Ingenuity and resilience, by most measures the survival tools of the hour, are the topic of this year’s Dewey talks, an annual program present…
Hastings resident Janine Annett never uses the Clarence Avenue exit off the southbound Saw Mill River Parkway, even though it’s a block away from her home on the corner of Clarence and Clinton Avenue.
Hastings school administrators came under scrutiny last month after they halted the teaching of Sherman Alexie’s 2007 book “The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian.”
The Village of Hastings learned last month that it would receive two state grants to study and maintain its woodlands. One grant provides $40,000 for tree maintenance in Hillside Woods and Park, and the other, at $14,756, is for a tree inventory in four other village-owned green spaces.
Early on in the era of the new coronavirus, architect and photographer Jim Metzger of Hastings decided to document life in a small village during a global crisis.
The Hastings Police Department unveiled its first electric vehicle last month. The 2020 Tesla Model Y was purchased for $51,000 from Tesla in Mount Kisco and then outfitted with lights, sirens, and a radio for $13,000 at Fleet Auto Supply in West Haven, Conn.
World War II veteran Stanley Tauber of Hastings celebrated his 101st birthday with a parade on Thursday, Dec. 31.
In November 2017, Hastings residents voted to save the village’s iconic riverfront water tower. The general plan since then entailed dismantling it and storing the parts at the Tower Ridge Yacht Club, during remediation of the site where it has stood for a century.
A familiar face wants to return to the Greenburgh Town Board next fall. Ellen Hendrickx, a 21-year resident who served on the board for seven months after the April 2019 death of Councilman Kevin Morgan, announced her candidacy for the board on Dec. 3.
The Village of Hastings is deciding how to spend a $150,000 Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) it was awarded for downtown streetscape improvements, including new sidewalks.
“Juneteenth,” celebrating the date that the last slaves were emancipated after the Civil War, is a memorable day for Black Americans. This year, June 19 also marked the first meeting of a new advocacy group called “Parenting Children of Color,” or P-CoC (pronounced “peacock”). The Hastings-b…
An unexpected windfall would be welcome by any charity during a global pandemic. When Family-to-Family (FTF), the Hastings-based nonprofit that pairs local donors with neighbors in need learned that the Estevez family, owners of Foodtown of Hastings-on-Hudson, would present them with a check…
The criteria for membership in the Westchester Senior Hall of Fame fit Susan Greenberg like a glove.
The few remaining worshipers at St. Matthew’s Evangelical Lutheran Church, a fixture in Hastings for 159 years, held their final service on Saturday, Nov. 21.
Elizabeth Knell worked in marketing and branding for New York City-based companies for more than 25 years before she moved to Hastings from Brooklyn, started two businesses, and joined the Rivertowns Chamber of Commerce (RCC).
Doug Coe, the driving force behind RiverArts since he was hired as executive director in 2013, has announced his retirement, effective Feb. 1, 2021.
The time-honored axiom “the show must go on” holds special meaning this year as the nonprofit Broadway Training Center in Hastings presents a musical version of “The Wizard of Oz” amid the Covid-19 pandemic.
The Village of Hastings has devised a restorative antidote for the holiday shopping malaise posed by Covid-19.
Hastings resident Peilin Kuo’s love of martial arts and the movies inspired by them are at the heart of her latest short film, “Once Upon a Time in the Bamboo.”
“Love and Information,” Hastings High School’s fall 2020 production, is about people’s need to communicate, a premise tailor-made for the pandemic-related ban on live performances. The play will stream tonight (Nov. 20) and tomorrow, at 7 p.m., on the school district’s YouTube channel.
Hastings honored its Vietnam veterans on Nov. 11 by rededicating a 10-year-old monument at VFW Park with 20 additional names of those who served.
Who is that masked man with the head of irrepressible curls, concertizing at keyboards all around town? If the vibe is jazz and the tunes are cool, it’s Jasper Zimmerman, age 13: multi-instrumentalist, music history aficionado, and composer.
Larry Weitzman of Hastings, a first-time novelist with many a sports documentary to his credit,will conduct a Zoom conversation with fellow filmmaker Jonathan Hock on Wednesday, Nov. 18, at 7:30 to discuss Weitzman’s newly released “Ghost Rendition.”
The pandemic has ruled out SHARE the Project’s annual Thanksgiving Dinner for the Homeless at Hastings High School, so instead SHARE founder Jeanne Newman and her volunteers will deliver 1,000 meals to people in need in Yonkers and Manhattan.
Hastings is bringing another party to the table to buttress its case for a “living shoreline” along the waterfront.
