Barrett Seaman

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By Barrett Seaman— There was no quit in the crowd at Ossining’s Traveler’s Rest Inn & Restaurant Tuesday night. Every time New York District 17’s numbers came up on the jumbo-tron-tv scroll, the hundreds gathered there for Cait Conley‘s watch party whooped and cheered and then broke out into chants of “Cait, Cait, Cait.” From the time the polls closed at 9:00 p.m. until the candidate took the podium around 10:00 p.m., the gap separating the West Point grad and […]

By Elizabeth Tucker– The New York Community Trust has awarded one million dollars in grants to increase pay for nonprofit childcare providers in Westchester County. “Early childhood educators do essential, highly skilled work, yet too many are paid wages that make it impossible to stay in the field,” said Laura Rossi, The New York Community Trust’s vice president for Westchester. Thanks to the grant, one hundred workers at Mount Kisco Child Care Center, Lois Bronz Children’s Center in White Plains, […]

The Village of Irvington and the Irvington Police Department are aware of recent concerns regarding coyote activity within the community and surrounding areas. We want residents to know that reports of coyote sightings are being actively monitored and that the Police Department continues to coordinate with Greenburgh Animal Control and the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) as appropriate. The Village takes these concerns seriously and has responded to numerous reports in an effort to assess the situation […]

By Jeff Wilson— Beyer Blinder Belle or BBB, the New York City-based architectural consulting firm supervising Irvington’s long-term plans for its municipal facilities, returned to the Main Street School for another workshop on June 24. The firm checks the local pulse regularly. At its previous meeting seven weeks ago, BBB representatives had engaged attendees in a sort of board game, moving wooden blocks representing village facilities around tabletop maps of Irvington. Before that, an online survey. Now the school’s cafeteria […]

For the better part of a decade, Constance (Connie) Kehoe, former deputy mayor of the Village of Irvington, has been chipping away at a sculpture of Westchester County’s outsized role in the American Revolution. Her goal was to highlight and celebrate that role in time for the 250thanniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence on July 4th. Connie’s efforts have highlighted previously little known but important details, names and places, dramatized through mobile audio tours of significant sites […]

By Barrett Seaman— She won the preliminary round, the June 23rd primary, decisively: a nearly 18 percent victory margin over her closest of five competitors, Nyack’s Beth Davidson, taking all four counties that make up New York’s Seventeenth Congressional District. Now Ossining’s Cait Conley is in the knockout round—a one-on-one battle with incumbent Republican Congressman Mike Lawler that is certain to be brutal and expensive. Conley knows that she is fighting not just for Democrats in CD-17 but against Donald […]

By Elizabeth Tucker– New York State Senators Chuck Schumer and Kirstin Gillibrand have announced $25 million in funding, from US Department of Transportation’s BUILD grant program, to fund aspects of the Route 9 Complete Streets project, specifically in Tarrytown and Sleepy Hollow. The funding is the first to materialize for the project, which will recondition Route 9 from Tompkins Ave. in Hastings to Pierson Ave. in Sleepy Hollow. Its preliminary engineering phase was completed in January 2025. The communication from […]

By Barrett Seaman— Mike Lawler likes to debate. He’s good at it. In debates during his previous two campaigns for Congress, by most accounts, he bested Sean Patrick Maloney in a 2022 debate sponsored by City & State Magazine and in a League of Women Voters forum. Then in 2024, he pummeled Mondaire Jones in three televised debates. Now he is challenging 2026 Democratic nominee Cait Conley to debate—six times between now and November 3rd—a challenge Conley has dismissed as […]

Okay, it‘s a bit of a hike to get from the entrance to the new outdoor covered stage at the north end of Irvington’s Matthiessen Park, but the river views—and eventually the entertainment—will be well worth the walk. On Saturday, July 11, the imposing new facility was inaugurated by Mayor Arlene Burgos with help from State Senate Majority Leader Andrea Stewart Cousins, who managed to get New York State to kick in $500,000 towards the $1.6 million project. The two […]