Yonkers resident Julia Ramkaran (left) cuts hair for the first time as a student with the Westchester Barber Academy. Her subject, Port Chester resident Sergio Perez, smiles as fellow student Nicole Ariza offers words of advice. To honor Martin Luther King, Jr. Day through service, the Town of Rye, in association with the Westchester Barber Academy, invited the public to the Crawford Mansion Community Center for free haircuts on Saturday, Jan. 13. (David Tapia/Westmore News)
Jennifer Brooks, a student at the Westchester Barber Academy from New Windsor, gives Rye Town Director of Parks and Facilities Vic Federico a trim. (David Tapia/Westmore News)
White Plains resident Eli De Marco breaks out into a smile as fledgling barber Nicole Ariza of Yonkers cuts his hair. (David Tapia/Westmore News)
Westchester Barber Academy student Jacquline Flores (left), from the Bronx, uses clippers on Port Chester resident Jorge Cabanillas. Flores said she enjoyed learning the trade. (David Tapia/Westmore News)
Valdomar Marroquin, who lives in Mount Vernon, folds in Tim Purk’s ear to get just the right angle for his hair clipper. Purk, a Rye Brook resident, said it’s the first time he hasn’t cut his own hair since the COVID-19 pandemic. (David Tapia/Westmore News)
Using a mirror, Port Chester resident Chris Stewart checks to see if his requested mohawk looks good. The 65-year-old said he’s worked a mohawk his whole life, in honor of the “Filthy Thirteen,” a U.S. Army infantry regiment that fought in World War II. (David Tapia/Westmore News)
