Pelham News

Environmental studies of plans for a new addition to the back of the Picture House Regional Film Center and interior renovations will be reviewed before the Pelham Village Zoning Board of Appeals if there are no objections from other interested governmental bodies.

In 1900, a Village of North Pelham Constable captured a "desperate criminal" who tried to kidnap two local youngsters.

Girl Scouts Remember 300 Veterans With Handmade Gifts and Visits on Veterans Day 2009 More than 300 veterans in the Town of Pelham heard the doorbell ring or found a surprise on their doorsteps as 100 Brownies, Girl Scouts or Senior Girl Scouts in uniform delivered a hand decorated gift bag to the home of each veteran.

NEW ROCHELLE - A water main break early Sunday was an all-day headache around the city and beyond.

Residents of New Rochelle have been advised not to drink water from their taps due to a water main break.

Pelham Art Center is pleased to announce a call for entries for a juried, group exhibition entitled "Birthday!" planned to simultaneously celebrate the Art Center's 25th anniversary at its present location on Fifth Avenue in downtown Pelham and the 40th anniversary of its first event as The Pelham Art Happening.

NEW ROCHELLE  - City residents have been advised not to drink the water due to a water main break on Pershing Avenue, police said.

NEW ROCHELLE  - The air was a chilly 43 degrees, the kind that reddens noses and fingers, but for the rowers gathered on the shore of the Long Island Sound the day was perfect.

MOUNT VERNON - Tips from residents led police to arrest two brothers suspected of running a heroin operation out of their home, a top police official said today.

There's a bumper crop of star-filled revivals coming in the spring. Denzel Washington joins Scarlett Johansson and Abigail Breslin.

When Gay Wheeler-Smith and Kecia Palmer-Cousins talk about their favorite dessert, it's with a mixture of pride and nostalgia.

I have written before about the stage coaches that once rumbled through Pelham. See: Monday, October 26, 2009: Pelham Was a Principal Station on the Stage Coach Route of Dorance, Recide & Co.

Native New Yorker Marie King loves the Big Apple and always will, but she had to head south with her 16-year-old son, Michael, to pursue her goal of owning a home.

A representative of Dunkin' Donuts received a building permit today to do renovations to open a retail store to sell pastries and beverages at 33 Lincoln Avenue, the former location of a Milk-n-Things deli.

Colonial Elementary School will remain closed for two weeks while the construction site where two workers were injured is cleaned up and the demolition project completed.

Garage fire photo by Jon Bidwell. A fire destroyed a garage on Third Avenue and also destroyed the garage behind it on Second Avenue in the Village of Pelham on Friday evening.

The Bronx man accused of driving drunk and nearly severing a Pelham teen's leg 14 months ago pleaded guilty today to all charges after months of plea bargaining.

The United States Government leased Davids' Island off the coasts of Pelham and New Rochelle in April, 1862 for use as a hospital complex during the Civil War.

Four firefighters are recovering from injuries sustained fighting a Third Avenue garage fire Friday evening that melted the screen door on a home.

Pelham School District officials said the emergency plan for reassigning Colonial School students to other schools will be in effect through at least Friday, Nov.