Deputy County Exec Kevin Plunkett Visits Summer Reading Buddies Program

Not to be left out of the Summer Reading Buddies craze, Westchester Deputy County Executive Kevin Plunkett lent his services as a guest reader at the JCY-Westchester Community Partners program at Yonkers' Riverfront Library. The program has been a huge success this year with hundreds of kids and their parents signing up to take part in the events held at the Yonkers, Mount Vernon, and Ossining Public Libraries.

Story time at Kingsbridge library is now a drag … in a good way

A sea of paper crowns covered in star stickers, a baby running around wearing a shirt with the word "feminist" on the front, and a drag queen in a sparkly dress set a vibrant scene for Kingsbridge Library's first ever Drag Queen Story Hour. The event took place July 13, beginning with an enthusiastic musical rendition of "The Itsy Bitsy Spider" before Angel Elektra, a drag queen from Yonkers, sat children and parents down to read a series of books ranging from "The Very Hungry Caterpillar" by Eric Carle to "It's Okay To Be Different" by Todd Parr.