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Boces Launches Inaugural Regional STEM Fest For Middle Schoolers
VALHALLA, N.Y. -- Southern Westchester BOCES will be hosting the area’s first STEM Festival featuring work by middle-school students from all around the county.
STEM stands for science, technology, engineering and math.
Expected to participate are representatives from Putnam Valley, Scarsdale, Ossining, Briarcliff Manor and Blind Brook schools.
The festival is set for 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday, March 5, at the Southern Westchester BOCES Center for Career Services, 65 Grasslands Road, Valhalla, next door to Westchester Community College.
Fifth- through eighth-graders will display science …
Stamford Teens Charged With Robbing, Stabbing City Man
STAMFORD, CONN. -- Three teens have been arrested in the stabbing and robbery of a man in the Cove section of the city, according to a report by the Stamford Advocate.
Police said that Eddie Morancy, 18, and two other suspects, ages 14 and 17, are accused in the February attack on Webb Avenue, the Stamford Advocate reported.
The three -- who have all been charged with assault and attempted armed robbery -- demanded money from the 40-year-old victim and when he told them he didn’t have any, police said, they stabbed him twice, the Stamford Advocate article said.
To read the Stamford Advocat…
Seven Charged In Heroin, Cocaine Busts In Clarkstown, Orangetown, Suffern
ROCKLAND COUNTY, N.Y. -- Seven people have been charged with selling or possessing heroin and cocaine in Clarkstown and surrounding communities, Rockland County District Attorney Thomas P. Zugibe said this week.
Oxycodone, Xanax, Ecstasy, and marijuana were also sold in street deals in Suffern and Orangetown, Zugibe said.
The eighth person named in a 24-count indictment is a 17-year-old who is facing weapons charges after he was found with a gravity knife, police said.
The arrests were part of a collaborative and coordinated response by authorities to open-air drug dealing complaints made …
Peekskill Gets Update On Plans For Restaurant, Entertainment Center
PEEKSKILL, N.Y. -- Peekskill planners were updated last month on plans to turn a two-story brick building perched on the edge of the Hudson River into a restaurant, brewery and amusement center, according to a report by The Examiner.
The building, once part of the complex where Standard Brands once made gin, vodka and vinegar, formerly housed The Cove restaurant.
Diamond Properties is proposing an ambitious $6.5 million project with a new restaurant, brewery, “float-in” movie theate, and even a trapeze school, The Examiner story said.
The group is hoping to open the new seafood restaurant…
