A ravaging fire on North Main Street on Aug. 30 didn’t just displace over two dozen residents but left the 15-unit apartment building at 455 N. Main St. and the adjacent former La Dolce Vita nightclub at 451 N. Main St. decimated.
One week out since the investigation into offensive Facebook posts linked to Tom Corbia’s accounts has gone afoot—no progress had been made.
For many reasons, the Village of Port Chester has been one of the hardest communities to count in the 2020 census, yet it would also see some of the most benefit with an accurate response.
The Rye Town Council is proposing a local law that would require commercial property owners to submit income and expense statements to the Town Assessor’s Office on an annual basis.
Without volunteers, the American Red Cross would be unable to help individuals suffering from the most difficult moments of their lives.
On social media, privacy is nonexistent, and nothing can truly disappear.
Last Wednesday, Sept. 23, Port Chester had one of its lowest numbers of active COVID-19 cases.
The great hall at Crawford Mansion in Rye Brook was used by NBC to conduct interviews for the newsmagazine TV show “Dateline” on two days this past week.
When an Orchard Street resident heard an unknown presence in his apartment on Monday, Sept. 28, he called the Port Chester police for help.
After two cars collided at the Irving and Haseco avenues intersection on Monday, Sept. 28, Port Chester police officers were called to the accident at 10:42 a.m.
A 21-year-old allegedly brought a knife to a fight about marijuana that originated on social media on Monday, Sept. 21.
Between Sept. 21 and Sept. 28, the Port Chester police responded to 363 calls.
For the sake of accuracy, I’d like to point out that my tenure in the Village of Port Chester as village manager was incorrectly reported in the Friday, Sept. 25 edition of the Westmore News in a story by Jananne Abel.
I am writing this letter to add my view of the questionable, alleged behavior of my friend Tom Corbia.
Ish is the man with the golden arm, Ismael Jimenez, that is.
The blinking roadway sign says it all, or almost all, one line, one thought at a time: PRACTICE STAY SAFE FACE MASK REQUIRED FOR PLAYLAND.
Rams new head baseball coach Sean Burke is still on the right side of 30, which makes him too young to identify with the ancient mariner of Samuel Taylor Coleridge's "Rhyme of the Ancient Mariner" poetic fame, but Burke's frequent references to his fall baseball team having an albatross around its collective neck invokes thoughts of the albatross as a complicated natural and supernatural symbol within the poem with the Mariner's killing of the innocent bird resulting in the immortal line: "Instead of the cross/the Albatross/about my neck was hung."
It is as rare as a day in June, rarer even because September is almost gone and the first day of autumn is coming up Tuesday (9/22), but nonetheless now is that rarest of times when a scholastic sports story invokes literary names like Shakespeare, Camus, Arthur Miller and James Russell Lowell to describe the latest goings-on.
In case you are wondering what's new on the local school sports scene, the answer is as simple as "elementary, my dear Watson," the speaker being the Upstate modern-day equivalent of the fictional super sleuth Sherlock Holmes talking to his dense, medically-trained associate, although the final word will come from the national high school sports gurus acting as Scotland Yard, so to speak, in Indiana.
When Ruth Jaskow’s husband Louis returned from overseas during World War II, she said nothing bothered the couple ever again—they had survived the worst trauma of their life.
Lucille G. Pelebecky, 76, a former longtime resident of Rye Brook, died Sept. 28, 2020.
Robert John “Tucker” Touri II, 63, of Port Chester, died suddenly Aug. 21, 2020.
David Michael Touri, 49, of Port Chester, died suddenly Aug. 24, 2020.
Sadie Mecca, 93, of Port Chester and Becket, Mass., died peacefully Sept. 14, 2020.
Since many events have been cancelled, postponed or moved online, the following information about organizations we usually list in our calendars is being substituted. With places reopening, in-person events are now making a comeback.
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