Eastchester News

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.

Four years ago, a seven-story building in Yonkers burned to the ground. What began as a fire in a first-floor apartment spread through the building within three hours, and it collapsed.

Homeowners and businesses in 10 Westchester communities could save an estimated $47 million a year in fire insurance premiums if their fire districts consolidated, according to a study being released today by Pace University's Edwin G. Michaelian Institute for Public Policy and Management.

Rye 2, Pelham #2 0: In a Pelham Summer League match, Nataliya Owens had 10 aces for Rye.

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.

From staff reports Volleyball: Diana Arcidiacono had two aces and six digs as Eastchester defeated White Plains 2-0 in a Pelham Summer League game.

EASTCHESTER - A one-car rollover has been cleared on the southbound Hutchinson River Parkway near the Cross County Parkway, police said.

EASTCHESTER: A gala reunion for Eastchester High School's classes of 1973, 1974 and 1975 will be held from 7 to 11 p.m. Oct.

EASTCHESTER - The shiny red Vespa scooter in middle school teacher Tom Boissonnault's classroom looks nothing like the water-logged vehicle he purchased last year.

Town Board candidates Matthew Neuringer and Joseph DePaola signed what they are calling a contract with the residents of Southeast yesterday, pledging to fulfill seven promises if elected.

A routine traffic stop involving Putnam County Legislator Anthony Fusco, R-Mahopac, in March 2008 has led to a court odyssey stretching from state Supreme Court in Putnam to the Appellate Division in Brooklyn before winding up in Putnam Valley Town Court last month.

As the Jonas Brothers took the stage at the Dallas Convention Center on Nov. 18, 2006, the group had little to sing about.

Tenants of one Bronx public housing building are coping with broken elevators that they say leave people stranded.

The Tuckahoe/Eastchester Girl Scouts honored its 2009 Bronze, Silver and Gold Award recipients June 7 at the Girl Scout Cabin.

The trial lawyer for convicted murderer Selwyn Days said yesterday that he asked a judge in 2003 to take him off the case because of the "shenanigans" that Days' mother put him through - including manipulating alibi witnesses.

"The End, Finally," a new hilarious play by Hastings-on-Hudson playwright and children's book author Jeffery Fuerst is being performed at the Eastchester Library at 7:30 p.m. This is collection of comic take-offs from popular bedtime stories such as "Frog and Toad are Friends," "Little Bear" and "If You Give a Mouse a Cookie." The band Greeting ...

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

EASTCHESTER: Tenor Salvatore Chiarelli and soprano Elga Johannes will entertain from 1 p.m. to 3 p.m. June 23 during Senior Day at Lake Isle Senior Center, 660 White Plains Road.

Re 'Retirement incentives boost Eastchester schools '08 payroll' , the top 10 wage-earners were listed.

WHITE PLAINS - New evidence may overturn the conviction of a Mount Vernon man serving 50 years to life in prison for the slayings of an Eastchester millionaire and his home-health aide 13 years ago.