Elections

Twelve candidates are running for four seats on the Lakeland Central School District Board of Education. The election will be held 7 a.m. to 9 p.m. May 17 at Van Cortlandtville Elementary School. Voters will also be deciding a $175.7 million budget, which would result in a 2% tax increase for property owners.

In addition to providing biographical information, we asked all school board ...

SHRUB OAK, N.Y. – If elected to Lakeland’s school board later this month, candidate Michael Marchese would share more than a title with incumbent Trustee Anna Massaro.

Marchese and Massaro are also first cousins, the candidate confirmed to Yorktown News last week.

This news is not a revelation to plugged-in residents of the Lakeland Central School District, who began debating ...

YORKTOWN, N.Y. – Twelve candidates are vying for four seats on the Lakeland Central School District Board of Education.

The nine-member board usually has three seats up for grabs every year. However, the resignation of trustee Angela Conti created an even-more-crowded field. Her seat, which has since been filled by board-appointee Marianne DiSalvo Kolesar, expires at the end of the ...

CARMEL, N.Y. – Kathleen M. Valletta, a Carmel resident and a long-time Putnam County attorney, will appear on the ballot this November as a Democratic candidate for the 94th District State Assembly Seat. The seat will be vacated by Assemblyman Kevin Byrne, who is running for Putnam County executive.

In the general election this November, Valletta will face Yorktown Supervisor Matt ...

YORKTOWN, N.Y. – Michael Grace, a former Yorktown town supervisor, is running for lieutenant governor, the State Board of Elections confirmed last week.

The 65-year-old Republican served as town supervisor from 2012 to 2017. He is a senior partner at the law offices of Grace & Grace. He graduated from Fordham University with a law degree in 1984.

Grace submitted his petition ...