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thehudsonindependent.com | Barrett Seaman
June 5, 2025By Elizabeth Tucker–On Wednesday evening at Mercy University, the New York State Department of Transportation (DOT)and the engineering firm WSP hosted the last in a series of four public meetings to present the “Complete Streets” design for the Route 9 corridor from Tompkins Ave. in Hastings to Sleepy Hollow’s famed cemetery.
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4 days ago | 
thehudsonindependent.com | Barrett Seaman
Historic RivertownsSleepy Hollow NewsTop News Published 2 minutes ago2mins ago • Bookmarks: 1 June 3, 2025By Barrett Seaman–Had the four young men (teenagers by the look of them) known that the Tarrytown Lighthouse at Sleepy Hollow had surveillance cameras covering the 100-ft.
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4 days ago | 
thehudsonindependent.com | Barrett Seaman
Published 20 minutes ago20mins ago • Bookmarks: 3 June 3, 2025In 2020, Gail Schlenger, a long-time resident of Tarrytown, faced a dilemma. Forced by COVID to retire after 40 years as an educator in the Chappaqua School District, she didn’t know what to do. But as they say, “necessity is the mother of invention,” and she just published her first children’s book on Amazon, with at least two more on the way.
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thehudsonindependent.com | Barrett Seaman
June 2, 2025By Barrett Seaman—It wasn’t the first time this spring that someone purposely damaged the Sleepy Hollow Lighthouse, which had re-opened just a little over a year ago after a $3.4 million restoration.
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thehudsonindependent.com | Barrett Seaman
Arts & EntertainmentCommunity NewsIrvington News Published 7 minutes ago7mins ago • Bookmarks: 2 June 1, 2025If you’re into barbecue, this eponymously-titled tome is a must for your recipe library. If you’re not, this book, written by Irvington resident (and contributor to The Hudson Independent) with barbecue maestro Hugh Mangum, will draw you deep inside the world of cured meats, fish and fowl.
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thehudsonindependent.com | Barrett Seaman
June 1, 2025By Jeff Wilson–In a novel effort to explain its Climate Adaptation and Resilience program to local children, Irvington’s Green Policy Task Force, under the leadership of the village’s Sustainability Director, Charlotte Binns, turned disaster preparedness into a game. On May 30, in partnership with the Rivertowns Playhouse and the Irvington Presbyterian Church, the Task Force hosted a “game of neighborhood resilience and survival” called Irvington Zombies, created by Binns.
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thehudsonindependent.com | Barrett Seaman
May 29, 2025Mercy University has received a $140,000 grant from the Phelps Healthcare Foundation to launch a new community mobile health screening initiative that strengthens access to care throughout Westchester County. This initiative will also provide Mercy’s nursing students with vital hands-on experience in community engagement and health promotion.
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thehudsonindependent.com | Barrett Seaman
May 29, 2025By Barrett Seaman—At its May 28 meeting, the Greenburgh Town Board voted to appoint Lia Rodriguez of Tarrytown as a Town Judge, replacing the retiring Judge Bonnie L. Orden. She joins Judges Delores Scott Brathwaite and Judge Erin McGoey on the Greenburgh bench. Soon-to-be Judge Rodriguez has spent two decades as a public defender, serving as the supervising attorney for the Legal Aid Society’s Criminal Defense Practice Trial Division, mostly in the Bronx.
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thehudsonindependent.com | Barrett Seaman
Published 3 minutes ago3mins ago • Bookmarks: 2 May 27, 2025Irvington Union Free School District has been named a 2025 Best Communities for Music Education by the NAMM (National Association for Music Merchants) Foundation. The prestigious national recognition honors the district’s outstanding commitment to providing high-quality music education to all students.
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thehudsonindependent.com | Barrett Seaman
May 27, 2025By Elizabeth Tucker–The Good Cause Eviction law is part of the New York State legislative package passed in April 2024. Its goal was to address the housing crisis by protecting tenants, building more housing, and making homeownership more accessible. It started as law in New York City but has since been adopted by Albany, Ithaca, Kingston, Poughkeepsie, Rochester, Beacon, Newburgh, Nyack, Hudson, New Paltz, Rochester, Fishkill, Catskill, and Binghamton.
