Bedford Hills News

BEDFORD HILLS: The Bedford Hills Woman's Club announced its four scholarship recipients for 2009.

BEDFORD HILLS: Families recently gathered in Bedford Hills to celebrate the birthdays of Jaeger and Gryphon Dochtermann and to support a worthy cause.

They are baby steps, but the Lower Hudson Valley is cycling toward a greener future.

ALBANY - State correction officials are beefing up an upstate drug-treatment facility for prison-bound parolees from throughout the state, an initiative fueled by new Rockefeller Drug Law reforms signed in April.

Greenmarkets are the greatest addition to the fresh food scene since the invention of the refrigerated produce case.

Nixon, 49, is executive director of CCF, a nine-year-old program that helps formerly incarcerated women get college educations.

BEDFORD HILLS: West Patent Elementary recently announced the completion of the school's first Learning Garden.

A spectacular 3-alarm fire at the former Curry Ford deadlership lit up the sky on Crompond Road in Yorktown early today.

BEDFORD - It appears there will be a race for the town's top job for the first time in eight years.

A state appellate court concluded a North Lawrence woman convicted of shooting a former boyfriend can't appeal her sentence.

SOMERS: Licensed Practical Nursing students from the Tech Center at Putnam-Northern Westchester Board of Cooperative Educational Services in Yorktown Heights will celebrate their accomplishments at 6:30 p.m. tomorrow at Somers High School.

Stock index futures pointed to a flat to lower open on Wednesday as key data for May tempered inflation concerns but was offset by a disappointing earnings outlook from package delivery company FedEx Corp .

A New Yorker says she was trapped between a safety gate and the tracks as a suburban commuter train barreled past her.

A New Yorker says she was trapped between a safety gate and the tracks as a suburban commuter train barreled past her.

Even as the state makes $312,000 worth of improvements to the Green Lane rail crossing in Bedford Hills where three trains struck cars last year, a Pleasantville woman is pushing a lawsuit against Metro-North Railroad for an incident there.

BEDFORD HILLS - The troublesome Green Lane railroad crossing - the site of three accidents last year - will get $312,300 worth of work to make it safer.

BEDFORD HILLS: The Auxiliary of Northern Westchester Hospital, a group of volunteer women who serve as community ambassadors for the hospital, recently hosted the fourth annual Northern Westchester Hospital Lunch & Learn program at GlenArbor Golf Club.

I was fortunate to be able to catch the Dennis Walters Show at The Traditions of Golf at Glen Arbor Golf Club in Bedford Hills Tuesday.

Thursday was graduation day for Cathy Watkins. She received a bachelor's degree in sociology from Marymount Manhattan College.

Two Brooklyn women and a man who claimed to be looking for a lost cat face attempted burglary charges after an Aspetong Road resident confronted the women in her home yesterday, police said.