Day: December 19, 2016

Mount Vernon commemorates Bill of Rights anniversary

The city of Mount Vernon held a special event Monday to commemorate the 225th anniversary of the Bill of Rights and the city’s role in its creation. Westchester County Executive Rob Astorino took the stage near St. Paul’s Church on South Columbus Avenue to speak about the document’s pivotal moment in history.

Mount Kisco Man, 19, Accused Of Sexually Abusing Sleeping Woman

A Mount Kisco teenager is facing serious charges after he allegedly broke into a woman’s apartment and sexually abused her while she was sleeping over the weekend. On Monday, Westchester County Police spokesman Kieran O’Leary announced that 19-year-old Milton Herrera-Umana was arrested and charged with felony counts of second-degree burglary and first-degree sexual abuse after he unlawfully entered a woman’s apartment on Sunday morning.

Hillary Clinton, Bigfoot

The “Hillary C.” is usually described as a large, hairy, bipedal humanoid …. Scientists discount the existence of the Hillary C. and consider it to be a combination of folklore , misidentification, and hoax , rather than a living animal, because of the lack of physical evidence and the large numbers of creatures that would be necessary to maintain a breeding population. Whoa, wait! Did I type in that “Hillary C.” above? Oh, I am so sorry! I meant to say “Bigfoot”! Bigfoot, Bigfoot, Bigfoot! The Sasquatch! And scratch that “Westchester County, NY,” too.

New Taconic Parkway Exit Signs In Westchester Will Be Unveiled This Week

Commuters will soon see new exit signs along the Taconic State Parkway in Westchester County that are numbered based on the distance from the beginning of the parkway to each interchange, rather than in consecutive order. For example, the exit to State Routes 100 and 133 is now Exit 8, because it is eight miles from the start of the parkway at the traffic circle near the Kensico Dam Plaza in Westchester County, said New York State Department of Transportation Commissioner Matthew J. Driscoll.

Bill Clinton Says Trump Won Because He Galvanized Angry White Men

Bill Clinton held nothing back while speaking with reporters from The Record-Review, a weekly paper that caters to the clusters of towns in Westchester County where the Clintons reside. The former president associated Hillary Clinton’s presidential defeat to FBI Director James Comey, but also said Donald Trump tapped into the angry white man vote, which secured his presidency.

Standard Amusements Still All in at Playland: Gelfarb

Standard Amusements, WPCNR has learned, informed Westchester County early this fall that it would not pay for renovations and repairs to the Playland pool, which Standard had envisioned as becoming a public restaurant/catering facility due to the deteriorated condition of the pool. Standard said the County would have to pay for repairs and improvements to the pool if the county wanted to keep the pool.

Bill Clinton: ‘One thing’ Trump knows ‘is how to get angry, white men to vote for him’

Bill Clinton did not mince words when asked by the editor of a small New York newspaper for his thoughts on President-elect Donald Trump. The editor of the Bedford-Pound Ridge Record Review, a community newspaper in Westchester County, New York, bumped into Clinton at a local bookstore last week, where the former president proceeded to give candid answers about a series of election-related topics to a group that had gathered around him.