Rivertown Runners Check In with Sleepy Hollow

Earlier this month, Rivertown Runners and the RTR Outreach Fund presented a check to the Sleepy Hollow Village Board of Trustees representing the donations the fund made to many local […] Read more »

Red Cross: Three Reasons to Give Blood this Month

One in 7 patients entering a hospital will need a blood transfusion. At the same time, only about 3% of Americans give blood. The American Red Cross needs more people […] Read more »

Lyndhurst to Begin Million Dollar Restoration Project

Lyndhurst will begin a major restoration of the north side of the estate funded by a $500,000 grant from the New York Historic Preservation Office and a matching gift from […] Read more »

Tarrytown Responds to Volunteer Ambulance Corps’ Emergency

When the Tarrytown Volunteer Ambulance Corps started in 1967, the corps’ rig was a Cadillac parked at a gas station. Headquarters was the village’s Neighborhood House.  Pagers were years away, […] Read more »

One Poco Night was an International Culinary Bonanza

Anyone who left the One Poco Night on Jan. 26 at the Pocantico School gym hungry has only themselves to blame. The event was a culinary bonanza that featured cuisine […] Read more »

$2.725 Million in Federal Funding Helps Launch Two Programs at New York Medical College

Two innovative programs are on the horizon at New York Medical College (NYMC) thanks to recent federal funding. A $1,900,000 award from the Community Project Fund will support “Equity and […] Read more »

Westchester County Agencies Host County’s Life Sciences Ecosystem Panel Discussion

On Thursday, February 2, 2023, the Westchester County Office of Economic Development (OED) and the Westchester County Association (WCA) hosted All Access Healthcare: Regional Life Sciences Outlook. Approximately 100 people […] Read more »

Music and Pickleball Festival Coming to Briarcliff this Spring 

When the publisher of River Journal told me he wanted to do a pickleball-and-music festival, I chuckled. At first. But I knew the idea had legs.   Each spring and summer […] Read more »

Sneak Peek at Peekskill’s Overarching Mural Project

[Editor’s Note — Since this article was published in our February 2023 print edition, the Five Elements Arches project has been awarded a $2,500 ArtsWestchester Arts Alive Artist Grant, made […] Read more »

FDA Awards Local Doctor $1.9 million for Covid Vaccine-Associated Myocarditis Research

Supriya Jain, M.D., clinical associate professor of pediatrics and of radiology and clinical education liaison, has been awarded a Broad Agency Agreement (BAA) of $1,997,031 over five years by the […] Read more »