A benefit concert will take place on Thursday, Feb. 25 at Port Chester’s Capitol Theatre in honor of fallen NYPD detective and Air National Guard Reserve, Tech Sgt. Joseph Lemm. Lemm, of West Harrison, left behind a wife, Christine, and two children, Brooke and Ryan. He was in the New […]
Month: February 2016
Mr. Whoodini preserves the magic in learning
Ask a 7-year-old to name a clown and chances are he or she will say “Ronald McDonald,” but back in the 1960s and 1970s, Bozo was king. “Bozo’s Big Top,” a TV show that ran seven days a week, starred Bozo and his sidekick, Mr. Whoodini. Only the youngest baby […]
‘Always… Pasty Cline’ performs at WBT
Little did the world know that Virginia Patterson Hensley— best known as Patsy Cline—born in 1932 from Winchester, Virginia, would become a legendary female country singer. Cline took waitressing jobs as a teen and started to sing at local clubs. Her first record contract came in 1954 and she was […]
SUNY Purchase takes anti-racism initiatives
Several changes have been made at Purchase College this academic year in response to student demonstrations last year that coincided with the national Black Lives Matter movement. Last fall, the college reintroduced its previously defunct Global Black Studies minor, and on Jan. 22, Purchase officially opened the new Multicultural Center […]
Regarding Jenrry
Nobody ever said that being able to fire a 97-mph fastball was a prerequisite for Mensa membership, but every so often, a professional athlete manages to floor me with their absolutely unbridled stupidity. On Feb. 12, New York Mets relief pitcher Jenrry Mejia became the front-runner for Knucklehead of the […]