The Waxter Center for Senior Citizens, a Mount Vernon fixture that has provided programs and services for hundreds of area seniors for more than half a century, will close at least temporarily this spring while city officials decide how to address a malfunctioning air conditioning system and other building maintenance issues.
Decisions about when the building might reopen, or whether it will reopen at all, and where its programs will be relocated, are still being made, city officials said during a town hall meeting on Wednesday.
The closure affects a wide range of area residents because the building at 1000 Cathedral St. serves as a polling place at election time and a cooling station during the hot weather months, in addition to housing one of the city’s oldest, largest and busiest senior centers…