Hamill to Lead Fire Dept. in 2012



Welcome Chief Ray Hamill! Before more than 350 guests gathered at the Villa Barone in Mahopac Saturday evening, former Assistant Chief Hamill took his oath of office as chief of the Mahopac Fire Department at the organization’s 98th annual installation. The affair was dedicated to the memory of four members who answered their final alarm in 2011—Norman Holloway, Anthony Rendina, […]

From Social to Purposeful for Social Media Success

From The Chamber

Social media has become not only a key way to get your business message across to a very wide and receptive audience, but a necessary means. It is effective yes, but only you have a plan and goals as to how to utilize it purposefully. Your time is precious; you must make sure all your time devoted to any part […]

Hayworth Delivers Year’s First Radio Address



Congresswoman Nan Hayworth was given the honor of delivering the first Republican weekly radio address of the New Year, and the topic was jobs and the economy. “As always, the new year brings fresh hopes and aspirations,” Hayworth said. “Unfortunately, too many of our fellow citizens begin 2012 with worries about keeping their jobs and paying their bills.” Hayworth, a […]

Contract Discussions Underway for Putnam National Golf Club



County Executive MaryEllen Odell is giving Putnam officials a full year to review and negotiate a new contract for the operations of the county-owned Putnam National Golf Club in Mahopac Falls. The current five-year pact with the New Jersey-based RDC Golf Group expires on Dec. 31. The contract calls for the management firm to pay the county $248,000 a year—funds […]

Civil Rights Cases Dog Town of Kent



Ernest L. Robinson III has two civil rights cases pending against the Town of Kent and various officials, and he’s won something of a victory, albeit mixed, in one of them. The case at hand goes back to leafleting Robinson did at the Town of Kent Community Day in September 2009. The leaflets attacked Kent Town Justice J. Peter Collins […]

Mother, Daughter Killed in Crash



An elderly resident of Southeast and her daughter were killed Friday afternoon in a single-car crash on Route 312 in Southeast. The Putnam County Sheriff’s Department said the tragedy took place at 1:30 p.m. near Nancy Lane when for an unknown reason the vehicle being driven by Merrill Spaeth, 66, of Fishkill, drove off the road and plowed into a […]

Indian Point Unit Shuts for Repair



Control room operators removed Indian Point’s unit 2 nuclear power plant from service Tuesday morning to repair one of four pumps that supplies cooling water to the plant’s reactor. The pumps are located inside the containment building. There was no release of radioactivity and the Nuclear Regulatory Commission was notified of the shutdown, the company said in a news release, […]

Sheriff Seeks Tips on History



Sheriff Don Smith is asking the public for its assistance this week—not in helping to solve a crime but to chronicle the history of the Sheriff’s Department. Twenty-twelve mark’s Putnam’s Bicentennial celebration and in conjunction with the county’s 200th birthday, the department will be contributing to a book that marks the occasion. Smith said although his staff has gathered an […]

Bicentennial Gala Kicks Off County Anniversary



Putnam’s Bicentennial Ball is one week away. Twenty-twelve marks the 200th anniversary of the founding of Putnam and the gala kicks off the year’s events and activities. County Attorney Jennifer Bumgarner says such happenings will cost a “considerable amount of money which our Bicentennial Committee does not want taxpayers to bear the burden.” The official kick-off takes place on Jan. […]

Summertime, Briefly



The mercury reached 63 degrees in Carmel on Saturday setting a new record for the date. The temp smashed through the previous high, of 61 degrees in 2008, at 1:15 p.m., the National Weather Service reported. Ingrid Amberger, a meteorologist at the National Weather Service, called the winter weather so far “totally absurd. Earlier in the week we recorded single […]