Katonah News

Once again, the Caramoor Center for Music and the Arts is bringing a wide range of artists from across the worlds of musical repertoire - opera, jazz, classical, blues, Latin and pop - to its summer-long International Music Festival.

School district officials said that by Friday they expect to notify 25 to 30 teachers that they may be laid off, a move that comes after the teachers union refused to accept a voluntary wage freeze in the coming school year.

Westchester County Board of Legislators Chairman Ken Jenkins , along with several colleagues, today, responded to the submission of the County's implementation plan to the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development and to the federal monitor overseeing the county's compliance with last year's settlement of the fair and affordable housing ...

Walking into John Jay's childhood home in Rye, visitors stand inside the 1838 Greek Revival mansion and straddle a rich past and budding future.

Candidates vying for the vacated 89th District state Assembly seat - Republican Robert Castelli and Democrat Peter Harckham - appear in a live Editorial Spotlight interview at 2:15 p.m. Wednesday.

Calling all current and would-be community gardeners - the Westchester County Center is hosting a first-ever Westchester Community Garden Network from noon to 3 p.m. Sunday to talk about establishing more communal garden plots in the county.

Walking into John Jay's childhood home, visitors stand inside the 1838 Greek Revival mansion and straddle a rich past and budding future.

CROTON FALLS - When Tom Christopher bought the B. Hawley Smith Co. Fork Lifts building on Route 22 in the summer, it was full of heavy machinery, the roof was leaking, and water was running down the halls.

A makeshift memorial to the four Lynn University students and two faculty members missing in Haiti lies at the foot of a flagpole flying the Haitian flag near the entrance to Lynn University Wednesday afternoon.

Investigators were continuing to hunt for the cause of a devastating overnight fire that destroyed a restaurant near the intersection of Routes 22 and 35.

A Katonah contractor was charged Monday with cheating his workers out of more than $100,000 for work they did on the construction of the Ardsley firehouse.

Still from William Kentridge/Handspring Puppet Company's performance video 'Woyzeck on the Highveld', 1992.

Thinking about an alternative to public schools? I was very happy as a NYS public school student, as was my first son.

Parents of four university students, including a girl from Georgia, missing in the tons of Haiti rubble admitted Monday they need a miracle and told the U.S. government that it needs to "step up and get in there." "We are up against a time clock," said Lin Crispinelli whose daughter Stephanie is among the missing.

But, he added, "There is still hope." Britney Gengel and three others, Stephanie Crispinelli, 19, of Katonah, N.Y.; Courtney Hayes, 23, of Boca Raton; and Christine Gianacaci, 22, of Hopewell, N.J., were in their rooms at the Hotel Montana in the hills above Port-Au-Prince when the magnitude 7.0 earthquake struck last Tuesday.

On Friday, the president of the Katonah-Lewisboro school board invited the 348 members of the district's teachers union to a party they might not want to attend: "I invite you to join us in a collaborative effort to minimize the economic harm that the fiscal and economic crisis assuredly will cause to our entire community unless bold steps are ...

In the front, sitting, Paul Tyska, Lindsay Doran, Nikki Fantauzzi, Richard Bruno, Christine Gianacaci, Daniela Montealegre, Britney Gengel, Stephanie Crispinelli and in the back row,standing, Patrick Hartwick, Michael DeMatteo, Courtney Hayes, Julie Prudhomme, Thomas Schloemer and Melissa Elliott are seen.

WHITE PLAINS - The Republicans and Democrats converged on the Crowne Plaza tonight to select their candidates for the 89th Assembly District's special election.

WHITE PLAINS The Westchester County Democratic Committee has selected County Legislator Peter Harckham of Katonah to run in the special election for the vacant 89th District State Assembly seat.

A college student from Katonah who was in Haiti during this week's earthquake has been found safe, her Florida university said this morning.