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Take 5 top-prize ticket sold in Peekskill
ALBANY – One top-prize winning ticket for the May 14 Take 5 Evening drawing was sold in Peekskill. The ticket, worth $35,001, was purchased at Friend’s Valley Brook Market at 1053 Main Street in Peekskill. Take 5 numbers are drawn from a field of one through 39. The...
Bear roams in Carmel
CARMEL – Bears have begun searching for high calorie meals after winter hibernation and the State Department of Environmental Conservation has urged residents to secure food sources that might attract bears especially in the wake of a bear sighting in Carmel less than a half mile from the historic Putnam Courthouse.
(Update) Minnewaska State Park to close tomorrow due to moth infestation
Minnewaska State Park will be closed to the public tomorrow, Friday, May 17 due to treatments for spongy moth infestation. The park is slated to reopen on Saturday, May 18. The spongy moth is a non-native insect from France. The caterpillars are known to feed on the leaves of a large variety of trees. Oak is their preferred species, but they will feast on other trees when oak is not available to them or their numbers are in great excess.
SPCA's new mobile adoption unit launches at Chappaqua Farmer's Market
The SPCA of Westchester launched its new Mobile Adoption Unit Saturday at the Chappaqua Farmers Market. The SPCA aims to make adoptions more accessible to the public by using the 26-foot truck to bring adoptable shelter animals to community events. “There's sort of a national trend (where) adoptions have really sort of slowed down in the last year or so,” said Shannon Laukhuf, the chief executive officer for SPCA Westchester. "So we thought, this is such a...
Help name four baby falcons that hatched on a New York bridge
NEW YORK (PIX11)– Four baby peregrine falcons hatched atop the Governor Mario M. Cuomo Bridge in mid-April; and now the New York State Thruway Authority wants your help naming the state’s newest residents. Dozens of third to sixth graders in Westchester and Rockland counties submitted more than 100 names as part of a falcon naming […]
Rowseelee Tea Shop To Hold Grand Opening In Mahopac
a bubble tea shop in Putnam County at 600 Route 6 in Mahopac, will hold a grand opening celebration on Friday, May 17 from 5:30 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. The eatery, which has been open since March, serves a variety of bubble, milk, and cold brew teas, as well as matcha and coffee. Those with a sweet tooth can also order desserts like beignets, flavored croissants, ice cream, and lemon bars.
David Sanborn, Grammy-winning saxophonist who played on hundreds of albums, dies at 78
NEW YORK (AP) — David Sanborn, the Grammy-winning saxophonist who played lively solos on such hits as David Bowie’s “Young Americans” and James Taylor’s “How Sweet It Is (To Be Loved By You)” and enjoyed his own highly successful recording career as a performer of melodic, contemporary jazz, has died at age 78. A spokesperson confirmed that Sanborn died Sunday in Tarrytown, New York. The cause was complications from prostate cancer. “The news of the loss of David Sanborn to the music world has deeply saddened me,” pianist Bob James, who collaborated with Sanborn on the Grammy-winning “Double Vision”...
Rockland Green sues former Hi-Tor animal shelter operators for $5M over contract breach
NEW CITY — The operator of Rockland's countywide animal shelter has filed a $5 million lawsuit against the Hi-Tor Animal Center's former executive director and board. The legal action filed in New York State Supreme Court comes about eight months after Rockland Green dismissed the Hi-Tor board and Executive Director Richard Tannenbaum. Rockland...
Katonah's Martha Stewart Buys $12M Manhattan Condo
Stewart has landed on a $12.3 million Manhattan apartment inside the esteemed Belnord building on West 86th Street, Mansion Global reported. The 82-year-old Stewart bought the six-bedroom condo with her daughter, Alexis, the report said. According to the real estate outlet, the more than 100-year-old building containing Stewart's residence is...
Trio of Prize-Winning Pickers Come to Westchester Bluegrass Club
Tony Furtado and Matt Flinner are Americana multi-instrumentalists who’ve moved in the same circle for more than three decades. Both are two-time winners of the elite Walnut Valley National Flat-Picking Championships in Winfield, Kan. (with Furtado on banjo and Flinner on banjo and mandolin). They seemed destined to collaborate.
Tonight at 7 p.m.: Metro nominations announced live on lohud
Tonight's the night theater kids across Westchester, Rockland, Putnam and Bergen counties have been looking forward to, when they learn if their musicals will be nominated for Metropolitan High School Theater Awards, the Metros, the high school equivalent of the Tony Awards for New York City's suburbs. The names will be read off...
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