Pound Ridge News

Editor's note: This story originally published on July 17, 1997. A year ago yesterday, Janet O'Hara was watching her twin boys and a neighbor's son play baseball, excitedly chatting away about the trip that she, her husband and daughter were about to take to France.

POUND RIDGE, N.Y. Pound Ridge residents will soon have a chance to adopt a streetlight along Westchester Avenue in the Scotts Corners Business District, according to a press release.

Bedford officers and Putnam County deputies charged five motorists with drunken driving after recent traffic stops and investigations, police said.

Abigail Hassett of Katonah, who received two awards at Harvey's June 6 commencement, the Photography Prize and the Girls' Athletic Prize, is congratulated by Upper School Head Phil Lazzaro.

POUND RIDGE, N.Y. We have a challenge for sharp-eyed readers who think they know Pound Ridge.

LEWISBORO, N.Y. Lewisboro Police reported a number of manhunts this week. When a patient left Cross River's North Winds Hospital without authorization on Sunday, Lewisboro Police searched the area, to no avail.

POUND RIDGE, N.Y. Dr. Watson is now practicing in Pound Ridge Dr. Melissa Watson, DVM, that is.

POUND RIDGE, N.Y. The Independence Party of Pound Ridge has endorsed the Democratic slate for the forthcoming election.

POUND RIDGE, N.Y. Pound Ridge resident Lenin Hibler, a mere 12 years old, has recently seen the curtain go down on his final performance in The American Ballet Theatre's production of "Don Quixote."

POUND RIDGE, N.Y. It may seem that Pound Ridge has finally recovered from the season's numerous storms but, as of June 1, the next hurricane season has officially begun.

As the summer months approach, the number of volunteers diminishes because of vacation schedules.

The week will start off rainy in Westchester County, as the severe weather that has beaten up the Midwest with tornadoes, flooding and hail in recent days made its way east Sunday evening, according to the National Weather Service.

POUND RIDGE, N.Y. If you graduated from Fox Lane High School in 1963 or thereabouts you are invited to celebrate the half-century get-together with old friends and classmates.

POUND RIDGE, N.Y. The Pound Ridge Lions Club will present its 2013 Student Community Service Awards to three Fox Lane High School seniors: Christopher Manjuck, Gunner Rainford and Gabrielle Froehlich.

LEWISBORO, N.Y. When a South Salem resident responded by telephone to a letter he had received, he disclosed his Social Security Number and was issued a check.

POUND RIDGE, N.Y. Pound Ridge's Felice Joaquim found her hands idle after she retired from her job for a Stamford company in 1995.

NORTH SALEM, N.Y. The Ward Pound Ridge Reservation is now the home of three large metal sculptures created by North Salem's Domenico Belli .

POUND RIDGE, N.Y. Pound Ridge's celebration of Memorial Day began with a parade followed by services on Burial Hill, featuring speeches, a flag ceremony, music, moments of prayer, laying of the wreath by the Scouts, and a floral tribute created by the Pound Ridge Garden Club to honor Sgt.

POUND RIDGE, N.Y. Memorial Day is a federal holiday and local government and other municipal buildings, including the Pound Ridge Town House, are closed Monday.

POUND RIDGE, N.Y. The latest issue of "Around the Corners," published twice a year by the Pound Ridge Business Association , is hot off the press.