Editor Brian Harrod provides hyper local news for Hastings On Hudson, NY, that is also continually updated from thousands of sources on the Roundup Newswires Network
In June of 2016, I attended a toddler's birthday party in Hastings-on-Hudson, a lovely, forested town just north of New York City. With spotless June sunshine, the entire party was hosted outdoors.
Whether they make seven meals to reflect the seven sacraments of the Roman Catholic Church, or a dozen dishes, representing the 12 apostles, Italian-American families are dishing up a lot on fish on Christmas Eve, according to a report by lohud.com In Italy, the Feast of the Seven Fishes is more of a grand meal than a "feast." If you're going strictly by the book, Christmas Eve is a vigil, or fasting day, when celebrants abstain from eating meat or milk products -- hence, the abundance of seafood dishes.
A 34-year-old Westchester mom is fighting the fight of her life and to help, many area businesses are pitching in to help. It was two years ago that Hastings mompreneur, Christina Torpie , was treated for breast cancer.
At the Rye concert, from left, Dr. Stanley Fahn, former scientific director of the Parkinson's Disease Foundation and renowned Parkinson's specialist; Charlotte Fahn, a Hastings-on-Hudson resident, and Robin A. Elliott of New York, foundation CEO. The internationally acclaimed Attacca Quartet performed in Rye recently at a concert that raised $30,000 for Parkinson's disease research.
The community of Oak Bay on Vancouver Island has a plan to ease the booming deer population: inject them with birth control. During a recent survey, almost three-quarters of Oak Bay residents said there were too many deer, but many were against lethal ways of managing the population.
A deer in Hastings-on-Hudson, N.Y., where the proposals to cull the deer population through lethal means prompted a fierce backlash, June 27, 2013. The town decided to reduce the deer population through birth control, a time-consuming process that began in early 2014 and has not produced any marked change as of 2016, residents say.
