While mobile ride-hailing services such as Uber and Lyft could legally expand their coverage areas across New York state by early summer, it will ultimately fall on Westchester County lawmakers to accept the state’s regulations, or to push for even tighter restrictions. Included in the state budget adopted earlier this […]
Month: April 2017
Town celebrates 25th year of Tree City USA recognition
[dropcap]T[/dropcap]he town of Mamaroneck was named a 2016 Tree City USA by the Arbor Day Foundation in honor of its commitment to effective urban forest management. Mamaroneck achieved Tree City USA recognition by meeting the program’s four requirements: a tree board or department, a tree care ordinance, an annual community […]
When your kid is ‘wasting’ time
[dropcap]E[/dropcap]very day after school and all day on weekends, kids run outside… to get to their soccer league, or ballet lesson, or origami boot camp. It’s all good, but here’s what it isn’t. Play. Playing is something else entirely, a chance for kids to make up games, run around, paint […]
Free rabies clinic in New Rochelle
Westchester County residents can bring their dogs, cats and ferrets in for free rabies vaccinations on Sunday, April 23 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the Stamen Animal Hospital, 61 Quaker Ridge Road in New Rochelle. Call 632-1269 to schedule a required appointment. Cats and ferrets must be in […]
SUNY Purchase announces new journalism partnership
One area college is working to better equip its students with real-world journalism experience by partnering with Guernica Magazine. This collaboration will allow for students of SUNY Purchase College to have access to internships and fellowships with Guernica Magazine, a nonprofit online publication that began in 2004 which covers topics […]