Bedford News

Hundreds of friends and family crowded into the John Wesley United Methodist Church in Falmouth to honor 29-year-old Marine Capt.

New Greenpoint Gastropub: Manhattan Inn 632 Manhattan Avenue, between Bedford and Nassau, Greenpoint; 383-0885 Manhattan Inn "sounds like something a little more upscale than what we're used to seeing over here in the 'point," says Greenpointers .

BEDFORD CORNERS: Temple Shaaray Tefila will host a Comedy Night at 7 p.m. Thursday.

As a Marine attack helicopter pilot, Eric Jones regularly put his life on the line.

BEDFORD: The Bedford Central School District has released the second annual Bedford Central School and District Profile.

A Marine originally from Westchester County was among four servicemen killed when two U.S. choppers collided in the sky over Afghanistan.

POUND RIDGE - Capt. Eric A. Jones, a Pound Ridge native whose boyhood dream was to become a pilot, was one of four Marines killed Monday when two U.S. helicopters collided in southern Afghanistan.

Capt. Eric A. Jones, 29, who grew up in Pound Ridge and was a 1999 graduate of Fox Lane High School in Bedford, was one of four Marines killed Monday when two U.S. helicopters collided in flight in southern Afghanistan.

Detailed plans to protect drinking water in Westchester County have been laid out in a new blueprint for land use and other local decisions that officials hope will produce regional solutions.

Voters in the Lower Hudson Valley go to the polls Nov. 3 to decide a host of local elections.

BEDFORD - A Hastings-on-Hudson teenager and a 21-year old Manhattan man are accused of assaulting and robbing a taxi driver in the parking lot of Fox Lane High School, then driving off in his cab.

BEDFORD: Barbara Plunkett has been named senior vice president and director of operations for Prudential Holmes & Kennedy in Bedford.

BEDFORD - Democrats challenging Republican incumbent Supervisor Lee Roberts and her running mates said they want to see more action on issues facing the town and questioned why some projects, including an expanded sewage treatment plant, have taken so long.

BEDFORD - The Board of Education is seeking candidates to fill the seat left empty by Marc Vandenhoeck, who recently stepped down from the seven-member school board.

The calender says mid-October, but snow flakes - albeit, wet ones -- are flying this afternoon in the northern suburbs.

Troopers charged two South Salem men a driving while intoxicated after traffic stops yesterday in Bedford and Pound Ridge, state police said today.

POUND RIDGE - Pound Ridge, Bedford and state police are investigating a recent spate of car thefts, as well as thefts of items from parked cars, and have scheduled an information session Saturday in Pound Ridge to discuss the crimes and provide residents with tips to avoid being victimized.

BEDFORD - A fire ripped through the upper level of a barn in Bedford on Wednesday morning.

On Wednesday, October 21, at 8:00 p.m., Bedford Chamber Concerts will launch its ninth season of bringing Lincoln Center Standards to Bedford with performances of Beethoven compositions written for the tumultuous court of Alexander I, Czar of Russia.

Libyan leader Moamer Kadhafi has presented his son Seif al-Islam as head of state with powers second only to those of the long-ruling colonel, an online newspaper reported on Tuesday.