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SOMETIMES a person just needs to sleep outside. Drift off to sleep with the slowness of the movement of the stars. Wake up with a cold nose. Notice how most [...]

The White Plains school board voted Monday to terminate the contract of the principal of White Plains High School as of July 1. The principal, Christine Robbins, who was the [...]

IT is a narrow, shining cone, lolling around on its wide end, lilting in the breeze. A 25-foot-tall compass point, a thorn, a spawn of the Space Needle: in some [...]

The Planning Board has requested that the developer of a proposed 23-home development on the Amawalk Reservoir submit an additional environmental impact statement, after lead from a former shooting range [...]

The developer Louis R. Cappelli has another month to iron out the details of a land purchase so that he can develop a 320-foot-tall retail and residential project on Huguenot [...]

EVERY full moon in May, the Indian legend says, a white deer used to come drink near the six-stepped falls in the Mamaroneck River, back when no one but Indians [...]

WESTCHESTER COUNTY is trying to sell a number of properties at an unusual tag sale lately, unusual because the price tag always reads $1. In an attempt to simplify its [...]

The national headquarters of the Dannon Company will be leaving its Tarrytown offices for Greenburgh this fall, allowing its more than 200 employees to remain in Westchester County, said a [...]

THERE are some clues about the developer, Jonathan F.P. Rose, that can be found in the bathroom of his office here. The reusable -- not disposable -- towels are monogrammed [...]

ABOUT 30 years ago, two redheaded 6-year-olds got into a frightful scrape in Surrey, England. One, Andrew Murphy, had come up with a potty-humor poem about the queen. The other, [...]

The former girlfriend of a Tuckahoe baseball star who tried to strangle her before throwing himself in front a train last May has sued the Tuckahoe school district, her lawyer [...]

IN this village's 113-year history, a Democrat has never been elected to serve as a trustee or mayor, the local wisdom goes. (There was one pesky Democrat who was appointed [...]

THE two friends shopping at The Westchester mall figured the serious talk about dieting started about a year ago. The two, Catherine Gray, 14, of Eastchester, and Maria Fufidio, 15, […]

JEAN ZIMMERMAN and Gil Reavill, who live in Hastings-on-Hudson, traveled around the country interviewing girls before writing ''Raising Our Athletic Daughters,'' (1998, Doubleday), about the impact of sports on girls' [...]

Louis R. Cappelli, the developer of the planned hotel, condominium and office complex at 221 Main Street in White Plains, announced plans Wednesday to split the 35-story residential tower into [...]

IN Vermont, spring usually means one thing: the end of ski season and the beginning of Mud Time, when the melting snow has turned the landscape, well, to mud. This [...]

IT hadn't happened yet. The first migratory phoebe was spotted in the Ward Pound Ridge Reservation last week. But because that harbinger of spring had not yet been followed by [...]

Wanted: old socks, ''ripped, without partners, and of any size or color.'' Offered: a telephone pole. Wanted: a chicken coop, a doghouse, a barn. Offered: ''Excellent quality landscaping rocks. Organic [...]

FOR the second time in five months, North Castle voters rejected a bond referendum for a new community and recreation center on Tuesday, this time by a resounding margin. In [...]

A panel of the federal appeals court has ruled that the Nuclear Regulatory Commission has not ignored its responsibilities toward ensuring the safety of the Indian Point nuclear plant in [...]

THE wait was an estimated hour and a quarter, which, in 3-year-old years, is a week and a half. But we were determined to try the celebrated Frrrozen Hot Chocolate [...]

OCT. 9, 1997 -- The Town of North Castle votes to try to condemn property owned by a local family named Hussar, to provide a safer driveway for its highway [...]

ERNEST S. PRINCE, the president of the Urban League of Westchester County, gets a sinking feeling when he looks around the boardroom tables during meetings about issues of importance to [...]

EVERYONE in town knows the piece of land on Old Route 22 in Armonk and almost everyone, it seems, has an opinion on its past, present and future. For generations [...]

