Hospital needs space for rehab, closes Wellness gym
About 300 people will need to find a new gym after NY Presbyterian Hudson Valley Hospital announced this week thatContinue Reading
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Peekskill residents get 50% off indoor & outdoor composters & rain barrels
Today is the deadline for Peekskill residents to place an order for an indoor or outdoor food scrap composter andContinue Reading
Q & A about Food Scrap Composting
What is compost? Compost is organic material that can be added to soil to help plants grow. Food scraps,Continue Reading
Imaginative ideas for parks and outdoor dining created in post Covid-19 world
Brainstorming conversations between residents, business owners and the city are yielding new initiatives to situations arising from a postContinue Reading
Planning Commission approves parking lot next to Pugsley Park
Three large building projects got the green light from members of Peekskill’s Planning Commission at Tuesday’s meeting held via Zoom.Continue Reading
Paving the place next to paradise for a parking lot subject of Planning Commission meeting
In her famous song, “Big Yellow Taxi,” Joni Mitchell sings they “paved paradise and put up a parking lot withContinue Reading
The men Peekskill immortalized with monuments in Depew Park
The national conversation taking place around Confederate monuments led me to the bookshelf to pull out and reread the visuallyContinue Reading
Football field at Torpy getting turf, former practice field of NY Jets
When the bulldozers arrived at Torpy Field off Hudson Avenue a week ago they began moving the earth to prepareContinue Reading
Civic group proposes new plaza on shortest street in downtown
When James Brown’s daughter Esther was born in the mid-1700’s the only way to get around Peekskill was to walkContinue Reading
When Protest Becomes Prayer
Placing one knee on the earth for 8 minutes and 46 seconds with nearly a 1,000 other people on aContinue Reading
Peekskill responds to tragedy in Minneapolis with rallies and panel discussion
The events of Memorial Day in Minneapolis around the murder of George Floyd at the hands of police officers continueContinue Reading
How to dismantle systemic racism
When the top law enforcement official in the county says that racism is real and systemic it’s important to takeContinue Reading