Montrose News

MONTROSE - A 46-year-old man shot himself to death yesterday as he stood in the intersection of Dutch Street and O'Connor Court, police and medical examiner officials said.

At the turn of the 20th century, reformers in American cities were aware that the great advances of industry and technology had both made tremendous wealth and advancement possible for many, along with the intensification of horrific poverty, and abominable living conditions for many more, as documented in NYC by Jacob Riis.

MONTROSE: The Hendrick Hudson Leos recently had their officer-installation ceremony in the Hendrick Hudson High School auditorium.

In 1893, the money and influence of Chicago industrialists and meat packers beat out New Yorka s bankers and merchants, and the Columbian Exhibition, one of the most important Worlda s Fairs, was held in the Windy City.

Lehigh Valley high-school students whose senior prank involved camping out in a school courtyard, though school administrators didn't share my yearning for a rerun of "American Graffiti." I get their post-Columbine dilemma, but disagree with the punishment they imposed.

Route 35: Michael T. Ricotta, 23, of Cross River was charged with misdemeanor driving while intoxicated at 2:30 a.m. Thursday.

MONTROSE - For three Hendrick Hudson High School seniors, their love of theater and their experience onstage and in front of cameras has made performing more than just a hobby.

MONTROSE - One local school has moved beyond the education part of HIV/AIDS awareness into the application realm, with what organizers believe was one of the first-ever preventive HIV screenings in a high school.

MONTROSE: Amy Cohen, Hendrick Hudson High School class of 2004 and Ithaca College class of 2008, has been awarded a Fulbright grant to travel to the United Kingdom to do research on Contemporary Circus, a movement that emphasizes using circus apparatus and performance as a storytelling tool.

MONTROSE - A 15-year-old Hendrick Hudson High School freshman is charged with raping a schoolmate inside the school earlier this year.

PEEKSKILL - On a normal day, James Olenik of Cortlandt Manor might have chanced a wild ride up and down the Spitzenberg Climb at the Blue Mountain Reservation.

The armory story will continue next week. Our intrepid photographer couldn't get out much last week.

Opposition and criticism have been growing in the village since a vote to appoint the mayor's daughter to a secretarial position at a salary of $71,000 a year.

Hike name: Old Croton Aqueduct Historic State Park. Location: Croton Gorge Park to Yonkers, Westchester County.

BUCHANAN - The mayor's daughter has been appointed to fill a secretarial position at Village Hall with an annual salary of $71,000 amid dissent and cries of nepotism.

There are castles in Brooklyn, fortresses, really, which take up entire square blocks.

MONTROSE - If cancer never sleeps, the Hendrick Hudson High School students, their family members and others reasoned, then neither would they.

MONTROSE: The second annual Stay Awake A-thon will be held at 5 p.m. Saturday at Hendrick Hudson High School, with the opening ceremony beginning at 7 p.m. The focus of the evening will be 'cancer never sleeps and neither will we.' The evening's activities will include a survivor and caregiver dinner, a luminary ceremony and a concert by the ...

More than 240 people attended Support Connection Inc.'s 12th annual gala and silent auction April 4 at Colonial Terrace in Cortlandt.

The White Plains Democratic City Committee on Monday unanimously endorsed Westchester County Legislator Bill Ryan for re-election. The committee's action was inaccurately reported in a Page One article in some of yesterday's editions.