An email appeared in my inbox almost seven years ago from Rich Zahradnik. He described the sad demise of the News of Pelham and asked, "What should we do next?" This question was not a simple one to answer,...

Barbara Klein has watched hundreds of children walk through the doors of Huguenot Nursery School for 32 years. She's touched hearts and held out hands. As the founding director, she built the school...

Incumbent Republicans Breda Bennett and Maurice Owen-Michaane won reelection to the Village of Pelham Manor Board of Trustees, defeating Democratic challengers Kate Pringle and Mark Cardwell. Announcement...

After votes couldn't be counted Tuesday night in the contest for four Village of Pelham Manor trustee seats, Village Manager and Clerk Lindsey Luft was working with the Westchester Board of Elections on...

Voters crammed into a packed village hall Wednesday for a forum featuring the four candidates seeking two seats on the Village of Pelham Manor Board of Trustees. Incumbent Republicans Breda Bennett...

The PMHS ice hockey and the girls basketball teams both made progress in the sectional tournaments during the winter break for the schools. Hockey had a bye in the quarterfinal round after receiving...

Superintendent Dr. Cheryl Champ presented to the school board Feb. 12 a preliminary budget that increases spending by 2.68% to $93.4 million and seeks to maintain existing programs while the district works...

Pelham Memorial High School has adopted its first logo, replacing the one used by the school district. The new design came after PMHS Principal Mark Berkowitz sat in on a sociology class in which teacher...

Democratic Pelham Manor village board candidates Kate Pringle and Mark Cardwell spoke Sunday about their reasons for running and what they hope to accomplish if elected during a campaign launch event at...

Danny, a resident of Pelham, was four when he was diagnosed with a rare, fatal form of leukemia. Pelhamites immediately organized to support his family, and from there The Danny Fund was formed. Now...

Pelham schools will be closed for a snow day Tuesday, the worsening weather extending what was originally a two-hour delay declared Monday evening. Superintendent Dr. Cheryl Champ announced the closure...

Pelham schools will open on a two-hour delay Tuesday, according to an email sent to families by Superintendent Dr. Cheryl Champ. Due to the weather forecast of snow throughout the night, all schools will...

Undefeated Pelham ice hockey took down Rye 8-2 Friday night as Pelican fans packed Rye’s home ice at Playland Casino. After Rye scored the opening goal, Pelham was unstoppable, with five different...

Michaels at the Pelham Manor Shopping Plaza is closing on Jan. 18. Many of the products have already been boxed up or sold. A Michaels employee refused to comment on why the crafts supply store was...

The Westchester County Bomb Squad assisted by a K9 unit found no explosives and no credible threat on the Pelham middle and high school campus following a bomb threat Monday afternoon that forced the evacuation...

Town of Pelham voters reelected the three Democratic incumbents who faced competitive elections Tuesday, giving Kristen Burke and Maura Curtin new four-year terms on the Pelham Town Council and Adam Kagan...

On this Election Day, incumbent Democrats Kristen Burke and Maura Curtin are vying with Republican nominee Clive Anderson for two seats with four-year terms on the Pelham Town Council. For a four-year...

The PMHS boys cross country team won the league championship Tuesday, taking the title for the first time in a decade. Four Pelican runners placed in the top 10 in the competition held at Edgemont...

Pelham Democratic Town Councilwoman Kristen Burke hosted a press conference on her front porch Thursday to kick off the campaign for herself and her fellow Democratic candidates, Councilwoman Maura Curtin...

Highbrook Avenue

All Pelham public schools were placed on lockout Tuesday due to "a police report of an emotionally disturbed individual in Pelham Heights," while, in an unrelated incident, middle and high school students...

Incumbent Democrats Kristen Burke and Maura Curtin will vie with Republican nominee Clive Anderson for two seats with four-year terms on the Pelham Town Council in the general election on Nov. 7, while...

An accidental structure fire on Iden Avenue on Friday afternoon closed off that street and Wolfs Lane. Both streets have since been reopened to traffic. The Pelham Manor and Village of Pelham fire...

The CVS at Four Corners will remain closed while the water line that feeds the property's fire suppression system is repaired, according to an announcement from the Village of Pelham Manor at 7:20 p.m....

Every year, the outgoing Pelham Middle School eighth grade class creates an art piece to be hung in the hallway to commemorate that class's time at PMS. Each art piece is created by every student in that...

The Pelham Memorial High School junior class hosted its junior prom on May 19 in the gym. The event was organized by the class of 2024 student association officers. Students danced the night away with...

Grace Kiamie as Mother Nature.

Best Version Media is introducing Pelham Living magazine in April with plans to feature a local family on the cover of every issue and to publish community-centered articles. The mission of the monthly...

Athletic Director Christian Hodge has resigned after three years on the job in the Pelham school district. Hodge is leaving effective March 10 to take a similar position at another school district,...

Kate Douglass has once again broken the 200 breast American and US Open records with a time of 2:01.43. Douglass has broken this record three times in the last year and holds four of the seven fastest...

A downed tree closed Franklin Place outside the side entrance to Pelham Memorial High School on Friday. Students and faculty were not allowed to use the Franklin Place doorway. Cars are being directed...

The Town of Pelham Public Library has announced a planning process for the redesign of the facility. The library board of trustees is seeking to develop or redesign the building's space to house more people...

