Public Schools of the Tarrytowns - School Hallway

State Budget Woes Affect Local School Districts

Late last year, in an effort to balance the State’s books, Governor David Paterson proposed over $5.2 million in budget cuts − including a large cut in state educational aid. […] Read more »

Westchester’s New Deputy County Executive, Tarrytown’s Kevin Plunkett

For many, Westchester has become the County synonymous with ever increasing governmental spending, rising taxes within villages, school budgets that continually spiral upward and a cost of living second to […] Read more »

Events Calendar

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Money, Irvington School and Village Budgets

In the Schools Superintendent Kathleen Matusiak’s main goal with this year’s budget was how to decrease spending without directly impacting students. Read more »

Money, Tarrytown and Sleepy Hollow School and Village Budgets

The Tarrytowns – In the Schools The Tarrytown/Sleepy Hollow Board of Education has proposed a budget of $62,511,933 for the 2009-2010 school year for a vote on May 19. Read more »

Introducing Reel Time

With this issue we are adding a new feature to the publication called REEL TIME. Readers will now be able to watch stories as well as read them at RiverJournalOnline.com. Read more »

Moms, Moms on Motherhood

Benita Maceyak of Tarrytown always planned on being a Mom&#046 From the time she was two years old, her cousin would joke that she was going to be a mother&#046 […] Read more »

Up the River Without a Paddle

The year 2009 marks four hundred years since Henry Hudson sailed up the river that now bears his name, and a little over two hundred years since Robert Fulton successfully […] Read more »

Prayer That Heals and Restores, A Talk at First Church of Christ, Scientist.<

Where is God in these troubled times? Is He listening? Can He help? Is prayer effective and reliable? Can it bring healing, hope, restoration in the face of life’s challenges? […] Read more »

Irvington School Board

Dear Editor: Residents of the Irvington School District are fortunate to have Paul Janos as a candidate for the School Board. As a parent of two children who have benefited […] Read more »