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This Top Westchester Official Named Recipient Of Prestigious Award
A top-ranking Westchester County official has received a prestigious award for her leadership abilities.
Westchester County Health Commissioner Sherlita Amler has been named the 2024 recipient of New York Medical College's William Cullen Bryant Award, county officials announced on Thursday, Oct. 3.
The award, named after the college's founder, recognizes those who show seminal leadership in health care, science, education, business, or the arts and was also bestowed to Amler's husband, Robert Amler, the college's Vice President of Government Affairs.
The awards were …
Civil Air Patrol Cadet From Westchester, Age 15, Youngest To Earn Highest Achievement Award
A 15-year-old Civil Air Patrol cadet from Westchester is now the youngest in New York to earn the program's highest achievement honor.
Cadet Colonel Arielle Nickerson of Mamaroneck, who serves with Westchester Cadet Squadron 1, is the youngest cadet to receive the General Carl A. Spaatz Award in the New York Wing, the Civil Air Patrol announced on Wednesday, March 13.
Nickerson earned the honor based on her leadership skills, moral reasoning, and physical abilities, according to Lt. Col. Thomas Vreeland, who said he has never seen a candidate with "more focus, confidence, en…
Who Is Kathy Hochul? Cuomo Resignation Shifts Focus To NY's Soon-To-Be First Female Governor
Longtime Lt. Gov. Kathy Hochul is set to become New York’s first female governor when she officially takes over for Gov. Andrew Cuomo, who announced his resignation, effective later this month.
On Tuesday, Aug. 10, Cuomo announced that he would be stepping away from Albany, effective in 14 days on Tuesday, Aug. 24, paving the way for Hochul (whose last name is pronounced HOKE-ul and rhymes with "Local") to step in and seek to stabilize what has become a highly political climate in New York.
Hochul, age 62, has served as Cuomo’s top lieutenant for nearly seven years, the longest tenure of an…
Iona College Names 'Leading Academic' As Its Ninth President
A “national leader in higher education” is taking his talents from Kentucky to New Rochelle and will become Iona College’s ninth president.
Seamus Carey, the president of Transylvania University in Lexington, Kentucky, has been chosen following an extensive, nationwide search to take over at Iona, effective as of July 1. Carey replaces Joseph Nyre, who has led to college since 2011, during what the college called “a time of unprecedented growth.”
According to the school, since 2014, Carey has “transformed (Transylvania University’s) campus, successfully led the school’s commitment to diver…