A swastika was found at Pelham Memorial High School "scratched into the top of a stairwell" in an area not frequently used by students or staff, Superintendent Dr. Cheryl Champ said Monday evening in an...

When a seventh grader in 2019, Bennett Wies wasn't sure what to write about for Assemblywoman Amy Paulin's annual "There Ought to be a Law" essay contest. "I remember being stumped when we first got...

The Netflix original "Purple Hearts" has captivated the hearts of viewers with Forbes calling the movie "one of Netflix's most successful films ever." Now the title may sound simple, but the complexity...

Village of Pelham firefighters responded to a fire in the rear of a sanitation truck right outside the firehouse Monday and needed to call the Westchester County Hazmat Team because the truck's contents...

Flash flooding from a Thursday afternoon thunderstorm closed Highbrook Avenue and Wolfs Lane and other Pelham streets. The Pelham Memorial High School blue gym and auditorium were also flooded. That...

On Thursday night, 18 groups from Pelham Memorial High School performed in the annual Battle of the Bands in the courtyard between the middle and high school. Groups included The M.A.C., The Heartbeats,...

The Girl Scouts of Pelham will celebrate more than 100 years of activity and service later this year, with specific plans still in the works. "This tremendous milestone will show our current Girl...

Lelia Brady is creating a comic book, "The PMHS Survival Guide Book," for freshman and new students making the transition to Pelham Memorial High School as her final project for the Gold Award, the highest...

The 1969 court case Tinker v. Des Moines ruled that students do not “shed their constitutional rights to freedom of speech or expression at the schoolhouse gate." Twenty years later, the case Hazelwood...

Pelham native Kate Douglass was named Women's Swimmer of the Year by the College Swimming and Diving Association of America (CSCAA). Douglass broke American records in the 50 freestyle, 100 butterfly and...

Incumbent Trustees Bridget "Breda" Bennett and Maurice Owen-Michaane were officially reelected to the village board March 15 after facing no opponents on the ballot. Owen-Michaane and Bennett ran on...

Village of Pelham Manor incumbent Trustees Bridget "Breda" Bennett and Maurice Owen-Michaane are running unopposed for reelection as nominees of the Republican and Neighborhood parties. Voting for the...

The Village of Pelham's own Sergio's Ristorante was one of nine restaurants in the New York area named to OpenTable's 100 top places in America to dine in 2021, after the online restaurant reservation...

A vigil Jan. 6 at Wolfs Lane Park memorialized the five people who died one year ago when supporters of former President Donald Trump—following his encouragement—stormed the U.S. Capitol in order to...

The Picture House Regional Film Center will expand to Bronxville when it takes over operations of the Bow Tie Cinema, which was in danger of closing for good, under a ten-year lease. Like the Picture...

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...

Six residents opposed allowing cannabis businesses in the Village of Pelham while two came out in favor during public hearings Tuesday at the board of trustees meeting. The hearings were on two proposed...

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...

Pelham residents and out-of-towners, headlining acts and local performers met the bright sunshine Saturday with music, smiles and some serious boogying on parking lot 7 at the first-ever Toonerville...

At age 17, Vito "Ace" Pisano graduated from Bronx Vocational School and started working in the Brooklyn Navy Yard as an apprentice steamfitter. It was the beginning of World War II. He put in long, tough...

In her Tokyo Olympics debut Monday, PMHS alum Kate Douglass won a quarterfinal heat of the 200 individual medley with a time of 2:09.16, swimming her personal best and leading right off the block. Douglass...

Events kicked off with a dog parade from Boulevard to Wolf's Lane Park, sponsored by Pelham Animal Hospital and Bischof & Bischof LLP. Here was the official return of Pelham's SummerFest on Saturday,...

On May 14th from 5:30-8 pm, PMHS students showed off their musical talents at the annual Battle of the Bands. It was held outside in the breezeway between the middle and high school. Attendees paid...

Going back to 1965, Westchester has been the setting for many film and television productions. The county offers a variety of locations for filmed productions, everything from cities like Yonkers to small...

New Yorkers are seeing the lowest infection and hospitalization rates for Covid-19 in more than three months, and the numbers continue to decline, if more slowly in Westchester County during the past two...

Welcome to senior year of high school at Alder High, where love is in the air and college applications are due. The "To All The Boys I've Loved Before" trilogy ends with, "To All The Boys: Always and Forever,"...

Around the same time people started to get vaccinated for Covid-19, the Westchester County Department of Consumer Protection started hearing about vaccine scams. The goal of these scammers is to steal...

“Ballet Arts has been performing the second act of 'The Nutcracker' in collaboration with the Pelham Picture House forever,” said Sheran Daniele, artistic director of Ballet Arts-The Performing Arts...

When I was in second grade, I watched "High School Musical." It was the first time I remember being excited about high school. In 2017, I graduated fifth grade. The feeling I felt receiving my "diploma"...

Before the Covid-19 pandemic hit the United States, Luisa DeCicco talked to her sister in Italy on the phone. Her sister, a doctor, advised DeCicco to start preparing herself and all the DeCicco and Sons...

With the November elections just around the corner, political parties are looking to expand their platforms to the younger generation. The Pelham Democratic Committee has done this by adding a Young Democrats...