Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that Anthony Mangone pled guilty today in White Plains federal court to conspiracy, bribery, extortion, and tax evasion charges. In January 2010, a Grand Jury returned an Indictment against Sandy Annabi, the former Democratic Majority Leader of the Yonkers City Council, Zehy Jereis, the…

The Yonkers Firefighters of the International Association of Fire Firefighters (I.A.F.F.) Local 628 will hold a press conference to announce the Yonkers Fire Department’s “FIREFIGHTERS IN PINK” campaign to support Breast Cancer Awareness and to raise money to help find a cure for breast cancer. Several fire engines and trucks will be on hand for the unveiling of…

Click to read Westchester Herald – Vol.4 – No. 164 – November 23, 2009

City Council Majority Leader Sandy Annabi (D, District 2) has been lobbying to help establish a multi-use community center in Southwest Yonkers, and today she announced another step in funding for the as-yet fledgling project. The grand total now stands at $350,000 for a community center. There is currently no selected site and the Council…

The walls within City Hall are mum… still murmurs reverberate. Yonkers Tribune acid-tongued bloggers have been advised that Yonkers Fire Commissioner Anthony Pagano, when approached by Mayor Phil Amicone for departmental cuts to lesson the burden on the FY2008-2009 budget, was not satisfied by Commissioner Pagano’s response. Commissioner Pagano openly advised that the mayor has…

It was only mid-August 2007 when Yonkers Mayor Phil Amicone appointed former Assistant Secretary of the Navy Richard Greco Yonkers Board of Education Trustee for a five year term. Mr. Greco delivered his letter of resignation last week advising that he could no longer fulfill his duties as Trustee. As founder and President of Filangieri…

YONKERS, NY – A sense of subdued enthusiasm gripped the ground breaking ceremony on Ridge Hill. The invited guests presided over a legacy of contention that has culminated after five years’ effort into the beginning of a new imprint on a landscape fallow for many years. The transformation from neglect to today’s groundbreaking is a…

If there is one political office where change can be affected and the voters truly have a choice, it is in the race for the council person of the 3rd district. Facing long odds and continued backstabbing by her own party, Joan Gronowskihas managed what in Yonkers is the near impossible. She has so far beaten the “Democrat Party…

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