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Foto Feature: Stacks of household items destroyed by Hurricane Idas flooding line Pelhams streets

Foto Feature: Stacks of household items destroyed by Hurricane Ida’s flooding line Pelham’s streets

By Kira Findikyan, Profiles Editor
September 7, 2021

The Village of Pelham and Village of Pelham Manor issued announcements on applying for federal aid after a major disaster declaration was issued for Westchester County.

Video: Latimer declares emergency in county after Ida’s deluge; villages issue statements on flooding

September 2, 2021

Tropical Storm Ida's deluge closed streets and businesses and inundated basements in Pelham and left 200 cars stranded in flood waters across the county. Westchester Executive George Latimer declared...

Hole in ground: Apartment building under construction on Fifth Avenue to be finished by late 2022

Hole in ground: Apartment building under construction on Fifth Avenue to be finished by late 2022

By Kiran Schwaderer, Staff Reporter
September 1, 2021

An apartment building under construction at 139 Fifth Ave. since the demolition of a one-story multi-store retail property at the site will be finished by the fourth quarter of the 2022, with occupancy...

Updated Foto Feature: Destruction in aftermath of Ida from an Examiner editor

Updated Foto Feature: Destruction in aftermath of Ida from an Examiner editor

By Daniella Cherner, Senior Editor
September 1, 2021

Daniella Cherner, a Pelham Examiner founder and junior at Tulane University, rode out Hurricane Ida in a house in the Uptown neighborhood of New Orleans. Daniella provided these pictures of the destruction...

School board votes to require all district staff, athletes in high risk sports to show proof of jab or test weekly

School board votes to require all district staff, athletes in high risk sports to show proof of jab or test weekly

By Cristina Stefanizzi, Deputy Managing Editor
August 30, 2021

The Pelham Board of Education unanimously approved two resolutions Wednesday requiring all district staff and athletes playing high risk sports to provide proof of vaccination or participate in weekly...

Rabbi Benjamin Resnick at the Pelham Jewish Center.

Benjamin Resnick arrives from Chicago to take over as rabbi of Pelham Jewish Center

By Madison Cohen, Photo Editor
August 30, 2021

The Pelham Jewish Center has welcomed Rabbi Benjamin Resnick, who moved to Pelham from Chicago, where he worked at the Solomon Schechter Day School of Metropolitan Chicago.  Resnick, who is married...

Pelham Memorial High School

PMHS Class of 1946 to hold 75th reunion on Zoom on Tuesday

August 29, 2021

"The Class of 1946 Pelham Memorial High School is having a Zoom reunion on Tuesday, August 31, 2021, for any members we can reach. This will be our 75th reunion." Information provided by A. James (Jim)...

Foto Feature: Big tots campers visited by police and fire departments, see Mets game

Foto Feature: Big tots campers visited by police and fire departments, see Mets game

August 26, 2021

The Pelham Recreation Department's big tots day camp featured visits from the Village of Pelham police and fire departments and a field trip to a Mets game as part of this summer's programming. The photos...

Author Margie McCartney (left) and her mother Joan, who still lives in Pelham Manor.

Author Margie McCartney’s debut book includes chapter on her early life in Pelham

By Leila Brady, Staff Reporter
August 25, 2021

Pelham native Margie McCartney is about to publish her first book “And Then… Networking Lessons from an Extraordinary Life Still in Progress” documenting the connections she has made throughout her...

Foto Feature: On playgrounds of summer dreams at recs tiny tots camps

Foto Feature: On playgrounds of summer dreams at rec’s tiny tots camps

August 24, 2021

The Pelham Recreation Department's tiny tots day camps at Siwanoy and Colonial schools included in their programs dress-up day, visits from firefighters and police officers and concerts.

Satellite image of Hurricane Henri.

Hurricane Henri forecast to make eastern Long Island landfall Sunday afternoon

August 21, 2021

This hurricane statement was provided by the National Weather Service. Hurricane Henri Local Statement Advisory Number 24 533 PM EDT Sat Aug 21 2021 This product covers Southeast New York, Northeast...

Project Community to focus on binge drinking, sexual assault, anxiety among teens this fall

Project Community to focus on binge drinking, sexual assault, anxiety among teens this fall

By Kate Ely, Staff Reporter
August 20, 2021

With the new school year approaching, Project Community outlined the programs it offers teens in the areas of self awareness, anxiety, binge drinking and sexual assault during a lunch Aug. 9 at the Pelham...

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