The city has launched a new user-friendly website.Mayor Clinton Young said the site will make government more accessible to residents and visitors.  The website allows visitors to access and download city departmental information and there are plans in the works to allow the site to accept online payments and registrations for programs.  Check the site for yourself at   www.cmvny.com  

Assemblyman Gary Pretlow announced today $300,000 in state funds for the Mount Vernon School District.The funds, in combination with $870,000 in reductions, will reduce the 2008-09 budget tax rate increase by 2.3 percent. The district also received $1.14 million once the state budget was approved. At a press conference today Pretlow, joined by State Sen. Ruth Hassell-Thompson and school [...]

Mount Vernon Mayor Clinton Young will welcome a Chinese delegation tomorrow morning at City Hall, the second international visit the mayor has hosted since taking office.Vice Mayor Zhoalin Liu of Yangquan, a sister city of Mount Vernon, will be at City Hall at 11 a.m., with a Chinese delegation. Young has welcomed an Italian [...]

Five Mount Vernon candidates running for school board trustees are planning on holding a series of flash mobs on Saturday to collect signatures. A flash mob is a large group of people who assemble suddenly in a public place, perform an unusual action for a brief period of time, then quickly disperse. The candidates, Maria Aniero, [...]

 Mayor Clinton Young is holding the first of community meetings tonight in a move to make City Hall more user friendly for residents. At “Different Neighborhoods…ONE Mount Vernon,”  Young, city commissioners and department heads will listen to resident’s concerns and suggestions. The meeting is open to all city residents.The meeting will begin at 7 p.m. and [...]

Mayor Clinton Young welcomed the Brazilian Ambassador to City Hall this afternoon in a nod to the ever growing Brazilian population in the city.
José Alfredo Graça Lima said the city has opened its arms to Brazilians.
Brazilians were the single largest group of foreign-born Latin Americans in Mount Vernon in 2000, at 1,297, according to the [...]

Mayor Clinton Young will outline his first 100 days during an extravagant black-tie inaugural ball tomorrow evening.
More than 900 people are expected to attend including county Democratic Committee Chairman Reginald LaFayette, County Executive Andy Spano and other officials. Entertainment will be provided by flutist Bobbie Humphrey, the Lonnie Young Blood Band and a surprise [...]

U.S. District Court in White Plains was a flurry of cameras, lights and reporters today for the sentencing of disgraced Olympic gold medalist Marion Jones.

But the court was also hearing another well-publicized local case. Supporters of former Mount Vernon Mayor Ernest Davis gathered in court for the first time since filing a lawsuit alleging voters [...]

Mayor-elect Clinton Young called his time with New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg this afternoon very worthwhile.

Young was one of the 13 mayor-elects from the tri-state area, including Mary Foster of Peekskill, who had lunch with Bloomberg and discussed successful policies and strategies for running a city.

“Although it was a short period of time I [...]

Curt Stewart, coordinator for the supporters of Mayor Ernest Davis, has issued an open letter to the black clergy of Mount Vernon to push for the $600 million lawsuit calling for a new election to be brought to trial.

In the letter Stewart ask for the clergy to do “what it has historically done in times [...]