Education
YPIE and University of Mount Saint Vincent Sign Partnership to Keep Yonkers Students on Track
Yonkers Partners in Education and the University of Mount Saint Vincent have signed a formal partnership agreement to give YPIE real-time visibility into how its students are performing in college — so counselors can intervene before a student falls too far behind to recover.
Education
Purchase and YPIE Offer Housing Scholarship that Draws 160 Applicants in its First Year.
More than 160 Yonkers students applied for a new housing scholarship at Purchase College through a first-of-its-kind partnership with YPIE.
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Yonkers Rolled Out the Red Carpet. Local Residents Got Four Jobs.
Kenneth Morales investigates: Yonkers hosted 124 film productions in 2024, generating $46 million in sales and nearly $1 million in city revenue. But a new economic study reveals only four of those jobs went to Yonkers residents.
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Snowbound Yonkers
Two storms, 40 inches of snow, and one question: why do the main roads get plowed while the dead ends wait days? The Yonkers Ledger tracked the city's response across both storms through official interviews, a press conference, and dozens of resident accounts on social media
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Who is Covering Yonkers Local News? The Voices Filling the Void
Who is Covering Yonkers? A look at Yonkers news outlets
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NAACP Yonkers Branch to Host Meeting on Surviving Police Confrontations
The NAACP Yonkers Branch hosts a free public meeting Feb. 23 featuring law enforcement veteran Damon K. Jones on surviving police confrontations.
