A doctor in the town/village of Harrison is using the experimental drug ketamine to treat patients with major depression, as the practice was recently placed on the fast track for approval by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration in August. Dr. Alan Young, a longtime Westchester County physician who practiced […]
Month: October 2016
Anne Hutchinson: From Boston to Rhode Island
At the end of June, I was preparing to take a brief hiatus from writing this column on local history. My intention was to do more research for future columns that would resume in September. I had previously written four extensive articles with a colleague on Anne Hutchinson that can […]
The New Agenda: Fighting sexual assaults
Many parents have sent their children to college just before fall, and soon some may be heading back home for alumni and homecoming events and Thanksgiving. There will be plenty to talk about—at dinner tables, or when you see a friend at the supermarket with kids also coming home for […]
The 20th anniversary of Charles Campbell’s death
Oct. 3 was the 20th anniversary of the murder of Charles Campbell in Dobbs Ferry by former New York City police officer Richard Diguglielmo. I remember this racially charged lynching by Diguglielmo and his father over a parking space at the Venice Deli. An acquaintance of mine lived right up […]
Donald Trump is a creep
To the Editor, The following is an open letter to Donald Trump. I come from a family of all boys. I went to an all-boys high school. I work in an industry that is 99 percent male. I have been in many locker rooms. Real men do not talk about […]