Montrose News

MONTROSE: Blue Mountain Middle School recently hosted a music forum for middle school general music teachers from all over Westchester County.

Local veterans are working hard to find a way to keep Montrose for vets. Assemblyman Greg Ball is hosting a roundtable discussion to find a solution that preserves the critical services Montrose provides to local vets.

BUCHANAN Entergy announced grant awards totaling 275,000 to 15 local organizations as part of the company's new Safety Responders Fund program.

This has been a banner year for Brooklyn-based movies. But is there really such a thing as a Brooklyn film? ERIC KOHN explores the 'ugly-beautiful' new cinema of Williamsburg.

CORTLANDT: Local artist Michele Izzo's work, 'Cortlandt Yacht Club: Montrose, NY,' has been selected by juror Frank Webb for inclusion in the Fallbrook Art Center's Inaugural Signature American Watercolor Exhibition.

CROTON-ON-HUDSON - Most people stuff a turkey for Thanksgiving and invite over a group of family and friends.

The Rev. Doug Leonard ran out of church on Sept. 11, 2001, in time to see the Twin Towers in flames, the silhouettes of planes burned into them.

PEEKSKILL - Somebody needs to explain the concept of retirement to Joe Brady. Since leaving his telephone company job nearly 20 years ago, Brady has had trouble saying no - he is the volunteer ombudsman for three health care facilities and teaches bagpipes on the side.

Jeremy Honey said it's more convenient to use the new Rockland Veterans Affairs Clinic instead of trudging to a VA hospital in the Bronx every time he needs care.

Troopers charged eight motorists with driving under the influence of alcohol or drugs during weekend traffic stops in Westchester and Putnam counties, state police said today.

MONTROSE: Cory Boyle, a senior at Hendrick Hudson High School and the Putnam Northern Westchester BOCES, has been honored as the student of distinction for the Communications Academy.

MONTROSE: The Hendrick Hudson Leos club recently presented a check for $16,800 to the Make a Wish Foundation, which grants wishes to terminally ill children.

CORTLANDT - Work has begun on an expansion of the town train station that will improve the railroad's connection to local businesses while adding hundreds of parking spaces and offering covered walkways, a concession \area and composting restrooms.

MONTROSE: To celebrate the 400th anniversary of Hendrick Hudson's historic sail up the river, the Advanced Placement Studio Art students and members of the Hendrick Hudson Art Club mounted a mural in his honor at the entrance to the Guidance Wing.

MONTROSE: Jessica Lang, one of Hendrick Hudson High School's art teachers, has teamed up with Artsonia, www.artsonia.com - the world's largest online student art museum - to display student artwork.

This biography is the first in an ongoing series featuring the best of Brownstone Brooklyn's architects.

MONTROSE: Hendrick Hudson High School service clubs will host the annual Haunted High School from 4:30 to 7:30 p.m. Thursday at 2166 Albany Post Road.

MONTROSE - Officials at the Hendrick Hudson Free Library say they are not trying to impede a state police investigation of child pornography possibly seen from a library computer terminal, but want to protect privacy rights of all its users.

MONTROSE - State police say they have pulled the plug on an investigation into the possible viewing of child pornography by a patron of the Hendrick Hudson Free Library because the library board refuses to cooperate with them.

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