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Spring Hike Tops Ward Pound Ridge Reservation Events
CROSS RIVER, N.Y. -- The Friends of Nature Museum and Ward Pound Ridge Reservation offers an array of spring programs in April at Routes 35/121, Cross River, N.Y.
Among highlights, on Sunday, April 3, an annual celebration to enjoy "winter’s sweet rewards" offers food, music, and sugaring demonstrations all day. For times, call (914) 864-7322.
Then on Saturday, April 9, a Vernal Pool Exploration is on tap so visitors can visit the woodland pools with dip nets to discover their inhabitants. The program starts at 1 p.m.
A Saturday, April 16 program at 1 p.m. called, Orienteering fo…
New York Times Real Estate Section Shines Spotlight On Ossining
OSSINING, N.Y. -- Ossining is small in size but plays largely in "American Culture," said a New York Times article about the Village.Its history dates back to before the American Revolution, said the New York Times.
The report also pointed out some of its claims to fame, among them, Sing Sing prison and the fact that both John Cheever, the author, and Don Draper of "Mad Men" fiction lived there.
Ossining has a diverse mixture of 25,000 inhabitants, according to the New York Times.
Home purchasers are first-timers, and "empty nesters" are seeking homes there, a…
M & M Theater Presents Play On W.E.B. Dubois In Mount Vernon
MOUNT VERNON, N.Y. -- W.E. B. Du Bois, A Man for All Time will be presented by the M&M Performing Arts Company, Inc. Saturday, April 2 at in the Grace Greene Baker Community Room, Mount Vernon Public Library.
In the production written and directed by Alexa Kelly, Brian Richardson portray’s W.E.B. Du Bois, a black American born just after the Civil War, and five years after the Emancipation Proclamation.
Du Bois broke many barriers. He attended and graduated from Harvard, studied in Europe, and ran for Senator, co-founded the NAACP, participated in the founding of the United Nations, and…
Police Charge Stamford Teenager With Strangling Girlfriend
STAMFORD, Conn. -- Police arrested a 19-year-old Stamford man on strangulation charges after he fought with his girlfriend Friday at her home in Glenbrook, the Stamford Advocate reported.
Police said the 19-year-old woman told officers that she and her boyfriend, Elijah Johnson, 19, of Newfield Avenue, were arguing about text messages he had received, the Advocate said.
He put his hands tightly around her neck and cut off her ability to breathe as they fought over the phone, police told the Advocate.
The two continued to fight, and he hung up the phone and she called 911, the Advocate repo…
