Members of an ad hoc citizens group braved the soggy weather Tuesday to bring this message to U.S. Sen. Chuck Schumer's staff in Peekskill: "We will be watching you." According to Michelle Paolillo Lockett, a spokeswoman for Rockland United, about 15 Rockland residents and several Westchesterites, met for more than an hour with the senior senator's regional director, Allison Biasotti.
The 52-year-old Peekskill mother who died Monday during a house fire has been identified as Elizabeth Birmingham, according to Peekskill police. Birmingham was found in a first-floor bedroom in the early morning multi-house fire 930 Diven St., said Lt.
Two men who were taking a hike in the woods behind Woodside Elementary School on Monday, ended up causing a districtwide lockdown of Peekskill schools, according to the Peekskill Police Department. The lockout occurred around 2:15 p.m. when a staff member called the police to report that two men wearing ponchos had parked on school property, gotten out of their car with what they believed was a gun case and headed into the woods behind the school, said Lt.