From delicious gourmet snacks to sweet-smelling wines, Westchester Magazine's Wine and Food event offered plenty to please the senses Saturday.

The marijuana, it was said, originated in Mexico before making its way to the West Coast and then, finally, driven to New York and New Jersey before being sold in Spring Valley, Mount Vernon, the Bronx and elsewhere, at incrementally smaller amounts by the foot soldiers of the operation.

In the end, the children stood behind the hearse. With them was their father, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., and a sea of aunts, uncles, cousins and family friends. Inside the hearse, inside a brown, wood coffin, was their mother, Mary Richardson Kennedy.

Barrett and Jane Clark have fond memories of famed performer José Ferrer whose portraits and snapshots continue to hang inside their Victorian home some 20 years after his passing.

Neighbors say they will mount a legal challenge to a contract the village awarded for a drainage project in Rye Neck that they say uses tax dollars to help two developers and threatens a centuries-old tree.

One after the other, students at the Amani Public Charter School in Mount Vernon pleaded with a pair of state Department of Education officials to keep their school open.

The New Rochelle Public Library, forced to provide its services with less money starting July 1, will turn to oldies but goodies to grab readers' attention.

Brian Monahan has been chosen to become the interim superintendent of the Hendrick Hudson School District. He will succeed Daniel McCann, who announced he was retiring at the end of the school year. A full-time replacement has yet to be named.

The marijuana, it was said, originated in Mexico before making its way to the West Coast and then, finally, driven to New York and New Jersey before being sold in Spring Valley, Mount Vernon, the Bronx and elsewhere, at incrementally smaller amounts by th

A boat owner suffered burns, including to his fingers and neck, when a fire gutted his boat and caused heat damage to at least three others Thursday at the New York Athletic Club's Travers Island Marina.

Surrounded by supporters in front of the school where her 16-year-old son lost his life, Sheila Foster read excerpts from Leake & Watts' website about the school's philosophy of fostering respect, achievement, safety and responsibility.

The weekend of mourning for Mary Richardson Kennedy began with both sides of her family locked in a court battle just hours before a wake was to be held. A Friday night wake at her South Bedford Road home was to be followed by Mass at 10 a.m.

Westchester County Executive Rob Astorino vetoed legislation Friday designed to prevent harassment and intimidation of patients and staff entering reproductive health clinics. Astorino said the law was flawed and infringed on anti-abortion protesters' First Amendment rights.

Welby, Brady and Greenblatt, a law firm specializing in real estate and construction, will be staying at its downtown office for another decade.

Heathcote Elementary School teacher Katherine Bescherer wanted a special way to say goodbye to one of her fifth-grade students who is graduating to the middle school next month. So she decided to run a race and invited her student to join her.

Before he was the founder of Facebook and America's newest multi-billionaire, he was just Mark, the shy and curious kid from down the street who seemed destined for great things even at a young age.

Writer Aaron Sorkin told nearly 1,140 Purchase students capped and gowned in black Friday that the school had wait-listed him in 1979. The creative force behind "The Social Network," "The West Wing" and "A Few Good Men," awarded an honorary doctorate during graduation ceremonies, asked college President Thomas J. Schwartz if he would have better luck now, what with his new degree and a more impressive resume.

The Journal News on Friday received almost 400 pages of documents relating to the city Board of Ethics' seven-month, $18,500 investigation into allegations that then-Mayor Adam Bradley used his influence to set up meetings between city officials and his landlord.

Village leaders are set to approve a controversial zoning plan for the south end of the village in the next few weeks, after an impassioned public hearing on the subject.

New Rochelle's call for plans to reinvent the former naval armory went out to more than 100 developers, cultural groups and educational organizations, Development Commissioner Michael Freimuth said Friday.