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The Resignation of the Putnam County Historian
County Sales Tax Revenue Declines
West Point Closes Warner House on Constitution Island for Repairs Full Story
Loyalty Day - Sunday, April 26
Celebrate Loyalty Day
The Veterans of Foreign Wars, will hold a Loyalty Day picnic at Veterans Memorial Park on Sunday, April 26. NOTE: The picnic will NOT be on Saturday, April 25, as previously reported. Full Story
Firefighters Save Friendly's in Carmel
Firefighters averted a calamity at Friendly's Restaurant in Carmel Wednesday when smoke was reported inside the wood frame structure around 7:45 a.m. Carmel Police arrived on the scene minutes after a 911 call was received and confirmed a heavy concentration of smoke inside the building located at Route 6 and Stoneleigh Avenue. Full Story
Carmel rallies in seventh to edge Mahopac, 4-3
CARMEL—The Carmel and Mahopac baseball teams opened last week with their first meeting of the season, and it was the Rams who walked of with a 4-3 win after a seventh-inning, come-from-behind rally in the League 1-C clash. Full Story
Mahopac Girls Pull Away From North Rockland
Ryan nets five goals in win
MAHOPAC - After playing North Rockland to a 4-4 tie at halftime Monday, the Mahopac High girls lacrosse team picked up the intensity in the second half and pulled away for an 11-7 victory over the Red Raiders in a game played at Mahopac High School in wintry conditions. Full Story
Brewster Track Teams Excel at Tri-Valley Meet
Girls place fourth, boys fifth
BREWSTER - The Brewster High boys and girls track and field teams both turned in solid performances at the Tri-Valley Invitational last weekend in Grahamsville, NY. Brewster's boys team placed fifth (out of 20 teams). Full Story
Loyalty to Country, Thank You To Vets
On May 1, 1921, in response to the May Day celebrations of Communists, members of the Veterans of Foreign Wars held a rally at Union Station in New York to promote American patriotism in the face of threats to our national identity and founding principles. By 1949, this "Americanization Day" was known as Loyalty Day. Full Story
Sifting Through the Sands of Time from the Courier Archives
2 110 Years Ago April 21, 1899 Sailors in an Ambush: Lieutenant Gilmore and a Party from the Yorktown Captured by Fillipinos MANILA (By Cable) - Lieutenant J.G. Gilmore and other officers and landsmen of the gunboat Yorktown, which had been sent to Baler, on the east coast of the island of Luzon, to relieve a Spanish garrison, are reported missing. Full Story
Life Sketches in Putnam History
Sybil Ludington
Why do we mark April 26th as a day to remember? Residents of Putnam County have been riding along Sybil Ludington's route for years. We often travel through a town that wears her name, and we hardly even notice. Ludington was a heroine of the American Revolution, sprung from the same soil Putnamites plant, build on, and pave over today. Full Story
Worship Services
FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH Brewster 460 N Main St Brewster, NY 10509 (845) 279-2636 Worship Service: Sunday 9:30 am Christian Education: Sunday 10:45 am GRACE ASSEMBLY OF GOD 7 Park Street, Brewster, Full Story
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