The Irvington Historical Society’s 2020 benefit will be virtual this Sunday, Oct. 18, which is a fitting format for the afternoon’s featured entertainment: the premiere of an hour-long documentary featuring the memories of some of the village’s most senior residents. 

Hugh Ryan, whose first paying job (after babysitting) was as an Irvington Public Library page, was back there on Oct. 10 — virtually — to discuss his 2019 book “When Brooklyn Was Queer.” The library presented the Zoom conversation to coincide with its celebration of LGBTQ History Month.

Erik Weiselberg’s ability to relate the Revolutionary War to modern life has made him popular at Irvington High School, where he has taught social studies for 21 years, and an authority throughout Westchester County.

Dows Lane Elementary School has been recognized by the U.S. Department of Education as a 2020 Exemplary High Performing National Blue Ribbon School. The honor recognizes Dows Lane as one of the nation’s top schools for its overall academic performance. 

Five years ago, a group of Irvington Theater commissioners decided to put the 400-seat theater on the indie film world map.

The Clocktower Players often refer to themselves as “family.” Opening their fall season with an Oct. 3 benefit on Zoom, followed by online performances and classes, many Clocktower alumni on furlough from their show business careers are returning to the troupe to act, teach, and rejoice in t…

By Jackie Lupo

It wasn’t long after the Covid-19 pandemic darkened theaters in mid-March that the Irvington Theater Commission and its partner organizations recruited talent and technology to present plays, music, and other events remotely. The result was an outpouring of creativity that didn’t let up even…

Visitors to downtown Irvington will see a streetscape that’s a little brighter this month, thanks to a growing number of pop-up displays of children’s artwork in the windows of local merchants.

The community conversation on race, held on Zoom on Aug. 31, was called “A Table Divided,” but its purpose was to bring the participants closer together.

Irvington’s littlest learners will attend school in person four days a week under the latest re-entry plan, approved by the school board on Tuesday, Aug. 25. The district also revised its phase-in timetable for the return of all grades to school buildings, to give teachers and administrators…

Four years ago, the Irvington Theater showcased a play written by Stephanie Okun, who was then a sophomore in high school. Today, the 20-year-old college student and budding screenwriter is again sharing her work through the theater, though not on stage. 

At 91, Irvington’s Lester Feldman may not be a typical children’s book author. But Lester Feldman is not a typical senior citizen.

When classes begin next month in Irvington, the situation will look different on the district’s three campuses, with rooms rearranged to promote social distancing, schedules staggered to decrease crowding in the halls, hand-washing stations and sanitizer dispensers throughout the buildings, …

Launching a clothing business during a global pandemic takes a lot of nerve. Brice Pierce, a 15-year-old rising sophomore at Irvington High School, has that in spades. His environmentally themed sportswear line, Revive Clothing Company, debuted online this summer with an initial investment o…

Madam C.J. Walker is in the spotlight again.

Irvington officials made halting progress last week toward memorializing the enslaved Africans who resided in the village, but they also provoked the ire of residents who want them to do more. 

Irvington resident Chet Kerr, a retired attorney, has entertained and informed the public with talks on two subjects he’s passionate about: pollinator-friendly gardening and Irvington history. 

Rock, paper, scissors. It’s child’s play: rock beats scissors, paper covers rock, scissors cuts paper.

Twenty years ago, Irvington resident Genevieve Piturro changed the course of her life by starting Pajama Program, a national nonprofit organization that benefits children. She tells this story, and much more about herself, in “Purpose, Passion and Pajamas — How to Transform Your Life, Embrac…

While Irvington Presbyterian Church is holding services virtually due to Covid-19, that doesn’t mean it has nothing to celebrate under its roof. Or, more precisely, atop it.

While statues and memorials associated with slavery and colonialism are being toppled all over the country, the Irvington Village Board is considering how to honor two groups: the enslaved African who worked on Irvington’s farms and estates until the 1800s, and the founding families of the village.

There is one thing the three teachers retiring from Irvington High School this month have in common: all agree that more than anything else, they will miss their students.

The Main Street School parking lot sported black, green, and red balloons as residents gathered for Irvington’s first public Juneteenth celebration on Friday, June 19.

Sometime in the not–too-distant future, it will no be surprise if Adriana Palmieri is associated with a breakthrough in food science.

The Irvington Historical Society’s live lectures on the Zoom teleconferencing platform have become a popular sequel to the series held at the Irvington Public Library before the coronavirus pandemic.

After teaching Spanish in Irvington for 22 years, Angela Druzic decided to retire this spring. With schools closed because of the coronavirus, it was a bittersweet culmination to a teaching career that spanned a total of 38 years.

Irvington retailers expressed mixed reactions to the possible Phase II opening of stores next Tuesday, June 9.

Calligrapher Kristen Palese, who specializes in wedding invitations, saw her busy season written off by the coronavirus.

After the Irvington Theater shut down in mid-March amid the coronavirus pandemic, a rash of cancellations and postponements followed. Two months later, the century-old auditorium on the third floor of town hall remains shuttered. But Greg Allen, the manager of the theater, has spent the past…

Construction began last week on 900 feet of new sidewalk along Station Road, from Woodbine Road to the Aqueduct tunnel. Work is also being done to improve safe passage for pedestrians walking through the tunnel.

The Eileen Fisher clothing company, based in Irvington, delivered 1,200 reusable isolation gowns to White Plains Hospital on Tuesday, April 28.

The Irvington School Board has appointed Liza Greenspan as assistant principal at Dows Lane Elementary School. The announcement was made at a board meeting on April 21.

Staying home during the coronavirus pandemic is hard enough for families that have been self-quarantining for weeks. It’s even more difficult for the staff at group homes for the developmentally disabled, such as the 16 run by Irvington-based Abbott House.

Dressed in her mother’s hat and coat, which made her resemble Queen Elizabeth II, Joan Lobdell greeted dozens of neighbors who gathered at a safe distance outside her home to wish her a happy birthday on Thursday, April 16.

The sample-making department at designer Eileen Fisher’s Bridge Street headquarters is usually a-hum with sewers creating prototypes of the next season’s fashions.

Getting food to the homebound during the Covid-19 pandemic doesn’t always mean using a commercial delivery service. In Irvington, a group of students is spending part of their furlough from school as personal shoppers for senior citizens and people with health conditions.

As Rivertowns residents continue to shelter in place during the Covid-19 pandemic, performing arts companies are being extra cautious about sinking money into shows with no clear idea of when curtains will rise again.

With families on edge about the spread of the Covid-19 coronavirus, it can be hard to relieve stress without leaving home. To help people cope, Irvington resident and yoga instructor Jennifer Monness has turned to the internet.

Before the Covid-19 pandemic, Jon Riss, director of music at the Irvington Presbyterian Church, would use the church’s German-made pipe organ to fill the sanctuary with heavenly tones on Sundays. These days, the sanctuary is empty of worshippers, and its homebound congregation has been heari…