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News In The Rivertowns Is About To Get Bigger–And Better. This isn’t one of those Debbie Downer stories about yet another local news organization shuttering its doors or getting bought out by a private equity firm that strips its assets and takes what little is left. Instead, it is an example of a voluntary strategic alliance formed by two vibrant news operations dedicated to keeping the residents…
By Rick Pezzullo— Tarrytown’s highly acclaimed Main St. may become a bit more congested if a proposed zoning amendment is approved. The Board of Trustees voted Aug. 17 to schedule a public hearing next month on a Zoning Code change that would allow dwelling space above restaurants in the Main St. Historic District. The local law under consideration is consistent with the village’s Comprehensive…
By Barrett Seaman– The two-year-old application by the New Jersey-based developer VARMA to build a 53-unit housing complex on the Maxon property at 76 North Broadway in Irvington continues to pinball its way through the village’s approval process. Whether the vote on August 18 by the Zoning Board of Approval (ZBA) to approve four technical variances requested by the applicant will facilitate the…
By Barrett Seaman– Autumn comes early in election years. You can tell by the oversized, glossy flyers stuffed into your mailbox and the endless string of 30-second ads that occupy every vacant piece of airtime on television. If you are a resident of NY Congressional District 17, which includes about half of Tarrytown and all of Sleepy Hollow and points north, you are being urged—by both sides in…
ITERATION: big things writ little By Krista Madsen– You may have heard, because I was very vocal about it: I was trying to raise (a lot of ) money to buy a building in Sleepy Hollow, not for myself but for my fellow villagers and visitors. Suddenly I wanted to create a community center, an arts center, a wine/beer bar with local products (sound familiar?), a co-working space, a flea market on…
As a resident of NY17, Cait Conley is asking for a job representing a district where I pay the taxes and absorb the cost of every decision made in Washington. She has been on cable television all summer bashing our current Congressman, Mike Lawler. When NBC and CNN offered her a chance to say the same things with him in the room, her campaign said no. Lawler put six debates on the table back in…
By Rick Pezzullo— Ardsley resident Michael Madonia has been appointed president of ArtsWestchester’s Board of Directors. Madonia succeeds Marie Smith and will lead the board in advancing the organization’s mission to strengthen the cultural sector and to provide opportunities for everyone to experience, create and connect through the arts. He has served on the organization’s board since 2019,…
By Rick Pezzullo— A Bronx man was indicted Tuesday on charges stemming from a sexually motivated home invasion in Greenburgh last month. According to Westchester County District Attorney Susan Cacace, Alberto Botero, 39, was arraigned before Judge Robert Prisco in Westchester County Court for attempted rape, assault, burglary and other charges for the July 1 incident. He pled not guilty and was…
By Tom Pedulla– Nick Grados is experiencing mixed emotions as he prepares to attend the University of Wisconsin-Madison while leaving his Irvington High School lacrosse career behind. Although the All-Section star was recruited by Division 2 and 3 schools and could have had many options as a student-athlete at those levels, he decided to strictly focus on the classroom. He intends to major either…
By Barrett Seaman— With three immigrant deaths, as well as repeated disturbances between guards and protesters outside Delaney Hall, the privately-run ICE facility in Newark, there’s no mystery as to why Democratic members of Congress are demanding access to the detention center. Among the recent visitors were New Jersey Representative Richie Torres and George Latimer, representing New York’s 16th…
To the Editor: This letter is written by a former 45 year Irvington resident with some thoughts and concerns about the proposed transfer of the Astor Street DPW Yard up to the Irvington Reservoir. This public letter is written after two communications and one phone call to Beyer Blinder and Belle (BBB) were unanswered. Compliments to Mayor Burgos and the Trustees for working so diligently to…
READY, SET, MAYHEM!: End your summer in the cemetery By Krista Madsen– We have a town-gown relation problem in Sleepy Hollow. By this, I don’t mean there’s a city vs. the college kids sitch. We have no campus here. What we have are some old timers who have bumper stickers that say “North Tarrytown Forever” opposed to the vast majority who can’t wait to don their ghost gowns for the haunted holiday…
By Jeff Wilson— The long-vacant Washington Irving Trust Company, a stately former bank located at 25 North Broadway in Tarrytown, has been reincarnated as Dahlia’s Song, a café/floral shop that has retained the bank’s original, century-old marble walls, high ceilings and large rear windows facing the Hudson River. Amidst its homegrown flowers, the café offers tea, sandwiches and fresh coffee…
