Why Pair Wine with Your Meal?

For centuries Europeans from wine growing regions such as Italy, France and Spain have been drinking wine every day with their lunch and dinner. Wine is almost a food group […] Read more »

Celebrating 90 Years of Serving Our Community and Our Kids

In 1929, just before the start of the Great Depression, Abe Katz opened a general store on the corner of Spring Place and Maple Street in downtown Ossining. Four locations […] Read more »

Pakistani-American Author Visits Pocantico for the 2018 Global Read Aloud

Children’s book author Aisha Saeed visited the Pocantico Hills School on November 6 (she also visited Main Street School in Irvington – see December’s Education Round-Up) as part of this […] Read more »

Scholar Athlete of the Month: Jaida Strippoli

Jaida Strippoli, a three-sport athlete at Ossining High School, has proven to be an impressive athlete, student, and participant in many extracurricular activities. Throughout her high school varsity basketball career, […] Read more »

Real Estate Do’s and Don’ts

All the great real estate partners in the River Journal share a passion for helping their buyers get the right home, apartment, or country club membership and their sellers get […] Read more »

Todd Fourth Graders from Briarcliff Manor Celebrate Native Americans

Briarcliff Manor fourth graders studying an ALU (Authentic Learning Unit) on Native Americans in Shelley Graham and Stephanie Grace’s classes worked collaboratively on a letter to Superintendent Dr. James Kaishian […] Read more »

Life in the Woods Debuts at Washington Irving in Tarrytown

Washington Irving fourth and fifth-graders explored the themes of kindness, acceptance and consciousness in an original musical revue called Life in the Woods, inspired by Stephen Sondheim’s Into the Woods […] Read more »

Isabel Byrne Milano Named St. Patrick’s Parade Grand Marshal

The Sleepy Hollow St. Patrick’s Parade Committee has named Isabel Byrne Milano as the Grand Marshal of the 23rd Annual St. Patrick’s Parade. Leading the parade with Isabel will be […] Read more »

Irvington Main Street School Students Prepare Care Packages for Troops

Students at Main Street School worked together on Dec. 6 to assemble 50 care packages for soldiers stationed overseas as thanks for the troops service and sacrifice for our country. […] Read more »

$30K Federal Grant for Historic Hudson Valley

This past December, Congresswoman Nita Lowey announced that the non-profit cultural organization Historic Hudson Valley (HHV) in Sleepy Hollow was awarded a $30,000 National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) grant […] Read more »