A heavy burden was lifted off of Lauren Goldin and Scott Olsen yesterday.

The high school sweethearts are the Holiday Inn of Mount Kisco’s “Hudson Valley Country Manor Couple.” The lovebirds from Rockland County won a free wedding reception at the hotel for 100 guests, a gift that costs $10,000 at the facility’s free wedding giveaway [...]

Today’s society cherishes youth. Young people are considered to be happier, more beautiful and healthier.

Well today , that is not always case.

An article in USA Today states that 66 percent of adults in the U.S are either overweight or obese. In a report released by the Centers of Disease Control and Prevention this year, [...]

Yes we have all done it at least once……or maybe twice…….OK maybe three times.

Yes I am speaking of that horrible offense……  talking on a cell phone while driving.

On Thursday at 12:01 a.m. the  New York City Police Department will start to severely punish those who “drive and dial” according to a New York Times article.

Officers [...]

On Wednesday I covered a program hosted by college students called Teens N Transition at North Salem High School.

College students spoke to high school seniors about they dangers they may face when they attend college.

Teens N Transition is a program of PEACEOUTside Campus-The Lindsey M. Bonistall Foundation. The foundation is dedicated to Lindsey Bonistall, a [...]

I am not one for celebrity gossip, but I have been following the never-ending Rihanna and Chris Brown story.

If some of you do not know, R &B singer Chris Brown,20, was arrested for allegedly beating up his girlfriend Singer Rihanna,21, about two weeks ago.

The story is all over the television and newspapers and I [...]

There are times that we all borrow things from our friends and family. Money, clothes, shoes, etc.

Well, due to lack of health care, people in their 20s are borrowing medicine from others. In an article in The New York Times, it stated that many 20-somethings are without health insurance and have resorted to borrowing [...]

Last year, I met Jaime Jeffrey, an assistant pastry chef at Connie’s Bakery and General Store in Mount Kisco. Jeffrey, 30, was a  homeless single mother at 28 and became a chef in the bakery’s one-year apprenticeship program while living in a shelter.

She has accomplished a great deal in the last two years, but what she is [...]

“Notorious,” the story of the life and death of rapper the Notorious B.I.G. will be released tomorrow and I must say that I am excited.

I love films, especially biographic films. I enjoy watching the lives of celebrities and political figures and learning how they overcame poverty, their struggles and rose to fame. Some of my [...]

A federal study found that 32 million adults in the US (one in seven) have such low literacy skills that it would be difficult for them to read anything more advanced than a children’s picture book or to understand side effects written on a pill bottle, according to an article in USA Today.

The findings come [...]

Nancy Borowick, 23, spent months assisting photographers and helping produce photo shoots as an intern at Glamour Magazine.

Near the end of her 2007 internship, she realized that she wanted to give back and teach photography. This year, Borowick eight weeks in Mowire, Ghana where she taught art and  photography to 380 students.

During her stint there, [...]