Saturday, February 6, 2016

Harrison man killed in hang-gliding accident

A Westchester man was killed in a hang-gliding accident at a small airport in Florida. The Ocala Star-Banner reports that Marion County sheriff's deputies say the crash happened Tuesday evening at Dunnellon Airport. The officials say 40-year-old Tomas ...
Fredette has made the most of his time in the D-League, standing out as the best player on the Westchester Knicks. Leading the team to a 17-12 record, Fredette has put up numbers similar to the ones that made him a star in college. The former BYU standout ...
USA TODAY NETWORK Jonathan Bandler, The (Westchester County, N.Y.) Journal News NEW ORLEANS — Fugitive New York real estate heir Robert Durst has pleaded guilty in Louisiana to a weapons charge and has agreed to a sentence of seven years and one month ...
MOUNT VERNON, N. Y. -- Mount Vernon Mayor Richard Thomas said doing his homework on city finances is the reason for his delay in signing payments to city vendors, News 12 Westchester reports. Thomas was responding to criticism from Comptroller Maureen ...
YONKERS, N. Y. -- Yonkers Mayor Mike Spano kicked off a campaign Monday for state funding to build new schools and to rebuild deteriorating public schools in Yonkers, News 12 Westchester reports. Many public schools, such as Gorton High School ...
The Journal News has confirmed this year’s Championship Week schedule for the Section 1 basketball tournament with chairpersons Roman Catalino (boys) and Steve Young (girls). Championship Week will run from Feb. 22-29 at the Westchester County Center in ...
who ran away empty handed. Less than two hours later, the suspect is believed to have robbed a cellphone store on Westchester Avenue.

Rochester Democrat and Chronicle
Squabble threatens pension-stripping plan
Rochester Democrat and Chronicle
ALBANY - Few concepts in Albany have more widespread support: Stripping public officials of their retirement benefits if they're convicted of a crime related to their work. Taxpayers are on the hook for .... Nicholas Spano, R-Yonkers, senator. $70,155 ...

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Sweetheart, Get Me Readers

One reader, Janice Ewing of Yonkers, wrote, “There is too much fluff and silliness ... and they doubt whether they are worthy of attention in The New York Times. Occasionally, I can’t help but agree: Some of this stuff has been cringe-worthy.
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Yonkers Film Festival seeks entries for 2016 event

Officials said this week the Yonkers Film Festival has begun accepting entries for ... This year’s festival will also include a “mini film school,” which will feature discussions and workshops led by filmmakers and other industry professionals.
The Westchester Knicks (18-12), the official NBA Development ... Fans can stay up-to-date on team news by following the team at: @wcknicks on Twitter, Instagram, and Snapchat and on Facebook at facebook.com/wcknicks. DISCLAIMER: The views of the author ...
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Harrison man killed in hang-gliding accident

A Westchester man was killed in a hang-gliding accident at a small airport in Florida. The Ocala Star-Banner reports that Marion County sheriff's deputies say the crash happened Tuesday evening at Dunnellon Airport. The officials say 40-year-old Tomas ...

Skyforce Fall at Westchester
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WHITE PLAINS, February 6, 2016 – The Westchester Knicks (18-12), the official NBA Development League affiliate of the New York Knickerbockers, defeated the league-leading Sioux Falls Skyforce (22-7), the Miami Heat affiliate, taking the season series 3 ...

