Sleepy Hollow News

Police have released this sketch of the gunman in the brutal shooting of a Sleepy Hollow, N.Y., man in Jersey City last month.

Two villages in Ramapo - New Square and Kaser - are the fastest-growing municipalities in the Lower Hudson Valley, according to newly released data from the U.S. Census Bureau.

Shifting of funds helps about 100 kids and their families in Tarrytown and Sleepy Hollow Thanks to the intervention of County Executive Andy Spano, more than 100 disadvantaged kids from Tarrytown and Sleepy Hollow will be going to camp after all.

TARRYTOWN - Jasmin Gonzalez of Sleepy Hollow has admired her grandmother, Noelia, since she was a little girl in the Dominican Republic.

A 43-year-old Sleepy Hollow, N.Y. , man is in critical condition after being shot in the stomach and arm during a robbery in an industrial area of Jersey City this morning, police said.

GREENBURGH - A dozen local civic leaders rallied in support of former Town Clerk Alfreda Williams yesterday, as the Greenburgh Democratic Committee formally announced her as their candidate to replace Westchester County Legislator Lois Bronz in the 8th District.

Re 'Closing creates child-care void' , we have been volunteers at the Boys & Girls Club of Tarrytown/Sleepy Hollow for a number of years.

Troopers charged six motorists with driving while intoxicated after recent traffic stops and an accident investigation, state police said today.

A Carmel man was at more than twice the legal limit for driving while intoxicated last night when he sideswiped a car on the Sprain Brook Parkway and injured two people before fleeing the scene, state police said today.

People from around the region yesterday celebrated the 400th anniversary of Henry Hudson's voyage up the river that bears his name, with festivities in Tarrytown, Sleepy Hollow and Rockland County.

This weekend communities throughout Westchester and Rockland will celebrate "River Day," a key event in the year-long Hudson-Fulton-Champlain Quadricentennial Celebration.

Efforts to revitalize the village's downtown have been in the works for years, and now, thanks to a set of grants, might soon come to fruition.

Events marking the 400th anniversary of Henry Hudson's "discovery" of the river now called by his name - the official title is The Hudson-Fulton-Champlain Quadricentennial - will continue all summer and beyond, but this weekend the celebration gets busy.

YONKERS - Twenty-three police officers of Irish descent from departments throughout Westchester County were given awards by the Police Emerald Society of Westchester.

The race to fill Westchester County Legislator Lois Bronz's vacant seat in the 8th District is shaping up after the Democratic County Committee held a mini-convention for the district to endorse a candidate last week.

Catherine Colao, of Salt Point, a nurse on the behavioral rehabilitation unit at Phelps Memorial Hospital Center in Sleepy Hollow, is the winner of the 2009 "Excellence in Caring Award," a nursing award given out annually by the hospital for excellence in patient care.

SLEEPY HOLLOW - James Paolantonio was 15 on that long-ago Friday afternoon when the Western Union woman gingerly made her way up the porch steps of the house on Depeyster Street and delivered the telegram no family should ever have to receive.

BANKERS, lawyers and journalists have lately taken pay cuts and gone without raises to stay employed in a tough economy.

SLEEPY HOLLOW - Mercury levels five times higher than New York officials consider safe have prompted the state to test dozens of properties around a former battery factory site in one of the most densely populated areas of the village.

River Day Weekend, June 6th and 7th, is a celebration of Henry Hudson's historic 1609 voyage and a weekend of fun, fairs, festivals and fireworks.