In Case You Missed It: Rivertowns Week in Review

Were you too busy preparing for Thanksgiving or getting in a Black Friday shopping line to tune into this week’s news in Irvington, Dobbs Ferry and Hastings-on-Hudson?

Here’s what you missed:

1. Don’t go the wrong way: A Hastings-on-Hudson man was charged with first-degree reckless endangerment, a class D felony, after, police say, he traveled the wrong way on Interstate 87 while intoxicated and sideswiped a Daily News delivery truck. 

2. Westchester radio legend passes away: Peak Radio’s Caroline Corley came to a sudden death Tuesday, Nov. 26. She had completed her radio show with the Peak (WXPK/107.1 in White Plains) that morning and returned home to Elmsford. As The Peak reported on the air Tuesday, she had felt dizzy and called for help. Responders were unable to revive her. 

3. Have you seen the number 88 anywhere? Dobbs Ferry police are open to the possibility of recent criminal mischief on a resident’s vehicle having a Neo-Nazi connection.

4. Ardsley Junior Wins Research award: Ardsley High School junior, Ellen Schoder was recognized as one of the top eight winners in the Student Research Awards Program run by the New York State Archives and the Archives Partnership Trust. 

5. Jail Break: A Yonkers man is being charged with criminal mischief in the third degree, a class E felony, after he repeatedly kicked in the doorframe of a Hastings-on-Hudson police jail cell, police said.