Buchanan News

Buchanan-Verplanck: Jared Neidhardt, a fifth-grade student at Buchanan-Verplanck Elementary School, wanted to help kids with cancer at Maria Fareri Children's Hospital in Valhalla.

A Canadian energy company is looking to turn an abandoned quarry in Verplanck, where a teen drowned last week, into a hydroelectric plant.

Indian Point nuclear power plant in Buchanan, N.Y., is said to be responsible for killing fish, eggs, larvae and plants.

Center Drive: Jason Schmeltzer, 20, of Mahopac was charged around 12:15 a.m. June 23 with unlawful possession of an open container of alcohol by someone under 21, a violation.

In late November, 1998 the body of Aiysha Barksdale, 14, was found strangled near a road in Dunkirk.

A state court has told Indian Point officials their timing is wrong in trying to fight New York regulators about using Hudson River water to cool the plant's nuclear reactors.

A Buchanan resident is charged with burglarizing a Cortlandt home where he had done landscaping work, the latest of several arrests for a man who remains a suspect in other unsolved burglaries.

When a district has a nuclear power plant not two miles from one of its elementary schools, concerns about disaster recovery are bound to surface in technology discussions.

Route 35: Michael T. Ricotta, 23, of Cross River was charged with misdemeanor driving while intoxicated at 2:30 a.m. Thursday.

BUCHANAN - Indian Point officials want to shuffle some of their used uranium fuels rods between nuclear reactors to create storage space, but federal regulators say they'll need to see a lot more details before they'll approve such a plan.

A Verplanck woman was arrested by the Westchester County Department of Public Safety Friday and charged with stealing $8,000 from the Buchanan Fire Department Ladies Auxiliary while she was the organization's treasurer.

BUCHANAN - The treasurer of the Buchanan Engine Company fire department ladies auxiliary has been charged with stealing thousands of dollars from the auxiliary, Westchester County police said today.

WHITE PLAINS - The 'parking rage' dentist who pushed a Buchanan woman to the ground and tried to move her brother's car because it was blocking the entrance of a Court Street parking lot was convicted today of misdemeanor assault and contempt charges, as well as harassment and disorderly conduct violations.

A Peekskill man who stole $20,000 from the safe of a retail store in Buchanan has been arrested in Puerto Rico by federal marshals with help from Westchester County police, officials said.

Indian Point nuclear power plant operates along the Hudson River in Buchanan, New York.

Once lost to industry, the Hudson River waterfront has been discovered by developers and environmentalists.

A Buchanan man is being held this morning at the Westchester County jail after state police charged him with breaking into his friend's house while the friend was away.

The largest amount, $43,533, was given to Yonkers , which has 69 bus shelters - the most of any locality.

BUCHANAN - Opposition and criticism have been growing in the village since a vote to appoint the mayor's daughter to a secretarial position at a salary of $71,000 a year.

The mayor's daughter has been appointed to fill a secretarial position at Village Hall with an annual salary of $71,000 amid dissent and cries of nepotism.