Mohegan Lake News

YORKTOWN - Property owners continue to assail plans to rezone large swaths of town, the second such attempt since a judge struck down the zoning code's last overhaul two years ago.

A bottle of highly explosive acid with the power of dynamite was removed safely from a man's home yesterday, but not before his neighbors were evacuated and the street was closed, the Mohegan Lake Fire Department said.

The owner of an embattled Mohegan Lake winery says he doesn't plan to pursue his appeal of the dismissal of his lawsuit against the town.

Investigators were trying yesterday to determine the cause of an early three-alarm fire that ripped through the former Curry Ford Kia dealership on Crompond Road.

YORKTOWN: The Yorktown Chamber of Commerce is holding a networking meeting at 6 p.m. Monday at Nabby Day Camp, 1 Nabby Hill in Mohegan Lake.

Troopers charged three motorists with misdemeanor driving while intoxicated in separate traffic stops last night and early today in Putnam and Westchester counties, state police said.

A disbarred Mamaroneck lawyer was sentenced yesterday to six months in the county jail for stealing more than $445,000 from his clients and then failing to pay taxes on the stolen cash.

A White Plains man was charged with drunken driving after he crashed into a car driven by an off-duty Brewster state trooper who was on her way home from work, state police said today.

Route 35: Jonathan Rieg, 34, of Lewisboro was charged with driving while intoxicated after he was accused of making an unsafe lane change on Route 35 in Lewisboro as state troopers conducted an eight-hour drunken-driving crackdown late Saturday and early Sunday, police said.

Greenville Road: Guillermo R. Lara, 27, of Katonah was charged with driving while intoxicated, a misdemeanor, after troopers stopped him on Greenville Road in Bedford on May 25 around 11:50 p.m., state police said.

East Main Street: Mary Beth Kenney, 49, of Mohegan Lake was charged with driving while intoxicated and aggravated driving while intoxicated, both misdemeanors, and leaving the scene of a property damage accident, a violation, on May 17 at 5:30 p.m., state police said.

Yesterday, 1,392 students graduated from Westchseter Community College, making it the biggest graduating class ever and breaking the record set last year when 1,369 students earned degrees.

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Sprain Brook Parkway: Joshua DeSiena, 34, of Mohegan Lake was charged around 11:30 p.m. Wednesday with driving while intoxicated and aggravated driving while intoxicated, misdemeanors, after a traffic stop, state police said.

CORTLANDT - Two Mohegan Lake teens charged in connection with a sex crime appeared yesterday in Town Court and had their cases continued to next week.

Troopers charged a Mohegan Lake man with aggravated driving while intoxicated after traffic stop last night on the Sprain Brook Parkway, state police said today.

Five people were arrested during a drug raid yesterday, including one man who tried to hid from police by running into nearby woods where he was found lying face down in a stream, Westchester County police said.

YORKTOWN - A federal judge has tossed out winery owner Tom DeChiaro's $30 million civil rights lawsuit against the town and several elected and appointed officials.

MOHEGAN LAKE: The Lakeland High School art department and North Westchester Restorative Therapy and Nursing Center invites the public to attend an artists' reception for students whose work in being exhibited at the therapy and nursing center, 3550 Lexington Ave.

LADEN Centro and Macquarie CountryWide have sold more than $440 million worth of US and Australian assets.