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Katonah-Lewisboro School Board, Support-Staff Union Reach Two-Year Deal Katonah-Lewisboro School Board, Support-Staff Union Reach Two-Year Deal
Katonah-Lewisboro School Board, Support-Staff Union Reach Two-Year Deal CROSS RIVER, N.Y. -- The Katonah-Lewisboro school board and the district’s support staff union have both approved a memorandum of agreement for a new contract, school officials said. The two sides had been in negotiations since last winter. After the summer break, the board voted on the two-year deal on Sept. 17. Members of the Katonah-Lewisboro Support Staff Association -- which represents clerical staffers, bus drivers, custodians, and teacher aides, among other employees -- voted in favor of the pact on Sept. 10. According to school officials, the agreement includes wage increases and h…

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Fence-Hopping Bear Spotted Roaming Wayne Neighborhood Fence-Hopping Bear Spotted Roaming Wayne Neighborhood
Fence-Hopping Bear Spotted Roaming Wayne Neighborhood WAYNE, N.J. — An unexpected guest gave one Wayne resident quite a thrill one recent Sunday morning, according to a report in NJ Advance Media for NJ.com. Kevin Scott has been living in the town’s Mark Valley area for more than three decades, but until Sunday had never seen a black bear on his street, according to the report. And this wayward critter was hopping 6-foot-tall fences, and just about anything else that got in its way, all around the neighborhood, Scott told NJ Advance Media. The surprised homeowner told NJ Advance Media that police were investigating sightings of the furry inva…

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Ex-Fairfield County Resident Caitlyn Jenner Seeks Legal Name, Gender Change Ex-Fairfield County Resident Caitlyn Jenner Seeks Legal Name, Gender Change
Ex-Fairfield County Resident Caitlyn Jenner Seeks Legal Name, Gender Change FAIRFIELD COUNTY, Conn. -- Olympic gold medalist and transgender reality star Caitlyn Jenner wants to legally change her name to fit her new identity, according to Entertainment Weekly magazine. The 65-year-old Newtown High School graduate, who was born William Bruce Jenner, recently filed a petition in Los Angeles County Superior Court seeking the change, Entertainment Weekly said. She also is asking to legally change her gender to female from male, the magazine reported. According to Entertainment Weekly, Jenner has to provide the court with documents formally declaring the gender change…

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Police & Fire
Woman Locked In Supermarket Tops North Castle Police Blotter Woman Locked In Supermarket Tops North Castle Police Blotter
Woman Locked In Supermarket Tops North Castle Police Blotter NORTH CASTLE, N.Y. -- An employee of DeCicco’s in Armonk had to call 911 on Tuesday, Sept. 15, when she was accidentally trapped in the supermarket, North Castle police said. The unidentified woman told authorities that she had gone into a back room at the Maple Avenue store to retrieve her bag and found that the store had been closed and locked up tight when she re-emerged, according to the police blotter. Police were able to locate someone with a key, and the employee was freed. Other items in the blotter included the following: Friday, Sept. 11: Police investigated a complaint from a …

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Former Westchester HS Student Caitlyn Jenner Seeks Legal Name Change Former Westchester HS Student Caitlyn Jenner Seeks Legal Name Change
Former Westchester HS Student Caitlyn Jenner Seeks Legal Name Change WESTCHESTER COUNTY, N.Y. -- Former Olympic athlete and transgender reality star Caitlyn Jenner wants to legally change her name to fit her new identity, according to Entertainment Weekly magazine. The 65-year-old Mount Kisco native, who was born William Bruce Jenner, recently filed a petition in Los Angeles County Superior Court seeking the change, Entertainment Weekly said. She also is asking to legally change her gender to female from male, the magazine reported. According to Entertainment Weekly, Jenner has to provide the court with documents formally declaring the gender change, includ…

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Mount Vernon Man Faces Gun Charges In New Rochelle Shooting Mount Vernon Man Faces Gun Charges In New Rochelle Shooting
Mount Vernon Man Faces Gun Charges In New Rochelle Shooting MOUNT VERNON, N.Y. -- A Mount Vernon man faces weapons charges after he was arrested Tuesday in connection with a shooting in New Rochelle, according to Preet Bharara, U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York. Raheem Jones, 26, was charged Wednesday, with felony possession of a gun, which carries a maximum prison sentence of 10 years, Bharara said. Police said a passenger in an SUV fired into another vehicle near the New Rochelle Day Nursery on the city’s busy Clinton Avenue around 12:40 p.m., wounding the unidentified victim three times. The victim, who was hit in the left shou…

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Search For Distraught Man Tops North Castle Police Blotter Search For Distraught Man Tops North Castle Police Blotter
Search For Distraught Man Tops North Castle Police Blotter NORTH CASTLE, N.Y. -- North Castle police assisted in the search recently for a reportedly distraught Bedford man, according to an item in the North Castle police blotter. On Wednesday, Sept. 2, Bedford police asked North Castle for help in finding the man, who they said had been intoxicated, threatening suicide, and who may have been trying to drive to a hospital in Connecticut. The man was later located by a family member, Bedford police said. No further details were available. Other blotter items included the following:  Police responded to a criminal mischief complaint from someone w…

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Putnam Valley's Town Day Starts With Parade, Ends With Fireworks Putnam Valley's Town Day Starts With Parade, Ends With Fireworks
Putnam Valley's Town Day Starts With Parade, Ends With Fireworks PUTNAM VALLEY, N.Y. -- Putnam Valley’s annual Town Day has morphed from an old-fashioned July Fourth picnic with sack races and a tug of war to a country-fair-like event with amusement rides, activities, food vendors, exhibits, and fireworks, say local officials. This year’s Town Day kicks off at 2 p.m. Saturday, with a parade. Marchers will line up at Putnam Valley High School on Peekskill Hollow Road and proceed to the Leonard Wagner Town Park on Oscawana Lake Road. Parking will be available at the high school and at the Putnam Valley Elementary School on Oscawana Lake Road. After the par…

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Two Wilton High School Seniors Named National Merit Semifinalists Two Wilton High School Seniors Named National Merit Semifinalists
Two Wilton High School Seniors Named National Merit Semifinalists WILTON, CONN. -- Two Wilton High School seniors have been named National Merit Semifinalists in the 2016 National Merit Scholarship Program, school officials announced recently. Rachel S. Pak and Derek A. Thomas took the fall 2014 Preliminary SAT/National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test as juniors. More than 1.5 million students took the exam and 16,000 were named semifinalists, a pool which represents less than one percent of high school seniors. Pak and Thomas now have the chance to compete for Merit Scholarship awards that will be offered next spring, school officials said.

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Westchester Business Owner Sentenced In $3.7 Million Payroll Tax Fraud Westchester Business Owner Sentenced In $3.7 Million Payroll Tax Fraud
Westchester Business Owner Sentenced In $3.7 Million Payroll Tax Fraud WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. -- A Yonkers businessman was sentenced Wednesday to six months behind bars for his role in a $3.7 million payroll tax fraud, according to Preet Bharara, U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York. Bharara said that Patrick White, who operates R & L Construction Inc., a Yonkers-based firm, was also sentenced in U.S. District Court in White Plains, to one year of home confinement. White was found guilty of one count of failing to pay millions in payroll taxes accumulated by his business between 2005 and 2011, Bharara said. White was further ordered by Judge Ca…

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