Mount Kisco News Archives

POUND RIDGE - As a Marine attack helicopter pilot, Eric Jones regularly put his life on the line.

MOUNT KISCO - The village's ambulance corps is seeking passage Tuesday of a ballot proposition that would establish a retirement benefit program for active volunteers.

A major pact designed to protect drinking water for more than 1 million people in New York City and Westchester County has been completed and now awaits the acceptance of 10 Northern Westchester communities that surround the sensitive Croton Watershed area that protects the Croton Reservoir.

MOUNT KISCO: The Westchester Oratorio Society, under conductor and artistic director Benjamin Niemczyk, will open its 13th season at 4 p.m. Nov.

BEDFORD - A Hastings-on-Hudson teenager and a 21-year old Manhattan man are accused of assaulting and robbing a taxi driver in the parking lot of Fox Lane High School, then driving off in his cab.

Mount Kisco Child Care Center recently hosted its Fifth Annual Feed Me Fresh: An Edible Evening at West Patent Farm, Bedford Hills, NY.

Indian Point will conduct a full-volume test of its emergency alert sirens at 10:30 a.m. Thursday.

Infant car seats have saved countless young lives, but those same seats are also responsible for injuring thousands of youngsters when improperly used outside a vehicle, a new study found.

A Mount Kisco resident, 60-year-old Mark Kurland, is one of six Wall Street execs being charged in a $20 million insider trading case that involves one of the world's wealthiest men, hedge fund manager Raj Rajaratnam.

MOUNT KISCO - In Ferd Vetare's living room hangs a plaque that says 'Stop me before I volunteer again.' It was a gag gift that Vetare's four daughters gave him, but it's easy to see why they would kid their father about the amount of philanthropic work he undertakes.

A Mount Kisco businessman was among six Wall Street executives charged in a $20 million insider trading case, federal prosecutors said.

MOUNT KISCO - Police were responding to an accident involving a school bus and a truck at Leonard Park in the village shortly before 2 p.m. Carole LaColla, the Bedford Central School District clerk, said the bus was not carrying students at the time of the crash.

MOUNT PLEASANT - Police stopped a weaving driver Wednesday night on the Taconic State Parkway and charged him with drunken driving.

'Mad Men,' the wildly popular television show and Emmy award winner, doesn't tell the entire story of the advertising game.

Oscar Wilde wrote 'Lady Windermere's Fan' - a skewering of Victorian morals in general and marriage in particular - in 1892, but that doesn't mean it has to stay there.

The Food Bank for Westchester, which is celebrating its 20th year of fighting hunger in Westchester, will host An Evening in Good Taste to help end childhood hunger in the county.

An Armonk woman was taken to the hospital with non-life threatening injuries today after a tree fell on her car's hood on Route 172 this morning.

MOUNT KISCO - A village man is accused of repeatedly stabbing a man who was visiting his ex-wife's apartment on Gregory Avenue.

KATONAH - An underground natural gas leak forced the evacuation of a preschool and church Friday afternoon and shut down Route 117 in both directions for three hours.

So many conspiracy theories have targeted Freemasonry - many seeing plots for world domination - that Masons like Bill Plank can only laugh at the notion that Dan Brown's new novel is bringing fresh attention to his famously secretive brotherhood.