[dropcap]R[/dropcap]eaders: Right about now, you may be feeling bad about the resolutions you’ve already broken, crushed into a million pieces and washed down with a pint of banana chocolate swirl Talenti ice cream. But there’s no need to hate your sweets-addicted, never-get-ahead, willpower-of-a-gnat (who doesn’t exercise) self. No need, indeed. […]
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Pango app takes off in Bronxville
The move by Bronxville residents to use Pango, the mobile app to pay for parking, is steadily gaining ground with nearly 500 transactions logged since Dec. 18. Village Administrator James Palmer dubbed the period between then and Jan. 1 as a “soft implementation” that gave the village and Pango time […]
A Playland worker’s wild ride
While sitting on the Playland carousel, a 5-year-old boy watched his alcoholic father stagger off into the parking lot, get into his car and drive away. That was a typical day at the amusement park during Larry McGowan’s childhood. Until he was 13, he went to Playland with his father […]
Man’s belief in dog
[dropcap]D[/dropcap]o people save dogs or is it the other way around? That’s the question posed by the Broadway comedy “Sylvia,” starring Matthew Broderick as a disengaged middle-aged New Yorker who falls in love with a very human dog—so human that she’s played by the talking, sniffing, adorable Annaleigh Ashford. But […]
New police contract increases contributions, salaries
On Nov. 30, Bronxville Village Administrator James Palmer signed off on a three-page contract with the village’s police union that will increase police officers’ health insurance contribution to 17.5 percent starting in June 2016. The current percentage is 15. In addition, starting in June 2018, that contribution rate will increase […]