Hastings on Hudson News

HASTINGS-ON-HUDSON - The Board of Education's controversial appointment of a new assistant superintendent took effect this week despite an online petition signed by more than 450 residents calling for the decision to be revoked.

See a collection of photographs from the Martin Luther King, Jr. High School graduation at http://lohud.com/gradphotoswestchester. The school is located in Hastings-on-Hudson. This year, the staff of The Journal News will be covering 102 high school and college graduations in Westchester, Rockland and Putnam counties in New York.

HASTINGS-ON-HUDSON - Part of Main Street will be closed later today and overnight for filming of a movie starring Meryl Streep, Steve Martin and Alec Baldwin.

Police are trying to track down the people behind a home invasion in Hastings-on-Hudson. Cops say four men followed a man home from his job in New York City on Monday night.

HASTINGS-ON-HUDSON - The Board of Education's decision to name a new assistant superintendent has roiled some parents and taxpayers, who say the community should have been involved in appointing such a senior administrator.

HASTINGS-ON-HUDSON - People looking to revamp their summer wardrobes can head to the Hastings train station tomorrow for a clothing swap fundraiser benefiting Family-to-Family, a multifaceted nonprofit organization that aids more than 1,800 families around the country.

A quick-thinking 17-year-old boy helped police nab one of four alleged suspects, who apparently forced their way inside his family's Westchester home at gun-point, during an attempted robbery.

They are still searching for at least three other suspects. Francisco Cordero, 41, of Manhattan was arrested by Greenburgh and Hastings-on-Hudson police as he fled 81 Donald Drive shortly after 11 pm, Greenburgh police Captain Joseph DeCarlo said.

Bound and terrified. A Westchester County family was held hostage in their home by armed robbers.

GREENBURGH - Scanner reports indicated police had one suspect in custody last night and were searching for four others in a violent home invasion near the Yonkers and Hastings-on-Hudson borders.

HASTINGS-ON-HUDSON - The village will match a $155,000 grant from Westchester County to improve sidewalks along a route to the train station and the downtown district, part of a larger effort to make the village more pedestrian-friendly. 'This is an effort to make Hastings a more walkable community,' said Susan Maggiotto, the deputy village ...

YONKERS - The City Council changed a zoning ordinance for northern Warburton Avenue, where new highrise buildings now will be banned.

HASTINGS-ON-HUDSON - Two Yonkers teens were arrested after snatching a woman's purse in the village containing $6,000, police said.

HASTINGS-ON-HUDSON - A hundred years has gone by since the iconic artist Lewis Hine traveled across the United States taking pictures of child workers.

Milagros Lecuona, White Plains Common Council Member and Architect, will be the guest speaker at the June meeting of the White Plains Council of Neighborhood Associations .

Robert Spinazzola lives in Hastings-on-Hudson. But he began his career as a sculptor in Detroit, and his installation 'Gates of Eden' - one of the highlights of ArtsWestchester's captivating new 'RUBBISH! Art and the Ecosystem' - is an elegy for the Motor City in the age of the No-Longer-Big Three.

I get e-mails from local musicians all the time. They tell me about gigs, new artists, new albums, whatever.

We wish to thank everyone for supporting Ferncliff Manor's second annual prom held May 14.

Schools in the Edgemont and Hastings-on-Hudson districts are experiencing a sharp spike in the number of students reporting flulike symptoms, but officials say there is no indication that any of the illnesses are related to the H1N1 swine flu epidemic.

Three more swine flu cases were confirmed as of yesterday, bringing Westchester's total to 23, according to the county Department of Health.