By Gia Miller  Photography by Justin Negard In the autumn of 2022, an old sailboat slipped through the dark, icy waters of the Arctic Circle off the coast of Norway. On board were 33 scientists, artists, poets and painters, along with a captain and a chef, navigating a twilight world where the sun had not risen for days. One day, ...

By Gia Miller Photography by Miranda Schloat Ossining-based artist John “Twyg” Hyde was hovering above the ground on stilts, disguised as what he calls a quad-stilt creature named Mortis. With a raven skull concealing his face and layers of torn cloth draped over a hiking backpack covered in foam, it was impossible to tell where the creature ended and the ...

By Sophie Abt      Photography by Justin Negard Meet Isabel Pachios, a seven-year-old who is in third grade at Increase Miller Elementary School. She loves playing sports, drawing and performing on stage. And she’s a bit obsessed with ice cream. If you had $100, what would you buy? Ice cream! Wow! That’s a lot of ice cream. What flavors ...

By Gia Miller Bedford Corners resident Angela Galgani Sullivan was on set in Ireland. As a producer, the casting director and the CMO for the upcoming film “JIMMY,” Sullivan was intimately involved in most aspects of the biographical drama about legendary actor Jimmy Stewart. On this day, she was sitting next to Kelly Stewart Harcourt, Jimmy’s daughter.  “We were in ...

Jamiylah Jones wants to show the world of education how they can leverage AI for good so schools can better meet the needs of their students and staff. By Julie Schwietert Collazo Photography by Miranda Schloat White Plains resident Jamiylah Jones, Ed.D., founder and owner of Creative Transformations, LLC, remembers the exact moment when she used AI for the first ...

By Kayla Schmidt Photography by Justin Negard You probably don’t think much about ticks unless one has latched on to you. Tom Daniels thinks about them constantly. As a vector ecologist at Fordham University’s Louis Calder Center, he’s spent 40 years studying the tiny, much-loathed creatures, and he’ll be the first to tell you they deserve a little more respect ...

By Kayla Schmidt Photography by Justin Negard Michael Leonard has spent nearly 44 years getting to know other people’s trees. As a certified arborist with SavATree, based out of Bedford Hills, he’s spent his career inspecting, diagnosing and caring for the trees that shape Westchester’s properties—and the homeowners who love them. What inspired you to take care of trees? My ...

By Kayla Schmidt Ever wondered what it takes to care for a turkey vulture, a porcupine or a turtle? Lisa Kelly, the animal care supervisor at Teatown, has spent the past 17 years learning the answer to that question—and many others like it. Hers is a career built off the beaten path: no traditional degree, just a childhood love of ...

By Kayla Schmidt The Hudson River runs more than 300 miles, and Luis Melendez knows a good chunk of it by heart. As a boat captain for 16 years, the last two as the boat captain for the Riverkeeper, he patrols the river’s estuary from the Gowanus Canal in the city up to the Federal Lock in Troy, learning new ...