Pocantico Hills Students Prepare Vegetables for Annual Harvest Soup Day

Students, staff members, and parents harvested vegetables from the Pocantico Hills School garden and prepared them for the school’s annual Harvest Soup Day on October 17.  Children in kindergarten through fourth grade picked […] Read more »

PTA Launches Little Free Libraries in Ossining

The Ossining Parent Teacher Association (PTA) has installed Little Free Libraries at Park, Claremont, and Roosevelt schools.  “Everything that’s in here is for our students and for our community,” said Superintendent […] Read more »

Love of Reading Brings Irvington Students Together at Dows Lane Elementary School 

Irvington kindergarteners through third graders waited their turn in the gymnasium of Dows Lane Elementary School on September 24, holding an excerpt from a book at the first all-school interactive […] Read more »

Circus Time at Briarcliff’s Todd Elementary

For over a decade, physical education classes at Todd Elementary in Briarcliff have had an annual visit from the National Circus Project. The tradition continued on September 25.  “We work […] Read more »

Union Church of Pocantico Hills—A Humble Church Housing Artistic Masterworks

Visitors driving past the Union Church of Pocantico Hills on Bedford Road could be excused for viewing the village’s house of worship as a charming local building and not much more. Its sweet but modest façade scarcely hints at the world-class works of art inside.   […] Read more »

Local Organizations Help Feed the Hungry This Holiday Season 

Two area organizations have set up efforts to help feed hundreds of hungry Westchester residents for Thanksgiving. Both need support from the local community to feed as many of the county’s […] Read more »

Local Residents Help School Secure New Grand Piano 

When Amy Monachelli, a Tarrytown resident and General Manager at Oxford Properties, heard that the Steinway Grand Piano played in the public atrium of Olympic Tower on Fifth Avenue in Manhattan needed a […] Read more »

The Supernatural Was Brought to Life at the Sleepy Hollow International Film Festival  

For four days from October 10-13, the first annual Sleepy Hollow International Film Festival (SHIFF) shared the seasonal spotlight in Sleepy Hollow and Tarrytown. Film fans—as well as lovers of […] Read more »

Nobel Prize Winner Shaped by His Experience at Local High School 

When 2019 Nobel Prize for Physiology and Medicine winner Gregg Semenza was a student at Sleepy Hollow High School, he wasn’t the top student in his 1974 graduating class – he […] Read more »

Swan’s House Takes Flight in Tarrytown 

Eight years ago, Sara Swan was planning on moving back to her native Ireland but she met Arthur Gandy, her future husband, at her own going-away party. Six years later, […] Read more »