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'Likely Rabid' Coyote On Loose Bites Two Ossining Residents
Updated report, Thursday, 10:15 a.m. (Click on link below to read updated story):
Police Shoot, Kill Rabid Coyote On Loose In Ossining
Original report, Wednesday, 4:30 p.m.
OSSINING, N.Y. -- Several residents of a gated community in Ossining have had scary encounters with a coyote, and two were actually bitten by the possibly rabid animal, according to its homeowners association.
The wild dog was spotted at the Mystic Pointe Condominiums, a development off Route 9, and also near a private home on North Water Street, less than two miles away on the shores of the Hudson.
Jim Horton, of Qua…
Things Are Always Hopping At Nanuet's Ambulance Brew House
NANUET, N.Y. – Unlike yeast, that single-celled organism that our ancestors were delighted to find turned sweet liquids into alcohol, the agent behind the roaring success of one Nanuet pub is definitely not unseen.
Denis Maher, owner of the two-year-old Ambulance Brew House, is always front and center, greeting guests – sometimes decked out in Bavarian leather breeches, aka lederhosen.
He and his wife, Anita, and children Brian, Nadine and Nicole, have put a lot of hard work, not to mention heart and soul, into converting a 1947 ambulance building on the Clarkstown hamlet’s main drag into t…
Carol Joy Schmidt McEwan, Longtime Darien Resident, 90
DARIEN, Conn. – Longtime Darien resident Carol Joy Schmidt McEwan died Wednesday, Nov. 23. She was 90.
McEwan and her husband Preston Wayne McEwan had lived for the past six years at an assisted living community in Stamford.
McEwan was a native of Fond du Lac, Wisc.,
McEwan graduated from Sunset High School in Dallas, Texas where she was a member of its drum and bugle corps. She majored in art while attending the University of Texas at Arlington.
In 1944, she was elected a “Pin-Up Girl” of the First National Bank Club for Servicemen.
She enjoyed ballet, tap dancing, gardening, baking an…