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Sweetheart, Get Me Readers

One reader, Janice Ewing of Yonkers, wrote, “There is too much fluff and silliness in the so-called news.” Another, Brian Maniere of Brooklyn, expressed what many have told me. These stories, he wrote, are “abundant on the web for free. I read the ...
Daily News reporter Danielle Cinone takes part in indoor skydiving at iFLY with Instructor Andrew Konetchy. I never thought I would get a chance to fly. But last week I got to reenact the famous scene from the movie “Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory ...
WHITE PLAINS – A Yonkers man will face up to 25 years in state prison when sentenced in April in connection with the shooting death of a Yonkers man early in the morning of May 1, 2014. Edwin Palestina, 24, of Yonkers and another man drove up to the ...
Business leaders and residents are petitioning Mayor Mike Spano to keep a Yonkers police captain from being transferred from his post. A city spokesperson told News 12 that they have received numerous pleas urging the mayor to keep Capt. Robert Itzla where ...
Contributed photo — Metropolitan Opera The Warner Theatre’s Metropolitan Opera Live in HD Series continues with Giacomo Puccini’s Manon Lescaut in the Nancy Marine Studio Theatre on March 6. TORRINGTON >> The Warner Theatre and the Nancy Marine ...
A New York City laundromat was evacuated earlier this week, after a carbon monoxide leak that sent at least two adults and one child to the hospital due to side effects of exposure to high levels of the toxic gas. Emergency first responders were called ...
Urban Studio Unbound in downtown Yonkers will unveil its winter art exhibition Saturday. The gallery at 66 Main St. will present work by about 40 local and New York City-based artists who contributed 66 pieces. "What's really nice about this show is that ...
Torrington, CT – The Warner Stage Company will present the great American comedic playwright Neil Simon’s LOST IN YONKERS on the Warner’s Nancy Marine Studio Stage March 5-13, 2016. This Tony and Pulitzer winning play is set in Yonkers in 1942.
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Inside Recruiting: Randolph impressing at Westtown School

"He scores well around the rim, leaps very high, and he's good in transition." A native of Yonkers, Randolph came to Westtown, a boarding school in West Chester, before this school year. He previously was at the Masters School in Dobbs Ferry, N.Y. "I was ...
The heavy wet snow is forecast to be at its worst from about 5 a.m. to 8 a.m. More from Naugatuck Patch Naugatuck High School Chamber Singers to Present Two Concerts Preview of 'Lost in Yonkers' at the Warner Theatre's Nancy Marine Studio Theatre Obituary ...
The Yonkers Public Schools has launched an online survey that seeks public input on the district's search for a new schools superintendent. It's the first time the Board of Education trustees have sought extensive community engagement about hiring a new ...
YONKERS, N. Y. -- Yonkers Mayor Mike Spano kicked off a campaign Monday for state funding to build new schools and to rebuild deteriorating public schools in Yonkers, News 12 Westchester reports. Many public schools, such as Gorton High School, are ...
Yonkers Mayor Mike Spano launched a campaign Monday to lobby state leaders for help rebuilding the city’s troubled school district. From damaged buildings to overcrowded classrooms, Yonkers schools are crumbling, he says. Some classrooms at Gorton High ...
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Ever wanted to fly? Check out New York's only indoor skydiving facility iFly in Yonkers for the thrill of a lifetime - New York Daily News


New York Daily News
Ever wanted to fly? Check out New York's only indoor skydiving facility iFly in Yonkers for the thrill of a lifetime
New York Daily News
I never thought I would get a chance to fly. But last week I got to reenact the famous scene from the movie “Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory” — where Charlie and his grandfather float up to the ceiling — at a new indoor flying facility just ...


The Journal News | LoHud.com
Downtown Yonkers gallery unveils new exhibit Saturday
The Journal News | LoHud.com
Urban Studio Unbound in downtown Yonkers will unveil its winter art exhibition Saturday. The gallery at 66 Main St. will present work by about 40 local and New York City-based artists who contributed 66 pieces. "What's really nice about this show is ...

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Sunday Business Notebook: Another Daily's planned at San Jose-Sunbeam

The price: $1,279,900. The lot sold last year for $260,000. Rettner Management of Yonkers, N.Y., paid $1.3 million for the strip of storefronts at King and College streets in Riverside. The 6,840-square-foot building was built in 1933 and is anchored by ...
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Sweetheart, Get Me Readers

