Briarcliff Seniors Celebrate National Letter of Intent Signing Day

On November 13, Briarcliff student athletes Ashley Goldstein (lacrosse) and Alana Lombardi (basketball) signed NCAA Letters of Intent on the day set aside nationally for all students committing to play […] Read more »

Teamsters Local 445 Endorse Senator David Carlucci in Congressional Race

Labor Union With more than 3,400 members Backs Carlucci for NY-17 Today, Democratic congressional candidate, State Senator David Carlucci (D-Rockland/Westchester) was endorsed by Teamsters Local 445 for New York’s 17th […] Read more »

Congratulations to the December 2019 River Journal Pet of the Month

  Meet Avery.   Avery is three months old and was left behind by her mom when her mom was relocating her kittens. She was just a few days old. […] Read more »

OHS Fall Play – She Kills Monsters, a Tale of Friendship, Loss and Acceptance

The Ossining High School Drama Club mounted a production of She Kills Monsters by Qui Nguyen on November 7-9. The story revolves around Agnes Evans, a recent college graduate who finds her […] Read more »

Sleepy Hollow-Based Rey Insurance Agency Earns Green Business Certification

Sustainability efforts are reducing emissions, energy use and waste The Rey Insurance Agency, a second generation provider of personal and business insurance for residents, business owners and professionals in the […] Read more »

Historic Hudson Valley’s Women’s History Institute Accepting Applications for Summer Research Fellowships

Historic Hudson Valley’s The Women’s History Institute is offering Summer Research Fellowships to support college and graduate students engaged in scholarly research connected to the lives of women in the […] Read more »

How Jack Schrade Unwittingly Insured the Name Schrade Road

I was born and raised on Crest Drive in what was then the northern point of Briarcliff Manor.  In the beginning, there were five houses on Crest Drive, two on Pine […] Read more »

School Play Saturday, Sunday, Monday Celebrates Family and Food

Briarcliff High School’s Fall play, Saturday, Sunday, Monday by Eduardo De Filippo, translated by Keith Waterhouse and Willis Hall, and presented by special arrangement with Samuel French, Inc., a Concord Theatricals Company, was dubbed a […] Read more »

‘Tis the Season for Tiny Bubbles 

Not all sparkling wines get their bubbles from the same process. The original French method, la méthode traditionelle or la méthode champenoise, requires that one first make a still wine. This white wine has too much acidity […] Read more »

Maria Fareri Children’s Hospital Unveils Donor Milk Bank for Extreme Preemies 

Hospital is now a center for the donation, processing and dispensing of lifesaving pre-term human milk  A new, distinctive facility that processes pre-term human milk for extremely premature babies is now […] Read more »