Calloway’s daughter works to preserve jazz legend’s home Saturday, Nov 22 2008

 

 

By Stacy A. Anderson

The Journal News

September 25, 2008

 

 GREENBURGH – Legends Duke Ellington, Lena Horne, Sammy Davis Jr. and Nat King Cole sang around the baby grand, practiced tunes in the basement or simply chatted in the living room of the white colonial at 1040 Knollwood Road.

 

Town officials and the family of Cab Calloway are working to preserve the rich history of the world-renowned jazz musician and bandleader’s former home by making it a historic landmark.

 

Read more about efforts by Calloway’s daughter, Ceceila Lael Calloway, to preserve the Greenburgh home as part of the Cab Calloway Music, Arts, and Cultural Preservation Foundation: http://www.lohud.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080925/NEWS02/809250492

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Equinox drivers help move GM into future Saturday, Nov 22 2008

 

By Stacy A. Anderson

The Journal News

September 22, 2008

 

 ARDSLEY- Tony Wan glides down Saw Mill River Road as whistling winds churn inside his vehicle rather than gasoline-fired pistons under the hood and the car emits heat and water instead of carbon exhaust.

 

Wan is one of about 100 people in the world test driving a Chevrolet Equinox, a hydrogen fuel-cell car manufactured by General Motors.

 

The automobile company is testing the new technology at its year-old training center in Ardsley, one of two GM training sites in the country doing so. The other is in Burbank, Calif.

 

Read more about the fuel-cell technology that converts hydrogen and oxygen into electricity and water at: http://www.lohud.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2008809220329

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Westchester teens document lives in online series, ‘The Suburbs’ Saturday, Nov 22 2008

 

 

 

 By Stacy A. Anderson

The Journal News

September 16, 2008

 

NEW ROCHELLE – Cheating boyfriends, conflicting body images, friendship rifts and fleeting crushes may seem like plots on MTV’s reality shows “Laguna Beach” and “The Hills,” but the drama stirs just as thick in southern Westchester County.

 

A group of teens from Mount Vernon and New Rochelle have been documenting their struggles and successes in an online video series they call “The Suburbs.”

 

Charles Plummer, 16, of Mount Vernon began chronicling his adventures with his friends in the summer of 2007, after receiving a camcorder for his birthday.

 

Read more about the teen “webisodes,” or online series that is filmed locally at: http://www.lohud.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080916/NEWS02/809160352/1015/OPINION01

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Greenburgh union workers frustrated by lack of pact Saturday, Nov 22 2008

 

By Stacy A. Anderson

The Journal News

September 12, 2008

 

GREENBURGH – Town civil service workers are expressing frustration over their yearlong struggle to negotiate a new contract with town officials.

 

More than 80 members of the town’s Civil Service Employees Association protested outside a Town Board meeting this week. The group has been without a contract since last September.

 

Read more about the union negotiations with the Town Board at:

www.lohud.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080912/NEWS02/809120362/1216/NEWS0204-51k

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