and Indecent Conditions in Children’s Detention Centers

What is happening to children at our borders is unacceptable.  A few months ago the news reported that children were being forcibly torn from their families when they crossed the […] Read more »