Valhalla News

I note with special interest how and why state Sen. Andrea Stewart-Cousins, D-Yonkers, sponsored a bill to make it easier to merge special districts, especially fire districts.

Four Brooklyn residents were arrested and one man escaped after village police stopped them with a carful of merchandise they allegedly stole from several CVS pharmacies.

WHITE PLAINS - One of the city's white-linen restaurants quietly disappeared over the weekend, a painful sign of the times for this regional retail capital and for the developer who helped rebuild it.

STONY POINT - Ten people were injured yesterday in a multi-car collision on the Palisades Interstate Parkway.

Share + Jul 5, 2009 7:46 am US/Eastern VALHALLA, N.Y. New York state inspectors had several health and safety concerns with Westchester Medical Center's adolescent psychiatric unit and briefly halted admissions last month to the 20-bed unit, according to a published report.

VALHALLA - It takes faith to sit trustingly at the foot of a massive dam while pyrotechnics boom with a force that shakes everyone's chest.

A Castleton man is in a New York hospital following a work-site accident last week.

Troopers charged two motorists with misdemeanor driving while intoxicated in separate incidents this week, state police said today.

NEW PALTZ - A 48-year-old man who allegedly shot himself in the head on Interstate 87 Monday died Tuesday, according to the Westchester County Office of the Medical Examiner.

It will be a mix of old and new when Fourth of July fireworks light up area skies this weekend.

PRECIOUS SPOTS Waits can be long for a permit to park near the train station in Dobbs Ferry, but spaces can go unused when commuters lose their jobs.

Latent Tuberculosis and Active Tuberculosis Disease Rates among the Homeless, New York, New York, USA, 19922006 John M. McAdam, Scott J. Bucher, Philip W. Brickner, Richard L. Vincent, and Steven Lascher Author affiliations: St.

A 26-year-old Yonkers woman has died of H1N1 swine flu, making her the virus's second fatality in Westchester County, the Medical Examiner's Office said yesterday.

Education Special 2009 St. Saviour High School in Park Slope, founded in 1917 by the School Sisters of Notre Dame, has achieved national recognition as an "outstanding school" on the list of the top 96 high schools across the United States, in a research program conducted at the University of Chicago.

VALHALLA - Blythedale Children's Hospital celebrated the start of a $63.5 million addition yesterday, with an emphasis on the work that follows once the construction crews are gone.

BREWSTER - The tragic deaths of a mother and her 8-year-old daughter - run down, police say, by a drunken driver as they walked from the young girl's dance class on a warm June evening - has without a doubt shaken the Brewster-Southeast community.

Mt. Kisco, NY - Experience the richness of African-American culture at the African-American Heritage Celebration on Sunday, June 28, from noon to 7 p.m., at the Kensico Dam Plaza in Valhalla.

Mt. Kisco, NY - A fun-filled celebration is in store to celebrate our country's Independence Day when the Westchester Philharmonic orchestra brings a program of rousing American patriotic music, followed by a spectacular fireworks display, to the annual Kensico Dam Music Fest on Friday, July 3, at Kensico Dam Plaza in Valhalla.

Rising interest rates threaten to undermine any potential economic recovery unless the world's most powerful finance ministers convince bond traders that they'll put the brakes on massive stimulus measures before inflation becomes a threat, economists said.

WPCNR COUNTY CLARION-LEDGER. By John F. Bailey. June 9,2009 UPDATED 12:45 P.M. E.D.T. WITH TEXT OF COUNTY EXEC LETTER: The Westchester County Executive is calling for 'revaluation' by towns, cities and municipalities as the only solution to city and town tax roll erosion from commercial property owners filing successful certiorari actions.