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Facebook Getting Biggest Redesign Ever After String Of Scandals
Facebook is hoping its users “like” the biggest redesign in the company’s 15-year history, which will be coming after a series of scandals have plagued the company.
Area native Mark Zuckerberg, who was born in White Plains, grew up in Dobbs Ferry and attended Ardsley High School, announced the redesign of the social media network at Facebook’s annual conference, F8, in California on Tuesday, April 30.
Gone is the blue header that has been familiar to Facebook users for more than a decade, and in is a sleeker, cleaner, white redesign that will place a larger emphasis on “groups.” The new loo…
Severe Thunderstorm Watch In Effect For Fairfield County
This story has been updated.
A Severe Thunderstorm Watch is now in effect for much of the Hudson Valley and all of Fairfield County as a band of storms moves from west to east.
The watch now covers Westchester, Fairfield, Rockland and Orange counties.
At 2:18 p.m. a severe thunderstorm was located near Tappan, moving northeast at 10 mph with 60 mph wind gusts, says the National Weather Service.
At 2:29 p.m., a severe thunderstorm, also with 60 mph winds, was located over Bedford, or near Mount Kisco, and is nearly stationary, the weather service reports.
The thunderstorm watch was added …
From Wine Store To Wine Bar: Norwalk Resident Finally Gets His Wish
Cai Palmer, a Norwalk man who owns the Wine at Five in Rye, N.Y., has taken his vinology skills to another level with the opening of The Red Pony.
The new Purchase Street wine bar, open since late December, has been a longtime dream. "I've always wanted to have a European-style wine bar where you can sit with friends, have a nice glass of wine without a TV screaming a sports game at you, and not have the commitment of a full dinner," he said.
Moving his wine shop next to the bar, at 1 Elm St. (it had previously been down the street), also gives the two places "a nice synergy.…
