Government, Unlimited?
Citizens decry high taxes, wasteful spending at Bondi’s public forums
County Executive Robert Bondi believes the time has come to redesign and reorganize Putnam County government.
Many residents agreed with the county’s top elected official at a series of public forums this week in Patterson, Brewster, and Philipstown. Full Story
Meanwhile, Era of Good Feelings Arises at County Seat
Cooperation, camaraderie, and collaboration have replaced anger, antagonism, and annoyance between the executive and legislative branches of county government. Full Story
Life Savers
Man returns from death’s door
The lifesaving couldn’t have been more dramatic if it was played out on the motion picture screen.
A 78-year-old resident of North Salem was playing a game of racquetball at the Carmel Fitness Center on Old Route Six across from the Donald Smith County Governmental Campus last week when the man collapsed and fell to the court. Full Story
Brewster Laxmen Edge Greeley on Dingee Goal
Bears also rip Foxes behind balanced scoring effort
BREWSTER—Eight Brewster players reached the scoring column last Thursday, as the Brewster High lacrosse team rolled over Fox Lane, 9-2 in a game played at Brewster High. The Bears also slipped past Horace Greeley, 8-7, the prior Tuesday in Chappaqua. Full Story
Brewster Girls Find Early Going Rough
Bears hit hard by graduation, but team expects to improve quickly
BREWSTER—Lindsay Biondi scored seven goals and Megan Yarusso added two goals and two assists, but it wasn’t enough, as the Brewster High girls lacrosse team fell to Fox Lane by a 17- 10 count Saturday in a game played in Bedford.
The Bears also dropped a 16-9 decision to Yorktown last Thursday, and fell to John Jay, 18-9, in the season opener, and stood at 0-3. Full Story
Rams Rough Up Horace Greeley
Anderson wins for third time – and has five RBI
CARMEL—Sooner or later, the Carmel High baseball team is going to have to throw someone other than Ian Anderson out there, but for now Anderson has been The Man on the mound for the Rams – winning all three of Carmel’s games so far this season, the last being a 10-4 decision over Greeley last Thursday in Chappaqua. Full Story
Slow-motion Takeover
Health care reform isn’t what it seems
E. L. Doctorow’s 1989 gangster novel Billy Bathgate,
set in 1930s New York, opens with a disturbing scene: gangster Bo Weinberg has been kidnapped by his mob rival Dutch Schultz. Full Story
Sifting Through the Sands of Time
Courier Archives
160 Years Ago 2 April 17, 1850
Mortality on Board Ship
Full Story
One Cheer for Offshore Drilling Plan
The president extends an olive twig to the ‘drill, baby, drill’ crowd
President Obama last week offered the “Drill, Baby, Drill” crowd an olive twig when he announced that he would “consider potential areas for development [of oil and gas resources] in the mid-Atlantic and the Gulf of Mexico.” Confine yourself to one cheer. Large swathes of potentially productive lands remain off-limits. Full Story
Worship Services
ST. JOHN THE EVANGELIST
ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH
225 East Lake Blvd, Mahopac
845-628-2006
Saturday Vigil Mass. 5:30pm, 8pm – Mass in Spanish – OLQA, Sunday: 7:30, 8:45, 10:45am, 12 Noon & 5:30pm, 10:15am – Mass in Polish – OLQA, Weekdays: 6:35, 9am, 12 noon, 7:30pm – Mondays & 1st Fridays Full Story
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