Yonkers Tribune

The "Featured" BlogTalk Radio programWestchester On the Level with Narog and Aris is host to Film Critic and Luxor Film Festival Curator Sherif Awad  this Friday, February 21, 2014, from 10 a.m. onward. The discussion changes course at 11 a.m. when we delve into the latest events in Ukraine, The Middle East, among other international news. Hezi Aris is your host today. Share your perspective on the issues discussed today; you are asked only to stay on topic. Call the show: (347) 205-9201, use Skype: contact eHezi18 during the "live" broadcast, or listen on demand by way of the following hyperlink:http://BlogTalkRadio.com/WestchesterOnTheLevel/.

“I’ve got mine, you get yours.”

An old New Yorker Magazine cartoon depicted a huge sanitation worker grinning maniacally as he was about to toss an empty garbage can to the curb in front of an apartment building, shattering the pre-dawn silence. The caption read, “The sort of thing that brings joy to the ashman’s black heart.”

I’ve often thought of that cartoon as I lay in bed early in the morning after being awakened by the sanitation workers of the Yonkers Public Works Department, who come by three days a week at about 6:30 a.m. to collect garbage and recycling. I recently moved to a new address, and found that the collection started an hour earlier than it had at my old address, just blocks away.

Notice is hereby given, pursuant to law, that the Mayor of the City of Yonkers, New York will hold a Public Hearing on Wednesday, February 26, 2014 at 5:15 P.M., in the Mayor’s Reception Room, 40 South Broadway, Yonkers, New York on the following law, to wit:

Notice is hereby given, pursuant to law, that the Mayor of the City of Yonkers, New York will hold a Public Hearing on Tuesday, February 26, 2014 at 5:00 P.M. in the Mayor’s Reception Room, 40 South Broadway, Yonkers, New York on the following law, to wit:

An idea permeates our modern view of relationships: that men and women have always paired off in sexually exclusive relationships. But before the dawn of agriculture, humans may actually have been quite promiscuous. Author Christopher Ryan walks us through the controversial evidence that human beings are sexual omnivores by nature, in hopes that a more nuanced understanding may put an end to discrimination, shame and the kind of unrealistic expectations that kill relationships.

The co-author of "Sex at Dawn," Christopher Ryan explores the prehistoric roots of human sexuality.

YONKERS, NY -- February 19, 2014 -- The Yonkers Board of Education (YBoE) Trustees Special Meeting of Wednesday, February 19, 2014, was much anticipated and well attended. Many seemed to know dribs and drabs of what was expected to happen. The gathered huddled among associates of like mind and political agenda. There was a sense of foreboding and another that seemed to catapult others to a wake. YBoE Trustee President Dr. Nader Sayegh, Esq.,(Pictured left)  broke the spell by suggesting the board go into executive session for approximately 15 minutes to discuss a personnel issue. After a 6 for and 2 against vote, the YBoE Trustees exited the 28 Wells 4^th Floor Conference room to a different gathering spot. Their collective exit permitted more gossip to enthrall the inquisitive crowd.

The "Featured" BlogTalk Radio program Westchester On the Level with Narog and Aris is host to Yonkers Media Group Editor Dan Murphy and I.A.F.F. - Local 628 President Barry McGoey, Esq., this Thursday, February 20, 2014, from 10 a.m. onward. The discussion speaks to the disregard of Yonkers Firefighters and DPW crews safety when they were engaged in replacing tile and scaping walls at Firehouse 12 in May of 2013, and for weeks on end thereafter.

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congressman Eliot Engel (New York-16) urges Metro-North to quickly adopt new safety recommendations from the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) in the wake of the deadly train derailment in his Congressional District on December 1.

The five-page NTSB report advises Metro-North to install inward- and outward-facing audio and image recorders, as well as speed restriction signs along key points to alert engineers they are approaching an area where speed must be reduced.