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The town of Lewisboro is slated to move several of its major services to the shuttered Lewisboro Elementary School in South Salem, including the police department and justice court. Supervisor Peter Parsons confirmed the services will be relocated to LES during the Lewisboro Town Board's Monday meeting, where it voted unanimously to approve a four-year lease with the Katonah-Lewisboro School District.
John Jay High School finished second overall at a recent Science Olympiad and will advance to a state competition, the Katonah-Lewisboro School District announced. Two teams from John Jay contributed to the overall finish at the olympiad, the district notes, which was held on Saturday, Feb. 11 at Byram Hills High School.
Police responded and are investigating after a swastika was found drawn in a high school bathroom on Monday, Katonah-Lewisboro Schools Superintendent Andrew Selesnick said in an email sent to parents early in the evening. "Understanding and sharing the frustration and anger this ongoing behavior causes, I want to provide some information and reminders," he wrote.
... Rockaway High School on Long Island. Stamford resident Wendy Lichtenberg , a seventh-grader at the Harvey School in Katonah, N.Y., will compete in a statewide robotics tournament this weekend. She and her sixth-grade partner, Clayton Collum , placed ...
John Jay High School senior Clayton Leibig has received an Eagle Scout award, the Katonah-Lewisboro School District announced Friday, a level that is the highest for the Boy Scouts. Leibig, the district notes, is a member of Goldens Bridge Troop 154, which is sponsored by the Golden's Bridge Fire Department.
... struck by a driver who attempted to pass the truck. A half hour later, police were dispatched to Croton Lake Road in Katonah, when a tree fell on a car, damaging the roof. Then at 10:20 a.m., a driver backing out of their Almar Lane driveway struck ...
Nearly three years after Lewisboro Elementary School was shuttered due to falling enrollment across younger grade levels, the Katonah-Lewisboro School District announced that it has reached a deal for the town of Lewisboro to lease roughly 20 percent of the building. The district announced that the proposed lease, which would take effect on April 1 of this year, is subject to a vote of approval by the school board at a meeting on Saturday, while the Lewisboro Town Board is set to ratify the agreement on Monday.
The John Jay Society and the National Society of Children of the American Revolution have scheduled an introductory meeting for a new children's group starting in Westchester, Rockland and Putnam counties. Membership in the local chapter of the Children of the American Revolution is expected to be the primary topic of discussion during the 2 p.m. meeting Saturday at the John Jay Homestead in Katonah, according to a statement.
Country Children's Center announced that Clifford the Big Red Dog will be on hand for its annual Scholastic Book Fair and Pancake Breakfast. The fair is scheduled for Saturday, March 3 from 9 a.m. to 11 a.m., and will be held at 466 Cross River Road in Katonah.
The Katonah-Lewisboro School District announced that Holocaust survivor Judith Altmann will visit John Jay High School students on Thursday and Friday. The visits come as the community is grappling with the fallout of multiple vandalism incidents involving swastikas.
Teachers at the Pines Bridge School in Yorktown love Spencer Oram for his great sense of humor, contagious laugh and hard work. It's one of the reasons Oram, a Katonah resident, was honored as the BOCES Student of Distinction for February.
To celebrate the 100th anniversary of when women were granted the right to vote across the country, the Katonah Village Library announced that it will host a photo gallery. The gallery, which will run in March, is called "Votes for Women: Celebrating New York's Suffrage Centennial."
Students at two of Katonah-Lewisboro's elementary schools got visits from Abraham Lincoln reenactor Lou Del Bianco this past week, according to Putnam/Northern Westchester BOCES, which arrange the trips through its Arts in Education program. Del Bianco, sporting the 16th president's famous stovepipe hat and beard, recited historical experiences for kids at Katonah Elementary School and Meadow Pond Elementary School last week.
A Stamford seventh-grade student in a middle school robotics program has helped her team qualify for a prestigious New York tournament. Wendy Lichtenberg of Stamford helped her team at Harvey Middle School in Katonah, N.Y. qualify for the VEX IQ Challenge state-qualifier competition at East Rockaway High School on Long Island.
... was contacted and will follow up with the woman. 7:31 a.m. - A two-car accident occurred on Woods Bridge Road in Katonah when two cars were stopped at a green light. The second vehicle moved too quickly and rear-ended the vehicle in front of it. No ...
"Big Mike" of the Harlem Wizards poses for a photo with Katonah Elementary School kindergarteners Fidella Swana and Mikey Collindres. CROSS RIVER, N.Y. -- The Harlem Wizards basketball team will return to the Katonah-Lewisboro School District for a fundraising match, the district announced Thursday.
New York Festival of Song rounds out its 2016-17 Mainstage season alongside its ninth annual residency at the Caramoor Center for Music and the Arts with a program entitled FOUR ISLANDS on Tuesday, March 14, 2017 at 8:00 p.m. at Merkin Concert Hall. A preview performance will take place at the Caramoor Center in Katonah, NY on Sunday, March 12, 2017 at 3:00 p.m. A quartet of exciting young voices bring distinctive cultures to life in a musical excursion from Ireland to Cuba and Madagascar to Manhattan with the songs of Ravel, Grenet, Caturla, Mauri, Lecuona, Garay, Villa-Lobos, Berlin, Musto, Corigliano, Porter, as well as traditional and folk songs.
... businesswoman threw on a black hat and yellow puffer jacket before rushing into inclement weather near her home in Katonah, New York. Stewart once said "life is too complicated not to be orderly," and true to her motto, she decided to clean up the ...
The incident is the third of its kind in the Katonah-Lewisboro School District over the past three months. Swastikas were found carved into a tree on the school's grounds last month.
... doing their income taxes should donate just $1. That would pay for the wall, and then some. Catherine Lo Curto Katonah, N.Y.: In a different generation, Donald Trump would have been called a fellow traveler, or worse. He'll stiff the American ...
... doing their income taxes should donate just $1. That would pay for the wall, and then some. Catherine Lo Curto Katonah, N.Y.: In a different generation, Donald Trump would have been called a fellow traveler, or worse. He'll stiff the American ...