Month: April 2017

It’s an even smaller world, after all
Opinion

It’s an even smaller world, after all

[dropcap]A[/dropcap] new airport is about to open on 44th Street, just west of Times Square. It has 17 gates, plenty of parking, 34 gift stores, and, of course, planes taking off and landing day and night. Best of all, a ticket only costs $25. That’s because this airport is the […]

Rabbi Eytan Hammerman. Photo courtesy JCC.org
Community

Library foundation elects new trustee

Rabbi Eytan Hammerman has been elected to the board of trustees of the Harrison Public Library Foundation, HPLF, according to board President Dave Donelson. “We are delighted to have a community leader like Rabbi Hammerman on our team,” Donelson says. “He will be an invaluable proponent of our ongoing efforts […]

Keeping Harrison looking at its best
Opinion

Keeping Harrison looking at its best

[dropcap]I[/dropcap]t looks like the spring season is finally here and we are moving into one of the busiest times of the year. The warmer weather signals the start of community-wide efforts to tidy up our town. On Saturday, April 1 and Sunday, April 2, Harrison held its annual Spring Spruce […]

Andrew Kranichfeld, a blind author, runs with his training partner Kristen Tracey at Van Cortlandt Park in the Bronx. Kranichfeld is planning to run in the Rye Derby on April 30, to raise money for the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center. Photo/Andrew Dapolite
Features

Blind author runs for cancer cure

Andrew Kranichfeld, a local author and brain cancer survivor, plans to be the first blind person to ever compete in the Rye Derby, a 5-mile foot race through the city of Rye, where he was born and raised. Kranichfeld is participating in the race in order to raise money and […]

Community

Westchester signs on to STAR rebate reform bill

The members of Westchester County’s Democratic state delegation have co-sponsored legislation in both the Senate and the Assembly (A5969/S4733) that would sunset changes made in 2016 to the School Tax Relief Program, STAR, rebate exemption process, and restore the program to the way it functioned in earlier years. The previous […]