Month: August 2020

4 tips to get hired at home
Lead Stories Opinion

4 tips to get hired at home

Here are four ways to fine-tune your at-home job hunt. 1 – Build your skills These uncertain times boast at least one advantage for job seekers: Many resources for online learning are now free or more affordable in response to impacts of the COVID-19 outbreak.  So make yourself more marketable […]

More school, less heart disease?
Education Features

More school, less heart disease?

Researchers keep finding evidence that education level predicts heart disease risk. Most people probably think of school as something for strengthening the brain.  Increasingly, researchers are learning that it may be just as important for the heart.  Education is an excellent predictor of heart disease, multiple studies have shown.  Dr. […]

Westchester Performing Arts launches Accelerator
Community

Westchester Performing Arts launches Accelerator

The Westchester Performing Arts Accelerator, WPAA, helps artists develop essential resources and distribution capabilities by providing a pathway to a live video broadcast, recording sessions, marketing support, professional advisors and digital crowdsourcing tools to fund tuition costs. If you are a… • Band with a growing following, but currently without […]

Cuomo signs election reforms for November
Community Politics

Cuomo signs election reforms for November

Gov. Andrew Cuomo has signed into law election reforms that will make it easier for New Yorkers to vote and be counted in November. The three-part package includes a new measure which allows absentee ballot applications to be submitted to the Board of Elections immediately. A second measure gives voters […]

A former Rob Astorino aide, Dan Branda will run for Westchester County executive in 2021. Branda officially launched his campaign on Thursday, Aug. 13, 2020.
Politics

Branda plans 2021 Westchester County executive run

[dropcap]D[/dropcap]an Branda formalized his candidacy for Westchester County executive on Aug. 13, getting a jump on a race that is more than a year away. Branda, a Somers resident and a former advisor to Rob Astorino, will seek the Republican nomination on a familiar party platform of reducing property taxes; […]