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Pines Bridge ceremony honors 7 graduates
YORKTOWN HEIGHTS: The Pines Bridge School at the Putnam/Northern Westchester Board of Cooperative Educational Services recently held a graduation ceremony for its seven graduates, all of whom are multiply disabled.
Playschool marks year's end with picnic
YORKTOWN HEIGHTS: BOCES' Playschool, which operates two-hour programs for 3- and 4-year-olds from October through May, recently used a family picnic to mark the end of its school year for its 15 students and 28 'teachers' - students at BOCES themselves.
Middle schoolers attend career fair
YORKTOWN HEIGHTS: More than 400 middle school students from five area school districts and the Board of Cooperative Educational Services recently held a career fair at the Tech Center.
Pair of Boy Scouts awarded Eagle rank
YORKTOWN HEIGHTS: James Patrick Pryor and Andrew Joseph Trovato were recently awarded their Eagle Scout badges and medals at a Court of Honor held at St.
Performance modeling and automatic ghost zone optimization for iterative stencil loops on GPUs
NEW NEW Abstract Iterative stencil loops are used in many applications and tiling is a well-known technique to localize their computation.
Adult students earn GEDs at BOCES
About 150 students from 18 school districts recently celebrated their completion of the General Educational Development diploma program at Putnam-Northern Westchester Board of Cooperative Educational Services' Tech Center during a ceremony on the Yorktown Heights campus.
Police: Yorktown woman left infant alone in parked car
A 34-year-old woman who is the director of marketing and communications at Pace Law School is due in Town Court today after she was accused of leaving her 4-month-old son alone in a parked car while she shopped.
Celebrate the 100th Anniversary of Yorktown Heights Engine Company 1 with their annual carnival and parade.
Students to graduate from nursing program
Licensed Practical Nursing students from the Tech Center at Putnam/Northern Westchester BOCES in Yorktown Heights will celebrate their accomplishments at 6:30 p.m. tomorrow at Somers High School.
The death of Justin Veatch highlights the dangers of suburban heroin use.
Justin Veatch should be graduating from Yorktown Heights High School next weekend.
ADA honors four Fathers of the Year
Four community leaders will be honored as 'Fathers of the Year' by the American Diabetes Association.
Canucks buy 300 teraflops Blue iDataPlex super
The University of Toronto's SciNet consortium, which provides supercomputing oomph for colleges, universities, and research hospitals across Canada, will today announce that it has selected IBM's iDataPlex servers using Intel's new "Nehalem EP" Xeon 5500 processors to create the most powerful supercomputer in Canada.
Jewish groups pool resources to launch youth groups
PEEKSKILL - For Jake Hernandez yesterday evening at the First Hebrew Congregation of Peekskill was about gaining new experiences while being Jewish.
Bike repair turns into lesson at BOCES
YORKTOWN HEIGHTS: John Moriarty, a Yorktown High School senior in BOCES' auto body program, who owns and races a Motocross bike, asked for help after a $1,200 engine repair failed to fix his bike.
Students join duathlon to help fight cancer
KENT: Approximately 400 students at Kent Elementary and Kent Primary schools in Carmel will participate in the sixth annual 'Do the Du' duathlon Saturday to fight blood cancers.
IBM reportedly cuts more jobs in New York
Various news outlets reported Tuesday that IBM Corp. let go off more workers at facilities in upstate New York.
New Rochelle Doctor Arraigned On Insurance Fraud
Westchester County District Attorney Janet DiFiore, New York State Insurance Department Superintendent Eric R. Dinallo and New York State Workers' Compensation Chair Zachary S. Weiss announced that Michael Palmieri, 46, of Yorktown Heights, New York was arraigned on one count of Grand Larceny and one count of Fraudulent Practice, a violation of ...
Grouped graphical Granger modeling for gene expression regulatory networks discovery
Recently, graphical Granger modeling has gained considerable attention as a promising direction for addressing this problem.
NY Doctor Accused of Faking Reports for Prison Guard
A New York doctor who allegedly faked injury reports so a Sing Sing guard could avoid working has been charged with insurance fraud.
Soundview student awarded scholarship
YORKTOWN HEIGHTS: Soundview Prep 12th-grader Eugene Murphy has won a National Merit $2,500 Scholarship, one of 2,500 high school seniors nationwide to receive the prestigious award.
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