Bronxville News

MOUNT VERNON - A church used to house injured and sick soldiers during the Revolutionary War was the site of a solemn celebration yesterday.

BRONXVILLE: Danielle and Michael Lazarakis of Bronxville donated wrought-iron benches to the Nature Preserve of Bronxville, Eastchester and Tuckahoe in honor of loved ones past and future.

BRONXVILLE: Grants totaling $362,000 to benefit children in kindergarten through grade 12 were recently awarded by the Bronxville School Foundation.

EASTCHESTER - Town police, joined by colleagues from Bronxville, Scarsdale and Tuckahoe, conducted several sobriety checkpoints this weekend that netted six arrests and one citation, officials said.

Racing Roundup: Meadowlands invaders score Monday, June 29, 2009 - from harness publicists across North America Monday's Racing Roundup features stories from Mohawk Racetrack and Harrah's Chester.

BRONXVILLE: Emilie George, a Bronxville High School senior and member of the 2009 graduating class, was selected to be the 2009 recipient of the annual Jansen Hospice and Palliative Care William Bunker Snyder Award.

A few days ago, Bill Grealy was in his daughter's room of his Kensington Road home, watching her trophies rattle on their shelf as a Metro-North Railroad train rumbled by.

Heavy rains caused power outages and flooded several roadways, forcing their closure yesterday.

Josef Guttman on June 17, 2009. Beloved husband of Francine, father of Shari Maggiore, Lori Laub, Johnny and Ricky.

Approximately 3,000 outages are scattered throughout Westchester county due to the rainy weather.

YONKERS - A southeast city bar was shut for the night on Friday and the bartender arrested after a 19-year-old city woman who, police said yesterday, was tossing back Jagermeister shots for nearly four hours got sick from alcohol poisoning.

EASTCHESTER: Reduced taxi fares of 35 percent courtesy of Crestwood Taxi are available for senior citizens who live in Eastchester, Tuckahoe and Bronxville.

The Broadway cast album has important functions - as a marketing tool, a historical document, a memento of an evening - but those who make the records say the cast album is in a precarious state.

IF there's one thing Americans love more than beer, it's light beer -- so much that the three best-selling brews in the US are all of the light variety, averaging a third fewer calories than their full-bodied cousins.

BRONXVILLE: Members of the Bronxville High School environmental club participated in a countywide Walk-to-School Day on May 21 with eight other schools.

I get e-mails from local musicians all the time. They tell me about gigs, new artists, new albums, whatever.

Or perhaps they took me. In any case, I brought my own bike . The East Coast Greenway is the cycling analog of the Appalachian Trail, except instead of linking mountaintops via ridgeline hiking trails, its growing network of bicycle routes will connect cities and towns on the East Coast from the Florida Keys to Canada.

BRONXVILLE - Where can kids argue their case in court, take part in a game-show challenge or meet a newspaper deadline, all in the same day? These activities and more are part of Summer at Concordia day camp, which begins June 29 on the Bronxville campus of Concordia College.

Trainer Don Swick has a busy weekend ahead as he sends out his stable stars in a pair of rich stakes races.

Where has everyone been, especially in Westchester County and my Town of Eastchester? In 1996, there was a Westchester 2000 Report recommending the consolidation now being discussed.