Residents of Note

Melissa Gonzalez Headed to the London Olympics

2007 Lakeland High School graduate Melissa Gonzalez is headed to the London Olympics to compete on the US Womens Field Hockey Team. Melissa, who is originally from Mohegan Lake and now lives in California, said she started playing field hockey when she was a student at the Lakeland Copper Beech Middle School in Yorktown.

Peter Stanford Receives the Don Turner Award for Maritime Preservation

Yorktown Heights resident Peter Stanford was honored recently by the USS Constitution Museum for his critical role in saving historic ships.  Mr. Stanford is a founder and first president of the South Street Seaport in New York City and co-founder of the National Maritime Historical Society.