Tour de Putnam Takes Off Aug. 30
Bicycle enthusiasts across the Northeast are gearing up in preparation for the 12th Annual Tour de Putnam Cycling Festival, the race designed by cyclists for cyclists. Kickstands go up at 8am at Veterans Memorial Park on Gipsy Trail Road in Kent, on Sunday, August 30. Full Story
Grants for Nonprofits Available
The Community Foundation of Dutchess County is now accepting applications from tax-exempt organizations serving residents of Putnam County for the Fall 2009 Grant Cycle. Full Story
Putnam’s Local Banks Weather Economic Storms
The banks and financial institutions of Putnam County are running smoothly, even in the wake of the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression. Full Story
Legend Among Regional Educational Circles to Retire
Putnam-Northern Westchester BOCES Deputy Superintendent Dr. Renee Gargano is being remembered this week as an “institution within an institution.”
Dr. Gargano has announced her intention of retiring from the prestigious position after 32 years of educational leadership, curriculum development and positive labor relations. Full Story
Lake Carmel Fire Department Parade
The Putnam County Courier had the privilege of participating in this year’s Lake Carmel Fire Department Parade. Pictured above and below are the Jeeps used to distribute the Courier. Full Story
A Menacing Party
On Lakeview Drive, Andrew P. Natell’s party got out of hand. While patrolling, Deputy Sheriff Thomas Lee observed something fishy happening around a parked vehicle. There he found Natell, 23, of Lakeview drive, waving a BB gun at a car. The occupants of the vehicle, all under 21 and tipsy from beverages they had consumed at Natell’s party testofoed that Mr. Full Story
Exploring Patterson’s Sterling Farm Preserve
Three roads in Patterson—Route 164, Couch Road and Cornwall Hill Road—outline a wobbly triangle of land that is chock full of places to explore. Full Story
‘The Stream that Sweetly Laves the Banks by Castle Bannerman’
A tea party on a Hudson River island
You may have caught a glimpse from the train or from your car of a structure in the Hudson River. “What’s that?” you exclaim, whether by yourself or with a companion, and sometimes you are going too fast, or there is too much foliage, for you to realize it is a castle, or actually the ruins of a former one. Full Story
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