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Donna Christopher

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Lowe's Replacing Costco Tops Yorktown Planning Board Meeting YORKTOWN, N.Y. -- Home-improvement chain Lowe's, not Costco is coming to Yorktown.The item topped an agenda at a Yorktown Planning Board meeting. In an amended site plan, representatives of Breslin Realty, the owner of the site that was originally planned for Costco, unveiled plans for a Lowe’s Home Center, two stand-alone restaurants and a stand-alone bank. No gas pumps are planned. A 2018 opening is anticipated.. Other items discussed: Featherbed (Colangelo) Jacob Road Property In a change of plans, the applicant is now proposing only six lots, plus a farm stand on Jacob Road, and a …

by Donna Christopher

09/15/2016

Events

Italian Feast, Food, Talent Take Stage In Tappan TAPPAN, N.Y. -- An annual Italian festival with dozens of musical performers, dancing, food, celebrities and entertainment will take over the Masonic Park Fairgrounds in Tappan for four days.The seventh annual Blauvelt Sons of Italy Italian Feast and Carnival runs Thursday, Sept. 15, to Sunday, Sept. 18. It draws thousands from around the tristate area annually. This year's marks the 50th anniversary of the Rockland Lodge 2176 Sons of Italy. The festival will showcase area talent. Actor and director Paul Borghese, a lodge member, will be master of ceremonies for the live entertainment. Bor…

by Donna Christopher

09/15/2016

Lifestyle

Public Invited To Revealing Of Sherry B Studio Mural In Chappaqua CHAPPAQUA, N.Y. -- A public mural is about to be unveiled in Chappaqua. It represents a summer-long partnership between Sherry B Dessert Studio in Chappaqua and the Katonah Museum of Art with a focus on revitalization to downtown. Artist Keiran Brennan Hinton painted his installation. The artwork will be revealed Saturday, Sept. 17 at the studio, 65 King St., Chappaqua. There will be a public opening from 7-9 p.m. The project in July and August added a visual art feature, mural, to the exterior wall of the studio, something owner/pastry chef Sherry Blockinger has long envisioned. The mura…

by Donna Christopher

09/15/2016

Business

Garfield's Barcelona's Keeps Family At Helm With Fourth Generation Owners GARFIELD, N.J. -- Red upholstered banquettes line wood-paneled walls and an old-fashioned paper menu telling you to 'Ring bell for service" signal Barcelona's Restaurant & Bar is a Garfield hallmark. It's been around for four generations, in fact, run since 1971 by Jim LaRose and his wife, Elaine. Elaine's grandfather, Peter Barcelona opened the Italian-American establishment in 1933. Since then, Barcelona's has been famous for its thin-crust pizza, easy-going, casual dining room with long tables to accommodate large groups and literally hundreds of entrees, not least of which are …

by Donna Christopher

09/15/2016

Events

Master The Mental Game With Olympic Marathon Runner In Ridgefield RIDGEFIELD, Conn. -- Find out how Olympic runner Deena Kastor keeps her mind positive when the going gets tough when she presents the "Mental Game" Tuesday, Sept. 20 at the Ridgefield Library. Kastor's career is marked by her 2004 Olympic bronze medal in the marathon in Athens, Greece, which shattered a 20-year medal drought for U.S. women in the event. The three-time Olympian is the American record holder in the marathon (2:19:36) and half marathon (1:07:34). She has made 19 U.S. teams, won 18 U.S. titles and earned two silver medals at the World Cross-Country Championships. K…

by Donna Christopher

09/15/2016

Neighbors

Motorcycle Club Fundraiser To Help New City Firefighter Battling Cancer NEW CITY, N.Y. -- A country western themed fundraiser later this month will help out a local firefighter battling cancer.The Red Knights Motorcycle Club NY 18, an international motorcycle club made up of volunteer firemen, is hosting Country Western Night event for New City Firefighter Alan Handsman. Handsman and his family received media attention in July after his daughter, Skylar, 10, wrote to a local company asking them to install a pool in their backyard. In her letter Skylar explained how her father was diagnosed with multiple myeloma last November. After undergoing a stem cell tran…

by Donna Christopher

09/14/2016

Sports

Volleyball Girls At Pelham HS Are Tourney Champs PELHAM, N.Y. -- The Pelham Memorial High School girls volleyball team has won the silver bracket championship in the Hendrick Hudson High School tournament.

by Donna Christopher

09/14/2016

Events

Art Is 'What Others See' Says Illustrator In Pound Ridge Exhibit POUND RIDGE, N.Y. -- Artwork by illustrator Floyd Rappy will be displayed at the Pound Ridge Library until Oct. 29.His artwork, often architectural drawings and human forms, aspires to be "the outward expression of my inner life that will reveal my personal vision of the world," he said. Rappy attended School of Visual Arts on a full scholarship, studying illustration. After graduating in 1985, he worked as an illustrator and calligrapher while continuing his fine art studies at The Art Students League and The New School. He has a design firm, Rappy & Company, with corporat…

by Donna Christopher

09/13/2016

Events

Artist Ray Spillinger Featured At Neuburger Museum HARRISON, N.Y. -- Two years ago the son of late artist Ray Spillenger found hundreds of paintings and drawings in his father's apartment on New York's lower east side. He contacted curator and art historian Theodore E. Stebbins, Jr., who went to see the stacks of work, that were in no apparent order, and most were in need of a cleaning. The discovery led to "A Call, a Visit, and Then an Amazing Discovery... Ray Spillenger: Rediscovery of a Black Mountain Painter" which opened Sunday at the Neuberger Museum of Art. The exhibit runs to Dec. 23. It is the first to examine Spillenge…

by Donna Christopher

09/13/2016

Events

British Songwriting Trio's Music Takes BergenPac Stage ENGLEWOOD, N.J. -- Sir Andrew Lloyd Webber, Sir Elton John and Sir Paul McCartney have much in common. They are all British-born, have an Academy Award and multiple Grammy Awards. They are also knights. The trio also are some of the most successful songwriters of all time. Their music will be performed by Kelli Rabke and Scott Coulter, among artists, at "Music of the Knights" Friday, Oct. 14 at Bergen Performing Arts Center. The show will include an appearance by PACPAS Chorus and the string orchestra of Elizabeth Morrow School. The trio's music, "Memory," "I Don'…

by Donna Christopher

09/13/2016

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