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Miniatures company moves to Yonkers’ YoHo lofts
D. Thomas Miniatures has moved its headquarters to Yonkers‘ YoHo artists studios. The company recently moved from its former retail location at the Movie House Mews in Hastings-on-Hudson to YoHo and to The Shoppes in Palen‘s Drug Store in Cold Spring. D. Thomas Miniatures sells collectible miniature furniture and accessories mad by artists from around the world.…
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Westchester Community Foundation awards $677K
The Westchester Community Foundation has announced grant awards totaling $677,000 to 24 organizations to address a broad range of needs in the community. City of White Plains, for an education and workforce training program in White Plains, $100,000. Community Center of Northern Westchester, to provide food to hungry Ossining residents, $15,000. Community Resource Center, to…
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The shower is being hosted byempowerYOU of Yonkers‘ Nepperhan Community Center.
NEW ROCHELLE – Every expectant mother is subject to a baby shower with her closest friends and family members, but one group is opening the party for the whole community. The New Rochelle Community Baby Shower, to be held Saturday at the Hugh A. Doyle Center from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m., will connect low-income…
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PRESS RELEASE: Mayor Spano’s Youth Advisory Board Swears-in Three New Members at City Hall Ceremony
YONKERS, NY — November 28, 2014 – Yonkers Mayor Mike Spano announced in September that the Youth Advisory Board, established by executive order in January 2013, would be accepting applications to select three new board members. After a month long selection process, Mayor Spano has made his selections, appointing Ashley Mendola, Peter Kusick and Brianna Noriega to…
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YONKERS MAYOR MIKE SPANO: Happy Hanukkah
This evening our Jewish community celebrates the first night of Hanukkah, the eight day “festival of lights” celebrating the reclamation, cleansing and rededication of the Second Temple following the Maccabean Revolt, and the miracle of light over darkness which we recognize with the lighting of the Menorah. As families across the world gather to observe the many traditions of Hanukkah during…
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EXPOSE: Yonkers Department of Finance – Cover-ups Continue Behind Closed Doors
Yonkers Finance Commissioner John Liszewski>>> People create every conceivable protocol and standard in the hope that everyone will follow the standards set. These protocols are devised to protect the workers and the institutions for which they are employed. It seems a simple scenario, one that transpired yesterday, has maligned an error of judgment that has since…
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Breaking News Exclusive: Mayor Amicone’s Chief of Staff to Become Executive Director of Yonkers Parking Authority
She was plucked out of obscurity years ago by Yonkers economic guru Edward Sheeran. It was Ed’s wife who suggested she might be a loyal worker. She did as she was told. She would soon take a fancy to Deputy Mayor Phil Amicone when she was instructed to engage in a City Hall-wide effort to elect Phil Amicone to the…
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PRESS RELEASE: Mike Spano, candidate for mayor of Yonkers today proposed an education capital improvement plan to build schools
Spano Announces Proposed School Construction Program Money Saved to Fund Neighborhood School Construction “The City spends more than $1,700 per year, per student to take them back and forth to schools on buses,” said Spano, “We will never eliminate the need for bus transportation, but we can reduce our reliance on it by putting new schools closer…