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... speak at Great Bay Community College, Portsmouth, from noon to 1 p.m. Wednesday, Jan. 15. As part of his lecture, Yonkers will discuss the number one reason why most people do not fulfill their...
View ArticleEthel Townes: 'Everybody loved her'
... Plains Child Daycare Center. In 1986, she began working for the Westchester County Department of Social Services in Yonkers, first as an examiner and later as a case worker. In between, she...
View ArticleNow Playing Onstage in Albuquerque - Week of 2/09/2014
... Sally Struthers (All In the Family, Gilmore Girls) stars as the strong-willed matchmaker Dolly, as she travels to Yonkers, NY to find a match for the ornery "well-known unmarried...
View Article3-alarm Yonkers fire guts Park Hill Avenue home
A smoky, three-alarm fire gutted a multifamily home on Park Hill Avenue on Sunday morning, fire officials said.via Yonkers Newswire http://ift.tt/1eFZSzi
View ArticleHow elevators transformed NYCa s social landscape
... the same elevators, those who rode higher lived above the fray. Elisha Graves Otis, who perfected the elevator in Yonkers, helped usher in terraces and corner offices, high-rise apartments and...
View Article50 Jewish, Catholic teens gather for interfaith food drive
... "I wanted to come here because I wanted to help people," said Martinez, 15, a sophomore at Lincoln High School in Yonkers and member of the St. Peter's Parish. "Just seeing people in the street...
View ArticleOviedo dad gets kids away from video games to play outdoors
Sometime between Adrian Ravelo's childhood in Yonkers, N.Y., and his son's childhood in Oviedo, kids stopped playing outdoors.via Yonkers Newswire http://ift.tt/1llBenF
View ArticleThree Red Foxes Win Matches As Women's Tennis Falls To UAlbany, 4-3
... in third singles, 7-5, 6-3. Great Danes' Rocio Lopez was defeated by Ventimiglia by default. Junior Sabrina Tahir (Yonkers, N.Y.) dropped her second singles match to UAlbany's Cherly Kukkonen, 6-1,...
View ArticleFires Break Out In Yonkers Home And Bronx Apartment, No Serious Injuries...
Flames broke out around 1:30 p.m. inside of a fifth floor apartment at 450 East 169th Street, CBS 2 reported. In Yonkers, a candle was suspected to be behind a 3-alarm house fire that broke out on...
View ArticleLocal food banks struggle under federal cutbacks
... out (that have suffered from the cuts). It's the community," said Shawyn Patterson Howard, president and CEO of Yonkers Family YMCA. "We're seeing women with children, we're seeing families, we're...
View ArticleDMV worker indicted in New Rochelle, Yorktown groping cases
... Long Island, was arrested by New Rochelle police in September after being accused of fondling a 21-year-old Yonkers woman during an Aug. 30 road test in New Rochelle. He is also accused of groping...
View ArticleTraffic at 7:15 a.m.: Road conditions OK; I-87, I-684, SMP, CCP, Taconic slow
... was reported southbound between Exits 13 and 12 about 6:40 a.m. Saw Mill River Parkway: Delays southbound in Yonkers between the Cross County Parkway and the Bronx line. Northbound, a...
View ArticlePost Sandy, area wastewater systems get costly upgrades
... against the next Superstorm Sandy. Westchester County has commissioned $900,000 to study flood prevention after its Yonkers wastewater treatment plant was overstretched following the storm. New...
View Article5 Valentine's events to share with your special foodie
... Here are five cool things the two of you can do together to celebrate Valentine's Day. Alamo Drafthouse Cinema, Yonkers. All month, the movie theater-restaurant is showing classic romantic movies...
View ArticleKilpatrick Named American's Player of the Week
... averaged 24.0 points, 9.0 rebounds, 4.5 assists and 4.0 three-pointers in a 1-1 week for the Bearcats. The native of Yonkers, N.Y., scored 26 points, including 17 in the second half, with 12...
View ArticleUC's Kilpatrick named AAC Player of the Week again
... averaged 24.0 points, 9.0 rebounds, 4.5 assists and 4.0 three-pointers in a 1-1 week for the Bearcats. The native of Yonkers, N.Y., scored 26 points, including 17 in the second half, with 12...
View ArticleChappaqua must not stand in the way of progress
... families" that would move into the upscale town. One said Conifer would fill the building with "the armpit" of Yonkers and the Bronx. Supervisor Greenstein pleaded for the denial of needed...
View ArticleTax Watch: State panel to rule on affordable housing in governor's backyard
... at $944, the two-bedrooms at $1,128. Transit-oriented housing has proved popular in Scarsdale, White Plains and Yonkers. You can be certain that families will line up to live in these apartments, a...
View ArticleWestchester Reacts As NFL Prospect Michael Sam Reveals He Is Gay
... The Times. "I just want to own my truth." Varsity boys basketball coach Anthony Nicodemo, at Saunders High School in Yonkers, who revealed in June 2013 that he was gay, received strong support from...
View ArticleThree-Alarm Fire Destroys Yonkers Home
A three-alarm fire in Yonkers ripped a Park Hill Avenue house on Sunday, Feb. 9 and left two families homeless, according to LoHud.com.via Yonkers Newswire http://ift.tt/1iIMIR6
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