Pound Ridge News

Alexandra Forrester of Pound Ridge finished eighth last night in the 100-meter butterfly final at the U.S. national championships in Indianapolis.

KATONAH - Some 250 people came to the John Jay Homestead State Historical Site yesterday to hear the reading of the Declaration of Independence.

NEW YORK - Bernard Madoff's maximum sentence came as welcome news to the thousands he fleeced of billions.

CHAPPAQUA - When Alec Sherman learned his father had taken a job in Australia and that he would have to move there, it was a bit frightening.

POUND RIDGE: Antiques & Tools of Business is hosting a farmers market every Sunday and an antiques market on the second Sunday of each month at its location at 65 Westchester Ave., Scotts Corners.

Hardness, shape and texture he said, Geologists break them up into different categories using observational tools and the knowledge of what makes each rock different.

Eventually they took that passion out on their own into the business of selling antiques at multi-shops and those same shows and auctions in Stamford, North Salem and New Canaan.

Troopers charged two motorists with misdemeanor driving while intoxicated after traffic stops last night and this morning in Westchester and Putnam counties, state police said.

One of Jim Jinkins' favorite places is just a few miles from his Waccabuc home. Ward Pound Ridge Reservation, the 4,300-acre nature preserve in Cross River, is a treasured spot for Jinkins and his family - and the site of the cartoonist's newest project, an outdoor art exhibition called 'Cartoons in the Park.'' The exhibit, which opens tomorrow in ...

A child who was pulled from a body of water in Pound Ridge Wednesday morning has died.

Nicholas Tersigni was never supposed to walk, talk or see, but the 3-year-old New Fairfield boy was doing all that, and more, until his life ended Wednesday morning in a pond behind his grandmother's house in Pound Ridge, N.Y. "He was just the most beautiful child.

POUND RIDGE - The 3-year-old boy who wandered away from his grandmother's house, only to be found floating in a pond behind the home, died as a result of drowning, the Westchester County Medical Examiner's Office said yesterday.

A child was pulled from a body of water in Pound Ridge this morning. The victim was rescued from the water, near Cross Pond Road, just after 10 a.m. Police got a phone call saying a 3-year-old boy was missing from the residence.

A 3-year-old boy found floating in a pond behind a Cross Pond Road home this morning after being reported missing, has died, state police said.

Emergency workers were aiding a child who was rescued from the water at 10 a.m. today in a rural part of town near Kitchawan Lake, police said.

The recent controversy in Pound Ridge about Ari Fleischer's selection as keynote speaker on Memorial Day is a microcosm on a local level reflecting how politicized our nation has become, with a focus on party labels rather than substance, impeding our ability to move forward in a bipartisan manner on the problems facing America.

The term holistic medicine can sometimes conjure up the image of out of the mainstream, upscale hippies who put their healthcare in the faith of an untested science, while they thumb their noses at the norms of Western medicine.

POUND RIDGE: The Pound Ridge Lions Club will host a reception at the Pound Ridge Town House to present its 2009 Student Community Service Awards to three Pound Ridge graduating seniors.

The old forms of slavery are easy to recall: chains, whips, cotton plantations and cruelty from sunrise to sunset.

Mt. Kisco, NY - All are welcome to join renowned cartoonist Jim Jinkins for a tour of his own unique "Cartoons in the Park" outdoor art exhibit on Saturday and Sunday, June 13 and 14, at the Reservation in Cross River.