Westchester To Reopen Remaining County Golf Courses

WHITE PLAINS, NY — Westchester County will open its two remaining golf courses Saturday. County Executive George Latimer said Saxon Woods and Maple Moor will join Mohansic, Hudson Hills, Dunwoodie and Sprain Lake as open to the public.

No restaurants will be open, nor will there be take out. Only one person per golf cart will be allowed.

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Latimer also said that heritage festivals scheduled for May and June, as well as one in July, have been canceled. They include:

• Polish Heritage Festival, May 17
• Asian Heritage Festival, June 6
• Albania Heritage Festival, June 7
• Portuguese Heritage Festival June 7
• Irish Heritage Festival, June 27
• African American Heritage Festival, June 28
• Hispanic Heritage Festival, July 12

Other festivals scheduled for July and August are on hold, Latimer said. They include the Italian, India, Ecuadorian, Jewish and Muslim heritage festivals.

Latimer said some of the earlier canceled festivals could be rescheduled if society opens back up.

In the works, he said, were two drive-in movie theater nights, which would allow people to stay in their cars and watch a movie on the big screen. The dates have not yet been announced.

Regarding the number of coronavirus cases in the county, for Friday, Latimer said the trend continues to be encouraging.

Out of 30,905 confirmed positive cases in Westchester, there are only 4,272 active cases. A month ago there were more than 11,000 active cases.

"Clearly that is a significant drop down," Latimer said.

There are to date 1,191 deaths of Westchester residents, up only four from Thursday's report. Latimer said that was one of the smallest increased.

The county continues to test a significant number of residents — 107,466 so far. About 70 percent of the tests turn out to be negative for the virus.

Here is the county map with a breakdown per community of the number of confirmed cases and the number of active cases.

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