Community Coalition Launches Calendar and Volunteer Directory

Sleepy Hollow and Tarrytown non-profits create new community resource The Community Coalition of Tarrytown and Sleepy Hollow (C2), a monthly open forum for local non-profits and village government officials, has […] Read more »

Peekskill’s Athena LaTocha and Arts10566 Receive Rockefeller Brothers Arts Grants

Athena LaTocha, a Peekskill-based artist whose massive mixed-media works on paper explore the relationship between human-made and natural worlds, was named the first recipient of the Pocantico Prize for Visual […] Read more »

Three Croton Merchants Worth Knowing About

Baked by Susan 379 S Riverside Avenue Croton-on-Hudson bakedbysusan.com Baked By Susan is the recipient of over a dozen Best of Westchester awards for Best Bakery, Best Cup Cakes, Best […] Read more »

Troop 28 Court of Honor Salutes Croton Scouts

Croton-on-Hudson’s Troop 28, BSA (Boy Scouts of America) held an Eagle Scout Court of Honor in June at Assmuth Hall in Kolping-on-Hudson in Montrose. Here are selected highlights of their […] Read more »

Congratulations to the Summer 2022 River Journal North Pet of the Month

Meet Mae! Aka our little “Bean”! We adopted Mae back in October 2021 from A Good Dog Rescue in Verplank. She’s about 1.5 years old and is a German Shepherd […] Read more »

Assemblage of Candidates Vie for Galef’s Assembly Seat

When New York State Assemblywoman Sandy Galef (A.D. 95) announced in January 2022 that she would not seek re-election and retire at year-end — after nearly 30 years in the […] Read more »

Ossining Competes to Bring Ambitious E-Bike Program to Village Streets 

As the Village of Ossining reimagines its downtown with $10 million in state money, it’s also seeking another $7 million to fund an ambitious program to make e-bikes widely available […] Read more »

Our Kids’ Love Of Nature in Full Bloom

When you think about a school classroom, what does it conjure? Memories of “looking at the stars,” “being with the clouds,” “feeling plants and flowers,” “finding bugs” or “going on […] Read more »

An Orangerie Blossoms in Pocantico Hills

It’s hard to resist metaphors associated with fruitfulness when contemplating current developments at the 1908 orangerie on the Rockefeller estate, in Pocantico. What was once a vast winter citrus greenhouse […] Read more »

“PSST… PSST… PSST” Could This Be About You?

I published Lily…Laura to give youngsters who have been victimized by malicious rumors and gossip a voice. As a former educator and librarian, I observed how painful and hurtful rumors […] Read more »