Fog/Mist 67°

Sam Barron

Community Editor

sbarron@dailyvoice.com

FOLLOW ON

Facebook Twitter

An (almost) lifelong Westchester resident, Sam has reported on all facets of Westchester since he graduated from Ryerson University with a degree in print journalism, including stints at North County News and The Examiner. A film columnist for WAG Magazine, Sam's moviegoing expertise has been profiled in the New York Times and he was a featured guest on VH1's Big Morning Buzz Live.

Sam was formerly a community editor at Daily Voice.

Sam Barron's Contributions

Police & Fire
Man Charged With Threatening To Blow Up Ex-Employer's Somers Office Man Charged With Threatening To Blow Up Ex-Employer's Somers Office
Man Charged With Threatening To Blow Up Ex-Employer's Somers Office SOMERS, N.Y.-- New York State Police have charged a 55-year-old Peekskill man with making a bomb threat in Somers. Antoine Evans was arrested and charged with aggravated harassment on Monday, April 28, after allegedly contacting his former place of employment and threatening to blow up the office, state police said.  Evans was arraigned and remanded to the Westchester County Jail in lieu of $5,000 cash bail or bond. He is due back in court in Somers on Monday, May 5, at 5 p.m., according to state police.

SHARE

by Sam Barron
News
Peekskill Custard Business Longs For Spring Peekskill Custard Business Longs For Spring
Peekskill Custard Business Longs For Spring PEEKSKILL, N.Y. -- No one is longing for sustained warmer weather more than Rita's in Peekskill, which services ices and custard. Businesses like Rita's have been hit hard by the gloomy and cold weather that has seemed to run uninterrupted since November. "Is it ever coming?" asked Irene DeAngelis, who runs Rita's at 1877 East Main St. in the Beaches Shopping Center. "It's very discouraging, we have to make ends meet." DeAngelis said she checks the weather forecast each morning to decide how many ices to make.  "I had to put my winter coat on this morning!" DeAngelis said. Linda Cyr…

SHARE

by Sam Barron
Events
SPCA Excited For Annual Yorktown Walk And Pet Fair SPCA Excited For Annual Yorktown Walk And Pet Fair
SPCA Excited For Annual Yorktown Walk And Pet Fair WESTCHESTER COUNTY, N.Y. -- The Briarcliff-based SPCA of Westchester's annual Walk and Pet Fair on Saturday, May 3 at FDR Park in Yorktown will feature a real Champ. Champ, a rescue dog, will serve as SPCA grand marshal and lead the dog walk, which begins at 10 a.m. In January, the 3-month-old pitbull was rushed into the SPCA after being found by police abandoned in an apartment and suffering from a blunt force trauma to the head. The SPCA said Champ's face was so severely swollen that they couldn't tell if he had eyes. Despite all the pain he endured, the SPCA said Champ continued to wag…

SHARE

by Sam Barron
News
Pleasantville Dancers Disagree With Long Island School Pleasantville Dancers Disagree With Long Island School
Pleasantville Dancers Disagree With Long Island School PLEASANTVILLE, N.Y. -- The artistic directors of a Pleasantville-based dance studio are joining with the outrage aimed at a school on Long Island that may be pushing kids a little too hard. Harley Avenue Primary School in Elwood has canceled its traditional end-of-year kindergarten show — saying the children can’t afford to take time off from getting themselves “college and career’’ ready. “The reason for eliminating the kindergarten show is simple,” reads a letter sent by the principal  to parents last week. “We are responsible for preparing children for college and career with valuable …

SHARE

by Sam Barron
News
Ossining Boy Helps Start Library In Ghana Ossining Boy Helps Start Library In Ghana
Ossining Boy Helps Start Library In Ghana OSSINING, N.Y. -- A new library in Ghana has received a big boost from a 13-year-old Ossining boy. As part of a community service project for his bar mitzvah, Coby Kilion collected more than 1,000 books and then raised more than $500 to ship the books for the African Library Project. Kilion, armed with a wagon, went door to door around his neighborhood with his friends to collect the books "I wanted to help people and do something that would change someone's life," Kilion said. He wound up with 15 boxes that weighed more than 410 pounds. The books were shipped to a warehouse in New Or…

