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Rebecca BakerRebecca Baker joined The Journal News in March 2004. She covers state and county legal proceedings inside the Westchester County Courthouse, as well as cops and crime in Greenburgh and its six villages. In prior jobs, she covered Rockland County government and politics, and was a municipal reporter for newspapers in New Haven, Conn. and Warren, Ohio.

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Greenburgh race in cyberspace

June
18

The battle to become Greenburgh’s next town supervisor soon will enter the World Wide Web.

Suzanne Berger said today that her campaign website, friendsofsuzanneberger.com, should launch by the end of the month. Berger is the Democratic Town Committee’s designated candidate to unseat eight-term supervisor Paul Feiner.

Feiner’s new re-election website, paulfeiner.com, is already up and running. His [...]

Posted by Rebecca Baker on June 18th, 2007 | 4 Comments »

Here comes the judge, Greenburgh style

June
13

Walter Schwartz, who is celebrating his silver anniversary on the bench of Ardsley Village Court, has decided to throw his robe into the ring for Greenburgh Town Justice.

Schwartz, a village justice since 1982, plans to challenge longtime town justices Doris Friedman and Sandra Forester in the Sept. 18 Democratic primary. The 69-year-old grandfather described himself [...]

Posted by Rebecca Baker on June 13th, 2007 | Post a Comment »

Greenawalt bows out in Greenburgh

June
12

Bill Greenawalt said today that he won’t run for town supervisor against incumbent Paul Feiner and the Democratic Party-endorsed challenger Suzanne Berger. Read more about it “here”:http://lohud.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070613/NEWS02/706130373/1018/NEWS02

Posted by Rebecca Baker on June 12th, 2007 | 1 Comment »

Another hat in Greenburgh’s political ring

May
18

The competition for elected office in Greenburgh continues to grow.

Valhalla school board member Judith Beville announced today that she will try to unseat Alfreda Williams, who has been town Clerk since 1993.

According to her press release, Beville is a former regional director with the New York State Mentoring Program who is going for her second [...]

Posted by Rebecca Baker on May 18th, 2007 | 11 Comments »

Greenburgh helping Greensburg

May
8

Greenburgh Supervisor Paul Feiner has put out a call on the “town website”:www.greenburghny.com for Greenburgh residents to help the tornado victims of Greensburg, Kansas.

Feiner says that a number of residents have contacted him about how they could help the residents of the community with almost the same name. The weekend tornado destroyed more than 90 [...]

Posted by Rebecca Baker on May 8th, 2007 | 5 Comments »

Greenawalt fights back

April
27

Even though he didn’t get the support of the Greenburgh Democratic Party’s executive committee, Bill Greenwalt said he believes that the full Democratic Town Committee will support him in his bid for Town Supervisor.

“It’s a going to be a fight, but I think I will prevail,” he said this afternoon.

Greenawalt, who came within 200 votes [...]

Posted by Rebecca Baker on April 27th, 2007 | 19 Comments »

Dem leaders back Berger in Greenburgh

April
27

To no one’s surprise, Greenburgh Democratic Party leaders threw their support behind Suzanne Berger, the party’s popular chairwoman, to topple Democrat Paul Feiner for Town Supervisor.

According to her campaign spokesman, Berger got 15 out of 24 votes from the executive committee to be the party’s choice for supervisor. Three committee members did not attend the [...]

Posted by Rebecca Baker on April 27th, 2007 | 16 Comments »

Morgan makes 2nd try for Greenburgh board

April
24

Kevin Morgan, who ran for Town Board two years ago with Greenburgh Supervisor Paul Feiner, says he’s making another attempt for a board seat.

This time, he’s going at it alone.

Morgan, a retired Greenburgh police detective who lives in the North Elmsford section of town, said he will run independently if not endorsed by the [...]

Posted by Rebecca Baker on April 24th, 2007 | 12 Comments »

Bass speaks out on Greenburgh ethics

April
20

Greenburgh Town Board member Steve Bass said the board’s push to restrict campaign donations was not aimed at Town Supervisor Paul Feiner — even though the practice that would be banned sounds a lot like Feiner’s past fundraising.

The Town Board has recommended changing the town ethics code regarding campaign contributions from anyone with applications before [...]

Posted by Rebecca Baker on April 20th, 2007 | 5 Comments »

Ethics in Greenburgh

April
20

Greenburgh’s town supervisor, Paul Feiner, is once again in a battle with the rest of his town board, this time over potential campaign finance reform. Feiner wants even stricter limits on donations, while the rest of the board thinks he wants too much. Check out the story “here”:http://www.thejournalnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070420/NEWS02/704200375/1026/NEWS10.

Posted by Rebecca Baker on April 20th, 2007 | 1 Comment »

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