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🌱 What did the Yonkers City Council unanimously approve this week?

Also check out Estate Planning: 5 Essential Things You Should Know on the Yonkers Patch calendar

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In today's newsletter:

  • What did the Yonkers City Council unanimously approve this week?
  • Thinking about treatment and worried what it means for your Yonkers job?

Also on today's calendar: Estate Planning: 5 Essential Things You Should Know and 9 more events.

Today's riddle: What do you call a belt that is made of watches? 🤔 (Answer below!)

Weather forecast:

  • Thursday: Mainly cloudy and humid, with a high of 75 and low of 66 degrees.
  • Friday: Warmer with clouds and sun, temps: high: 85, low: 58.
  • Saturday: Partly sunny and less humid, with a high of 71 and low of 54 degrees.

📰 News we're reading

• Yonkers City Council Meeting Decisions-Sept. 29 (yonkerstimes.com) — Yonkers residents should know the City Council just approved renaming part of Hawthorne Avenue as Mary Teague Way and authorized an encroachment at South Broadway and Caryl Avenue. Lawmakers also passed multiple proclamations for awareness and heritage months, including Disability Employment, LGBTQ+ History, Italian American and Polish American Heritage, NICU awareness, bullying prevention, and World Cerebral Palsy Day, all adopted unanimously.
   

• Can You Go to a Treatment Center Without Losing Your Job? What Yonkers Workers Should Know (yonkerstimes.com) — If you live or work in Yonkers and are considering a stay at a treatment center, this guide explains how FMLA, the ADA and New York's leave laws may protect your job and health coverage. It walks through eligibility rules, notice deadlines, medical certifications, privacy protections and options like paid sick leave or Paid Family Leave so you can plan treatment without guessing about work consequences.
   

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  • Accordia Expands Third-Party Property Management Portfolio with Yonkers Retail and Office Building —David Mason Read on Patch
  • I walked up newkirk rd and these two dogs were out running loose...
    thank God they have tags with address ...driver in car got them in and driving to owner.. (Nextdoor E Grassy Sprain Rd)
  • My grandson will be visiting me for a long weekend and he's 7 months old.
    I need to have a car seat installed in my vehicle, I dont know how to do it, and dont have anyone around me that knows either. Is there somewhere… (Nextdoor Bx River and Mile SQ)
  • Dignity Home Care posted a job opening for Server (DRCM) in Yonkers. Apply here.
  • Oak St. Health posted a job opening for Store Associate in Yonkers. Apply here. You can search for other jobs near Yonkers here.

🗞 Nearby News

Bronxville

Mount Vernon

  • Two Westchester County jail guards charged with official misconduct (mpnnow.com)
  • Andre Drummond feels custom-built to fill Knicks' Mitchell Robinson void (nypost.com)

New Rochelle

  • New Rochelle High School Senior Lev Goldsmith Sworn In to Board of Education (talkofthesound.com)

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-- The Patch AM Team

P.S. The answer to today's riddle: A waist of time. (Thank you Martin L. for sending it in!)
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