The science Olympiad team from PEARLS Hawthorne School placed fifth at the Lower Hudson Valley Regional Science Olympiad during the first weekend of March. Its placing means that the Yonkers middle school students will advance to the State Olympiad in April.

Most people would agree that February in Yonkers is not the ideal time to shave their heads, but the chilly weather is not stopping more than 50 members of the Yonkers Police Benevolent Association (PBA) and one brave five-year-old from going bald for a good cause.

Shoppers who drive to the Ridge Hill Shopping Center in Yonkers will no longer need to dig for quarters in their purses or wallets.

To honor the diversity of the student body at Yonkers School 9, the school hosted a multi-cultural holiday assembly. The assembly taught students about the history and meaning of a number of winter holidays, including Christmas, Hanukkah, and Kwanzaa.

New Jersey's Morris Industrial Builders have their eye on what some might consider an unusual location for a new retail development.

Halloween kicks off a week early in the city of Yonkers, with the Yonkers Department of Parks, Recreation and Conservation playing host to more than a dozen parties and events all centered around Halloween, starting today, October 23.

The city of Yonkers is on the development fast-track once more as the first phase of a multi-million dollar daylighting project last month took the cement lid off a two-block section of the Saw Mill River. Two more phases of the project are scheduled to be completed in about three years time. By projects end, the water will meander through a six-block section of downtown Yonkers.

Although local print companies have probably been somewhat active in the promotion of the 2nd Annual All-White Yacht Party Fundraiser and the Labor Day Weekend Midnight Yacht Cruise, it never hurts for Yonkers residents to get a second reminder.