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Port Chester Principal's Humanitarian Efforts Score Award At MLK Tribute PORT CHESTER, N.Y. – From an early age, Port Chester educator Byron Womack knew that playing sports was much more than just learning how to throw a football or run the bases; it was a character-building experience that would frame the rest of his life. Womack’s ability to “go long” will be recognized this weekend when he is given the 2017 Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Commemoration Committee Humanitarian Award at a celebration of civil rights icon Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. The community event is set for 6 p.m. Sunday, Jan. 22, at Port Chester Middle School where Womack is an assistant princi…

by Carol Reif

01/19/2017

Lifestyle

Joseph's Steakhouse In Hyde Park Ranks Among DVlicious Finalists HYDE PARK, N.Y. -- There are times – especially in winter – when you crave the comforting environment of a steakhouse and all its pampering glory. Add some red wine, a side of potatoes and you’re in meat mecca heaven. We asked you for your favorite places in the county; two have been chosen as finalists in our DVlicious “Best Steakhouse” contest and now each is being profiled this week. Ready to dig in? Read below – then let your fingers do the clicking. You can vote multiple times, albeit once per day. Voting ends at 4 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 26. Joseph's Steakhouse, Hyde Park What Makes It …

by Daily Voice

01/19/2017

Lifestyle

Mahopac's Chophouse Grill Ranks Among DVlicious 'Best Steakhouse' Finalists MAHOPAC, N.Y. -- There are times – especially in winter – when you crave the comforting environment of a steakhouse and all its pampering glory. Add some red wine, a side of potatoes and you’re in meat mecca heaven. We asked you for your favorite places in the county; three have been chosen as finalists in our DVlicious “Best Steakhouse” contest and now each is being profiled this week. Ready to dig in? Read below – then let your fingers do the clicking. You can vote multiple times, albeit once per day. Voting ends at 4 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 26. The Chophouse Grille, Mahopac What Makes It A…

by Daily Voice

01/19/2017

Business

Ridgefield Brothers Honor Family Legacy With New Mount Kisco Market RIDGEFIELD, Conn. -- Three brothers from Fairfield and Westchester counties – Doug, David and Jeremy Nevins – and their dad, Bruce, are about to open Siegel Bros. Marketplace in Mount Kisco, N.Y. The gourmet food store has been a long-held family tradition.started by their great-grandfather more than 100 years ago. Abram Siegel fled czarist Russia and came to the United States in the early 1900s. He scrimped and saved to bring the rest of his family over and later opened a butcher shop and slaughterhouse in Woodbine, N.J. The business, which evolved into a marketplace, was passed down in …

by Carol Reif

01/19/2017

Police & Fire

Putnam's New Undersheriff Heeds 'Call Of Duty,' Postpones Retirement PUTNAM COUNTY, N.Y. – A loyal law enforcement officer is putting his retirement plans on hold in order to come to the aid of Putnam County, which has been shattered by the sudden loss of its longtime undersheriff. Paul Boscia, who had been with the Sheriff’s Office for nearly three decades, had just hung up his badge when he heeded the unexpected call to duty, Sheriff Donald B. Smith announced. He will fill a vacancy left by the untimely death of 65-year-old Undersheriff Peter Convery, Smith said. Convery was rushed to Putnam Hospital Center in Carmel last November after suffering an appar…

by Carol Reif

01/18/2017

News

Bridgeport Man Charged With Selling Heroin Linked To Stratford OD Death BRIDGEPORT, Conn. — A 39-year-old Bridgeport man who goes by the street name of “Blade” has been arrested on federal charges of selling the heroin that killed a woman in Stratford last month, authorities said. Ramon L. Killings is accused of selling heroin to the 33-year-old victim’s boyfriend in early December, according to Deirdre M. Daly, U.S. attorney for Connecticut. Court documents said that both she and her boyfriend injected the heroin the next day. The following morning police got a 911 call from an unidentified address and the woman’s body was found in a bedroom, Daly said. She h…

by Carol Reif

01/18/2017

News

Hudson Valley 'Hate-Free Zone' Movement Forms In Beacon BEACON, N.Y. -- Hundreds of people from around the region gathered recently in Beacon to declare their intentions to make the Hudson Valley a “Hate-Free Zone.” Organized by the groups Community Voices Heard and Nobody Leaves Mid-Hudson, the event was held at St. Luke’s Episcopal Church and drew people from Dutchess, Westchester, Rockland, Orange, Ulster and Columbia counties. The movement is, they said, a response to President-elect Donald J. Trump’s remarks about deporting millions of undocumented immigrants. It was also spurred, organizers said, because of the continued oppression of the…

by Carol Reif

01/18/2017

Real Estate

Rockland Auctions Off 16 Properties For Back Taxes ROCKLAND COUNTY, N.Y. -- Rockland County, which has been aggressively collecting millions in back taxes, will start auctioning off 16 properties that are still in arrears Thursday, County Executive Ed Day’s office announced this week. “I said we would take strong action including foreclosure to get the money that these property owners owe,” Day said. “I’m happy to report that the majority of property owners have paid up.” Since beginning the push last spring, the county has raked in $2.65 million, or 95 percent of what was owed, from 124 delinquent property owners. (Five properties were re…

by Carol Reif

01/18/2017

News

Unity, Not Division, On Menu At Port Chester Inauguration Day Potluck PORT CHESTER, N.Y. – Westchester resident Donald J. Trump will be taking over as the nation’s 45th president on Friday and there will be a group of Port Chester folks who will neither be celebrating the inauguration nor condemning it. Law enforcement has been battening down the hatches in Washington D.C. in preparation for large-scale protests aimed at expressing disapproval of the new leader of the free world. But the focus of the Port Chester event will be what brings people together, and not what divides them, says village resident Joan Grangenois-Thomas. Participants will be gathering t…

by Carol Reif

01/18/2017

News

Development Of Former United Hospital Site Advances In Port Chester PORT CHESTER, N.Y. – A $450 million mixed-used project proposed for the former United Hospital site in Port Chester advanced this week with the village’s acceptance of the developer’s final environmental impact statement. According to Tom Corsillo, spokesman for Starwood Capital Group, a global private investment firm based in Greenwich, the vote to accept the FEIS just means that the document contains all the required information, such as the project’s potential impact on traffic and schools. The site, which is owned by an affiliate of Starwood, has already been re-zoned for mixed use, so …

by Carol Reif

01/18/2017

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