Vote for River Journal as a Best of Westchester Local Publication

If you’re a fan of River Journal or River Journal North, we hope you’ll consider voting for us in the Best of Westchester elimination round. Voting closes today, March 3 […] Read more »

Westchester Soccer Club Embracing the Underdog Mentality

On the soccer pitch, what matters more: talent, teamwork, or tenacity?   For Patriots FC, a Westchester-based girls soccer club, it’s been all three of those factors that have directly contributed […] 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 »

A True Hudson Independent – Bob Kimmel

Bob Kimmel knows news. Perhaps best recognized locally as a co-founder of the Hudson Valley News Corporation, which launched the Hudson Independent in late 2005, his impressive career in the […] Read more »

Tarrytown’s Transfiguration School Tours the World

Can you imagine travelling to twenty-four different countries in just one day? That is exactly what the students at Transfiguration School in Tarrytown did at their Geography Fair. The students in […] Read more »

Letter to the Editor: Response to ADU Concerns in Tarrytown

[Ed. Note — This letter was submitted to River Journal in response to a letter from a local resident. You can see her letter HERE.]  Dear Ms. McCarthy, Thanks for […] Read more »

Letter to the Editor: Concern with Tarrytown Housing Affordability Task Force

[Ed. Note — This letter was sent to the Tarrytown Board of Trustees by the writer. Ms. Phillips-Staley is one of the trustees. A response to the letter was received […] Read more »

Tarrytown Poised to Become the Permanent Home of the Historic FDNY Fireboat John D. McKean

Having served the FDNY for almost 60 years, the Fireboat John D. McKean found itself under the care of the Fireboat McKean Preservation Project, which restored the ship to its […] Read more »

Letter to the Editor: On Cannabis and Equal Time

[Ed. Note – This letter from the Mayor and Village Board of Tarrytown is in response to a letter submitted by Tarrytown resident Peter Bartolacci. You can see Mr. Bartolacci’s […] Read more »