Yonkers students score prom dresses for $1
May 16, 2013 by Sarah
To help Yonkers students afford the costs of formal dress, limos and tickets that come with prom, Operation Prom recently gave girls the opportunity to purchase $1 dresses.
The last sale of the 2013 prom season took place in [Read more]
Yonkers health organizations hold baby supplies collection drive
April 16, 2013 by Sarah
Mother’s Day is quickly approaching and, in honor of the U.S. holiday, two Yonkers-based health organizations, WESTMED Medical Group and Ayfa Foundation, are sponsoring a new drive to collect lightly-used baby supplies.
As part of a program called ‘Wazazi’, the supplies will b [Read more]
Yonkers public school team makes it to the state Science Olympiad
March 17, 2013 by Mark
The science Olympiad team from PEARLS Hawthorne School placed fifth at the Lower Hudson Valley Regional Science Olympiad during the first weekend of March. Its placing means that the Yonkers middle school students will advance to [Read more]
Yonkers police shave their heads for a good cause
February 15, 2013 by James
Most people would agree that February in Yonkers is not the ideal time to shave their heads, but the chilly weather is not stopping more than 50 members of the Yonkers Police Benevolent Association (PBA) and one [Read more]
Yonkers shopping center offers free parking
January 9, 2013 by Sarah
Shoppers who drive to the Ridge Hill Shopping Center in Yonkers will no longer need to dig for quarters in their purses or wallets.
On January 4, the [Read more]
Yonkers elementary school celebrates a multi-cultural holiday
December 21, 2012 by Sarah
To honor the diversity of the student body at Yonkers School 9, the school hosted a multi-cultural holiday assembly. The assembly taught students about the history and meaning of a number of winter holidays, including Christmas, Hanukkah, and [Read more]
Developers in Yonkers turn their attention to new space for stores
November 17, 2012 by Sarah
New Jersey’s Morris Industrial Builders have their eye on what some might consider an unusual location for a new retail development.
The developers are hoping to [Read more]
Yonkers has a spooktacular Halloween planned
October 23, 2012 by Sarah
Halloween kicks off a week early in the city of Yonkers, with the Yonkers Department of Parks, Recreation and Conservation playing host to more than a dozen parties and events all centered [Read more]
Yonkers up for a revamp
September 15, 2012 by Mark
The city of Yonkers is on the development fast-track once more as the first phase of a multi-million dollar “daylighting” project last month took the cement “lid” off a two-block section of the Saw Mill River. Two more [Read more]
Yonkers to sail into September
August 29, 2012 by Mark
Although local print companies have probably been somewhat active in the promotion of the 2nd Annual All-White Yacht Party Fundraiser and the Labor Day Weekend Midnight Yacht Cruise, it never [Read more]
