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Somers Educator To Be Remembered During Walk Like MADD Event
YORKTOWN HEIGHTS, N.Y. -- A team honoring a local teaching assistant who was killed last year in a crash with an alleged drunken driver is leading all fundraisers expected to participate in the Westchester Walk Like MADD event.
The walk is scheduled for 9 a.m. Saturday at Franklin D. Roosevelt State Park, Parking Field 1, according to organizers at MADD, Mothers Against Drunk Driving.
Team Forever Fran, which has raised nearly $8,000 for MADD, is walking in memory of Frances Ghelarducci, who, according to state police, died Nov. 14, 2015, in a three-car crash on Route 6 in Mahopac.
The 54-…
WestConn Offers Same Instate Discount To Westchester Residents
College-bound students in seven New York counties will soon benefit from years of declining enrollment at Western Connecticut State University, according to The Connecticut Mirror.
The university, which recently opened its fall 2016 semester with about 200 empty dorm rooms, will soon offer in-state tuition rates to New York students attending the school, according to The Mirror.
The offer – open to students in Westchester, Rockland, Putnam, Dutchess, Orange, Sullivan and Ulster counties – will allow New Yorker students to save nearly $13,000 dollars a year, according to lohud.com, which rep…
