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Top Stories 2012: Faces Change In Peekskill Schools 19 Dec 2012 | 12:00 pm
PEEKSKILL, N.Y. — The year 2012 was a year of change in the Peekskill City School District. When Peekskill High School principal Sherrill Murray-Lazarus stepped down at the end of the 2011-12 school ...
Peekskill Police: Drunk Tow Truck Driver Hit Five Cars 19 Dec 2012 | 12:00 pm
PEEKSKILL, N.Y. – A Scarsdale man was arrested early Sunday morning after striking five city vehicles with a tow truck while intoxicated, according to police.
Peekskill Cops: Gun Discharges While Man, 88, Cleans It 19 Dec 2012 | 04:00 am
PEEKSKILL, N.Y. -- The 88-year-old Peekskill resident arrested Monday for discharging a weapon was simply cleaning it, police said. Officers responded to the Hampton Oaks Apartments on Oakwood Drive ...
Westchester Medical Center Merges With South Shore Health System 19 Dec 2012 | 02:00 am
VALHALLA, N.Y. — Valhalla's Westchester Medical Center and the Sound Shore Health System, which includes hospitals in New Rochelle and Mount Vernon, have agreed to a corporate merger, the organization...
Poll: Do You Like The Proposed Tappan Zee Bridge? 19 Dec 2012 | 12:45 am
TARRYTOWN, N.Y. – What do you think of the design for the new Tappan Zee Bridge ? On Monday, the New York State Thruway Authority voted to build a $3.1 billion bridge, and readers have taken to Faceb...
Top Stories 2012: Sandy Strikes Peekskill, Knocks Out Power 18 Dec 2012 | 12:00 pm
PEEKSKILL, N.Y. — Although Peekskill didn't suffer the same amount of damage from Hurricane Sandy that its neighboring communities did, the city was still in the dark. The so-called superstorm that t...
Poll: Tighter Gun Control After Newtown Shooting? 18 Dec 2012 | 12:00 pm
PEEKSKILL, N.Y. – Calls to strengthen the nation's gun control laws have come from parents and politicians — and even the President — in the days since 20 children and six adults were shot and killed ...
Gun, Knife Show Won't Return To Westchester Next Year 18 Dec 2012 | 05:00 am
WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. – Westchester County will not host the Sportsmen Firearm and Knife Show in 2013 out of respect for the lives lost in the Newtown, Conn., school shooting, County Executive Robert Ast...
How To Send Condolence Letters To Newtown 18 Dec 2012 | 05:00 am
NEWTOWN, Conn. — The U.S. Postal Service has established a unique Post Office Box to allow the public to send condolence letters to those affected by the tragic shootings at Sandy Hook Elementary Scho...
Thruway Authority Picks $3.1B Tappan Zee Bridge Design 18 Dec 2012 | 03:30 am
TARRYTOWN, N.Y. – The New York State Thruway Authority voted Monday to hire Tappan Zee Constructors and use its design for a new $3.142 billion Tappan Zee Bridge. Of the three proposals that the Thru...
