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March 02, 2014

Local Ukrainians Play Soccer While Keeping an Eye on Events in Their Homeland By RANDY VOGT

Yonkers Ukrainians

Yonkers Ukrainians team.

VOGT_RandyThe US Men’s National Team was scheduled to play Ukraine in an international friendly in the eastern Ukrainian city of Kharkiv on March 5 but the State Department put out a warning on travel to Ukraine and the game was moved to Cyprus.

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Yonkers City Council Passes First Local Law Under President McLaughlin

School Tax Relief for Vets 

McLAUGHLIN-YCC Veterans School Tax Exemption-Feb 2014

 

A standing ovation erupted through the Yonkers City Council chamber when on February 25th, the Council passed a bill sponsored by Council President Liam J. McLaughlin that expanded the alternative veteran's property tax exemption. The bill, which was McLaughlin's first local law since becoming Council President, passed unanimously, and makes Yonkers the first community in Westchester and the major city in the state to offer this benefit, and was supported by representatives from sixteen of Yonkers veterans organizations who are pictured above.

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Attend Irish Folk Singer Robbie O'onnell's Performance, Sunday, March 9th @ 3 p.m.

Robbie O'Connel Music @ Hastings on Hudson

Corporation Notice – City of Yonkers – New York: Public Hearing Notice

Public Hearing_ Notice ofNotice is hereby given, pursuant to law, that the City Council of the City of Yonkers, New York will hold a Public Hearing on Tuesday, March 18, 2014, at 5:00 P.M., in the City Council Chambers, 40 South Broadway, Yonkers, New York, on the following General Ordinance, to wit:

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BarbWire: An Absolute Right to Refuse Service By J. MATT BARBER

BARBER_J.MattAlbert Einstein once said, “Never do anything against conscience even if the state demands it.”

He was right.

In the aftermath of the Arizona religious freedom skirmish, I have a few questions for those who would presume to compel religious business owners, under penalty of law, to “provide goods and services” to homosexuals in a way that violates that business owner’s conscience.

To wit:

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Governor Cuomo Unveils New and Improved DMV Website

DMV_NYS Dept of Motor VehiclesGovernor Andrew M. Cuomo last week unveiled www.dmv.ny.gov, a new, redesigned website for the New York State Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) that will allow customers to order replacement driver licenses and renew registration on mobile devices, make online reservations for DMV visits, as well as more easily utilize 35 other DMV services online. Additionally, users can sign up for mobile alerts to be reminded when registration and vehicle inspection deadlines approach.

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March 01, 2014

Festive Purim Celebration - Westchester Community for Humanistic Judaism - March 15, 2014 @ 2 P.M.

Purim

Frank Solivan & Dirty Kitchen On the Edge - Urban H2O - March 15, 2014 @ 7:30 P.M.

UrbanH2O


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