The League of Women Voters of the Rivertowns and the Hastings PTSA are co-sponsoring a candidate forum for the Hastings School Board.

The Forum will be a Zoom webinar on Thursday, May 14, 2026, from 7 to 8 p.m. The forum can be viewed live by pre-registration at https://bit.ly/HastingsSchoolBd.

Questions must be submitted ahead of time either at registration or by email to 

info@lwv-rivertowns.org. The deadline for submission of questions is 5:00 p.m. on Monday, May 11. Questions will be reviewed by a committee of League and PTSA members who will submit them to the moderator prior to the start of the forum

There are three candidates vying for two open seats: incumbents Theresa McCaffrey and Jodie Meyer and challenger Elizabeth Adinolfi.

The event will be recorded and made available following the Forum on the Rivertowns  YouTube channel, LWV Rivertowns, and website www.lwv-rivertowns.org.

The League of Women Voters of the Rivertowns and the Ardsley PTSA are co-sponsoring a candidate forum for the Ardsley School Board

The Forum will be a Zoom webinar on Wednesday, May 13, 2026, from 7 to 8:30 p.m. The forum can be viewed live by pre-registration at https://bit.ly/ArdsleySchBd.

Questions must be submitted ahead of time either at registration or by email to info@lwv-rivertowns.org. The deadline for submission of questions is 5:00 p.m. on Sunday, May 10. Questions will be reviewed by a committee of League and PTSA members who will submit them to the moderator prior to the start of the forum.  

There are four candidates vying for two open seats: incumbent Mitch Kleinman and challengers Andrea DeVico Smith, Matthew Gonzales, and Joseph Sayegh. 

The event will be recorded and made available following the Forum on the Rivertowns  YouTube channel, LWV Rivertowns, and website www.lwv-rivertowns.org. 

On September 18, National Voter Registration Day, LWVR members Ann Scholl and Linda Fleischman were joined by Rufus Sadler, member of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc., the oldest of all the collegiate black Greek letter organizations.   We thank Mercy for the excellent location, in the lobby of Main Hall, which is a large building with many classrooms and a cafeteria. 

This was a wonderfully successful drive: 39 people registered to vote at our table. Another 56 people took a form with them to fill out later and mail in.

(If you need additional registration information click on the “Voter Info” link at the top of this website.)

At Mercy University - Women’s Empowerment Day on March 15, 2024.
Representing the Rivertowns LWV: Linda Fleischman, Ann Scholl , Joann Watterson and Jurate Mohen .
Several members of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity joined our registration drive.
(This is the oldest collegiate black Greek letter organization.)

At the 2023 LWVNY Convention in June, speaker Carolyn Maloney urged League members to sign the petition for the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA). Maloney, now with the ERA Coalition and the Fund for Women's Equality, is working to get signatures on a petition to support legislation removing the deadline standing in the way of the ERA. Passing the ERA as the 28th Constitutional amendment would enshrine in the United States Constitution the concept of women’s equality, and create a national legal standard banning all forms of sex discrimination into the supreme law of this nation. On April 27 the Resolution was brought to a vote in the Senate. With 98 of the 100 Senators present the majority –51—voted to place the ERA in the Consitution. Because of the arcane filibuster rule requiring 60 votes –9 more than a majority—the resolution fell 9 votes short.
Read more and sign the petition at https://www.sign4era.org - and please spread the word!!

The Save the Hudson Act (S.6893/A.7208) passed through both houses of the Legislature and just was signed by the Governor!
The LWVR joined many environmental groups with grassroots lobbying.

This LWVR Resolution sent to US Sen. Schumer in late Spring 2023:    

“The intent of Holtec International to discharge tritium into the Hudson River is of grave concern to the League of Women Voters of the Rivertowns, which has long advocated for the closure of the Indian Point Energy Center and has since been monitoring its decommissioning.     

“More than two million people reside in the Hudson Valley, and an estimated 100,000 get their drinking water from the Hudson River. Radioactive waste in the Hudson is a potential cancer risk, especially to children, who are naturally more radiosensitive.

“Because of that, we urge our elected leaders to enact emergency legislation to ban the discharge of tritium into the Hudson and to broaden the remedies in the proposed legislation to include injunctive relief.”