Lee Ellman, AICP, Former Deputy Planning Commissioner, Yonkers; Photo Courtesy Lee Ellman Lee Ellman is an AICP urban planner. He served as Planning Director from 1990 and retired as Deputy Planning ...

28 Days of Black History is a free newsletter (although donations are suggested) offering daily emails throughout the month of February highlighting black history and culture. A yearly publication ...

View of the former Domino Sugar property; Photo Courtesy of Peter Cohn Jim Cavanaugh, Mayor Spano’s former deputy mayor, defends the City Council’s decision to rezone the Domino Sugar property by ...

Blizzard Photos by Phil Zisman – Watching out for the Widowmakers as I marvel at a huge red oak. Photo Credit: Phil Zisman The Great Blizzard of ‘26 is upon us. This time, it’s a slow-moving ...

Mayor Spano in Albany. Photo Courtesy City of Yonkers Facebook Before heading upriver for his annual “Tin Cup” performance in Albany to seek additional aid from the State Legislature, Mayor Spano ...

Journalist Dan Murphy has been covering Yonkers for more than two decades. He’s watched newspapers collapse, reporters vanish, and the city’s media landscape shrink to what he calls “a desert.” “There ...

I didn’t set out to become a journalist. I came to college wanting to be a writer—novels, maybe, something creative. But I enrolled in a few media courses, and somewhere along the way, I fell in love ...

In Yonkers, party politics can be a blood sport. City Council aides — who have no civil service protections — can lose their jobs if they or the Council members they work for fail to toe the party ...

The deadline is coming for registered voters wishing to change their party enrollment for the upcoming 2026 primaries. The last day to make a change through the Department of Motor Vehicles is Friday, ...

Yonkers City Council Majority Leader spoke in favor of a zoning change for the Domino sugar factory site on the Hudson River. He asserted that a zoning change now will send a signal to developers that ...

Lillian Fleming, of Athens, New York, formerly of Valhalla, New York, passed away peacefully, surrounded by the love of her family in North Carolina at the age of 94 on February 13, 2026. Born in New ...

Gertrude Mary Mullins passed away peacefully on February 22, 2026, at Stamford Hospital in Stamford, Connecticut. Gertrude was born on April 9, 1932, in Yonkers, New York. She graduated from Commerce ...