Mrs. Green’s Neighborhood Market announced on Nov. 15 that it would be closing multiple stores in New York and Connecticut to shift focus to five of its “core” Westchester stores as part of a new strategy. Amid customer complaints of supply shortages in some of its Westchester locations, the Irvington-based […]
Month: November 2016
Village deer study to take flight Dec. 31
Efforts to accurately assess deer populations in the village of Mamaroneck will take a major step forward as a hired consultant gears up to survey large swaths of village land using an unmanned drone. According to Village Manager Richard Slingerland, it has been confirmed that the study will start on […]
Looking ahead to winter
For most of our autumn teams, sadly, the fall season has come to an end. While there are some programs in our area still toiling away on the practice fields, with hopes of hoisting a state title in the near future, most of our athletes’ seasons winded down weeks ago. […]
A rigged system
I woke up on Tuesday, Nov. 8 to the sinking feeling that, despite our best intentions, we are operating under an inherently flawed system. We live in a world where politics often supersede worthiness, where old biases manifest themselves in the actions of decision-makers, and some people simply can’t get […]
When squirrels attack
Recently, a squirrel chomped the leg of a senior citizen sitting on the porch of a retirement home in Deltona, Florida. A TV station there, WESH, reports that the victim ran inside, furry felon still attached, whereupon it bit two or three more seniors. This is terrible. (Especially for a […]