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A star-studded guest list has been invited to participate in a "rally for reform" with students in Mount Vernon to end gun violence. The "Rally for Reform, March for Our Lives" event will be held beginning at noon on Saturday, March 3 at City Hall, where Mount Vernon Mayor Richard Thomas plans to rally with local students in advance of a bus trip to an anti-violence rally in Washington, D.C. later this month.
... special offers, seasonal refreshments and more. Ten participating museum stores include George Washington's Mount Vernon, 47th Annual Campagna Center Scottish Christmas Walk Weekend & Parade December 1-2, 2017 Admission: Free for parade and Heather ...
... 6-8 p.m. Tuesday at 203 West 2nd Street, 109 Hilltop Drive, 1920 North Arkansas Ave. and 2315 East 16th St. Mount Vernon Free Will Baptist Church will host Trunk or Treat at 6 p.m. on Wednesday. Directions to Mount Vernon (from Atkins) -- take State ...
The annual Rotary Scholarship Gala benefiting the Mount Vernon Rotary Club's Motivational Scholarship program will be Saturday, Nov. 4, 2017 in the Rosemary Jennings Memorial Hall at the First United Methodist Church, 522 Hwy.
The Shamoya McKenzie Foundation is set to host its inaugural fundraising gala to celebrate the memory of the 13-year-old girls basketball star, who was shot and killed in Mount Vernon on New Year's Eve. The gala is scheduled to be held from 7 p.m. to 2 a.m. on Friday, Sept.
Those planning to cool down and beat the heat by " sliding the city " this weekend are out of luck as the event in Mount Vernon has been canceled. Mount Vernon Mayor Richard Thomas announced on Wednesday that "due to a combination of factors outside our control," city officials have been forced to indefinitely postpone the "Slide the City" event, which drew a sizable crowd at the inaugural event last year.
With summer heating up during a recent spike in temperatures, Mount Vernon officials are hoping to unite the community with their latest cohesion-building event. On Friday, Mount Vernon Mayor Richard Thomas announced that later this summer, they would host the city's second annual Water Block Party , complete with local vendors, food, live music and a "gigantic" water slide that will extend from A.B. Davis Elementary School to the nearby round-a-bout.
With summer heating up during a recent spike in temperatures, Mount Vernon officials are hoping to unite the community with their latest cohesion-building event. On Friday, Mount Vernon Mayor Richard Thomas announced that later this summer, they would host the city's second annual Water Block Party , complete with local vendors, food, live music and a "gigantic" water slide that will extend from A.B. Davis Elementary School to the nearby round-a-bout.
... then bring it down. The USA Basketball New York Coach Academy - Presented by Nike, will take place May 20-21 in Mount Vernon, New York. With the goal of providing children a safe and fun environment in which to play basketball, USA Basketball will ...
... brothers, Rocky and Baxter. At the Bark Mitzvah, Cantor Elizabeth Sternlie of Sinai Free Synagogue in Mount Vernon will be delivering a blessing and yarmulkes have been made for the brothers. Julie Potter, business manager at Paws Crossed said they ...
... brothers, Rocky and Baxter. At the Bark Mitzvah, Cantor Elizabeth Sternlie of Sinai Free Synagogue in Mount Vernon will be delivering a blessing and yarmulkes have been made for the brothers. Julie Potter, business manager at Paws Crossed said they ...
The Mount Vernon City School District and the Mount Vernon PTA Council will host the Superintendent's Reading Challenge Fundraiser on Monday, March 13, at Barnes & Noble of Eastchester in the Vernon Hills Shopping Center in Scarsdale. Tickets are $75 per person in advance and $100 per person at the door.
Mayor Richard Thomas and the City of Mount Vernon will hold a celebration commemorating the 225th anniversary of the final ratification of the Bill of Rights, on Monday, Dec. 19. Thomas will be joined by County Executive Rob Astorino, representatives from the offices of Gov. Andrew Cuomo, U.S. Sen. Chuck Schumer and Senator Kirsten Gillibrand, and other dignitaries. We are the birthplace of the Bill of Rights, one of the nation's first roads at Route 22 and the creators of hip-hop.
A star of the new film "Fences" will field questions after the show at the Wednesday, Dec. 21 screening at the Pelham Picture House. Mount Vernon native Denzel Washington is the director and star of "Fences," which also stars Viola Davis and Stephen Henderson.
Mount Vernon is set to get a little spooky this weekend, as the city gears up for the first annual Pumpkin Blaze. Halloween is coming to Hartley Park beginning at 4 p.m. on Saturday night, where Mayor Richard Thomas will host the first-ever Pumpkin Blaze, complete with hundreds of glowing pumpkins that have been carved by Mount Vernon children in recent weeks.
Mount Vernon native DMX was back in Westchester recently to thank the Yonkers police officers who helped save his life at a local hotel parking lot earlier this year. In February, the rapper was rushed to the hospital after first responders were alerted of a man who had collapsed, wasn't breathing and was unresponsive in the parking lot of the Ramada Inn in Yonkers.
