Eastchester 350th Anniversary Committee Digitizes Local Newspaper Pages

Although it's now been 351 years since Eastchester was founded, volunteers with the town's 350th Anniversary Steering Committee recently celebrated the beginning of the digitization of more than a century of local weekly newspapers as a "final gift." The steering committee is preserving much of Eastchester, Tuckahoe and Bronxville's histories in digital form, spending months digitizing copies of local literature, which will soon be accessible and searchable by anyone with a working Internet connection.
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Christ Church's 80th Anniversary Sermon by Rev. J. McVickar Haight on November 18, 1923

... Rev. Haight resigned as rector of Christ Church in 1935. Thereafter he became the rector of St. Luke's Church in Tuckahoe, New York. In 1937 he was instituted as the tenth rector of St. Andrew's Episcopal Church in Harlem. He and his wife lived in ...
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New Study Examines Number of Tuckahoe, Eastchester and Yonkers Ashley Madison 'Cheaters'

... has a list (see below) of towns who use the adultery site, and their percentage of users. No names were revealed. Tuckahoe came in at #56, 6.63 percent; Eastchester at #84, 6.05 percent; and Yonkers at #162, 5.21 percent. According to RoadSnacks, ...
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Take To The Skies At Annual Bronxville Touch-A-Truck Event

... In addition to the traditional vehicles this year's event will feature back hoe, front loader and sweeper from the Tuckahoe Department of Public Works and a Trackless Train courtesy of Roaming Railroad. As always, the experts that make use of the ...
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Scarsdale's Jansen Hospice Patients Warmed By Lap Robe Effort

When a Jansen Hospice volunteer lost a close friend to cancer, her experience of loss turned into a heart- and body-warming project to make lap robes for patients in the Scarsdale medical facility. Valerie Schneer of Tuckahoe said her friend "Was the love of my life.
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Pope Francis 'Visits' Tuckahoe Elementary School

Although Pope Francis won't arrive in New York until Thursday, students at the Immaculate Conception School in Tuckahoe got into the spirit of his historic visit earlier this week, with several events geared toward celebrating his arrival. Although most of the teachers and students will have to miss seeing Pope Francis live during his visit, they've been busy this week, crafting a large sign welcoming the pope, naming a faux "Pontiff of the Day," and his religious court.
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Bernice M. Schulte, 87, Of Eastchester

... ine grandchildren and two great-grandchildren. A funeral Mass will be celebrated at Immaculate Conception Church in Tuckahoe on Friday at 10:30 a.m. Interment will follow at Gate of Heaven Cemetery.
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