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Graphic Artist Crafts Eagle's Head For White Plains WWI Monument
WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. – A White Plains native is repairing a World War I monument by handcrafting an eagle's head with his parents, according to lohud.com.
Graphic artist Joseph Giglio, 54, lives on Long Island, and is here often, visiting with his parents Jack, an Italian mason, and Mary Ann, an art teacher, according to lohud.com.
The original eagle's head on the 1919 monument at Maple Avenue and Post Road was vandalized and never properly replaced, according to lohud.com.
There are plans to rededicate the monument in time for Memorial Day, according to lohud.com. Read the lohud.com articl…
Four Charged In Hudson Valley Prostitution Ring
Four men were arrested and charged by New York State Police as part of an anti-prostitution detail in Wallkill.
Richard Neena, 57, of Monroe, Shawn Scandell, 45, of Crawford, Pedro Moran, 46, of Middletown and Jaquan Alexander, 19, of Middletown were all charged with third-degree patronizing of a prostitute.
All four men were charged after they made contact with an undercover trooper and requested sex for money.
Neena was also charged with driving while ability impaired.
Alexander faces charges of fifth-degree criminal sale of a controlled substance and fifth-degree criminal possession o…
Sister Margaret Mary Fitzgerald, 95, Of Ossining
OSSINING, N.Y. – Sister Margaret Mary Fitzgerald of Ossining died Thursday, March 24, at the Maryknoll Sisters Center. She was 95.
Fitzgerald was born Sept. 9, 1920, in Somerville, Mass., to Catherine Leahy and William Joseph Fitzgerald.
She graduated from St. John’s High School in 1938 and attended Higgins Commercial Machine School and Fay’s Evening School in Boston.
Fitzgerald worked at Filene’s in Boston and Nicholson & Co. in Cambridge, Mass., before joining the Maryknoll Sisters Congregation in 1946.
Along with 30 years of work in the United States, she went to Bolivia in 1981 an…
Judith Ann Conklin, 71, Formerly Of Yorktown
YORKTOWN, N.Y. – Judith Ann Conklin, formerly of Yorktown Heights and Laguna Niguel, Calif., died on Tuesday, March 22, in Mount Kisco after a brief illness. She was 71.
Conklin was born on Nov. 10, 1944, in Mount Kisco to Clifford and Winifred (Towey) Conklin, graduating from Yorktown High School and Kings County Hospital Center School of Nursing in Brooklyn.
She spent two years in the Air Force, and after her service, traveled the country as a certified registered nurse anesthetist.
Conklin was predeceased by her four sisters, Winifred Brunelli, Ella Bohne, Elizabeth Buckholz and Marie M…