TONI VAN LOAN will admit to being good at a variety of things. In 11 years of driving a taxi in New York City, she was never once mugged. She [...]

IN the often tumultuous battles between development and environment, between Fortune 500 interests and sustainable growth, a compromise has been reached between MBIA, the Armonk-based municipal bond insurer, and a [...]

DON and Kathleen Gold covered their furniture with sheets last summer, packed what they could fit into the back of their Honda and drove four days east from Centerville, Utah, [...]

WHERE to put the new firehouse? The question has flummoxed the hamlet of Millwood for a dozen years. The fire district has recently homed in on the site of the [...]

IT was a mystery, a sound like a broom handle falling to the floor upstairs. David Skelton had heard hunters shooting on Saturday, Nov. 29, around 3:30 p.m., when he [...]

SO there's this tense moment, see, in the life of the lawyer defending Acme Sleigh in a product liability suit, brought by a Mr. Claus in an unidentified northern state. [...]

Pound Ridge has reduced the amount of salt it puts on roads, and no bad accidents could be attributed to the change in policy after the snowstorm on Dec. 5, [...]

IN this season of fa-la-la-la-la, dozens of people who practice alternative means of healing recently learned a theory of the healing powers of some less easily transcribable syllables: wo, ah, [...]

IN a move unusual for its last-minute fervor, a group opposed to a 23-home development on the Amawalk Reservoir in Somers is urging New York City and other governments and [...]

Construction on the Mormon chapel to be built in New Rochelle is expected to begin this winter, while church officials are still trying to obtain sewer service for the larger [...]

IT felt like a day of playing hooky, cool enough for school to be in session, warm enough to spend the day outside. At 2 3/4, my daughter, Kate, is [...]

Three members of a Bronx family, one of them a 2-month-old girl, were found dead in their home last night, a day after their electricity was cut off for lack [...]

Reflecting Absence Michael Arad, an architect with the New York City Housing Authority, has created structures slightly less poetic than his memorial entry, Reflecting Absence. But the structures -- a [...]

A homeless couple died in an electrical fire early yesterday in the city-owned building in Bedford-Stuyvesant where they squatted, the authorities said. The fire appeared to have started in faulty [...]

Robert A. Durst's legal problems did not end with his acquittal Tuesday in Galveston, Tex., on charges of killing a 71-year-old retired merchant seaman. But the verdict did seem to [...]

Milton S. Shapiro, a lawyer who was active in many organizations in support of Israel, died on Friday at his home in Manhattan. He was 81. The cause was cancer, [...]

The city's Department of Transportation has suspended the assistant captain of the Staten Island ferry that crashed into a pier last month, killing 10 people and injuring dozens. The assistant [...]

The police arrested five teenage boys yesterday and charged them with robbery and criminal impersonation of a police officer, after a monthlong spree involving at least five attacks in the [...]

When Anthony Jones, a serial sex offender, was sentenced to just two to four years for attempted assault instead of 25 to life for rape in 2000, Howard Safir, then [...]

The police escorted a pilot off an Air France plane that was scheduled to fly to Paris yesterday, after he had made comments to baggage screeners that the plane was [...]

The worst accident on a Staten Island ferry was the explosion of a boiler on the Westfield II, which killed 125 passengers as the boat departed South Ferry on July [...]

Kristy Sokoloski, 32, has chosen not to menstruate. After pain from endometriosis, in which pieces of the uterine lining become implanted outside the uterus, kept her bedridden for almost a [...]

The graffiti artist who created a controversial background for a speech by Howard Dean, the Democratic presidential hopeful, was arrested Monday, after a police officer who had been looking for [...]

With the help of a good samaritan whose name they never learned, two police officers rescued five children, ages 1 to 15, and an adult from a burning house in [...]

Byline: TINA KELLEY Handmade, luscious Fair Isle, argyle, Irish knit, entrelac -- the fanciest knitting techniques, beautifully executed, appear around every corner, on almost every shoulder, in every class except [...]