Elmsford News

A higher concrete barrier, a lower recommended speed limit and a lighted sign warning truck drivers they risk rollovers are among the key changes coming next year to the Exit 15 ramp off the northbound Thruway in Ramapo.

On Tuesday, November 24, 2009, The Westchester Broadway Theatre will be hosting the Cab Calloway Lifetime Achievement Awards.

Abstract Metal compounds have been associated with male reproductive toxicity in vivo.

A 95-year-old volunteer with SOS Medicare, a tireless community leader who is chair of Westchester County's Fair Campaign Practices Committee and a retired social worker who says no volunteer job is too big or too small are among the 36 seniors who will be honored at the 27th annual Senior Hall of Fame on Dec.

Re 'Elmsford police sergeant is highest paid among Greenburgh's 6 villages,' Sunday article: I think it's great to see an enforcer of the law earning the money that he deserves.

Archbishop Stepinac High School's award-winning Drama Club will present Joseph Fields' and Jerome Chodorov's "My Sister Eileen," the stage adaptation of Ruth McKenney's short story series.

Merrill Cassell, the cyclist who was sideswiped by a Westchester Bee-Line bus and crushed under its wheels last week, was an advocate for integrating cycling with mass transit.

Nearly 30 cyclists traveled today alongside the hearse carrying the body of a local bicycling advocate killed last week by a bus.

ELMSFORD - The village has been selected as one of eight communities in the Lower Hudson Valley to participate in a state-assisted program that promotes transit-oriented developments.

GREENBURGH - A 66-year-old bicycling advocate who was killed by a Westchester Bee-Line bus last week was sideswiped by the bus and fell under it, according to police.

YONKERS City Police in Yonkers arrested an Elmsford man on a charge of criminal possession of a weapon in the second degree and assault in the second degree after he fought with police.

State Supreme Court Justices Orazio Bellantoni and Francesca Connolly, Westchester County Judge Jeffrey Cohen and Yonkers City Court Judge Charley Wood were elected to the state Supreme Court in the 9th Judicial District, according to unofficial election results Wednesday.

Elmsford police Sgt. James A. Wehr received $170,055, which made him the top municipal earner among six villages last year.

The Greenburgh Drug and Alcohol Task Force cited two businesses for selling alcohol to minors, police said.

Beginning next month the Tappan Zee Bridge/I-287 Corridor Project will be holding a series of community working meeting along the thirty-mile corridor, from Hillburn to Port Chester.

The folks over at wireless trigger company PocketWizard have announced an upcoming eight-city tour to demonstrate their products, with an interesting twist.

GREENBURGH - Nick Young first found artistic inspiration in a most unlikely place: the courtroom of the O.J. Simpson murder trial.

The chairman of the Assembly's Committee on Corporations is investigating IBM's financial dealings with the state.

The state police Thruway detail is launching its annual "Pumpkin Patrols" aimed at preventing dangerous Halloween pranks along the 641-mile highway system.

A Pelham teacher arrested in an Internet sex sting is in plea discussions with federal prosecutors, lawyers in the case said Thursday.