Three libraries in our region got what they asked for. Voters in Patterson, Stony Point and Peekskill approved budget requests from their public library on Tuesday. Here are the final tallies:

Putnam: In Patterson, voters agreed to increase the annual contribution from the town to the Patterson Library by $80,293 to $514,293 annually. The vote was [...]

Authors and activists zero in selections for Veteran’s Day at a reading next Friday.  “Poets and Writers on War and Peace,” features selections by award-winning poet and human rights activist D. Nurkse and poet Frances Richey.

The Slapering Hol Press Second Friday Café Reading Series at the Hudson Valley Writers’ Center will present this fourth annual [...]

A United States Air Force Band performs this weekend at the Mahopac Public Library. Appearing will be the New England Winds quintet with  popular, Broadway, patriotic, jazz and folk music, as well as a traditional quintet repertoire.

It’s billed as a free family event; registration is requested. Program is at 2 p.m, this Saturday. Mahopac library [...]

How much access should be allowed to what other people read, see and look at while in a public library? This is clearly not an easy question to answer even though it sounds simple.

If you think it is clear issue, just read the story and comments in today’s story about the Hendrick Hudson Free Library [...]

Straight from Woodstock, N.Y. poet Susan Hoover was at H.C. Crittenden Middle School in Armonk this week speaking to sixth grade students.

The Journal News/LoHud.com photographer Frank Becerra Jr. was there and he shot some photos. He also posted on our new community blog for northern Westchester communites.  Check it out.

She is a published poet, performance [...]

The Briarcliff Manor School District is inviting its community at large to participate in the National Day of Writing and for authors to post their words, elegant or not, online.

“In conjunction with the National Day on Writing sponsored by the National Council of Teachers of English, we have created a website that seeks to celebrate [...]

In his new book called “The Real F Word,”  Matthew Cossolotto of Yorktown zeroes in on failure, which is what the “F” in his title stands for. He has developed what he calls a “Fix FAILURE First” approach to personal change.

He suggests a process based on what he calls the Three R’s  (Recognize, Reject, and [...]

If you are a fan of “Olive Kitteridge,” the collection of short stories about life in Maine by Elizabeth Strout, then come meet the prize-winning author  and writing professor in person next month in Purchase.

Strout is the featured guest of  Manhattanville’ College’s “Meet the Writers” Literary Series fall 2009. This  literary series offers  readings  and [...]

Just heard that Falcon, the missing 6-year-old boy from Denver area, was found alive — and at home. So glad, though I think this is just the beginning of a real story.

This  afternoon like many others, I was captivated  by this runaway balloon that took off towards the clouds  and which set off a dramatic [...]

I am still trying to get a handle on the newest winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, writer Herta Mueller.

Really, I don’t know her work, probably because only some has been translated into English.  But this award makes me want to know more about her. She is 56 and originally from Romania before immigrating [...]