In June, Rick Thompson retired after 22 years of service to the Ardsley Department of Public Works, including the last 10 years as foreman. He…
Rob Segall of Ardsley reveals his edgy sense of humor in his first book, “I’d Rather Kill Myself Than Be a Lawyer: How Anyone Can Find Happiness.” The title, however, is no joke.
Thornwood Four Corners, LLC, has signed a lease for the former Getty gas station site at 657 Saw Mill River Road.
Harris Halperin’s memory continues to motivate Ardsley High School students to help others.
Parents in the Secor Woods section of Greenburgh, within the Ardsley School District, have created a way for children to meet their customary Halloween candy quota regardless of pandemic restrictions.
Ardsley High School junior Joyce Lu is the winner of a 2019-20 Ambassador Award — the highest-level National Student Award for Community Service Impact — from the United Nations Association of the United States of America (UNA-USA).
There was a heavy police presence outside the Starbucks on Saw Mill River Road last Saturday, Sept. 12, but not because a crime was committed. Instead, men in blue from the Village of Ardsley, Town of Greenburgh, and Westchester County socialized with members of the community for four hours.
“Tchotchkes” — the Yiddish word for objects that have no function, but are dear to their collectors — is the name and subject of an innovative course that will be taught remotely by Andy Wainer of Ardsley as part of Westchester Community College’s fall lineup.
For Ana L. of Ardsley, the death of 26-year-old Breonna Taylor of Louisville felt personal. Taylor was shot by police on March 13, 2020, during the execution of a no-knock search warrant of the apartment she and her boyfriend shared.
House of Sports and Life, The Place To Be — two private recreation facilities in Ardsley — will each day programs for children who need supervision while their parents are working outside the home.
“This is a discussion, not a debate,” was the refrain during the virtual town hall conducted by Ardsley’s Racial Advocacy Committee for Equity (R.A.C.E.), on Tuesday, Sept. 1.
A new organization called R.A.C.E. (Racial Advocacy Committee for Equity) is hosting a virtual town hall through Zoom, on Tuesday, Sept. 1, 6:30-8 p.m., to address issues of race, inclusion, and understanding in the Ardsley schools.
Fifty-year-old Jaime Paucar of Amawalk was indicted last week for the deaths of Ardsley residents Jordan Wachtell, 57, and Eric Goldberg, 17, on I-287 in January.
“Ardsley Cares” isn’t just the name of an annual village event — it’s an apt description of how residents customarily respond to people in need.
The reopening plan that the Ardsley School District submitted to the state Education Department and the state Department of Health (DOH) last Friday, Aug. 7, has been accepted.
During the Town of Greenburgh’s 12th annual summer internship program, 45 high school and college students from different neighborhoods and school districts produced video PSAs (public service announcements) about critical issues: Covid-19 protection, motorist and pedestrian safety, the U.S.…
The Ardsley Multicultural, Diversity and Inclusion Committee is continuing its attempts to stimulate conversation about race, sexual orientation, and other social issues with the formation of a virtual book club.
To take over the duties of Cantor Jonathan Ben Gordon, an institution at Woodlands Community Temple, the congregation went a bit outside the box.
To celebrate the diversity of their community, the Ardsley Multicultural, Diversity and Inclusion Committee (AMDIC) recently unveiled a lawn sign commissioned for that purpose. The sign has one large circle that contains many smaller circles of different colors and the words “We are a commun…
Kelly Tierney, a rising junior at Ardsley High School, and her sister, Claire, a rising ninth-grader, spent the past three and a half months helping nurses in area hospitals help themselves.
A month from now, the Greenburgh Police Department’s former chief, Chris McNerney, will be back in charge of the ranks.
Sophie Barnett, a rising junior at Ardsley High School, is spending her summer working on a research study that aims to help early diagnosis of cognitive decline.
Black@Ardsley is a new Instagram account where community members can reveal their encounters with racism. As of July 8, the account had received almost 100 posts since its start on June 28.
An upcoming episode of “Undercover Chef” on the Food Network zeroes in on the Saw Mill Tavern and its struggle to keep personnel issues from boiling over.
