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Business

New York Life Moves Offices To White Plains, Brings 500 Workers To City WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. – A globally known life insurer’s decision to move into a building on South Broadway is another sign that efforts to attract major players to the downtown business district are “bearing fruit,” Mayor Tom Roach said this week. New York Life Insurance Company, the largest mutual life-insurance company in the United States and one of the biggest in the world, has leased several floors – amounting to 150,000 square feet – at Westchester One, a 21-story building at 44 South Broadway. Other tenants at the 850,000-square-foot complex include Reader's Digest and Oxford Health Pla…

by Carol Reif

01/06/2017

Politics

Putnam's Maloney Sworn In For Third Term In Congress WASHINGTON, D.C. – Sean Patrick Maloney, D-Cold Spring, was sworn in in Washington, D.C., this week for his third term representing New York’s 18th Congressional District. Maloney defeated Republican challenger Phil Oliva of Somers in the fall elections. His district includes Putnam County, southern Dutchess County, parts of northern Westchester and Orange County. As a member of the 115th Congress, Maloney will continue to serve as an integral member of both the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure and the House Committee on Agriculture. At his swearing-in ceremony Tuesday…

by Carol Reif

01/05/2017

Obituaries

Professional Paver Mark Thompson, 49, Of Beacon BEACON, N.Y. – Mark Thompson of Beacon died Wednesday, Dec. 28. He was 49. Thompson, the son of Rosemary Thompson and the late Woodrow P. Thompson, was a 1985 graduate of Beacon High School. A member of Laborers Local 17, he was employed by Joshua Paving of Clintondale, N.Y., and Seminole Paving of Sandford, Fla. He was formerly employed by Avello Brothers and Porco Energy. Thompson’s family said he was a hard worker and an “amazing” son, brother, uncle, and friend who was passionate about his family, The New England Patriots and life in general. He is survived by his mother, Rosemary; s…

by Carol Reif

01/05/2017

Politics

Day, Officials Rally In Rockland To Demand Brinks Convict Stay In Prison NEW CITY, N.Y. -- Calling Judith Alice Clark a “cold-blooded killer,” Rockland County Executive Ed Day stood shoulder to shoulder with law enforcement officers and members of her victims' families in New City Wednesday to demand that she remain behind bars. The now-67-year-old Clark, who was the getaway driver in the infamous 1981 Brink's armored car robbery, has already served 35 years of a minimum 75-year prison term. She would have not been eligible for parole until 2056, when she would be 106 years old. Last Friday, Gov. Andrew Cuomo commuted Clark's sentence to a minimum 35 years, whic…

by Carol Reif

01/05/2017

Events

Famed Trumpeter, Organist Performing At Tuckahoe Church WESTCHESTER COUNTY, N.Y. – Trumpet player Bill Owens and organist Craig S. Williams will be performing works by Handel, Zipoli, Hohvaness, and Copland in Tukahoe next week. Asbury United Methodist Church has engaged the two musicians as part of its professional concert series, Music at Asbury. The concert is set for 3 p.m. Sunday, Jan. 15. Owens is the associate principal trumpet player of the West Point Concert Band; Williams is organist and choirmaster of the West Point Chapel. The concert is free, but reservations are strongly recommended. To reserve a ticket, visit www.MusicAtAsbury.c…

by Carol Reif

01/05/2017

Schools

Cuomo Proposes Free SUNY/CUNY Tuition For Middle-Class Families Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo Tuesday proposed making state public colleges tuition-free for middle-class families, an initiative he says will help alleviate crushing debt and enable “thousands of bright young students to realize their dream of higher education.” Cuomo said the Excelsior Scholarship program would affect 940,000 middle-class families and individuals making up to $125,000 a year who want to send students to, or attend, all SUNY and CUNY two- and four-year colleges. The first-in-the-nation program would also encourage students to graduate on time and improve graduation rates at state s…

by Carol Reif

01/04/2017

Neighbors

Cortlandt Town Supervisor Linda Puglisi Looks Back, Ahead CORTLANDT, N.Y. -- Cortlandt Supervisor Linda Puglisi recently took a look back at what went on in the town in 2016 and liked what she saw. The town was able, the supervisor said, maintain its financial footing with low taxes, a “strong” fund balance and low debt. It was also able to complete several important projects, she said. These included a new lacrosse/ball field at Sprout Brook Park off Highland Avenue, a water-spray park at the Charles J. Cook Recreation Center on Furnace Dock Road and a new dock in Verplanck that is used by the Cortlandt Community Rowing Association. The town al…

by Linda Puglisi

01/04/2017

Business

People's Chief Strategist Talks All Things Economic At Fairfield Breakfast FAIRFIELD, CONN. -- Financier John S. Traynor will be gazing into his post-election crystal ball as guest speaker at the Fairfield Chamber of Commerce’s annual breakfast next week. Traynor, as senior vice president and CIO of People’s United Bank, the event’s sponsor, directs its overall investment process and has ultimate responsibility for the work of its investments committees. Traynor regularly appears on CNBC’s Nightly Business Report and on the Fox Business Network. He is also is frequently quoted in The New York Times and Wall Street Journal. According to the Chamber, he will be giv…

by Carol Reif

01/04/2017

Events

Boston B-Boy Judges Street Dance Battle At Harrington Park Arts Center HARRINGTON PARK, N.J. – Things will be breaking, popping and rocking at the big break-dancing battle at Sukha Arts Center in Harrington Park this weekend. And judging all the right street moves will be one of Boston’s baddest B-boys, Ashton “Stackz” Lites, a multi-talented dancer, videographer and motivational speaker. Lites, aka "Stiggity," started his krump training under the tutelage of Russell Ferguson, the Season 6 winner of the Fox show, “So You Think You Can Dance.” He then morphed smoothly into a dancer/peer mentor while working closely with Sidestreet, a local krump mov…

by Carol Reif

01/04/2017

Obituaries

Lillian Van Roy, 95, of Tappan ORANGETOWN, N.Y. -- Lillian Van Roy died on Friday, Dec. 30, at her daughter and son-in-law’s home in Tappan. She was 95. Van Roy was 7-years-old when she, her mother and her brother came to the United States from Cluj, Romania, to be reunited with her father in New York City. She worked as a milliner before marrying Al Hyman in 1940. They lived in Yonkers and had two children: Roberta and Michael. Hyman died in 1966 and she married Simon Van Roy in 1971. The couple lived in White Plains. Her second husband died in 1993 and Van Roy went to work for the brokerage firm, H. Hentz and Co. Sh…

by Carol Reif

01/03/2017

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