Tuskers Tee Off in Support of Somers Football Program

In its second year, New Dawn Family Resource Center plans to expand its services for domestic abuse victims.

The center, in a discreet location in Lewisboro, brings together a consortium of services funded by North Salem, Somers, Pound Ridge, Bedford and Lewisboro and grants from the county and state. The consortium partners with the Westchester County Office for Women, which was awarded ...

The task force that toiled mightily this summer to find ways to improve school safety has presented the Somers Board of Education with the fruits of its labors.

And the good news is, the district is already doing a lot of things it and consultants have identified as “best practices.”

The better news is that the majority of things that can use a little tweaking can be undertaken for little ...

SOMERS, N.Y. - An ad hoc cohort of business folk and property owners, perplexed about proposed amendments to Somers’ sign ordinance, has tasked itself with coming up with a compromise that will make both them and the town happy.

The Town Board held a public hearing at its Sept. 6 meeting on temporary signs in the business/historic district.
As the zoning laws now stand, temporary signs ...

HUDSON VALLEY, N.Y. - Peter Harckham (D-South Salem) will challenge incumbent state Sen. Terrence Murphy (R-Yorktown) in November's general election after defeating Robert Kesten (D-South Salem) in yesterday's Democratic Party primary, according to unofficial election results.

More than 21,000 votes were cast in the 40th State Senate District primary, with Harckham, a former Westchester County ...

If you want to take your original knees out for one last spin before trading them for newer models, there’s no place more challenging—or better—to do it than up a 19,341-foot-high dormant volcano in Africa.

Steve Wilson did just that.

The fact that he was having joint replacement surgery this month didn’t deter the Somers man from taking sons Ryan, 20, and Garrett, 19, on the hike of a ...

Last year, there were over 72,000 overdoses throughout the U.S. Of that number, more than 4,000 overdoses occurred in New York.

As a member of the New York State Senate Opioid and Drug Task Force, Senator Terrence Murphy saw firsthand the devastating effects drug abuse can have on families and communities. To stop the flow of harmful drugs into the Hudson Valley and keep them out of the hands ...

He was once the youngest mayor in the United States and is currently the Dutchess County executive. And for his next trick, Marc Molinaro, a Republican, would like to be governor of New York.
 

Molinaro knows he’s the underdog—in the last 40 years, there has only been one Republican elected—but, as he told the crowd who’d come to see him speak at North Salem’s Westchester Exceptional ...

Bushels of the plumpest plum tomatoes from New Jersey.

Crates of achingly aromatic fresh basil.

Salt to taste.

These are simple ingredients that belie the complexities of time, taste, and tradition.

As devout members of the sisterhood of sauce making, Angela Giordano and Ida Mangano say it all boils to this: family.
Giordano, from Somers, and Mangano, from Mahopac, have been friends ...

Michael McAnaw built his reputation as an Edward Jones financial advisor around being a family man.

“The first thing that was really touching to hear, he never started a conversation without talking about his daughters and me,” said his wife, Judi McAnaw. “Here was a man who put his family first, but his clients were his family as well.”

Five years after Michael’s death on May 9, 2013, his ...

Residents in North Salem and Somers slept through their alarm on Aug. 16 because another power outage blanketed parts of the town.

According to the National Weather Service, weather conditions for the early hours of August 16 were calm with some fog and mist. 

The same thing happened earlier in the month when some light rain fell in North Salem and Somers, causing officials to again ...