Great Tastes at BHS Food Festival



Original recipes created by chefs around the globe turned the teacher’s lounge at Brewster High School into a culinary delight. Last week after school, the school’s Global Community Club sponsored the annual International Food Festival, which attracted more than 100 students, faculty, and staff. Club advisor Ruben Hernandez commended his students, led by senior Vaishari Parkash, for organizing an “outstanding […]

Enjoy an Easy Thanksgiving Ramble at Farrell-Ross Preserve in Southeast

Pastimes

The Glenda Farrell-Henry Ross Preserve in Southeast is easy to get to, relatively flat, and doesn’t take very long at all. It’s a good choice for a beginning hiker, or someone looking for a short hike that doesn’t require a day-trip. According to the preserve brochure, this property was part of the Gage family farm. Elihu Gage was one of […]

Ball Serves Up Peach Lake Surprise

Assemblyman shuts down congressional bid, vies instead for Leibell’s state senate seat

In a surprise move Greg Ball is shutting down his campaign to unseat John Hall and endeavoring to take Vincent Leibell’s seat in the New York State senate, even if it means challenging Leibell in an acrimonious GOP primary. “New York is ready for change,” said Ball, who made his announcement just prior to an event at Peach Lake last […]

‘I’ll Have a Piece of Putnam Pie’



Maureen Salinger can’t wait to put her feet up on the day after Thanksgiving. After baking more than 2500 pies, it will be time to rest. Salinger, who owns and operates Salinger’s Orchards on Guinea Road in Southeast with her husband, Bruce, prepared 700 apple pies, 600 pumpkin pies, 325 apple crumb pie creations, 175 pecan pies, 200 apple walnut […]

Putnam’s Unemployment Numbers Drop Slightly



Putnam’s rate of unemployment has taken a slight breather. The New York State Labor Department reported last Thursday that the county’s rate of unemployment was 6.8 percent for October, down from 7 percent for the past three months. The numbers compare to a 4.4 percent unemployment rate a year ago and a distant reminder that in 1998, Putnam’s 2.2 percent […]

Taxpayers Dig Peach Lake ‘Out of the Muck’



Four hundred fifty families residing at Peach Lake will finally be getting relief. For more than 40 years the residents of Southeast and North Salem have witnessed their lake deteriorate due to failing septic systems that caused raw sewage being discharged directly into the lake. This resulted in pollution, strong odors, and the discharge of phosphorus, which has reduced the […]

‘Thanksgiving to Ye Almighty God’

Recognizing that we are religious animals on America’s secular feast day

“ M an is by his constitution a religious animal; atheism is against not only our reason, but our instincts,” wrote Edmund Burke in his Reflections on the Revolution in France. The revolution of which Burke wrote perverted the definition of freedom through its assaults on religion and its elevation of the state to the divine. Throwing out God, the […]

A Thanksgiving Proclamation

by the President of the United States of America, Abraham Lincoln

The year that is drawing towards its close, has been filled with the blessings of fruitful fields and healthful skies. To these bounties, which are so constantly enjoyed that we are prone to forget the source from which they come, others have been added, which are of so extraordinary a nature, that they cannot fail to penetrate and soften even […]

“Two Thanksgiving Day Gentlemen”

COURIER READER

There is one day that is ours. There is one day when all we Americans who are not self-made go back to the old home to eat saleratus biscuits and marvel how much nearer to the porch the old pump looks than it used to. Bless the day. President Roosevelt gives it to us. We hear some talk of the […]

MAHOPAC

Strategies planned to reduce teenage tragedies

In recent months the Mahopac area has seen it share of tragedies involving the young. From serious vehicle crashes to a near fatal boating mishap last summer on Lake Mahopac, teenagers and young adults have been maimed for life. Members of the Mahopac School District and Town of Carmel have decided enough is enough and have formed a committee that […]