Pleasantville News

EASTCHESTER - Harry and Annette Courniotes grew up hearing their grandfather's stories of his escape from what is now Slovakia after World War II.

PLEASANTVILLE - Pace University will host an event Tuesday to raise awareness for safety in social scenes and to keep the name of Laura Garza fresh in people's minds.

For generations, even people who were lost could find the Chappaqua Drama Group: It was the red barn up against the Exit 32 ramp off the northbound Saw Mill River Parkway.

Pace University Professor Joan Katen has published a novel based on reality, "Love at the Edge," that tells a love story of people from rival nations in the Middle East.

Readera s Digest Association Inc. won bankruptcy court approval for an outline of its turnaround plan after revisions prompted bondholders, a pension trustee and the U.S. to withdraw their objections.

A 53-year-old Pleasantville man was listed in critical condition Monday evening after surviving a small-plane crash that killed a pilot from Bedford Hills.

On Tuesday, November 24, 2009, The Westchester Broadway Theatre will be hosting the Cab Calloway Lifetime Achievement Awards.

After filing for Chapter 11 this August, Reader's Digest Association has been working on a restructuring plan to get itself out of debt.

It has been one year since our grass root organization, Mount Pleasant Today, first met with the dream of pulling together a group of forward thinking and active Mount Pleasant residents in the hopes that they would work together to promote change, gather ideas to make our great town even better, and then see those ideas through to fruition with ...

Leading New York Mover Shleppers Moving & Storage proudly announces its sponsorship of the Westchester 2009 JCC Maccabi Games , which will take place from August 16-21, 2009 in Westchester, New York.

SLEEPY HOLLOW -- A former resident who suffered from brain tumors has asked ex-owners of the Duracell property to speak with him and neighbors about high lead and mercury levels near the old Superfund site.

A reader writes to say that he saw Pops: A Life of Louis Armstrong on sale in Pleasantville, New York--the first bookstore sighting that's been reported to me.

Look what Pleasantville, New York's Flour & Sun Bakery is serving up today! Via @flourandsun on Twitter and their blog : Vanilla and chocolate cupcakes topped with fluff or chocolate fluff rolled in cereal.

Town police may be closing in on the shooter who killed a gas station owner in his back office nearly two months ago.

When you teach teenagers Shakespeare, you'd better find an angle. Diana Green's been doing just that for years at Children's Shakespeare Theater in the back room of Palisades Presbyterian Church in the tiny Rockland County hamlet.

Mt. Kisco, NY - Learn to separate myth from reality when deciding how to integrate "green" products and services into your home, business or school during the next Conservation Caf, titled "Green vs Greenwash," on Friday, October 30, from 8 a.m. to 10 a.m., in the Butcher Suite at the Kessel Student Center at Pace University in Pleasantville.

PLEASANTVILLE - Schools Superintendent Donald Antonecchia, a 26-year veteran of the district, will retire from his post next year.

PLEASANTVILLE: Great Beginnings Pre-school is holding a free Thanksgiving Story Time for toddlers and pre-schoolers with a parent or caregiver.

A Pelham teacher arrested in an Internet sex sting is in plea discussions with federal prosecutors, lawyers in the case said Thursday.

The Westchester County District Attorney's office needs an ombudsman so police can air their grievances over how prosecutors handle cases without concern for their jobs, according to the Republican candidate for the top job there.