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Monday, July 27, 2009

07/24/09 The Raw Mount Vernon News Feed By Robo Blogger (Updasted)

Comprehensive News Feed for Mount Vernon, NY.
  • Eastchester's long-awaited $4.5M hub coming to life
    posted on July 27, 2009 03:00:00 pm
    ... Route 22 - called White Plains Post Road in this section - is a crossroads for lower Westchester, leading to Mount Vernon, New Rochelle, or north to Scarsdale and White Plains. And it's an Eastchester town center of sorts. In fact, the work is ...
  • Edney takes over as Huguenots' QB
    posted on July 27, 2009 03:00:00 pm
    ... Champions Camp is an important offseason event at New Rochelle, Edney is eager for opening day at home against Mount Vernon on Sept. 12. It's a start he didn't seem likely to make. 'As the new starting varsity quarterback, I'm sure he'll have goose ...
  • Eastchester's long-awaited $4.5M hub coming to life
    posted on July 27, 2009 04:52:42 pm
    ... Route 22 - called White Plains Post Road in this section - is a crossroads for lower Westchester, leading to Mount Vernon, New Rochelle, or north to Scarsdale and White Plains. And it's an Eastchester town center of sorts. In fact, the work is ...
  • Weakened Economy Takes Toll On African American Chamber
    posted on July 27, 2009 03:00:01 pm
    Mt. Vernon, NY - It is with great regret that the Africa American Chamber of Commerce has had to close it Rockland office, downsize the size of its Westchester offices and reduce the number of days the office will be open.
  • Aiken group reunites, reminisces
    posted on July 27, 2009 02:42:29 pm
    ... aunt got a pharmacy degree from the University of Iowa in 1930." The guest of honor was Naomi McDowell Byrd of Mount Vernon, N.Y. When she made plans about coming to Aiken for a family reunion, she mentioned a York Street reunion to Porter, who set ...
  • Crash worst in Westchester in 65 years
    posted on July 27, 2009 09:17:24 am
    ... car hits a tree on Route 9 in Dobbs Ferry. - May 31, 1958, Seven die in a crash on the Cross County Parkway in Mount Vernon.
  • GM LIves: How closure affects families
    posted on July 26, 2009 08:42:21 pm
    ... department at the Mansfield/Ontario Metal Center. On July 6, he started with Rolls-Royce Energy Systems in Mount Vernon as a fabricator for the manufacturer of pipeline and barrel centrifugal compressors, power turbines and Entronic control systems ...
  • Sales-tax losses hurt region
    posted on July 26, 2009 04:33:13 pm
    ... case, it divvies the remaining percentage with municipalities, excluding its four largest cities - Mount Vernon, New Rochelle, White Plains and Yonkers. Those cities experienced declines of 3 percent to 19 percent. (2 of 3) Sales and property taxes ...
  • Westchester briefing
    posted on July 26, 2009 03:00:00 pm
    ... to tentative information from the county Board of Elections. Independent petitions are due Aug. 18. MOUNT VERNON: The City Council has authorized the mayor to contract with Woodard and Curran for design services for the reconstruction of ...
  • NY to Germany, by way of summers in Pa.
    posted on July 26, 2009 12:17:00 pm
    ... packed a bag and made the 1 1/2-hour drive 50 miles southwest to Lewistown, he said.Hosang, who grew up in Mount Vernon, N.Y., just north of the Bronx, said he first visited Lewistown when he was 6 years old. His first visit lasted two weeks; but as ...
  • Kenyans claim titles in New Milford 8-Mile Road Race
    posted on July 26, 2009 07:48:48 am
    ... Kenya that claimed titles in the 42nd Annual New Milford 8-Mile Road Race. Abraham Ngetich, now residing in Mount Vernon, N.Y., claimed the men's title with a time of 39:43 while Salome Kosgei, of White Plains, N.Y., claimed the women's title in ...
  • City is urban core of renowned Route 22
    posted on July 25, 2009 03:00:00 pm
    ... Canadian border. Almost a fifth of it stretches through Westchester and Putnam, moving through urban cores of Mount Vernon and White Plains, past quiet streets in Eastchester and Scarsdale and pushing north past lakes, quaint villages and farmland. ...
  • Longtime Mount Vernon police department volunteer dies at 97
    posted on July 25, 2009 03:00:00 pm
    MOUNT VERNON - She baked cookies and cakes and crocheted countless baby blankets for them.
  • Business in the Burbs: Tech job market in Westchester declines at lower rate
    posted on July 25, 2009 03:00:00 pm
    ... company Jetline LLC is pushing ahead with plans to relocate major operations after it closes a plant in Mount Vernon next year. Damara Kotash, director of operations at Jetline, said that the company could possibly move operations to another state ...
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    posted on July 25, 2009 03:50:00 pm
    ... company Jetline LLC is pushing ahead with plans to relocate major operations after it closes a plant in Mount Vernon next year. Damara Kotash, director of operations at Jetline, said that the company could possibly move operations to another state ...
  • From http://spotcrime.com - Shooting - 96XX Gramatan Ave, Mt Vernon, Ny
    posted on July 11, 2009 03:00:00 pm
    Michael Owens was arrested and charged with second-degree attempted murder and attempted manslaughter.
  • Jetline LLC Plans Closure
    posted on July 24, 2009 05:46:00 pm
    ... in 100,000 sq.ft. plant. by Lisa Cross, Senior Editor -- Graphic Arts Online, 7/24/2009 5:46:00 AM Jetline LLC, Mount Vernon, NY, a commercial trade printer, plans to cease operations, eliminating 81 jobs. According to information Jetline filed with ...
  • Mount Vernon man charged with attempted murder
    posted on July 09, 2009 03:00:00 pm
    MOUNT VERNON Police in Mount Vernon Thursday arrested a local man on charges that he shot and seriously wounded a man as he sat in a car with another person outside a nightclub earlier this month.
  • Post offices in White Plains and Mount Vernon may close
    posted on July 24, 2009 03:37:04 pm
    ... the Gedney station at 620 Mamaroneck Ave. in White Plains and the Sanford station at 440 E. Sandford Blvd. in Mount Vernon, in an effort to contain a $6 billion loss this year brought on by the economic slump and e-mail's explosive growth. "The post ...
  • African-American Chamber curtails hours, closes Rockland office
    posted on July 24, 2009 03:00:00 pm
    ... The nonprofit organization has closed its Rockland office in Spring Valley and is reducing the size of its Mount Vernon office and limiting the number of days it will be open. Chamber President Robin L. Douglas said in a written statement that the ...
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