Lights on Jenkins Court is the Staples family’s home light show. The show has run each year since 2017 during the holiday season. Jeff started designing and programming holiday light shows as a hobby over 6 years ago. Today, hundreds of Ossining residents stop by the house to see the 23 minute light show. You …
Editor’s note 1: ‘A Visit from St. Nicholas’ is known popularly as ‘The Night Before Christmas.’Reposted for Christmas 2020. Is there anyone, young or old, who has not been touched by the classic Clement Moore poem ‘A Visit from St. Nicholas?’ Would it surprise you to know that Ossining has a unique connection to the …
Due to Covid, the Ossining Public Library currently offers Curbside Pick Up. With your Ossining Library Card, you can search and request items from a large collection of books, CDs and DVDs. To put a book or other item on hold please visit The Westchester Library System website, log in with your library card information …
*//* UPDATE: Who would have guessed that an article on post offices would be the most controversial on our website? It’s been the source of lots of debate on Facebook, with some people upset that we publicized (therefore ruining) their “secret” post office at Maryknoll. I went and spoke to the Maryknoll postmaster Peter Cossifos …
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Did you know that here in Ossining we have an amazing juice bar? I’m sharing this tip because when I posted this image on our Instagram account I got A LOT of messages asking where this Juice Bar was. The “Ossining Juice Bar” (yes, we named it ourselves) is located inside of Las Americas Cafe …
Here are a few fun facts and anecdotes about Ossining. Enjoy! Ossining is the oldest incorporated village in Westchester County. It used to be that in the Main Street retail buildings, the goods that were sold from the storefronts were manufactured or assembled on the second floor, the help lived in the basements (with window …
What’s this, you’re not on Instagram? Well, that’s a shame because you’re missing out on a lot of goodness. Sure it’s not all good out there in the Instagram jungle, but if you choose wisely and follow the right accounts, you’ll know what’s going on, have some laughs and be an all-around better citizen of Ossining, …
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The Jug Tavern, also known as the Davids-Garrison House, is believed to be the oldest structure in the Village’s historic Sparta neighborhood. It was originally constructed as a tenant farmhouse on land owned Frederick Philipse, proprietor of vast Philipsburg Manor, which stretched from the Bronx to the Croton River. Several years after it was built, …