A Croton woman accused of jumping bail to avoid a petty larceny charge is to appear Thursday in Yorktown Town Court, according to police. Yorktown officers took Alyssa Anna Rodriguez of 25 Scenic Drive West, Croton, into custody early on Thanksgiving morning after she was turned over to the department by authorities in Peekskill, according to the Yorktown Police Department.
Holiday merriment begins Saturday, Dec. 3 with the annual Peekskill Tree Lighting Ceremony at the gazebo, on the corner of Division and Park Streets. The season's 2016 Peekskill Makes Me Merry holiday campaign, sponsored by the Peekskill Business Improvement District, kicks off at 4:30 p.m. with the ceremony at the gazebo.
A 25-year-old Peekskill resident was sentenced to 15 years in state prison for killing a man on Park Street last December. Janiel Myke was sentenced after pleading guilty to manslaughter in the first degree, , in the shooting death of Stephen Agosto of Peekskill.
A crowdfunding page called "Heat for the Sisters" has garnered almost $124,000 for the Franciscan Missionary Sisters of the Sacred Heart in Peekskill. The goal is to raise $350,000 for the 15-year-old convent, which has nonworking boilers and a chapel in need of heating repairs.
New information has emerged since Friday's arrest of a 26-year-old man suspected of robbing a downtown Peekskill Bank and attempting to rob a Croton-on-Hudson supermarket. Joshue M. Flores reportedly slipped a note claiming he had a gun at the customer service counter at the M&T Bank at 1019 Park St., formerly Hudson City Saving Bank, demanding all the money in the register at around 8 p.m. Friday, according to state police.
New information has emerged since Friday's arrest of a 26-year-old man suspected of robbing a downtown Peekskill Bank. Joshue M. Flores reportedly slipped a note claiming he had a gun at the customer service counter at the M&T Bank at 1019 Park St., formerly Hudson City Saving Bank, demanding all the money in the register at around 8 p.m. Friday, according to state police.
A longer, harsher winter may be in store for the area as the polar vortex continues to weaken and shifts, according to a new study, AccuWeather.com reports. The polar vortex is a large pocket of frigid air that hovers above the polar regions, and is most prominent in the winter months.
A pair of 25-year-olds, one from Cortlandt Manor and the other from Peekskill, were found to be in possession of a loaded gun and a large quantity of marijuana after Beacon Police responded to a call of a suspicious vehicle in a parking lot on Route 52 early Saturday morning. Police said they observed the two males in the vehicle when they arrived at around 2:20 a.m. and that the operator of the vehicle, the Cortlandt Manor man, was intoxicated.
Police say 26-year old Joshue Flores robbed the M&T Bank on Park Street in Peekskill Friday afternoon and then tried to hold up the Food Town Supermarket on Riverside Avenue in Cortlandt that night.
A 26-year-old Montrose man and suspect in a Peekskill bank robbery was apprehended later in the day Friday after he tried to rob Food Town in Croton-on-Hudson. Joshue M. Flores reportedly slipped a note claiming he had a gun at the customer service counter and demanding all the money in the register at around 8 p.m. Friday, according to state police.
Louis W. Panzanaro, Sr. a lifelong resident of Peekskill who was a staple in the community, died on Wednesday, Nov. 23, just shy of his 102nd birthday. Panzanaro worked for the NY Central Railroad in Croton Harmon and for the Peekskill Recreation Department in their basketball program where he is fondly remembered by many.
... a unique approach to design and aesthetics no matter the size or scope of the project." Melzer is a native of Peekskill, New York but was raised in Central Florida. He obtained his bachelor's degree in landscape architecture with highest honors from ...
Aging plumbing under the chapel at Mount St. Francis in Peekskill has caused structural damage that the religious order fears could cause the floor to collapse. PEEKSKILL, N.Y. - The good sisters of Mount St. Francis in Peekskill are praying that the altar in their chapel doesn't fall into the basement.
... are located at 524 W. 57th St., New York, NY 10019. [...] A dwindling order of nuns at Mount St. Francis in Peekskill is dreading the arrival of cold weather after a pre-season check of the big boilers in the basement revealed that most of them ...