SHRUB OAK, N.Y. – A decade ago, the Empire State Games were quite an experience for Lakeland coach Tim Hourahan, who won a gold medal.

“The summer of 2010, I took over the Hudson Valley team in the Empire State Games,” said Hourahan, a 1996 Somers High School graduate. “Many of my Lakeland players had played in this massive event every summer during the previous years, ...

YORKTOWN, N.Y. - Yorktown senior middie Brendan Regan is continuing the tradition of Huskers taking their game to the next level, as he has decided to play at Division III powerhouse Nazareth College.

“There were many things that made me want to attend and play at Nazareth,” Regan said. “The coaching staff is great, and they run a high-tempo offense. The facilities stood out, ...

NEW ROCHELLE, N.Y. – The Yorktown Spartans fought back from a 4-0 deficit to capture the Greater Hudson Valley Baseball League’s 10A summer championship, 5-4, against the Westchester Cardinals on Sunday, Aug. 23, at Flowers Park in New Rochelle.

The Spartans scored 3 runs in the fifth inning with Luke Penna, Jayden Nunez, and Nico Masillo each knocking in a run. Masillo pitched a ...

YORKTOWN, N.Y. – Local schools will look and feel a bit unfamiliar this year, perhaps none more so than Crompond Intermediate, where the threat of COVID-19 has resulted in the “early” retirement of a school staple.

Virginia Milano, 93 years old, is saying goodbye to the fourth- and fifth-grade school after working various jobs there for 43 years, most recently as a ...

SOMERS, N.Y. – Never is there a good time to suffer a heart attack. But if one is destined to go into cardiac arrest, one can only hope to be in as fortuitous a situation as Matthew Tuttle was on Sunday, Aug. 2.

Within 5 seconds of collapsing on the Northern County Trailway while returning to Yorktown on a round-trip bicycle ride to Brewster, a paramedic had started CPR on Tuttle. And in ...

YORKTOWN, N.Y. – Just like every other local institution, the Yorktown Chamber of Commerce faced a difficult decision about whether or not to hold their annual Street Fair, which was scheduled this year for Sunday, Oct. 11.

Last week, Yorktown News received the news that the Street Fair had been cancelled.

We spoke to Chamber President Sergio Esposito about the organization’s ...

YORKTOWN, N.Y. – On Thursday, Aug. 20, the Chabad of Yorktown and the town of Yorktown gave out 5,000 reusable cloth masks to residents at Yorktown Town Hall. The Chabad received the masks as part of a grant for religious communities. But Rabbi Yehuda Heber wanted to include the community at large in the giveaway, especially with school resuming.

YORKTOWN, N.Y. – The Knights of Pythias lodge in Yorktown recently made $1,500 worth of donations to local food pantries.

Initial donations went to the Community Food Pantry at St. Mary’s Church ($300) and the Putnam Valley Community Food Pantry ($300). This was followed up by a joint effort between Knights of Pythias lodge in Yorktown with matching funds from the 72nd Pythian ...

YORKTOWN, N.Y. – Yorktown’s Alex Rodriguez, like many around the world, wanted to develop a hobby to keep himself busy during quarantine. So, he turned his attention toward video games.

Using the Amazon-owned Twitch, Rodriguez broadcasts himself playing his favorite games while interacting in real time with his followers. Rodriguez, whose mom, Helena, has Parkinson’s disease, ...

YORKTOWN, N.Y. – The New York State Parks and Recreation Society has recognized the town of Yorktown and the New York-New Jersey Trail Conference for their joint work on maintaining and protecting hiking trails in the community.

On Tuesday, Aug. 25, the society gave Yorktown and the New York-New Jersey Trail Conference an “Outstanding Corporate Partnership Award” for their ...

YORKTOWN, N.Y. – Yorktown is attempting to repurpose three quarters of a million dollars’ worth of grants obtained years ago for the now-shelved downtown revitalization project.

The repurposed grants would be used to improve the existing highway garage on the corner of Front Street and Underhill Avenue. As part of the plan, conceptualized by a previous administration more than a ...

YORKTOWN, N.Y. – A Food Security Task Force aimed at unifying the town’s many food pantries has been created by the Yorktown Town Board.

The task force was created, said Town Supervisor Matt Slater, so the pantries “can share resources and collect data, and make sure that the town, frankly, is taking the necessary steps to provide this important resource that our vulnerable ...

YORKTOWN, N.Y. – Oftentimes, police officers meet people at their lower points. Now, when it comes to those battling substance use disorders, the Yorktown Police Department said it will offer a helping hand instead of a cold jail cell.

Police Chief Robert Noble, during a press conference on Tuesday, Sept. 1, and later at a Town Board meeting, announced that his department had become the ...

YORKTOWN, N.Y. – Just like every other local institution, the Yorktown Chamber of Commerce faced a difficult decision about whether or not to hold their annual Street Fair, which was scheduled this year for Sunday, Oct. 11.

Last week, Yorktown News received the news that the Street Fair had been cancelled.

We spoke to Chamber President Sergio Esposito about the organization’s ...

The Osborn, a private, non-profit continuum of care community, announced that VP of Sales Christa Picciano-Daniello has been appointed vice president of LeadingAge New York’s Retirement Housing Cabinet.

“LeadingAge New York is the major advocacy group for aging services and provides such important support and resources,” said Ms. Picciano-Daniello. “I’m very proud ...

YORKTOWN, N.Y. – A disbarred Yorktown lawyer is accused of stealing nearly $1 million from a police officer’s 9/11 Victim Compensation Fund, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York.

Gustavo L. Vila, a 62-year-old Yorktown resident, was arrested on Thursday, Sept. 3, and charged with theft of government funds. He answered to the charge at ...