Leake & Watts In Yonkers To Honor Educational Leader At Gala

... West Side, Coppin Montdesire is a distinguished visiting professor in educational leadership at Mercy College in Dobbs Ferry and a distinguished lecturer at City College of New York. She began her career as a teacher in New York City and went on to ...

Schools around the US are finally pushing back their start times – and it’s working

With a population of just over 11,000, Dobbs Ferry, New York is your typical sleepy town, except for one thing. Last September, Dobbs Ferry School District joined a small but growing cluster of schools around the US that have started pushing back their middle and high school start times in an effort to combat student grogginess.

White Plains Native Makes New Forbes 400 Richest People List

The founder of Facebook, a former New York City mayor, a presidential candidate and several investors are among a long list of Hudson Valley residents who are included in the newly released Forbes 400, the magazine's annual ranking of the richest Americans in terms of net worth. Leading the list is 32-year-old Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, a White Plains native who grew up in Dobbs Ferry and attended Ardsley High School.

Vigil Honors White Plains Man 20 Years After Slaying

The 20th anniversary of the shooting death of Charles Campbell was marked with a somber vigil Monday outside the Westchester County Courthouse in White Plaines, according to lohud.com. Family and friends of Campbell, a White Plains sanitation worker, gathered to remember how his life was cut short after an argument on Oct. 3, 1996, outside a Dobbs Ferry delicatessen.