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Yorktown Woman Charged With Violating Order Of Protection YORKTOWN, N.Y. -- A Yorktown woman has been charged with violating an order of protection, police said. Nancy M. Abrams, 44, was arrested Tuesday, Oct. 4, after authorities received a complaint that she had followed and verbally threatened the “protected party.” Abrams, who turned herself into police, was charged with second-degree criminal contempt, a misdemeanor, for violating the order from Westchester County Family Court, police said. She was released without bail and is to appear in Yorktown Justice Court on Thursday, Oct. 6, police said.

by Carol Reif

10/05/2016

News

Lawn Party To Raise Awareness Of Historic Briarcliff Building BRIARCLIFF MANOR, N.Y. -- Dow Hall dominates Pace University’s satellite campus in Briarcliff. Built by wealthy and prominent local citizen Walter W. Law at the turn of the century, the stately, red-brick building is all that’s left of a fancy finishing school operated by Mary Elizabeth Dow. Dow, a close friend of Law’s, was wooed away from the famed (and still extant) Mrs. Porter’s School in Farmington, Conn., which boosts of an alumni list that includes Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis and Gloria Vanderbilt. According to local historian Karen Smith, the school morphed into a junior col…

by Carol Reif

10/05/2016

News

Maloney Introduces Legislation To Halt Hudson River Anchorages A local congressman has introduced legislation he said will sink plans to install 10 new anchorage sites on the Hudson River. U.S. Rep. Sean Patrick Maloney, D-NY (18th District), said the U.S. Coast Guard wants to park commercial barges at sites from Yonkers to Kingston. Maloney, a Cold Spring resident, said his Hudson River Protection Act would prohibit the secretary of Homeland Security, and by extension the U. S. Coast Guard, from establishing new anchorage sites for vessels carrying hazardous or flammable material within five miles of an existing superfund site, a nuclear power plant,…

by Carol Reif

10/04/2016

Schools

Armonk's Heavenly Productions Donates Backpacks To Students A backpack filled with pens, glue sticks and notebooks may seem like a simple thing, but it can really make a difference for a child in need, say the folks at an Armonk-based nonprofit. Heavenly Productions Foundation raised about $10,000 this year which it used to buy backpacks, school supplies, new library books and classroom necessities such as hand sanitizer and facial tissues for schoolchildren and teachers in Yonkers. Its founder and president, Dr. Kathy Reilly Fallon, said the group was contacted by Yonkers Mayor Mike Spano about needy kids at an elementary school in one of the city’…

by Carol Reif

10/04/2016

News

Law Park Pavilion Project Tops Briarcliff Village Manager's Report BRIARCLIFF MANOR, N.Y. -- Briarcliff Manor is getting very close to picking a company to rebuild the pavilion in Walter W. Law Memorial Park, says Village Manager Philip E. Zegarelli. The pool pavilion was destroyed by a suspicious fire in the middle of December 2015. Firefighters were able to keep the massive blaze from spreading to the village’s library nearby and the pool itself was re-opened this summer. The village hopes that the rebuilding and expansion of the pavilion will be complete by this coming spring, Zegarelli said in his latest letter to the community. Meanwhile, the villag…

by Carol Reif

10/03/2016

News

Family Seeks Help Finding Dog Lost In Putnam Lake-New Fairfield Area PUTNAM COUNTY, N.Y. -- A local family is looking for help finding its lost dog. Gigi, a black, tan and white female, vanished Sept. 24, in the Putnam Lake, N.Y.-New Fairfield, Conn. area. Her owners say she is a little scared and nervous and might be hiding in the woods or may have been taken into someone’s home. Anyone who spots Gigi is asked to contact the local animal shelter or to call Dianna Sierra at 914-906-1888, or through the Facebook page for Brookfield CT Lost Pets by clicking here.

by Carol Reif

10/03/2016

Police & Fire

Police Ask Public's Help In LaGrange Cold Case Homicide Investigation LAGRANGE, N.Y. -- It’s been 10 years since the body of a 44-year-old Poughkeepsie woman was found buried at a LaGrange farm, but police have not given up looking for her killer. Sonia Centeno was last seen alive during the winter of 2006 on the city’s Main Street, state police said. On Aug. 4 of that year, two Dutchess County residents walking around the old Porter Farm on Mountain Road make a grisly discovery – what appeared to be a human hand poking out of a shallow grave – and called 911. Centeno’s body was positively identified about two weeks later. Centeno, who was Hispanic, was 5 f…

by Carol Reif

10/03/2016

Neighbors

Couple Celebrates 75th Anniversary; Woman Turns 100 In Mamaroneck MAMARONECK, N.Y. -- Three elders who live in a non-traditional part of a Mamaroneck nursing home celebrated two major milestones this month. According to the folks at the Sarah Neuman Center, the celebrants were Peter and Virginia Day and Frances Russillo. The Days – he’s 93; she’s 92 -- were marking their 75th wedding anniversary, while Russillo blew out the candles on her 100th birthday cake. The retired policeman and school secretary lived in White Plains before moving to The New Jewish Home’s Sarah Neuman campus. Coicidentally, Russillo’s late husband, Adolph, retired as Pelham’s chie…

by Carol Reif

10/03/2016

Schools

Todd Elementary School Thrilled About National Blue Ribbon Recognition BRIARCLIFF MANOR, N.Y. -- A Briarcliff school has made it onto the list of National Blue Ribbon Schools for 2016. According to its principal, Nadine McDermott, everyone at the Todd Elementary School is understandably thrilled and proud that it was awarded the prestigious designation. Blue Ribbon schools are chosen for their overall academic excellence or for their progress in closing achievement gaps among students. Three other schools in the Hudson Valley were also among the recipients: Blind Brook High School in Rye Brook (Westchester); Haldane High School in Cold Spring (Putnam) and Nan…

by Carol Reif

10/03/2016

Lifestyle

Texas Roadhouse Awaits Town Of Poughkeepsie October Opening POUGHKEEPSIE, N.Y. – Texas Roadhouse will be opening a new location in the town of Poughkeepsie next month, according to the Western-themed chain restaurant’s website. The restaurant will be located at 2323 South Road. Its website put the opening sometime in October and promised that the hours would be posted as soon as the exact date is known. Its brand? “Legendary Food, Legendary Service.” A quick peek at its menu shows it features hand-cut steaks, ribs, pork chops, catfish and barbecued chicken as well as freshly baked bread and a “Texas-sized” fried onion it calls a “cactus blossom.” …

by Carol Reif

10/03/2016

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