Month: June 2022

Health Department offers tips to help avoid rabies
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Health Department offers tips to help avoid rabies

With warmer weather here, many of us spend more time outdoors, so the Westchester County Health Department wants residents to know how to protect themselves, their families and their pets from potential rabies exposure. June is Rabies Awareness Month. Rabies is a fatal virus spread from the saliva of an […]

Latimer mandates weapons warning at point of sale
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Latimer mandates weapons warning at point of sale

Westchester County Executive George Latimer has signed into law legislation that would require the posting of notices warning of the dangers of weapons or firearms at the point of sale and at the point of the issuance of a firearm license. Latimer said: “We as a County are limited as […]

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State introduces 10 gun restriction bills

Governor Kathy Hochul, Majority Leader Andrea Stewart-Cousins and Speaker Carl Heastie announced Tuesday that 10 bills have been introduced in both the Assembly and Senate that would tighten New York’s gun laws, close loopholes and directly address the gaps in our laws exposed by the horrific shootings in Buffalo, Texas, […]