SHARE

by Sam Barron
News
National Guard Helicopters Conduct Training In Cortlandt National Guard Helicopters Conduct Training In Cortlandt
National Guard Helicopters Conduct Training In Cortlandt CORTLANDT, N.Y. -- Helicopters flew over the Hudson River in Cortlandt last week, all in the name of fighting potential wildfires. New York Army National Guard UH-60 Blackhawk helicopter crews conducted water bucket training in the Peekskill Bay section of the Hudson River in Cortlandt. The pilots use the buckets, called Bambi Buckets, to scoop up water from lakes and rivers and then dumps the water on forest or wildfires.  The collapsible buckets, which are hung underneath the helicopters, can dump 560 gallons of water on a fire each time they are used. The training process occurs ev…

SHARE

by Sam Barron
News
Armonk Eagle Flies High Again Armonk Eagle Flies High Again
Armonk Eagle Flies High Again ARMONK, N.Y. -- Armonk's eagle is back at its rightful perch. North Castle officials and the Engel Burman Group, developers of the Bristal, a new 140-unit assisted living community in Armonk, gathered Monday to celebrate the restoration of the Armonk Eagle. Located at the intersection of Routes 22 and 128, the iconic 40-foot long wooden eagle that has been welcoming residents and visitors to the hamlet for nearly four decades has been replaced with an identical new eagle made from aluminum. The Engel Burman Group donated $25,000 to the Town to replace the wooden eagle which was in disr…

SHARE

by Sam Barron
News
Peekskill Gallery Hosts Poetry Reading Peekskill Gallery Hosts Poetry Reading
Peekskill Gallery Hosts Poetry Reading PEEKSKILL, N.Y. -- Two poets conducted a reading and a discussion at Peekskill's Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art (HVCCA). Award winning poet Peter Waldor, author of "Who Touches Everything" read from several his anthologies. Many of Waldor's poems focus on his family and spending time with his kids. Jeffrey Schrier, a sculptor whose work is displayed at HVCCA read several of his poems. One poem was about a security guard who worked on "War of the Worlds" which was filmed near Schrier's studio, while another poem was about visiting his father in Los Angeles in the midst of wildfi…

SHARE

by Sam Barron
Police & Fire
Court Date For Cortlandt Teen Charged With Unlawful Surveillance Adjourned Court Date For Cortlandt Teen Charged With Unlawful Surveillance Adjourned
Court Date For Cortlandt Teen Charged With Unlawful Surveillance Adjourned CORTLANDT, N.Y. -- A Croton-on-Hudson teenager accused of filming patrons in various states of undress in the locker room and shower area of a local health club had his Cortlandt Justice Court case adjourned until May 2. Daniel "Max" Winsten was scheduled to appear in Cortlandt Town Court Friday at 9 a.m. for a superior court information session but neither he nor his lawyer were present. Winsten was charged with unlawful surveillance in the second degree, a Class E felony, and possessing an obscene performance by a child, also a Class E felony. Winsten faces up to four years in state pri…

SHARE

by Sam Barron
News
Peekskill Residents Applaud Take Your Kid To Work Day Peekskill Residents Applaud Take Your Kid To Work Day
Peekskill Residents Applaud Take Your Kid To Work Day PEEKSKILL, N.Y. -- Take Our Daughters And Son To Work Day received a thumbs up in Peekskill. Thursday, April 24, marked the 21st year of Take Our Daughters And Sons To Work Day, an activity that is recommended for kids ages eight to 18 years old. According to the official website for the day, more than 37 million youth participated in the day last year. Originally called the Take Our Daughters to Work Program and founded by Gloria Steinem and the Ms. Foundation for Women in 1993, it expanded to include boys in 2003. In Peekskill, Jo Ann Brody, an artist, said her kids used to always be …

SHARE

by Sam Barron
Prev Page 804 of 845 802 803 804 805 806 Next
8,031 - 8,040 of 8,450 articles