In the weeks since Hastings opened the Farragut Complex to in-person education on a hybrid schedule, “Flex Wednesdays” earned both fans and detractors. With the hybrid schedule, each half of the student body of both the middle and high school attended in person two days a week and remotely f…
Julie Leininger Pycior of Hastings, a professor emeritus at Manhattan College, determined that the official publication date of her newest book, “Dorothy Day, Thomas Merton and the Greatest Commandment: Radical Love in Times of Crisis” would be September 2020.
Writing the definitive biography of songwriter Irving Berlin was a long time coming for author James Kaplan of Hastings. The longtime village resident’s book “Irving Berlin: New York Genius” was published in November 2019 by Yale University Press. A Yale editor, Eileen Smith, had approached …
Despite the pandemic, Chubba the pit bull continues to report for work, even though the only pats on the head and treats she earns come from her owner, Deirdre Drohan Forbes of Hastings.
Since 2012, Diane Brawarsky of Hastings has sold poster-size photos of her paper collages to support nonprofits ranging from the ACLU to Planned Parenthood to Everytown for Gun Safety.
Richard Dresser, an award-winning scriptwriter for theater, television, and film, will discuss his first novel, the politically charged but family-centered “It Happened Here,” via Zoom, the next installment of the local author series presented by the Friends of the Hastings Library.
When the coronavirus pandemic closed down the planet last spring, it reminded Hastings artist Susan Richman of the stacking game Jenga, in which removing the wrong wooden block brings a stack of blocks crashing down.
The Hastings Education Foundation (HEF), Hastings PTSA, and Hastings Special Education PTA (SEPTA) presented the school district with three checks totaling $35,000 on Sept. 21.
In the midst of multimillion-dollar infrastructure improvements, the Hastings School District recently learned that it needs an additional $581,852.06.
Maya Shanbhag Lang always felt like a writer, but she took decades to let herself be one.
When Hurricane Isaias knocked out power in Hastings last month, a little-known Village service swung into high gear. The Hastings Recreation Department staff manned the phones and went down its “Are You Okay?” list, a directory the department uses to reach out to the elderly in an emergency.
By being as busy as the bumblebees, butterflies, and birds they want to save, six Hastings residents used months of the Covid-19 lockdown to create a website that explains all about their initiative, the Hastings Pollinator Pathway Project.
When the coronavirus hit Westchester six months ago, Hastings officials knew that their neediest residents could face unprecedented food insecurity. Through the local charity Family-to-Family, the Village of Hastings put out a call for donations via a GoFundMe page launched to support the Ha…
Debbie Quinn, a Hastings resident known for her work as a pre-school teacher and later as a children’s librarian, has been appointed permanent director of the Hastings Public Library. Quinn succeeds Joan Vaillancourt, who retired on March 31. After closing in mid-March due to the Covid-19 pa…
The creatures that populate “The Grabbits,” a new children’s book written and illustrated by Kim Soderstrom, have floppy ears that can hear a lot, big eyes that can spot all sorts of things in a messy room, dexterous paws to snatch said items, and big feet to make a quick get-away, always at…
When Christian Healy returned to Hastings in March, to complete his freshman year at Northwestern University remotely, he thought about the fact that he was fortunate, all things considered. So he decided to use his time at home to help people who lacked a necessity Westchester residents tak…
Erika Estis of Hastings describes herself as “lucky.”
The Hastings School District put the brakes on its reopening plan on Aug. 19, delaying its use of the “hybrid” attendance model — with two days in school and three days at home — to a 100 percent online learning plan for the first two weeks. The announcement was made as hundreds of district …
The social services agency Graham Windham announced last week that it has closed its residential program at the 25-acre Graham School, located on South Broadway in Hastings. Its on-campus special-needs school district, Greenburgh-Graham, will continue to operate with day students only. Green…
Even though traffic through the village has decreased since the pandemic closed schools and businesses in March, Hastings officials are thinking about unresolved issues on specific streets. Of particular concern is the neighborhood around High Street off Farragut Avenue, where motorists from…
Over the years Rabbi Mark Sameth of Hastings spent researching ancient writings about God as a man, woman, or other, he didn’t envision that he would make a splash in the news. But when his op-ed piece titled “Is God Transgender?” was published in The New York Times in 2016, any discussion o…
For the past decade, 79-year-old Steve Pucillo has conducted a one-man renovation project along the section of the South County Trailway in Hastings.
September 8 is opening day for Hastings public schools, and this will be a start students and teachers will never forget.
Soon after the pandemic hit full stride this spring, pianist Alan Murray of Hastings wanted to relieve some of the stress infecting society.
Sherlock Holmes would be pleased.
For 44 years, Corey Glass Picture Framing has been part of Hastings. By the end of August, that will end with the closing of the shop at 3 Main Street.