Downed utility pole causes Siwanoy to evacuate Friday morning

By Nate Reynoso, Managing Editor • February 6, 2026

Early Friday morning, a utility pole collapsed near Siwanoy Elementary School. The collapse caused a partial outage and light smoke conditions that led to the students evacuating to Pelham Memorial High School for warmth, according to an email from Alex Wolff, spokesman for the Pelham Public Schools.

Siwanoy students were dismissed from the Main Entrance of the High School beginning around 11 AM. High school students were informed and prevented from exiting or returning through the entrance to allow efficient dismissal of students.

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Nate Reynoso is a senior at Pelham Memorial High School. He has served as managing editor of the Pelham Examiner for the past year. He is very passionate about writing, music and partakes in various clubs such as DOOR Magazine. He has been on the paper since 2023 and loves writing for the Pelham Examiner.

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Greg Farrell became executive director of the Pelham Examiner in June 2025, following the retirement of Rich Zahradnik, who cofounded the Examiner in 2018 alongside 24 Pelham students. Farrell began his journalism career more than 40 years ago at the Swampscott Reporter, a Massachusetts weekly. He reported on town meetings, profiled residents and covered controversial development projects. He subsequently served as a bureau chief at Adweek magazine, a white-collar crime reporter at USA Today, a Wall Street correspondent at the Financial Times and a senior reporter at Bloomberg News. He wrote “Crash of the Titans,” a book about the collapse of Merrill Lynch and its sale to Bank of America during the financial crisis of 2008. He taught high school earlier in his career and currently teaches CCD to middle schoolers at St. Catharine’s. He and his wife Cathy Taylor moved to Pelham in 2000 and raised two children here.

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