One reader, Janice Ewing of Yonkers, wrote, “There is too much fluff and silliness in the so-called news.” Another, Brian Maniere of Brooklyn, expressed what many have told me. These stories, he wrote, are “abundant on the web for free. I read the ...
Yonkers: Edwin Palestina pleads guilty to manslaughter Edwin Palestina of Yonkers pleads guilty to manslaughter in 2014 shooting death of Rodney Saunders Check out this story on lohud.com: http://lohud.us/1X8DkKg
Reyes, 46, also known as Amado Reyes, lives in Yonkers, N.Y. The agent had met Reyes several times, communicated with him by text messages and phone calls Jan. 26 and made arrangements to meet him in Manhatten the next day. A magistrate judge in NYC gave ...
He became a Social Studies Teacher in Yonkers and eventually an Assistant Principal at the ... He is a current member of the Edenton Planning Board, Chowan County Juvenile Crime Prevention Task Force, and the Northeast Commission. Please consider ...
Next, there's David Simon's latest mini-series "Show Me a Hero," about the public housing crisis in Yonkers, New York and how one eager ... who takes on a powerful local crime lord (John Vernon) after he's responsible for the death of his brother (who ...
At some point on Oct. 30, the driver, identified as Gabriel Pena Belliard Santos, 29, of Yonkers, N.Y., and his passenger ... Belliard Santos and Gonzalez-Luis all were charged with the first-degree crime of maintaining or operating a marijuana production ...
The alleged incident occurred on Ravine Avenue off Warburton Avenue in Yonkers. Crime scene officers searched 52 Ravine Avenue and also brought Best Fair Car Care in Yonkers: You're driving in cold weather and suddenly notice a loud, high pitch noise or ...
Two Yonkers teens have been charged with felony hate crimes in connection with assaults of Jewish victims at the Palisades Mall in West Nyack on Black Friday. Clarkstown police say 17-year-olds Chris Bujaj and Ardijan Mehaj attacked five people, leaving ...
YONKERS – Serious crimes in Yonkers were down considerably in 2012 from the year before, officials announced Thursday. Four murders were reported last year, a 43 percent drop from 2011. Rapes were down 22 percent and robberies were down nine percent.
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Ever wanted to fly? Check out New York's only indoor skydiving facility iFly in Yonkers for the thrill of a lifetime

Daily News reporter Danielle Cinone takes part in indoor skydiving at iFLY with Instructor Andrew Konetchy. I never thought I would get a chance to fly. But last week I got to reenact the famous scene from the movie “Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory ...
Daily News reporter Danielle Cinone takes part in indoor skydiving at iFLY with Instructor Andrew Konetchy. I never thought I would get a chance to fly. But last week I got to reenact the famous scene from the movie “Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory ...
“We must take state pensions from those convicted of a crime related to their government service ... Convicted in three separate corruption trials between 2005 and 2007. Nicholas Spano, R-Yonkers, senator. $70,155 a year. Pleaded guilty in 2012 ...
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Yonkers Film Festival seeks entries for 2016 event

Officials said this week the Yonkers Film Festival has begun accepting entries for ... This year’s festival will also include a “mini film school,” which will feature discussions and workshops led by filmmakers and other industry professionals.

New York Daily News
Ever wanted to fly? Check out New York's only indoor skydiving facility iFly in Yonkers for the thrill of a lifetime
New York Daily News
I never thought I would get a chance to fly. But last week I got to reenact the famous scene from the movie “Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory” — where Charlie and his grandfather float up to the ceiling — at a new indoor flying facility just ...

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HBO series fail to win over audiences as Netflix gains ground

Class divisions are dramatised in detail as a new, desegregated public housing development is pushed through in Yonkers, New York. Simon’s look at the breakdown in politics — as viewed through the city council and mayor Nick Wasicsko (a fantastic Oscar ...

WGRZ.com
Legislative squabble threatens pension-stripping plan
WGRZ.com
ALBANY -- Few concepts in Albany have more widespread support: Stripping public officials of their retirement benefits if they're convicted of a crime related to their work. Taxpayers are on the hook for .... Nicholas Spano, R-Yonkers, senator. $70,155 ...


