5+ day, 10+ hour ago   (606+ words) Yonkers Olympic gold medalists Steve Lysak and Steve Macknowski By Mary Hoar, City of Yonkers Municipal Historian, 1977 recipient of the Key to the City of Yonkers, President Emeritus Yonkers Historical Society, recipient of the 2004 Key to History, Yonkers Landmarks Preservation…...

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2+ week, 6+ hour ago   (201+ words) U.S. Army Reserve Brigadier General Michael Brancamp with his family after promotion Congratulations to the WCPD Lt. Michael Brancamp on his recent promotion to Brigadier General in the U.S. Army Reserve. He is assigned to the 200th Military Police Command as the Deputy…...

3+ mon, 3+ week ago   (233+ words) Lt. Joseph Burke, of Troy NY The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency announced on May 5, 2026 that U.S. Army Air Forces 2nd Lt. Joseph L. Burke, 20, of Troy, New York, killed during World War II, was accounted for June 10, 2025. Burke’s family recently received their…...

4+ mon, 2+ week ago   (334+ words) Mayor Mike Spano today announced The Commemorative Air Force (CAF) RISE ABOVE educational outreach program’s unique tribute to the Tuskegee Airmen and Women Air Force Service Pilots (WASP) is coming to the Cross County Center from April 23 through April 26 in…...

4+ mon, 3+ week ago   (224+ words) Celebrates at Waterstone of Westchester in White Plains Surrounded by friends and family, Kurt Goldschmidt celebrated his 103rd birthday at Waterstone of Westchester in White Plains. The oldest resident of the senior living community on Bloomingdale Road in White Plains, Kurt…...

5+ mon, 1+ week ago   (185+ words) Yonkers Times Eastchester Middle School welcomed a very special visitor, as Holocaust survivor Hanne Holsten sat down with eighth graders to speak about her family’s harrowing escape from Nazi Germany in the wake of Kristallnacht (The Night of Broken Glass)....

8+ mon, 3+ week ago   (301+ words) Memories from an 18-Year Old Kid from White Plains December 7th, 1941 – quite possibly the most monumental day of the Twentieth Century – the tipping point between potential worldwide domination and today’s relatively widespread global freedoms. In two weeks – Sunday, December 7th, 2025 – marks the…...

10+ mon, 3+ week ago   (509+ words) On September 24, 2025, U.S. District Judge Kenneth Karas in White Plains, New York, issued a ruling in the case Holtec International et al. v. The State of New York (No. 7:24-cv-02929), siding with Holtec International, the owner of the decommissioned Indian Point nuclear power…...

11+ mon, 3+ week ago   (229+ words) Sol, you look great, and a blessing to have a World War II Vet still with us. God Bless. The proclamation from Senator Mayer reads, “, SOL FINGER WAS BORN ON JULY 4, 1923, AND LIKES TO SAY “I CAME IN WITH A…...