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Mount Pleasant Central School District
Mount Pleasant Central School District is a school district headquartered in Thornwood, New York. History Susan Guiney began working for the district in 2008 as a superintendent. In 2018 she announced that she would retire. Kurtis Kotes became superintendent in 2018. Schools ; Secondary * Westlake High School * Westlake Middle School ; Elementary * Columbus Elementary School * Hawthorne Elementary School References External links Mount Pleasant Central School District School districts in Westchester County, New York {{NY-school-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thornwood, New York
Thornwood is a hamlet (unincorporated community), census-designated place (CDP), and postal designation (with zip code 10594) in the town of Mount Pleasant in Westchester County, New York, United States. The population was 3,759 at the 2010 census. History In 1891, Lewis Smadback started a very successful development at what is now Thornwood. The village of Sherman Park was incorporated in 1906 and the name was changed to Hillside in 1909. The village was dissolved in 1914, when Thornwood took its current name and became a hamlet within the Town of Mount Pleasant. It is possible that Thornwood is a derivative of "Hawthorne's Woods," since Hawthorne is an adjacent hamlet. Another possibility is Thornwood is named after an area in Glasgow, Scotland. Thornwood once had a large and thriving Westchester marble quarry near its heart, the intersection of Route 141 and Kensico Road (known as Four Corners). Dating back to 1845, the quarry supplied white marble which helped build St. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Journal News
''The Journal News'' is a newspaper in New York State serving the New York counties of Westchester, Rockland, and Putnam, a region known as the Lower Hudson Valley. It is owned by Gannett. ''The Journal News'' was created through a merger of several daily community newspapers serving the lower Hudson, which had previously been organized under the Gannett Suburban Newspapers umbrella; the earliest ancestor of the paper dates to 1852. Although the current newspaper's name comes from the ''Rockland Journal-News'', which was based in West Nyack, New York, and served Rockland County, the ''Rockland Journal-News'' was actually the third-largest newspaper that Gannett merged to create the larger newspaper. ''The Reporter Dispatch'' from White Plains, New York, and the ''Herald Statesman'' in Yonkers were larger and served Westchester County. For years prior to the October 12, 1998, merger that created ''The Journal News'', ten of the newspapers shared some content and printing pres ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Westlake High School (New York)
Westlake High School is located at 825 Westlake Drive in Thornwood, New York (state), New York, United States. It serves the Mount Pleasant Central School District, including the hamlets of Hawthorne, New York, Hawthorne and Thornwood, and parts of the hamlet of Valhalla, New York, Valhalla and the village of Pleasantville, New York, Pleasantville. The campus of Westlake High School includes Westlake Middle School and the Mt. Pleasant Central School District's office. Athletics Athletics at Westlake include Football, Tennis, Soccer, Volleyball, Wrestling, Cheerleading, Track, Baseball, Lacrosse, Swimming, and Ice Hockey. Notable alumni * Rob Astorino (class of 1985) - Westchester County Executive; media personality, radio host, and program director for the Catholic Channel on SIRIUS Satellite Radio * Ernie Sabella (class of 1968) - actor (''Saved By The Bell'', ''Seinfeld'', ''Perfect Strangers (U.S. TV series), Perfect Strangers''); voice of Pumba in Disney's ''The Lion King' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