The Journal News | LoHud.com
Yonkers man pleads guilty to manslaughter
The Journal News | LoHud.com
A Yonkers man pleaded guilty Friday to manslaughter for a 2014 slaying on Woodworth Avenue. Edwin Palestina, 24, pleaded guilty to the felony charge along with first-degree attempted murder. Officials said Palestina was one of two shooters who ...

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The Journal News | LoHud.com
Yonkers police investigation into school computer use to wind down
The Journal News | LoHud.com
Police say they hope to wrap up in the near future a months-long investigation that raised questions about the resignation of Yonkers Schools Superintendent Michael Yazurlo in November. "The investigation is still open," said Yonkers Detective ...

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HUFFPOST HILL - Jeb Still Around

Donald Trump is staying in New York this weekend instead of campaigning in snowy New Hampshire, because whoa whoa whoa, most New Yorkers assumed New Hampshire was a few stops north of Yonkers on Metro North. Several women were electioneering for Bernie ...
Emergency first responders were called to the 24-hour Laundromat at 550 S. Broadway in Yonkers, New York around 9:30 pm on Tuesday, February 2, after carbon monoxide was detected in the facility. Initial reports indicate that at least a dozen customers and ...
"He scores well around the rim, leaps very high, and he's good in transition." A native of Yonkers, Randolph came to Westtown, a boarding school in West Chester, before this school year. He previously was at the Masters School in Dobbs Ferry, N.Y. "I was ...
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Downtown Yonkers gallery unveils new exhibit Saturday - The Journal News | LoHud.com


The Journal News | LoHud.com
Downtown Yonkers gallery unveils new exhibit Saturday
The Journal News | LoHud.com
Urban Studio Unbound in downtown Yonkers will unveil its winter art exhibition Saturday. The gallery at 66 Main St. will present work by about 40 local and New York City-based artists who contributed 66 pieces. "What's really nice about this show is ...


News 12 Westchester
Spano asks state for cash to fix Yonkers schools
News 12 Westchester
Yonkers Mayor Mike Spano launched a campaign Monday to lobby state leaders for help rebuilding the city's troubled school district. From damaged buildings to overcrowded classrooms, Yonkers schools are crumbling, he says. Some classrooms at Gorton ...
Yonkers pushes $2 billion school rebuildThe Journal News | LoHud.com

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CBS Local
Store Owner, 12-Year-Old Son Held At Gunpoint In Yonkers Robbery
CBS Local
YONKERS, N.Y. (CBSNewYork) — A family was on edge Friday after a robbers held a 12-year-old boy and his father hostage at gunpoint at a Yonkers store. As CBS2's Lou Young reported, police were searching for three suspects in the robbery at the ...


CBS Local
Yonkers DPW Chief Pleads For Patience As Snowplows Work To Clear Side Streets
CBS Local
YONKERS, N.Y. (CBSNewYork) — Several days after a major snowstorm socked Westchester County, many roads in Yonkers are still in need of some attention from snowplows. As WCBS 880's Sean Adams reported, there's improvement but work still needs ...

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co-founders of Ben & Jerry's Ice Cream, supporters around the country built similar signs and placed them in high-traffic areas. The signs contain thousands of LEDs. Sander's rival for the Democratic presidential nomination is Hillary Clinton, a Westchester...
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Sealy, Novaform top Consumer Reports ratings

YONKERS, N.Y. — A Sealy Posturepedic hybrid mattress and a Novaform foam mattress sold at Costco took top honors in the updated mattress ratings just released by Consumer Reports. The influential consumer products evaluation organization followed up the ...
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Boma: An entertaining interview with Outasight

They’ve lasted a decade with me. I think timeless music does that. In the MySpace days I came across an artist named Outasight from Yonkers, New York. At this time I was still developing a taste for music, and didn't really know what I liked yet.
WHITE PLAINS, NY (KWSN) – The Westchester Knicks (18-12), the official NBA Development League affiliate of the New York Knickerbockers, defeated the league-leading Sioux Falls Skyforce (22-7), the Miami Heat affiliate, taking the season series 3-1 with a ...
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