The area’s top high school wrestlers descended on Yonkers Middle High School on Jan. 20 to compete in the annual Westchester County Championships, and while Fox Lane may have taken top team honors, a number of local teams—and athletes—also shined on the county’s biggest stage. As teams look ahead to […]
Month: January 2018
Dems look to revive gun, immigration bills
Under a new Democratic regime, legislators will reincarnate two vetoed bills, including a piece of controversial gun legislation, that were nixed under former County Executive Rob Astorino, a Republican. The legislative agenda on Jan. 22 will feature the reintroduction of a bill to ban gun shows on county owned property […]
Wegmans signs deal on ‘Platinum Mile’ property
Normandy Real Estate Partners has negotiated a deal to sell the vacated office complex at Corporate Park Drive to Wegmans Food Markets, which plans to build a supermarket at the location. Earlier this month, the Connecticut-based commercial real estate advisory firm Newmark Knight Frank, which represented both the buyer and […]
Police Chief Olsey under investigation for sexual harassment
Harrison Police Chief Michael Olsey is under investigation by the town/village after one of the department’s detectives filed a complaint accusing him of sexual harassment. Detective Derka Abbate filed the complaint with Harrison’s attorneys at the end of 2017, alleging that Olsey sexually harassed her for six years. As of […]
Interfaith committee sparks discussion on violence against women
The Rye Women’s Interfaith Committee, a community of women from different religious faiths, will tackle the topics of human trafficking and domestic violence against women in their annual conference this month. The presentation, titled “Women Under Threat—Domestic Violence and Human Trafficking,” will be held on Wednesday, Jan. 21, at the […]