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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 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...
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...
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 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...
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...
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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