The owners of Coffee Labs Roasters have a fight on their hands again with the Westchester County Health Department over the allowance of dogs inside the popular Tarrytown coffee house.

For two years, Coffee Labs owners Michael Love and his wife, Alicia Kelligrew-Love, have been seeking a waiver or variance from the provisions of Section 14-1.183 of the New York State Sanitary Code that prohibits live animals from food service operations. The only exceptions are patrol dogs accompanying security police officers or guide dogs with blind persons.  more »

Attempting to shed the state’s negative label of a “District In Need of Improvement,” the Tarrytown School District has begun a series of initiatives that will include administrators, teachers and parents.

While the district is moving to improve its status, questions are being raised at both the federal and the state level about the fairness of the designation for some school systems.  more »

A bipartisan group of 11 elected officials and 16 labor, environmental equity, good government and transportation organizations has called on the state Department of Transportation to ensure the Tappan Zee Bridge is rebuilt with mass transit options.

The Tri-State Transportation Campaign, which includes Tarrytown Mayor Drew Fixell, Greenburgh Supervisor Paul Feiner, state Senator Andrea Stewart-Cousins (D/35th District), state Assemblyman Thomas Abinanti (D/92nd District) and Westchester County Executive Rob Astorino, maintains the bridge must accommodate bus rapid transit across the four-mile span when it opens.  more »