Ridge News

Bard College history professor Myra Young Armstead, author of the book, "Freedom's Gardener: James F. Brown, Horticulture, and the Hudson Valley in Antebellum America," will present new information about Brown that she has uncovered since her book's publication.

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.

Bay Ridge residents and civic leaders say that spas offering underhanded services - and advertising them in the seedier corners of the Internet - are popping up all over the neighborhood.

After discovering metal shavings in her newborn's bottle of formula, a mother from Suffolk County is calling on the manufacturer and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to take action.

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

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."

The next meeting of Community Board 5 will include a public hearing regarding the creation of an Industrial Business Zone in part of the area South of Myrtle Avenue in Ridgewood.

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.

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.

A Democratic mayoral candidates forum in Manhattan Beach turned into a smackdown as two candidates clashed over the police department's controversial monitoring of Muslims in Brooklyn.

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.

Dozens of clothing collection bins have cropped up on Bay Ridge's commercial corridors in recent weeks, provoking protests from residents and community leaders who say that the containers are illegal, unsightly, and unsafe - and that the companies behind them convert the donated threads into quick cash.

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.

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.

Hedge funds may be the last bastion of white male privilege - and that's just the way these Neanderthals like it.

Listen to Robert Emmerich introduce The Big Apple , a hit song from 1937. Music written by Bob and performed by Tommy Dorsey's Clambake Seven with Bob on piano.