Westchester County Announces Additional Funding for Local Businesses, Nonprofits in Business FIRST Grants

The Westchester County Office of Economic Development has announced a second round of funding for county-based small businesses and nonprofits facing challenges as a result of the COVID-19 crisis. The […] Read more »

Read the December 2020 Issue of River Journal & RJN

You can now read the full, combined December issue of River Journal and River Journal North. Please share with your friends who may not receive the print issue at home. […] Read more »

Edge-on-Hudson Wins Silver Award for Community of the Year

Edge-on-Hudson earned extraordinary national recognition in December, as the National Association of Home Builders (NAHB) honored the development with the prized Silver Award for Multifamily Community of the Year. In […] Read more »

Are You Sitting Comfortably? 

This is the Covid era, when we stay at home to do our jobs or learn our lessons. Those of us who didn’t already have a home office have had to adapt, working at kitchen […] Read more »

United Way of Westchester and Putnam Hosts Annual Women’s Leadership Council Event

United Way of Westchester and Putnam hosted its annual and first virtual Women’s Leadership Council “Take a Walk in Her Shoes” event on December 8. Maria M. Trusa, CEO of […] Read more »

Nationally Touring Harriet Tubman Statue Scheduled to Arrive in Peekskill

Business Community Sponsors Iconic Statue’s Visit to Celebrate Black History Month The nationally touring statue of noted abolitionist Harriet Tubman will be arriving in Peekskill next week and will be […] Read more »

There’s No More Business for this Show Business

When I saw All Shook Up at Westchester Broadway Theatre (WBT) on its opening night last March 12, who among us enjoying the jukebox musical about the birth of rock ‘n’ roll, would […] Read more »

Armando ‘Chick” Galella to receive Annual Preservation Award

The Historical Society Inc., Serving Sleepy Hollow & Tarrytown, will present its annual Preservation Award to Armando Galella on December 31, 2020, the eve of Galella’s 100th birthday. Conferring the […] Read more »

Check Out Our Special Sleepy Hollow Tarrytown Chamber of Commerce Section

River Journal has partnered with the Sleepy Hollow Tarrytown Chamber of Commerce to celebrate businesses that serve the 10591 community. We encourage you to #ShopLocal, #DineLocal and support these and […] Read more »

‘It’s Not about the Honey, it’s about the Bees’ 

It all started at Hackley School, Tarrytown, Class of ’97, with the friendship between James Pratt and Carlo Esannason. James made a career as a construction manager in New York City, and Carlo went into finance, but the two remained fast friends.   Then, in 2016, something changed.  “I started feeling unhappy […] Read more »