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Former Town Board Member, Veteran From Westchester Dies Former Town Board Member, Veteran From Westchester Dies
Former Town Board Member, Veteran From Westchester Dies A community in Northern Westchester is mourning the loss of a former Town Board member who dedicated much of his life to public service.  Yorktown resident and former Town Board member Anthony Grasso died on Tuesday, Aug. 13 at the age of 96, town officials announced on Wednesday, Aug. 14.  Born in 1927, Grasso served two years in the military and spent 18 of those months stationed in Germany at the headquarters of the 66h Medium Tank Battalion of the Second Armored Division.  He eventually returned home to Yorktown and went on to serve one term on the Town Board from 1985 t…

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by Ben Crnic
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Republican Leader In Westchester Resigns After Making Racist Slur Republican Leader In Westchester Resigns After Making Racist Slur
Republican Leader In Westchester Resigns After Making Racist Slur A top Republican leader in Northern Westchester has resigned after being caught on video calling an elected official a racist slur during an election night celebration. In Yorktown, GOP district leader Tom Pomposello was forced to resign after calling Town Councilman Vishnu Patel a racist slur after the latter lost to a pair of GOP challengers following a decade in office. The slur targets people from the Middle East. Patel is an Indian American. Video of the incident from a Yorktown GOP celebration event was first posted on social media and was later taken down, but not before it made the…

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by Zak Failla
Obituaries
Nancy Elliott, Yorktown's First Female Supervisor, Dies Nancy Elliott, Yorktown's First Female Supervisor, Dies
Nancy Elliott, Yorktown's First Female Supervisor, Dies Nancy Elliott, Yorktown's first female supervisor, died Thursday, July 11 in Hillsborough, North Carolina. She was 89. "We are saddened to learn of the passing of Nancy Elliott, a former chair of the Yorktown Republican Town Committee and political legend who served 12 years as Yorktown supervisor from 1980 to 1992," Yorktown Republican Town Committee chair Christopher Arnold said in a statement. "She was our first female supervisor and having been fortunate enough to grow up here to watch her in action, I witnessed her numerous achievements first hand and her tremendous loss grieves us all…

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by Donna Christopher