June 12, 2017 at 8:21 AM
MAHOPAC, N.Y. – The Somers Tuskers Touchdown Club held its third annual golf outing and dinner on Monday, May 15, at the Mahopac Golf Club.
The all-volunteer organization supports the Somers High School football program by fundraising for scholarships, purchasing equipment, supplying pre-game meals and Gatorade, covering scouting fees, promoting Breast Cancer Awareness in October, and more.
All photos by Deena Bell
The Westchester Land Trust (WLT) announced this week that it secured protection from development for Stuart’s Fruit Farm through a conservation easement.
The project—which took a decade to complete —is valued at almost $3 million.
The conservation easement removes the development rights on the farm’s 172 acres thereby ensuring the land remains available for ...
SOMERS, N.Y. - Somers High School students will be performing in the musical “The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee” on April 20 at 3 p.m. and April 21 at 2 p.m. in the Somers High School auditorium. Seniors Justin Tan, Max Cabrera, Rose Baranowski, and Keeley DeHart are leading the production as director, set designer and assistant choreographer, producer, and head choreographer ...
By BRIAN MARSCHHAUSER
April 17, 2018North Salem, N.Y. - Last year, Robert Kesten, a 20-year Lewisboro resident, announced his candidacy for New York State Senate District 40, which represents more than a dozen municipalities in Dutchess, Putnam and northern Westchester. Since then, Kesten has been endorsed by the Democratic committees of Beekman, Lewisboro and North Salem.
Kesten, who is seeking to unseat two-term incumbent ...
By JODI WEINBERGER
April 17, 2018While the snowstorms in March and April kept students and teachers out of school for more than a week, the school of fish in Brian Hugick’s classroom thrived through it all under his careful watch.
Hugick, an earth science teacher at Somers High School, was presented with a Teacher Recognition Award by the Croton Watershed Chapter of Trout Unlimited for his “outstanding ...
Registration is now open for the first annual RA5K and Fun Run being held by Ridgefield Academy, an independent, co-ed day school for children in preschool through eighth grade. The event will be held Sunday, May 20, at Ridgefield Academy, 223 West Mountain Road in Ridgefield, Conn.
To register, visit www.ridgefieldacademy.org/RA5K.
The RA5K was created to honor the outgoing head of ...
By ROB DIANTONIO
April 13, 2018SOMERS, N.Y. — There were some jitters early but Somers’ girls lacrosse team looked like a well-oiled machine, taking a five-goal second-half lead against perennial powerhouse Bronxville in its season opener.
Unfortunately for the Tuskers, however, Bronxville went on a ferocious run in the final five minutes of regulation to force overtime. The Broncos scored 47 seconds into the ...
By ROB DIANTONIO
April 12, 2018SOMERS, N.Y. - It was an offensive showcase for Somers’ baseball team on Saturday. The Tuskers swept Hendrick Hudson and North Salem as part of a doubleheader, posting 24 runs.
In the first game an 11-2 win over Hen. Hud., senior leadoff hitter Chris Boncardo started his big day with a three-run home run. He finished 3 for 6 with two home runs, five RBI and four runs scored in the double ...
By DR. LINDA SILBERT
Dear Dr. Linda,
I am in second grade and have a problem about math. My teacher just keeps giving me homework and it’s driving me crazy. Because she keeps giving it to me on weekends and spring and summer breaks. And it’s only one level and it’s too hard. But the other people who have special needs get to be moved into a higher or lower group and they learn even more because ...
By BRUCE APAR
Of all the Broadway musicals I’ve seen over the years at Westchester Broadway Theatre, only a handful have elicited the noisily enthusiastic audience response I observed at the recent opening night of “Sister Act.”
There were outbursts of applause in the middle of some numbers, and several clever turns of phrase sprinkled in the dialogue landed squarely, to the delight of big ...
By TRACY BECKERMAN
Part of the shock of being a part-time empty nester is when the kids come back to visit and I have to watch my house transform overnight from a pristine haven of OCD goodness to a place that looks like an explosion happened at Forever 21.
After my kids moved mostly out, I put away whatever tchotchkes they chose to leave behind and then I put on a hazmat suit and cleaned their rooms until they ...
