Hastings High School’s theater students will tackle all 37 of Shakespeare’s plays this weekend, as they stage “The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (abridged)” outdoors on Oct. 9-10.

Hastings residents, dignitaries, and a costumed fife and drum trio turned out at Wagner Plaza on Sept. 30 to celebrate the dedication of “Revolutionary Walk,” where six interpretive panels tell the story of the Battle of Edgar’s Lane. Near that site, on Sept. 30, 1778, Continental soldiers h…

The pandemic spurred a surge of new podcasts, but one of them in particular is a must-listen for Hastings residents. It’s called “Yesteryear: Stories From Home,” and its content is based on real first-person accounts of village life in the “olden days.”

Anyone who thinks getting older is serious business hasn’t met Janine Annett.

Revolutionary Hastings, a committee of the Hastings Historical Society, will host Battle of Edgar’s Lane Weekend from Thursday, Sept. 30, to Saturday, Oct. 2.

Petty Officer 1st Class George Moore of Hastings joined the crew of the USS Dwight D. Eisenhower (CVN 69) on Aug. 13. Moore graduated from Hastings High School in 2011 and enlisted in the U.S. Navy nine years ago.

As the monarch butterflies migrate for points south, Sullivan “Sully” Griffin of Hastings is coming off a busy growing season. 

Almost 3,000 forget-me-not seedlings were arranged on the sloping lawn in front of VFW Post 200 on Warburton Avenue earlier this week. Each plant honors a victim of the terrorist attacks on Sept. 11, 2001. 

For Hastings Mayor Niki Armacost, the Afghan people are more than anonymous faces in news reports. Beginning in childhood and then over the course of her career, Armacost traveled to Afghanistan multiple times and established lasting relationships there. For that reason, she is among the ele…

Last month’s press release from Westchester County District Attorney Miriam Rocah’s Cold Case Bureau was accompanied by a picture of a middle-aged man with dark hair and a moustache. He seemed to be looking right into the camera. But the picture wasn’t a photo — it was a reconstruction calle…

The New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) issued a Certificate of Completion on June 28 for the removal of contaminated soil on the 6-acre Uhlich Color portion of the former Tappan Terminal on the Hastings waterfront. The certificate is official proof that the site, j…

“I am immensely happy to have the opportunity to serve a congregation that I love and that has been so supportive of me and my wife, Sarita,” the Rev. Arlin Roy said about his appointment as the new minister of the First Unitarian Society of Westchester in Hastings. 

With free time that the pandemic yielded over the past year, Curtis Snell cultivated a plot of land behind the Uniontown Hose Company firehouse on Rose Street, giving the term “new digs” new meaning.

The chance to redecorate a village from the bottom up doesn’t come often, especially when replacing a single municipal bench can cost $1,500. But thanks to a combination of state grant money and $200,000 from the Village Betterment Fund, an account in which the Village deposits location fees…

When the pandemic gripped the Rivertowns a year and a half ago, Family-to-Family, the Hastings-based nonprofit that matches up donors with families in need, wondered how it would weather the storm. But thanks to the persistence of the organization’s fundraisers and an influx of new sponsors,…

Hastings is submitting more than $400,000 in grant applications to New York State for infrastructure repairs and municipal planning. The Hastings Board of Trustees  approved the applications on July 23.

The Village of Hastings passed a group of resolutions on July 6 approving bonds totaling $2,407,450 for the fiscal year 2021-2022. The bonds will finance infrastructure repairs, building renovations, heavy-duty equipment, and vehicles.  

With wit, wisdom, and an astute awareness of the world in which we live, four Hastings visual artists look to a future when climate justice will prevail in the exhibition “Regeneration,” on view in the Museum Gallery at the White Plains Public Library through Sept. 3. 

The Hastings School District is on track to finish all the elements of its multi-campus, $18 million capital improvement project by early 2022. Much of that work is taking place this summer, as a new wing takes shape at Hillside Elementary School and Farragut Middle School prepares for the r…

One hundred and three years ago, Infantryman James Daley Jr. of Hastings was killed in action, in France, six days before the ceasefire agreement that ended World War 1. One hundred years ago, his remains were brought back from Europe. On Saturday, July 10, as part of the American Legion’s n…

Is saying “I think I can, I think I can” enough to carry you over the mountain? In the world of the children’s classic “The Little Engine That Could,” the answer is yes. The locomotive makes it over the mountain through sheer grit and determination. But can everyone really make it on their own?

For his three years of service in the U.S. Army, including a year during the Vietnam War, 75-year-old Peter Greg Muraik of Hastings received a hand- sewn quilt on Thursday, June 24.

The new 35-foot mural inside Hastings High School, which has diversity as its theme, was a labor of love by the teenagers and adults who made it.

The Pollinator Pathway movement continued to gain momentum with the planting of a garden on public property in Hastings on Sunday, June 20.

The sound of heavy machinery in Hillside Woods this month marked a milestone in the regeneration of that troubled forest. 

In 1970, “revolution” was more than a song title in parts of New York City. In the South Bronx, activist groups championed the needs of Black and Puerto Rican neighborhoods that received scant funding from the city’s government. One of the most crucial of these needs was health care.

“This is the time to celebrate community and begin anew,” said Jeanne Newman, founder of SHARE the Project, one of two nonprofit organizations hosting events in Hastings this Sunday, June 13. 

“Oslo,” the 2017 award-winning play by J.T. Rogers of Hastings, has legs, as show-biz folks would say. On May 29, the film adaptation premiered on HBO and HBO Max, where it can be viewed for the foreseeable future.

A love of history and research, plus a push from a friend, supplied lifelong Hastings resident Robert Roche with the spark to write his first novel. “A War on Two Fronts,” set during World War II, was published in paperback in April and is available through Amazon for $12.95.

The global pandemic has kept Broadway Training Center, the Hastings-based performing arts school, out of the footlights. But alhough the Irvington Theater, its home stage, has been off limits, that hasn’t stopped BTC from mounting not one, but two full-fledged musical productions this spring.

As New York opens back up, the Village of Hastings is working to entice locals to spend their weekends downtown this summer, dining, shopping, and enjoying free concerts. 

The Hastings Historical Society celebrated its 50th anniversary in April. The fact that the organization has been around for only a half-century may come as a surprise to those who have visited the society’s headquarters, located in an antique cottage nestled among the trees in Draper Park. …

Hastings K.I.D.S. is an acronym for “Kids Involved Doing Service,” which describes the volunteer opportunities this program provides. A prime example: the upcoming “community walk” designed to get Hastings strolling through the village to raise money for the American Cancer Society (ACS). 

During the Hastings Police Department’s annual inspection on Friday, May 14, the following members were honored for their standout service between 2018 and 2020.

Funding is falling into place for the restoration of Hillside Woods and Park, which has been devastated by a combination of deer and invasive plants.