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Harry was born on October 1, 1921 in Yonkers to Dimitri and Anna Welgos Patz and was raised and educated in Yonkers, graduating from Yonkers High School in 1939. He joined the U.S. Army on July 31st, 1942 and served 38 months, including 31 months in the southwest Pacific Theatre of Operations, mostly with the 91st Chemical Mortar Company, involved in the invasions of Kwajalein in the Marshall Islands and Leyte in the Philippine Islands.
... a survivor after a loved one's passing. After marrying in Italy, they settled in Mount Vernon before moving to Yonkers and then to their son's home in Stormville. Freddy came to New York speaking only Italian. He spent 35 years as a paint foreman at ...
... lounge. Oasis can no longer do this because the county has been making them fill up the beds with 10 people from Yonkers, who in the current craziness there are being vanned here nightly. They are also being forced finally to put more Oasis clients ...
A 21-year-old man was arrested Friday and arraigned Saturday in connection with a homicide that occurred in Yonkers on Oct. 18, Yonkers police said. Donte Pace of Mount Vernon was arraigned in Yonkers Criminal Court for first-degree manslaughter and was remanded to the Westchester County Jail without bail.
The data, pulled from a federal report, shows that Mount Vernon, Yonkers and Peekskill have students who are chronically absent, said lohud.com. Mount Vernon reported an absenteeism rate of 33.3 percent, Yonkers was 24.9 percent and Peekskill reported 30 percent, according to data from the U.S. Department of Education Office of Civil Rights that was examined by the Westchester Children's Association, added lohud.com.
A Yonkers man was sentenced Thursday to more than 22 years in federal prison for his role in kidnapping and forcing into prostitution a 19-year-old Mount Vernon woman, according to the U.S. Attorney's Office. Clydedoro Graham, 28, was convicted in November 2015 of kidnapping, conspiring to engage in sex trafficking and attempting to engage in sex trafficking.
Three of the four men that pleaded guilty for their roles in the shooting death of 23-year-old Yonkers resident and Oakland Athletics baseball prospect Michael Nolan are scheduled to be sentenced in Westchester County Court on Wednesday. On Wednesday, Bronx natives Nashaun Hunter, 18, Tejmitra Singh, 23 and Darren Dawson, 19, are due back in court on Wednesday, after pleading guilty to violent felony charges in relation to the shooting that left Nolan with a bullet in his head outside of a Burger King on Central Park Avenue.
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.
The basketball team and the Mount Vernon community put up fences and put down mulch to give the Westchester School for Special Needs Kids a brand new playground. Organizer Elijah Brown was responsible for everything from ensuring the right amount of mulch to getting enough volunteers to get the work done in just a few hours.
