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  Dear EarthTalk: What is being done to safeguard grizzly bears now? I heard that their numbers are dwindling and they could vanish from the Lower 48 if we don’t protect them. – Jim Meth, Akron, OH Before European colonization of North America, upwards of 50,000 grizzly bears—also known as brown bears—roamed free across what is now the continental United …

YONKERS, NY  – January 23, 2015 – Yonkers Mayor Mike Spano today announced that the City of Yonkers has issued the following program cancellations for tomorrow, January 24, 2015, in anticipation of Saturday’s snow storm: Program Cancellations · All recreation programs at Parks Department Community Centers & Office for the Aging Community Centers · All programming taking place in Yonkers Public …

YONKERS, NY – January 23, 2015 – The following Probationary Police Officers were today sworn to duty as Yonkers Police Officers.   Congratulations one and all. Stay safe! P.P.O. Shawn Almonte P.P.O. Angela Ascolillo P.P.O. Jonathan Blake P.P.O. Justin Capowski P.P.O. Philip Collins P.P.O. Joseph Gannon P.P.O. John Golebiowski P.P.O. Kenneth Kreso P.P.O. Rawlie Phillip P.P.O. Ray Quinones P.P.O. Brian Regan …

UPDATE from Yonkers Police Commissioner Charles Gardner is found at the bottom of this article. We first divulged this report over 14 hours YONKERS, NY – January 23, 2015 – An unidentified, seemingly despondent man was reported to the Yonkers Police Department to have been sighted with a gun wondering within the perimeter known to some as Redmond Field, while …

YONKERS, NY — January 19, 2015 — A Real Estate Committee Meeting has been scheduled for Tuesday, January 20, 2015, from 7:00 to 8:00pm, at the Council Chambers, Yonkers City Hall, 4th Floor. Agenda Items: 1. Power Point presentation by the Governor’s Office of Storm Recovery concerning mitigation proposals from the State for the COY concerning “flooding”. 2. Any additional items that may …

The jihadist killing spree in Paris last week has been described as “France’s 9/11“ by Le Monde, the French liberal daily newspaper. Indeed, just like the American 9/11 fourteen years ago, it was a moment of truth: for France as a nation, for the French political class and — last, but certainly not least — for French Jews. The question, …

YONKERS, NY — January 18, 2015 — “The Anti-Poverty Opportunity Agenda builds upon Governor Cuomo’s promise to assist those in need throughout New York State in a multi-faceted and comprehensive approach. Poverty affects all cities and communities in some way, and ultimately affects our school students who are often caught in its vicious cycle, preventing them to graduate and later …

Dear EarthTalk: How is it that antibiotics are being “overused,” as I’ve read, and what are the potential consequences?                  – Mitchell Chase, Hartford, CT The development and widespread adoption of so-called “antibiotics”—drugs that kill bacteria and thereby reduce infection—has helped billions of people live longer, healthier lives. But all this tinkering with …

This columnist’s first of a few encounters with Melih Gökçek, the unchallenged mayor of the Turkish capital since 1994, was through a press release from the municipality, sent by fax to this newspaper, in the mid-1990s. It was grotesquely (but cutely) signed: Melih Gökçek, Lord Mayor of Ankara. It caused laughter in the newsroom. But no one knew the Lord …