Katonah News

AOL is coming to Purchase Street. The monolithic media company, undergoing a transformation and pending spin-outIPO under former Google sales head and new CEO Tim Armstrong, is putting on a local face.

The other day I perused my local video store looking for a good drama. Not so much a tear-jerker, but, as my grandma would always say, 'Something with a good story.' After looking through countless slasher films and movies about fast cars and explosions, I reluctantly ended up in the foreign section looking at French films.

KATONAH - A team of historical detectives descended upon Caramoor Center for Music and the Arts on Saturday to determine whether an electronic instrument in New Mexico is in fact an authentic theremin from the 1930s.

Master herbalist Andrea Candee, a resident of South Salem and filmmaker Joe Berlinger will participate in "CrossTalk: Reel Heals" at the Katonah Village Library on Thursday, Nov.

Putting off pay to some future date is a bad idea, some say, even a gimmick. Several lawmakers and union leaders said Tuesday that the proposal by Westchester's county executive to have two unions - Civil Service Employee Association Unit 9200 and the Teamsters - defer one week's salary until members retire or leave county employment is bad ...

Sanford Robinson Gifford, "Camp of the Seventh Regiment", near Frederick, Maryland, in July 1863, 1864.

The Town Board has approved borrowing as much as $23.9 million to build a long-awaited water-filtration plant in Katonah.

One of the best lines in "Free for All," the big, bouncy new oral history of Joseph Papp and the Public Theater , isn't about Papp at all.

Vermont Achievement Center officials announced that Mitch Golub has joined the organization as education director.

CROTON-ON-HUDSON - The question tossed out on the wind one morning this fall may have sounded odd, but context can be everything.

Q&A with Neil Watson, executive director of the Katonah Museum of Art Q: How did the museum come up with the Town of the Month program ? A: Even though the museum has been on Route 22 for nearly 20 years, there are still people in our community who have never been here.

KATONAH - It is not difficult for Noya Guerrero to look into the eyes of a desperate woman and see herself.

In celebration of the Hudson-Fulton-Champlain Quadricentennial, the Katonah Museum of Art will offer a workshop for parents and children featuring food historian Peter G. Rose.

Diana Woodcock with her chapbook 'By Way Of'. DOHA: Virginia Commonwealth University-Qatar Assistant Professor of English Diana Woodcock has just had her chapbook entitled 'Travels of a Gwai Lo', one of the four in 'By Way Of', published by Toadlily Press, with a launch held recently at Katonah Museum of Art, New York.

The current exhibition at the Katonah Museum of Art - "Bold, Cautious, True: Walt Whitman and American Art of the Civil War Era" - is a didactic sort of show, centering on representations of historical events in American art and about the literature of Walt Whitman in and around the Civil War period.

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

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The Westchester County Board of Legislators has approved landmark legislation that would require the forfeiture of vehicles for those convicted of operating a vehicle while under the influence of alcohol or drugs or while engaged in unlawful speed contests or drag races throughout Westchester County.

KATONAH: The Katonah Art Center will turn itself into a haunted house this Halloween.

KATONAH: The Katonah Museum Artist Association will host Brian Rutenberg during its Visiting Artist Talk at 7:30 p.m. Oct.