The Westchester Medical Center Health Network has awarded Family Services of Westchester (FSW) a grant of $133,000 for a collaboration with the Ardsley-based nonprofit The Harris Project. The funds will be used to expand the regional system for addressing the needs of teens and young adults …
Public interest in the Village of Ardsley’s progress on updating its 1964 Comprehensive Plan is high. More than 60 people joined a June 24 Zoom session to view slide presentations by Tiffany Zezula, deputy director of the Land Use Law Center at Pace University, and Dan Stevens, senior projec…
As Juneteenth was celebrated nationwide on June 19, two Ardsley High School juniors, Fiker Zewdie and Maya Levine, and 2016 graduate and University of Michigan student Juliet Wishner, helped their hometown participate.
Ardsley Schools Superintendent Ryan Schoenfeld and Ardsley High School Principal Danielle Trippodo made a special delivery on Tuesday, June 16.
The Ardsley School District has formed a Re-Entry Task Force to review the school community’s pandemic shutdown experience and prepare for the buildings’ reopening at an unknown date.
When ballerina Chiara Valle was diagnosed in 2018 with Ewing sarcoma, a malignant bone tumor in her leg, she refused to hear the words, “You’ll never dance again.”
There can only be one first and Joan Podolski is it — the first woman to serve as a fire department chief or assistant chief in Ardsley, Dobbs Ferry, Hastings, and Irvington
Though she won’t be applying for a job with the state Health Department, Ardsley Mayor Nancy Kaboolian, an attorney, decided to educate herself about the New York State Contact Tracing Program.
Ardsley’s six AP Art students are seeing their year-long “Art Sustained Investigation” of their own choice of subject on virtual display. The school district has posted their collective 90 works on its Facebook page.
Though the Ardsley Board of Trustees passed bond resolutions for planned infrastructure projects, progress at various stages has been delayed by the coronavirus shutdown.
The Village of Ardsley has moved forward with its plan to construct a new Department of Public Works facility at 220 Heatherdell Road.
This is a story about letters — handwritten on paper, sent with a stamp, and treasured for decades. It’s also about the power of those letters to ignite memories and build lasting relationships.
Four candidates are running for two open seats on the five-member Ardsley School Board on June 9. Voting is by mail ballot only, and closes at 5 p.m. on that Tuesday.
Ardsley students Isha Brahmbhatt and Anisha Kumar placed first in the New York State finals of the annual HOSA-Future Health Professionals high school/college competition, held online at the end of April. The duo will compete next month in the virtual International Leadership Conference fina…
Ardsley Middle School eighth-grader Jackson Kaye has made his directorial debut, of sorts.
Ardsley High School sophomore Saakshi Philip has launched a local chapter of Teens Helping Seniors (THS), a Maryland-based national organization — and wants the program to continue after the coronavirus pandemic has subsided.
The members of Ardsley High School’s Class of 2020 found surprises on their front lawns on the evening of Monday, May 4.
On May 4, 1970, the Ohio National Guard killed four unarmed Kent State University students, one of whom is interred at Ferncliff Cemetery in Hartsdale, within the Ardsley School District. Five decades later, the truth as to why the Guardsmen discharged their weapons remains like a fugitive f…
Ardsley High School’s 45-member student council has been doing double duty, helping to stem the spread of the coronavirus while also raising funds for Feeding America.
The Golden Snitches, a team of LEGO robotics competitors, is raising money to purchase PPE (personal protection equipment) for first responders and to support the homeless and those in need.
Four Ardsley High School students calling themselves “Ardsley Masks” are drawing on their bygone sewing lessons to help combat the coronavirus.
Assistant Principals Jennifer Goldenberg of Ardsley Middle School and Frank Carlson of Ardsley High School announced a joint venture last week called the Panther Pals Peer Program (PPPP).
With a pair of 3D printers at Scarsdale Oral Surgery sitting idle due to the lack of patients, Dr. Evan Chafitz set up a personal protective equipment (PPE) assembly line at his home in Ardsley.
Former Democratic State Assemblyman Richard Brodsky, 73, died at his home on Wednesday, April 8. He represented the 86th and 92d Assembly Districts in Greenburgh from 1983 to 2010.
Avdyl “Emilio” Delija had a big family — counting every diner who ever crossed the threshold of La Catena, his Italian restaurant on Saw Mill River Road.
The Ardsley High School Music Outreach Club, also known as More Than Mozart (MTM), has launched a GoFundMe campaign for Greenburgh residents facing financial difficulties: Covid-19 Relief for Greenburgh, NY Workers in Need.
The Ardsley Chinese Association, founded last year by five women whose children attend Ardsley schools, is conducting a campaign to equip local police, the Ardsley-Secor Volunteer Ambulance Corps, and the ICU staff at St. John’s Riverside Hospital in Yonkers with protection against the coron…