Yonkers Tribune

Summer Dance Caravan 2013 with Fabulous Duets on a Summer Night this Saturday, August 3rd at 7:30 PM 

What do Anthony Weiner, Bob Filner, Eliot Spitzer, Thomas Jefferson, Franklin D. Roosevelt, John F. Kennedy, Martin Luther King, Bobby Kennedy and Bill Clinton all have in common? Think about it. It's not a political party answer. Obviously we can easily swing right and throw out names like Mark Sanford, Newt Gingrich, Larry Craig, Mark Foley and David Petraeus.  There are several answers to this question. One answer - they all had or have a human failing.

Ceremony to Take Place on Thursday, August 1, 2013, at 10:30 a.m. at the Riverfront Library Auditorium, 1 Larkin Plaza, Yonkers, NY 10701.

YONKERS, NY -- July 31, 2013 -- Police Commissioner Charles Gardner (pictured) has announced that 20 Probabtionary Police Officers will be hired Thursday, August 1, 2013, at the Riverfront Library, which is located at 1 Larkin Plaza.  The ceremony will start at 10:30 a.m.  Members of the Yonkers Police Department Honour Guard, Commanding Officers, elected officials, and community representatives will be present for the ceremony.  Family and friends of the Probationary Officers are also invited. 

YONKERS , NY -- July 31,2013 -- The Yonkers Industrial Development Agency (YIDA) today gave final approval to the Rising Development to restore several buildings in downtown Yonkers, as well as final go-ahead for two residential towers on the northwest waterfront that had been stalled since 2005.

YONKERS, NY -- July 30, 2013 -- NYS Senate Democratic Leader Andrea Stewart-Cousins is our guest this Wednesday, July 31, 2013, at 10 a.m. We'll attempt to cover a few subjects: education funding, Women's Equality Act, Ethics / Campaign Finance Reform, NY SAFE Act, among others, time permitting. Share your perspective by calling the show at 347-205-9201 during the "live" broadcast or listen on demand by way of the following hyperlink:

A Committee of the Whole Meeting will be Held at 5:30 PM

The Yonkers City Council has called a Special Meeting to be held at 6:00 PM, at the Yonkers City Council Chambers, 4h Floor, City Hall, Yonkers, NY 10701.

They are to discuss the following:

Fires 38 Minimum Wage Summer Camp Counselors

The “Camp Rays” program has been offered at four separate school sites throughout Yonkers for many years. The four sites are situated at Lincoln High School, with a maximum enrollment of 216 campers and a staff of 50; Robert C. Dodson School, with a maximum enrollment of 140 campers and a staff of 28; Cross Hill Academy with a maximum enrollment of 120 campers and a staff of 26; and Montessori School 27 with a maximum enrollment of 72 campers and a staff of 18. Camp Rays staff to camper ratio is 6:1.  It looks good on paper, so how did a popular seasonal program turn into a fiasco for 38 Summer Camp Counselors losing their employment and those enrolled in the second three-week summer program having their summer plans curtailed and thereby disrupted without a concern or a statement from the Yonkers Parks, Recreation & Conservation Commissioner Yvette Hartsfield.

The Yonkers Industrial Development Agency (YIDA) will open its regular meeting on Wednesday, July 31, 2013 @ 9 a.m. in the Mayor's reception Room, on the 2nd Floor of Yonkers City Hall, Yonkers, New York 10701.

Visit: www.yonkersida.com for notice and agenda.

YONKERS, NY -- July 29, 2013 -- The New York State Legislature adjourned the 2013 session permitting the compulsory arbitration law to be extended for three additional years. Public Employment Relations Board (PERB) records reveal union membership working without contracts for about 5 years in Yonkers. At issue now is how the extended validity of the law will effect cities like Yonkers, considered fiscally distressed, a term ill defined by Abany lawmakers. Has the arbitration process changed so as to permit “the process and help municipalities continue to protect the public’s safety while balancing the interests of their taxpayers?” Yonkers Firefighter and I.A.F.F. Local 628 President Barry McGoey, recently returned from Albany, will share the facts and ramifications the process holds for Yonkers and the union membership. Mr McGoey, Esq., will be the first guest on the Tuesday, July 30, 2013 program of Westchester On the Level beginning at 10 a.m. At 11 a.m., author, poet, and writer John F. McMullen will attend the show to speak to his dexterity with the written word.