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Westchester Natives Hope To 'Unite The World' With New App
Two Westchester natives are behind a new app, which officially launched Friday, Sept. 15. John Tambunting of Scarsdale, Adam Alpert of Harrison, and Isaac Zussman of Pawtucket RI are the brains behind Pangeamart, an app that connects gig workers -- those in the freelance space -- with jobs. It was born in Alpert's sophomore year at Brown University when Zussman, his roommate's friend, brought up the idea in a casual conversation after a frustrating summer looking for odd jobs. Alpert, a freelance videographer, thought the idea had legs and proposed some next steps. The two got to work but d…
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Northern Westchester Mom 'Rocks' It With Inspirational Messages On Stones
Tara Unger is hoping to bring more kindness and inspiration into the world -- or at least into her small part of Northern Westchester. Two days after the riots in Charlottesville, VA in August, the Katonah mom felt she had to do something to both help make sense of the world -- and teach her kids they are responsible for how their future will look. And so, she started painting inspirational messages on stones and leaving them around town. "The hope was that someone having a hard day/time, walking with their head down, would spot one and smile. "The idea was that the message o…
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Route 118 Stretch Renaming For Fallen Soldier Draws Crowd To Yorktown
YORKTOWN, N.Y. -- A stretch of Route 118 will forever be known as Army Major Clayton Carpenter Memorial Highway. A dedication ceremony was held in Carpenter's honor Saturday in Yorktown. Carpenter, who was a pilot who served in Iraq and Afghanistan, was killed in 2014 during a training accident. "He led a rich life, and was dedicated to his nation, family, friends, church, and to the men and women of the 160th Special Operations Aviation Regiment," Clayton's mother Colette said. "When I drive down the Major Clayton Carpenter Memorial Highway I'll be thinking about the little…
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Yorktown Heights Lutheran Church Welcomes New Pastor
YORKTOWN HEIGHTS, N.Y. -- There's a new man at the pulpit at St. Andrew's Lutheran Church in Yorktown Heights. Reverend David Dockweiler has taken over as pastor at the church, at 2405 Crompond Road. Dockweiler was previously a pastor in Michigan. Dockweiller started in youth ministry. His first job was as a Youth Minister in Ohio. He had participated in nearly 20 mission trips, including leading intergenerational international mission trips to Guatemala. “I look forward to working with the Saint Andrew’s congregation and I hope to unite and include all ages in fellowship and mission,"…
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Route 138 Stretch Dedicated To Cortlandt Manor Fallen Soldier
YORKTOWN, N.Y. - A portion of Route 118 in Yorktown was dedicated to the memory of a fallen soldier who graduated from Lakeland High School who died in a training mission in 2014. For three hours Saturday morning, Route 118 was closed between Downing Drive and Underhill Avenue as the section of road between Underhill Avenue and the Route 202 intersection was dedicated to Army Major Clayton Carpenter Memorial Highway. A Lakeland High School and West Point graduate, Carpenter - who grew up in Cortlandt Manor - earned numerous awards during his military career before being killed in a training…
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Northern Westchester Teen Organizes Hurricane Relief Efforts
WESTCHESTER COUNTY, N.Y. - While thousands in Texas and Florida are dealing with the fallout of Hurricanes Harvey and Irma, an Iona Preparatory student is coordinating efforts to help some of the neediest residents who have lost everything. Bedford resident Conor Lane, a junior at Iona Prep, has organized relief efforts with the school’s Leadership Program to provide basic necessities to the residents of Texas and Florida who are still busy cleaning up from the recent rash of hearty hurricanes. Since the hurricanes hit land, students at Iona Prep, led by Lane, have been collecting items tha…
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Westchester Professor Wins Emmy Award For Lady Gaga's Super Bowl Show
The Emmy Awards are Sunday, Sept. 17 but one local resident already got his gold statue. Purchase College Professor Dave Grill just received his fourth Emmy Award for lighting Lady Gaga’s Super Bowl Halftime Show in the category of "Outstanding Lighting Design/Lighting Direction For A Variety Special." The associate professor of theatre design/technology, a Mahwah, N.J. resident, won three prior Emmy awards for lighting design in 2002, 2013, and 2015. Megan Seibel, a Purchase student, had the opportunity of a lifetime assisting him at the halftime show. You can read her blog post…
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Pleasantville's Gary Myers Signing New Book About NFL QBs, Their Fathers
Gary Myers, the New York Daily News football writer who lives in Westchester, is peeling back the curtain behind the relationships between NFL quarterbacks and their fathers. "My First Coach: Inspiring Stories of NFL Quarterbacks and Their Dads," was released last month. The Pleasantville resident is hosting a book signing at Scattered Books at 29 King Street in Chappaqua on Saturday from 1 p.m. to 3 p.m. The book is geared toward middle school and high school students, with each chapter having a life lesson. "At one point John Elway was a 10-year-old kid who may or may not …
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Westchester Author Unravels Tale Of Little Known Holocaust Story
WESTCHESTER COUNTY, N.Y.-- Yvette Manessis Corporon is a three-time Emmy Award–winning writer, author, and producer at NBC's EXTRA who tells other people's stories for a living. But when it came time to tell her own, it took a while. The Yonkers resident, who lives on the Bronxville border, grew up listening to her grandmother’s stories about how the people of Erikousa, a small Greek island, hid a Jewish family—a tailor named Savvas and his daughters—from the Nazis during World War II. Nearly 2,000 Jews from that area died in the concentration camps but even though everyone on Erikousa knew…
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Westchester Singer Once Embarrassed By Disease Aims To Connect Women
SLEEPY HOLLOW, N.Y. -- It's not every day an 11-year-old is diagnosed with ovarian cancer. But even more incredible when that woman -- now 22 -- gets breast cancer. But instead of wallowing in her illness, Bianca Muñiz is singing about it -- and raising awareness about the travails of cancer. The Sleepy Hollow resident, who took voice lessons at Lagond Music School in Elmsford (and has been singing since second grade) started talking/blogging about her experiences as a way to help others. "The first time I was diagnosed I was embarrassed and wanted to pretend like it wasn't happeni…
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North Salem's David Letterman Returns To TV With New Netflix Show
David Letterman, the original host of "Late Night" (NBC) and "The Late Show" (CBS) will be back broadcasting for a new series on Netflix. The yet-to-be-named, six-episode series has the longtime North Salem resident combining two interests for which he is renowned: in-depth conversations with extraordinary people, and in-the-field segments expressing his curiosity and humor. In each hour-long episode, Letterman will conduct a long-form conversation with a singular guest -- and will also explore topics on his own, away from the studio. The series is set to premiere in 201…
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Got Mail? This Is Only Hudson Valley Post Office Open Labor Day
Believe it or not, you can send a letter on Labor Day, Hudson Valley residents. In some cases, you may need to travel a bit to do it, and even cross a bridge. Hint: Make that the new bridge. The Postal Service’s Palisades Postal Store at the mall in West Nyack is the only post office in the Greater Hudson Valley that is open on Labor Day. Full postal retail services are available from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. with U.S. Passport application acceptance hours from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Although there will be no regular mail service on Monday, Sept. 4, Priority Mail Express will be delivered on Labor Da…
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