May community events: Photo galleries

Collections of photos from community events and happenings in May taking place in Bedford, Lewisboro, Pound Ridge and Mount Kisco. This page will be updated throughout the month as new photo galleries are added.

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Memorial Day, May 26, 2025

Memorial Day — when America remembers those who died in service to their nation — was marked on Monday around Northern Westchester and nationwide. There were parades, solemn ceremonies, fairs, road races and more than a few cookouts.

Photos by Robert Cummings

Photos by Gregory Kaplowitz

Photos by Town of Pound Ridge

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Runners take the farm at Muscoot

Robert Cummings Photos

The 15th annual Run the Farm event was held May 18 at Muscoot Farm. Top row left, cow pacers Griffin, Sawyer and Orion Cummings start the 7- to 12-year-old KIDS Run the Farm race. Top right, Sue Moga, president of Friends of Muscoot Farm, Jonathon Benjamin, Muscoot Farm manager, and County Legislator Erika Pierce. Center left, the 7- to 12-year-old KIDS Run. Middle left. is 5-year-old Jagger O'Connor of South Salem, who won the girls division of the age 6 and under KIDS Run the Farm race. Bottom is the Somers Volunteer Fire Department EMS standby crew with race director Rob Cummings.

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Ward Pound Ridge Reservation is 100!

ROBERT J. CUMMINGS PHOTOS

A 100th anniversary celebration was held May 17 at Ward Pound Ridge Reservation. It included nature walks led by former curators, a Wolf Conservation Center table, a children’s tent with several activities and crafts, historical presentations and artifacts, as well as live music, a birds of prey show, food trucks and information about the return of the Cross River Mountain Fire tower.

Clockwise from left, a visitor brought her spectacled owl, a 1928 Anheuser Busch delivery truck, native presence at the park, and the Wolf Conservation Center table, face painting, and historian Maureen Koehl with a display of items found in digs at the park representing centuries of colonial.

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Best Buddies play ball!

CONTRIBUTED PHOTOS

Students from the Fox Lane middle and high schools Best Buddies clubs (which include students with and without intellectual and developmental disabilities) and the varsity baseball team recently took to the field for a game filled with smiles, laughter and students rooting each other on.

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Trial by Fire

MICHAEL BARTOMIOLI PHOTOS

Firefighters from four departments taught students at John Jay High School through some firefighting skills in a fun and competitive event April 23 and 24. Winning teams earned a JJHS Trial by Fire T-shirt. The four participating departments —  Katonah, South Salem, Goldens Bridge and Vista — sent volunteers to every P.E. class, allowing every PE student to experience the excitement and challenges of being a volunteer.