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Mural Honoring DMX Unveiled At Hometown Westchester Housing Complex Mural Honoring DMX Unveiled At Hometown Westchester Housing Complex
Mural Honoring DMX Unveiled At Hometown Westchester Housing Complex Officials in Westchester have unveiled a memorial mural dedicated to rap legend DMX at the housing complex he once lived in. Earlier this year, the Municipal Housing Authority for the City of Yonkers commissioned Yonkers Arts to restore a mural at the Calcagno Homes at 55 School St. in the city. Following the death of Earl Simmons, the rapper’s birth name, in April at the age of 50, the residents of Calcango Homes, where he once lived, asked that the mural restoration include a memorial to the star. The mural stands at 35 by 22 feet high and includes DMX’s likeness as well as a verse…

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by Zak Failla
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Tarrytown Native Awarded Nobel Prize Tarrytown Native Awarded Nobel Prize
Tarrytown Native Awarded Nobel Prize A Hudson Valley native was one of three researchers who were awarded a Nobel Prize for showing how cells sense and adapt to changing oxygen levels, leading to the discovery of new drugs. The Nobel Prize was awarded to Gregg L. Semenza, a Sleepy Hollow High School alum, who is the C. Michael Armstrong Professor of Medicine at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in Baltimore. William G. Kaelin Jr., who teaches at Harvard, and Peter J. Ratcliffe, who researches at the University of Oxford and Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, were also named as the honorees of the 2019 Nobel Prize in …

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by Zak Failla
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Iona Prep Unveils Five New Hall Of Fame Inductees Iona Prep Unveils Five New Hall Of Fame Inductees
Iona Prep Unveils Five New Hall Of Fame Inductees Iona Preparatory School will induct five new members into its Hall of Fame as part of its Reunion Weekend on April 27-28.  The 2018 honorees include business and community leaders from Under Armour, Nasdaq, Richard Bernstein Advisors, O.C. Tanner and Iona Prep Lower School. “For more than 100 years, Iona Prep has been developing young men into moral, ethical and spiritual leaders, and the Hall of Fame honorees represent the very highest level of excellence,” said Brother Thomas R. Leto, president of Iona Prep in New Rochelle. “We are so proud to add another five outstanding individuals to t…

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by Jon Craig