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The John C. Hart Memorial Library has bought new technology for the visually impaired thanks to a generous donation of $1,900 from the Yorktown chapter of Lions Club International.

Yorktown inaugurated a new playground on Wednesday at Blackberry Woods. The new children’s playground has a colorful jungle gym and a swing set made by Miracle Recreation. The playground gear is set atop a soft surface to minimize fall injuries to small children.

If you are in grades 8-12, reside in the Town of Yorktown, want to be apart of what can be done to improve it, and give youth a voice in town government, join the Yorktown Youth Council! The council meets monthly from November through May to discuss issues in the community.

The popular Friday night teen program is back for the 2025-26 school year.

The Yorktown Teen Center’s program at the Albert A. Capellini Community & Cultural Center runs from 5:30 to 9:30 pm and it offers a safe and fun space for local teens to gather in a supervised environment.

A library card opens up more doors than one can imagine; from books, movies and video games, to museum passes, music programs for children and more. Don’t have a card yet? Sign up can be done online or in-person within minutes. Apply today and see how far a library card can go!

Sportime Pickleball of Yorktown will offer 12, state-of-the-art, cushioned, climate-controlled courts, courtside viewing, players lounges, locker rooms and showers, two private party rooms, and a full suite of programming for players of all ages and levels.

The Garden Club of Yorktown is almost finished with the second phase of a new native-species garden at Veteran Memorials Circle. The pollinator garden is a formal, demonstration garden in the circle that educates the public while honoring veterans by using hardy native species that represent the resilience of the American spirit.

Yorktown High School students will have a smooth start to the academic year after a major facelift for a commuter parking lot next to the campus. Resurfacing work at the Downing Park commuter parking lot began on Monday with crew laying new asphalt. The approximately $250,000 rehabilitation is expected to be completed by the end of the week, and the lot will be fully striped by the first day of school.

Yorktown officials are strongly condemning the discovery of a swastika carved into a tree at Turkey Mountain. Town officials learned about the hateful graffiti late Saturday night after seeing the image on social media. Volunteers with the town's Trail Committee removed the offensive symbol early Sunday morning,