The offending T-shirt ended up in shreds during the rally it spurred at Waterfront Park on Sunday, Sept. 13.
The site plan for Cedar Commons, a mixed-use development to replace the one-story building at 41-45 Cedar Street, was approved at the Dobbs Ferry Board of Trustees meeting on Sept. 8.
Festivity in the Hudson Valley usually shifts into high gear around Halloween, with local historic sites such as Washington Irving’s Sunnyside and Van Cortlandt Manor hosting themed events. But this year, owing to pandemic-related restrictions, many of this region’s beloved seasonal attracti…
Residents of Dobbs Ferry’s Walgrove Avenue neighborhood have decided that the traffic island in the middle of that street needs an upgrade.
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.
Erika Estis of Hastings describes herself as “lucky.”
Were it not for the pandemic, this presidential election season would probably be missing one of its most hotly debated issues: absentee ballots. In theory they’re the preferred means of voting amid fears of contagion at crowded polling places; in practice, there are serious questions about …
As of Aug. 24, some gyms, fitness centers, and workout studios were permitted to reopen after a nearly six-month hiatus due to Covid-19. In the Rivertowns, those businesses had not all been in hibernation.
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 …
Local residents gathered at post offices in Ardsley and Hastings on Saturday, Aug. 22, joining nearly 800 similar community rallies across the country in an effort to highlight the need for adequate mail service as Election Day, Nov. 3, approaches
Gen. George Washington and Jean-Baptiste Donatien de Vimeur, comte de Rochambeau might be amazed at the contemporary interest in Rochambeau’s 1781 summer headquarters.
Sixteen Dobbs Ferry children in grades K-5 were able to create art, practice yoga, perform improvisational comedy, and compete in their own Olympics from Aug. 10-21, through the efforts of SPRING Community Partners.
Will homeowners still want to go green during the current economic uncertainty? That’s what 27 local municipalities need to decide by Sept. 7, when they sign a new memorandum of understanding with Westchester Power.
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.
The Dobbs Ferry School District’s fall reopening plan, posted on the district website, describes three potential instructional models and how reopening Springhurst Elementary, the middle school, and the high school would be handled.
“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.
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, …
Faced with the prospect of sending their children into a school building, or of their children spending more time in isolation if schools continue with online learning, parents are casting about for other options. Those with the financial means to do so are considering signing up for a “lear…
The Hudson River Museum reopened to the public on Saturday, July 25, four and a half months after Covid-19 shut it down on March 13.
Birth control pioneer Margaret Sanger, one of the most famous Hastings residents of the 20th century, is now among the nation’s historic figures excoriated for their racist views.
As school districts finalized their reopening plans this week, local parents learned that if classroom teaching goes forward, remote instruction provided by the district might not be an option.
Congressional candidates Jamaal Bowman (District 16) and Mondaire Jones (District 17) declared victory last week as absentee votes were counted in the wake of the Democratic primary on June 23.
Rock, paper, scissors. It’s child’s play: rock beats scissors, paper covers rock, scissors cuts paper.
David “Scotty” Shevlin, the “Voice of Dobbs Ferry Football” at Gould Park and one of the most recognizable figures in the village, passed away on July 9 after suffering a stroke. He was 84, and lived in Yonkers before moving to Dobbs Ferry eight years ago.
Patrons were welcome to enter the Hastings Public Library starting Monday, July 13. It was the first time anyone but library staff and professional cleaning crews had been inside since March, when public buildings were closed as the coronavirus surged.
Fifteen-year-old Julien Amsellem of Hastings has recorded 112 bird species in Hillside Woods. Ben Lederer, a rising senior at Ardsley High School, has earned himself the moniker “Birder Ben.”
Historic Hudson River Towns’ new app-guided audio tour series is a timely solution to the question of what to do during this summer’s “staycation.”
Public swimming pools began opening this week in the wake of guidance from the New York Department of Health that permits pools to operate, while stipulating sanitary and social distancing precautions to prevent the spread of Covid-19.
As New York school districts consider various scenarios for reopening this fall, Dobbs Ferry Schools Superintendent Lisa Brady led a parents’ meeting on June 29 to share current information informing such a decision.
“Adapt!” “We’re making sure the customers feel safe.” “We’ll do the best we can.” “We’ll just have to wait and see what happens.”
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.
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.
When houses of worship were forced to close in mid-March because of the coronavirus, parishioners were left on the outside Zooming in as services moved online.
“We’re all in this new world,” said Scott Broccoli, owner of The Rare Bit gastropub on Cedar Street.
Ardsley Schools Superintendent Ryan Schoenfeld and Ardsley High School Principal Danielle Trippodo made a special delivery on Tuesday, June 16.
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.”
When music teacher, choral director, and local legend George Swietlicki retired from his post at Springhurst Elementary School on June 10, the Covid-19 pandemic precluded a traditional celebration of his esteemed career.
Hundreds of people spread out under the trees for a peaceful Black Lives Matter rally at Draper Park on Sunday, June 14.
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.
As her spring semester neared its unusual end, Anya van Hoogstraten, a freshman a Yale, wanted to help neighbors affected by the Covid-19 coronavirus after her virtual classes wrapped up.
A peaceful demonstration called “Kids 4 Justice” attracted hundreds of children and adults to downtown Hastings on Sunday, June 7. The march, organized by three pre-teen girls and their mothers, capped off an emotional week for the community, in the wake of worldwide demonstrations sparked b…
Peaceful protesters gathered at Waterfront Park last Thursday afternoon, June 4, in response to the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis on May 25, and to systemic racism around the nation.
Irvington retailers expressed mixed reactions to the possible Phase II opening of stores next Tuesday, June 9.
Gov. Andrew Cuomo signed an executive order last week initiating Phase I of his four-phase plan to open businesses in the Hudson Valley. The order permits retail stores to provide customers with curbside or in-store pickup service, and gives store owners the right to refuse entry to anyone n…
When the pandemic forced schools to shut down in mid-March, Dobbs Ferry was prepared for online teaching.
Learning to rewire a lamp or repair the hem on a pair of pants has become a prized skill in the Covid-19 era.