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Resnick Calls Westchester Knicks Games 10 Years After Getting Start In HS
NEW ROCHELLE, N.Y.— Announcing varsity games on New Rochelle High School’s public access TV station, David Resnick said, carried a tint of the bright lights.
“When you’re at that age, you feel like it’s the most important thing in the world,” said Resnick, who graduated from the high school in 2006. “You treat every broadcast like it’s the Super Bowl or the NBA Finals.”
More than a decade later, Resnick, a lifelong New Rochelle resident, is several steps closer to that becoming reality.
Since the Westchester Knicks started play in 2014, Resnick has been the play-by-play announcer for the N…
Westchester's Don Clifford Is Saving Nature Upstate Through Wild Center
WESTCHESTER COUNTY, N.Y.— In 1868, Obie “Don” Clifford’s ancestors settled in the Adirondack Mountains of upstate New York along Big Wolf Lake, pristine and tucked away into the forest.
Six generations later, Clifford, a Westchester resident, is looking to continue his family’s legacy in the region through the Wild Center, a state-of-the-art natural history museum in Tupper Lake, N.Y.
As Chairman of the Board of the Wild Center, now celebrating its 10th anniversary, Clifford, who was born in Bronxville and now lives in Mount Kisco with his wife Mary, has always seen nature’s treatment as pr…
Circus Elephants, Who Started Out In Westchester, Will Be Dropped From Acts
SOMERS, N.Y.— In 1808, Somers resident Hachaliah Bailey bought an Indian elephant for $1,000 to help on his farm. But when he realized that the elephant, named "Old Bet," was the talk of the town, Bailey began taking her on tour throughout the Northeast.
Something Bailey didn’t realize was that "Old Bet" would set the precedent for the world-famous Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus, founded over a century later in 1919, and its trademark use of elephants in its shows.
But the limelight for the tusked mammals began to fade on Monday when Feld Entertainment, th…
Sleepy Hollow Principal Carol Conklin-Spillane Resigns After 22 Years
SLEEPY HOLLOW, N.Y.— Sleepy Hollow High School Principal Carol L. Conklin-Spillane will announce her resignation after 22 years in that position at Thursday night’s Board of Education meeting, she said in a phone interview with Daily Voice.
Spillane, a longtime resident of Rockland who now lives in Old Tappan, N.J., has served as the high school’s principal since 1994, and she will officially step down at the end of the school year on June 30.
“There are people who started teaching out of college, and now they’re middle-aged, and I’m the only principal they’ve ever had," Spillane said,…
