Special Offer for Business Owners Doing Good: A Free Video

Chuck Newman is virtually a household name in Peekskill. And for good reasons.  One is that his family has been an integral part of the City’s business-and-social fabric for generations.  […] Read more »

Trail & Tunnel Notes … From the Friends of the Old Croton Aqueduc

Visitors to the Keeper’s House in Dobbs Ferry often provide stories as intriguing as the house itself, offering a reward to those of us who work as docents there. Here […] Read more »

Shelf Awareness Meets Self Awareness

It’s fascinating how, in times of mutual duress, we self-select silos to inhabit. For the sake of simplicity — if over-generalization — let’s look at binary silos.  For example, in […] Read more »

Prepare for Online Learning During the Coronavirus Outbreak: Three Tips to Navigate

As schools and universities, along with places of work, close for short or longer term durations, online communication and learning is going to be a critical tool. Whether using Zoom™, […] Read more »

What’s This?

Yes, we suspect that was the first thing that popped into your head when you came across River Journal North for the first time: what is this? We hope this […] Read more »

Road to College: Guide to 2020 

On the road to college, we use milestones to determine what we have accomplished, and what is to come. As we round the new year into February, parents and students […] Read more »

A City Girl’s Guide to Loving Suburbia – Chapter 8: Shake Your Booty!  

As I recall my early workout days, I’m overcome with feelings of pride and shame – pride in my dedication to maintaining a healthy, trim physique, and utter shame in […] Read more »

Beyond the Classroom: Taking the Stress Out of Taking the Test 

Between mid-year teachers’ assessments and AIMS Web standardized tests, January was a blur. Just before spring break comes the New York State ELA test and just after that, math. While […] Read more »

Trail & Tunnel Notes . . . From the Friends of the Old Croton Aqueduct: John James Robertson Croes

As history would have it, some designers are broadly associated with their works, like Frederick Law Olmsted with Central Park or John B. Jervis with the Old Croton Aqueduct. John James Robertson Croes was not one […] Read more »

Road to College: Holiday Edition 

On the Road to College, we must occasionally take stock of what we have, appreciate who we are with, and look back with pride on what we have accomplished as […] Read more »