Hartsdale News

Rover goes to heaven in style. Riding around Manhattan on a delivery run with a car full of pet cremains, it's hard not to look at the world differently.

Two men were seriously hurt after a van and small box truck crashed into each other on West Hartsdale Avenue this afternoon.

Everybody loves opening their gaily wrapped presents on Christmas morning. You spend time and effort carefully selecting the gift wrap and ribbons so they look extra special.

A shoe store manager was robbed Halloween night as she was waiting for a taxi after locking up for the night, police said.

The state police Thruway detail is launching its annual "Pumpkin Patrols" aimed at preventing dangerous Halloween pranks along the 641-mile highway system.

HARTSDALE: Empire State College of the State University of New York will hold public information sessions about its associate and bachelor's degree programs at its Hartsdale location, 200 N. Central Ave., at 6 p.m. Nov.

New Rochelle: New Rochelle Garden Club Exhibit. Free. 10 a.m.-5 p.m. New Rochelle Public Library, One Library Plaza.

Halloween is coming, so what better time could there be for Riverdalians to visit the cemetery right next door? This Sunday, Woodlawn Cemetery led their first-ever Pet Lovers Tour.

Aside from the famous epitaph "Excuse My Dust," Mrs. Dorothy Parker later asked that her gravestone be marked by the words, "This is on me." The snappy female wit, poet, screenwriter and critic who charmed and chagrined New York in the 1920s endured four suicide attempts, a handful of lousy lovers, alcoholism and Connecticut, outlasting most of her ...

WHITE PLAINS - A former New York City housing czar who served time in federal prison for having child porn and embezzling city funds was deemed a Level 3 sex offender today - a designation that would put him on a public registry and one his attorney vowed to appeal.

In only a few short months, Frankie & Fanucci's has quickly gained a loyal following of area pizzaphiles.

CROTON-ON-HUDSON - About 2,000 Cub Scouts and their parents came to Croton Point Park on Saturday for the 17th annual Thunderbird Games.

HARTSDALE: A window-painting contest for children ages 5 to 12 will be held from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday along Central Avenue downtown.

If you rolled a bit of Christmas, New Year's Eve and the Fourth of July all into one, then catered the affair with heaps of sweets and savory snacks, you'd begin to get a taste for what it means to celebrate Diwali, India's best known festival.

HARTSDALE - Greenburgh police are looking into the cause of a violent weekend accident at Trader Joe's, where a 62-year-old man plowed his sport-utility vehicle into the store, pinning a shopper under his bumper and injuring four others.

HARTSDALE - Greenburgh has received a $250,000 grant to maintain natural plant life and restore historic buildings at Hart's Brook Park and Preserve.

On Saturday, October 10th, the American Association of University Women Active Artists group will present a group exhibition of works entitled "Inspiration In Nature" at the Greenburgh Nature Center.

WHITE PLAINS - Four Greenburgh teenagers pleaded not guilty today to charges that they sexually attacked a 15-year-old girl at a summer drinking party in a Hartsdale apartment.

GREENBURGH - Hartsdale Fire Chief Walter Schoonmaker retired last week after more than 50 years in civil service.

HARTSDALE - Officials at a Conservative Jewish school say they are one of the first schools in the region to install solar panels, which will produce about 30 percent of the facility's electricity.