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Resolutions for the slackers who already blew it
Opinion

Resolutions for the slackers who already blew it

[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. […]

Tuckahoe plans to bring the pay-by-phone parking app Pango to more than 100 long-term parking meters. Pictured is one of more than 1,200 Pango-accessible meters in Bronxville, where pay-by-phone has been available for more than a year.
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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 […]

Larry McGowan retired from Playland last year but his love for the
amusement park and his passion for music have made for a most
interesting life. Photo courtesy Rat Race Choir
Features

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
Opinion

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 […]

Police raises, guaranteed to be at least 2 percent by contract, were responsible for a large portion of the increase in Bronxville's overall budget this year.
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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 […]