Teen Scientists Win $1.8 Million at Virtual Regeneron Science Talent Search 2020

$250,000 top award goes to Lillian Petersen of New Mexico in nation’s oldest and most prestigious STEM competition for high school seniors Tarrytown, NY-based Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, Inc. and Society for Science & the Public announced that Lillian Petersen, 17, of Los […] Read more »

United Way and Feeding Westchester Team Up to Make Summer Produce Available to Low-Income Families

Residents of Sleepy Hollow, Tarrytown, Elmsford, Larchmont, Pelham, Mount Vernon, New Rochelle, Tuckahoe, White Plains, or Yonkers are eligible to participate. United Way of Westchester and Putnam has teamed up […] Read more »

The Public Schools of the Tarrytowns Provides Meals Throughout the Summer

Maria Filippelli sat in front of Sleepy Hollow Middle School on a recent morning doing what she loves – feeding children. Filippelli is the Food Service Manager for Whitsons Food […] Read more »

BARDA Procures Regeneron’s Regn-Eb3 Investigational Ebola Treatment for National Preparedness

REGN-EB3 is a novel anti-viral antibody cocktail developed using the same rapid response technologies as REGN-COV2, Regeneron’s investigational COVID-19 antibody cocktail Tarrytown-based Regeneron Pharmaceuticals announced that the Biomedical Advanced Research and […] Read more »

Rotary Clubs Fill a Need to Feed 

Loss of jobs and income have placed enormous stress on many citizens, challenging their ability to provide basic necessities such as food for their families.    As with many civic […] Read more »

Her Blessed Life Is a Blessing to Others 

The year 1920 “was the worst time in Ireland,” says Sister Canice, R.S.H.M., of Marymount College and Convent in Tarrytown. “Peace with England wasn’t secured until 1922.”   She recalls the British soldiers as “the black and tans,” and to this day despairs of the division of Ireland into 32 counties.   […] Read more »

Police Chiefs Talk Protests and Peaceful Co-existence 

Communities across the nation have recently seen the streets erupt in protest against racial injustice, and the mostly tranquil towns along the Hudson have been no exceptions.    Since the death of George Floyd at […] Read more »

Two Sages Equal One Emotion-filled Music Video

When she was six years old, Tarrytown resident Morgan Sage discovered her happy place: the ice rink. Spending multiple hours on the ice nearly every day throughout the past four […] Read more »

My 47-Year Journey to the Cuomo Bridge Bike Path 

  The opening of the new shared bike/pedestrian trail on the Mario Cuomo Bridge is a dream come true for me.   It takes me back to 1973, when I persuaded the Westchester County Board […] Read more »

Rallying the River Towns

  Not since the ‘60s has America seen social activism as impassioned, determined, and perpetual as we have witnessed these past historic weeks.   That tumultuous era’s unrest was to protest […] Read more »