Magazines serving the communities of Northern Westchester
By David Streich
Following his above-knee amputation due to cancer, David Streich has been getting by thanks to an outpouring of love and support.
On December 2, 2011, I had an above-knee amputation of my right leg. Even though everyone warned me, I never realized how much it would change my life in ways the doctors never prepared me. [Read more…] about One Step Back, Two Steps Forward
By Lindsay Hand
Werewolf? There wolf.
“There” being the Wolf Conservation Center (WCC) in South Salem. Chappaqua resident Deborah Heineman has been the Center’s executive director for about four years following stints as marketing director for major companies such as Readers Digest, Sotheby’s, and HBO. Always a dog lover, she found herself in a new and fascinating position.
By Pamela Brown
Sarah and Gal: From Ashes to Happily Ever After
Sometimes it takes a tragic event and a year’s time for love to blossom. In 2004, after a house fire destroyed everything except the clothes on her back, lifelong Chappaqua resident Sarah David never imagined it would lead her to her future husband, Gal. Flash forward one year to 2005 when the family home was being re-built and Gal provided an estimate for garage doors. “When I first saw Gal, I was immediately attracted, but we were both there to do business. [Read more…] about Quickie Love Stories from Around Town
By Maggie Mae…with Ronni Diamondstein
With Valentine’s Day and the Merchant Profile issue this month, what better time than this for me to shine a spotlight on someone I love, my owner Ronni Diamondstein.
“In real life I’m a school librarian,” she always says when people ask her what she does for a living. And while she has been a teacher and Library Media Specialist for over thirty years, she has accomplished quite a bit as a writer and photographer. [Read more…] about Feeling the Love for my Owner
By Lori Sachare
Bet Torah Celebrates 20 Years of Tradition Led by Chappaqua’s Actor/Director Alynne Amkraut Krull
What do Bill Clinton and Elvis Presley have in common? Both have been the subjects of Bet Torah’s Purimspiels, plays which parody the story of Purim, in which the Jews in Ancient Persia are saved from a villain named Haman by a brave heroine, Esther. On Purim, the story is read from a scroll called a Megillah. The holiday calls for acts of charity and merrymaking, which is where the Purimspiels come in.
[Read more…] about Walk the Red Carpet at “Purim Goes Hollywood, Take Three!”
