You’re invited! New Rochelle Against Racism (New RoAR) will celebrate its tenth anniversary at a dinner party on Friday, April 26, at Bethesda Baptist Church beginning at 6 pm. New Rochelle Against Racism (New...
NR City Council authorizes a settlement in its quest to remove City Manager Gill In a victory for representative government, on April 4, New Rochelle’s Mayor, Yadira Ramos-Herbert, convened a Special Meeting of the...
William Wagstaff and Adeel Mirza face off at Mount Vernon Public Library, Cacace fails to appear. On March 6, Black Westchester hosted a debate for the Democratic candidates for Westchester County District Attorney at...
Citing concerns for “balance and security,” NRPL caves to anti-Palestinian pressure campaign, then reschedules talk for April 18 A week before a long-scheduled talk by the editors of a book on 21st-century progressive activism,...
Union members and supporters urge City Council to appoint IDA members who will insist on family supporting jobs About a dozen speakers at the City Council’s March 12 Citizens To Be Heard session pressed the...
A Town Hall on the proposed charter school will be held at on Sunday, March 10, at 4:30 pm at Heritage Homes Community Hall, 18-30 Brook Street, New Rochelle by Alisse Waterston As an...
A Town Hall will be held at on Sunday, March 10, at 4:30 pm at Heritage Homes Community Hall by Dr. Rosa Rivera-McCutchen Readers of New RoAR News are no strangers to the racist...
A group has proposed to open a charter school for 400 students in New Rochelle, claiming it will address the “failures” of the New Rochelle public schools. What is a charter school, and how...
After much debate, Democratic Committee decides not to endorse either candidate Westchester County Executive George Latimer’s controversial challenge to incumbent Congressman Jamaal Bowman set off fireworks at two recent meetings of the usually tranquil...
The full recording of New RoAR’s IDA learning session can be viewed here. While the New Rochelle Industrial Development Agency (IDA) has given tens of millions of dollars in tax breaks to developers, little...
On February 29th, 2024, the City of New Rochelle and the African American Advisory Committee (AAAC) joined forces to host the inaugural “Celebrating The Legacy of Black Culture” event. The entrance to City Council...
On February 15, 2024 the New York State Independent Redistricting Committee (“IRC”) voted 9 to 1 in favor of a single Congressional map and have forwarded it to the NYS Legislature for approval. The...
On Saturday February 17th, 2024, the family and friends of Richard Roundtree gathered at St. Catherine A.M.E. Zion Church, 19 Lincoln Avenue, to honor his life with a service of remembrance. At just 29...
