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The Good Dish hosts Daphne Oz, Gail Simmons and Jamika Pessoa.

Pelhamite Lisa Hill-Ries takes her pie-making skills on to ‘The Good Dish’

By Finley Bethea, Staff Reporter
March 18, 2022

Pelham resident Lisa Hill-Ries, who runs the online bakery Chestnut Baked Goods, was featured March 7 as part of the pie day segment on the culinary show "The Good Dish." Guests were invited to compete...

Worlds collide as Pelham third grader Quinton Byfield meets LA Kings star Quinton Byfield

By Charlie Parent, Assistant Managing Editor/Sports
February 16, 2022

Not often can you say that you've been in a room with someone who has the same exact name as you—let alone comes from the same place and is playing the sport you love. However, eight-year-old Pelham...

PCCs Merjian wins oral history contest celebrating 90th anniversary of Waldorf-Astoria

PCC’s Merjian wins oral history contest celebrating 90th anniversary of Waldorf-Astoria

By Leila Brady, Contributing Editor
February 16, 2022

When Gary Merjian started working at the famous Waldorf-Astoria hotel in New York, he was excited to be an event planner and do the job he'd wanted since he was a child. He never expected to meet his longtime...

Pelhams Darra Gordon is powerful voice in LGBTQ community as top executive of GLAAD

Pelham’s Darra Gordon is powerful voice in LGBTQ community as top executive of GLAAD

By Finley Bethea, Staff Reporter
February 9, 2022

Village of Pelham resident Darra Gordon works to accelerate acceptance of the LGBTQ community as the deputy president and chief operating officer of GLAAD, the world’s largest media advocacy organization...

Making history: Four women with seats on five-member town board talk about their hopes and plans

Making history: Four women with seats on five-member town board talk about their hopes and plans

By Hannah Steinberg, Staff Reporter
January 24, 2022

History was made when the Pelham Town Board held its organizational meeting earlier this month. For of the first time, four of the five seats at the council table were occupied by women. Republican Supervisor...

Joe Durnin: Service to country and village as secret agent, mayor, trustee and veterans advocate

Joe Durnin: Service to country and village as secret agent, mayor, trustee and veterans advocate

By Mila Banfield, Staff Reporter
December 20, 2021

When Joe Durnin was elected mayor of the Village of Pelham, he made a point of getting to know everyone who worked for the village. He went to the police and fire departments and introduced himself....

Marlen Ramos takes over as new owner of Ralphs Fifth Avenue Haircutting

Marlen Ramos takes over as new owner of Ralph’s Fifth Avenue Haircutting

By Matt Michailoff, Staff Reporter
December 16, 2021

Marlen Ramos has become the new owner of Ralph’s Fifth Avenue Haircutting after being a longtime employee. Ramos has a long history of cutting hair. Born in Honduras, she would cut the hair of...

Donald Otondi takes American immigrants journey to seat on Pelham village board

Donald Otondi takes American immigrant’s journey to seat on Pelham village board

By Gabby Ahitow, Assistant Managing Editor
December 13, 2021

While taking college-level technology classes in Nairobi, Kenya, Donald Otondi learned about computers without ever being in the presence of an actual computer. His well educated father urged him to...

Michael Salama releases debut album Forking Paths recorded in bedroom during pandemic

Michael Salama releases debut album ‘Forking Paths’ recorded in bedroom during pandemic

By Leila Brady, Staff Reporter
December 8, 2021

Adversity breeds creativity. It can take the form of protest against war and authority: Picasso's "Guernica" or the anti-war folk music of the 60s and 70s. But a new wave of art is emerging in the...

Bridget Gates took job as districts first Covid-19 coordinator as she sought ways to help stop virus

Bridget Gates took job as district’s first Covid-19 coordinator as she sought ways to help stop virus

By Kiran Schwaderer, Staff Reporter
December 6, 2021

Bridget Gates worked as a county Covid-19 contact tracer before she was hired as the Pelham school district's first part-time Covid-19 coordinator. "When I was watching the Covid pandemic unfold, and...

Jordan Salama and his new book.

PMHS grad Jordan Salama to publish book on trip down Colombia’s mighty Magdalena River

By Gabby Ahitow, Assistant Managing Editor
October 6, 2021

Pelham Memorial High School and Princeton University alum Jordan Salama spent a good portion of his college career trying to decide what types of writing he liked doing. It was not till he traveled to...

Charles Fazzino work that was raffled in a benefit.

Local creator: Charles Fazzino’s pop art pops off canvas

By Sandra Chalissery, Staff Reporter
October 4, 2021

As a child growing up in Pelham, Charles Fazzino loved pop-up books. That love drove this gifted artist to work in a style he calls 3-D pop art. "I really always wanted to create my own," said Fazzino....

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