Almost immediately following the presentation of County Executive Rob Astorino's proposed budget earlier this week in which six nature centers are slated for closure, local parks advocates began organizing a campaign to save them. The $1.6B proposed budget reduces the county's parks department by 5 percent, essentially closing the Trailside Museum in the Ward Pound Ridge Reservation in Cross River and the nature centers at the Marshlands Conservancy and Edith G. Read preserve, both in Rye; Croton Point; Cranberry Lake preserve in White Plains and the Lenoir Preserve in Yonkers. An online …

Finding a little peace while you're raising three children under the age of five can be a challenge. But that's exactly what Teresa Saputo felt back in 2005 when she began taking a weekly jewelry making class. Six years later, the former marketing executive is living her dream designing handmade jewelry for her company A Little Peace, based in Bedford Corners and retailing at Beehive Co-op in Mount Kisco. Life certainly hasn't slowed down for the mother of three children ages 11, 9 and 6. "I thought starting my own business would make my life with three young kids less crazy. I was wrong," …