Westchester Residential Opportunities – Fair & Affordable Housing Expo April 29, 2023 from 11am-4pm Yonkers Riverfront Library, One Larkin Center, Yonkers, NY 10701 Free admission. Open to public.

Lifting Up Westchester Announces 2023 Student Essay Contest Winners (Contest Explored Connections and Misperceptions Between Mental Health and Homelessness) White Plains, NY—March 21, 2023—Lifting Up Westchester, a non-profit agency committed to helping individuals experiencing homelessness and hunger achieve self-sufficiency, announces the winners of their sixth annual student essay contest. Open to all students attending school in Westchester in the 7th to 12th grades, this year students were invited to think about the connections between, and misperceptions about, mental health and homelessness and how we might end the stigmas attached to both. The essay contest was established in 2017 in memory […]

The Brain Bee Competition returned to Burke Rehabilitation in White Plains on March 15 for the first time in three years. Students from area high schools competed for the opportunity to advance to the National Brain Bee Championship, answering questions on brain facts, memory, emotions, and degenerative disease. The contest is designed to encourage students to gain knowledge and pursue careers in neuroscience. The 1st Place winner was Rye High School student Odessa Meulbroek.