Hospital Hails New Mural for Comfort Room

Carmel News

Art therapist Kathryn Olsen has created and painted a soothing mural on an entire wall in the newly-opened comfort room, used by patients receiving behavioral health services at Carmel’s Putnam Hospital Center. Designed to be calming to the senses, it is furnished with a variety of sensory items such as aromatherapy aides, a selection of relaxation music and soft flexible […]

PHC Tops The Region When It Comes To Patient Safety

Carmel News

When it comes to patient safety no one does it better in the region than Putnam Hospital Center. Consumer Reports last week released its annual hospital national ranking of patient safety where 1,159 hospitals in 44 states were ranked in six categories: Infections, readmissions, overuse of scanning, communication about medications, discharge complications and mortality and PHC earned a score of […]

Ada Dyer Sings Aretha at Arts On The Lake

Carmel News

Ada Dyer, performer of R&B and soul music, is set to perform the songs of Aretha Franklin on Friday, July 20, at 7 p.m. at Arts on the Lake, 640 Route 52, Lake Carmel. For this, the second in AotL’s outdoor Summer Concert Series, Dyer comes to Lake Carmel from recent appearances at B. B. King’s in New York City. […]

Mahopac Man Sentenced To 4 Months Prison

News from Mahopac

Some say a Mahopac man may have gotten off easy after being sentenced to four months in prison and walking out of the Putnam Courthouse a free man for time already served after pleading guilty to underpaying workers on public works projects his company managed at LaGuardia Airport. William Mazzella was sentenced last week in Putnam County Court by Judge […]

Hot Enough for You?

Sizzling temps bake early part of week

Lately there’s been a heady midsummer combination of heat, humidity, and thunderstorms, with little let-up in sight until Thursday and Friday. Tuesday morning, the state’s Department of Environmental Conservation issued an air quality health advisory concerning high levels of ozone in the atmosphere. Highs Tuesday and Wednesday reached the mid-to-high 90s. Putnam’s new Health Commissioner, Allen Beals, M.D., said, “Current […]

Morally Questionable



To the Editor: While driving past the Mobil station on the corner of Route 6 and Drewville Road in June I noticed a display of military flags. I stopped in to have a look. Very nice new flags of four of the Armed Forces where crisscrossed in pairs. A flag to represent the Coast Guard was absent. I inquired within […]

Courier Archives

82 Years Ago July 18, 1930

BIG PROBLEM IN PUTNAM CO. Mis Race Explains Efforts at Comite Meeting. Colects Over $150 Monthly. On Friday, July 11, Dr. Thompson, chairman, welcomed the members of the Putnam County Committee of the State Charities Aid Association for their regular monthly meeting in the Court House at Carmel. Following the usual secretary and treasurer’s reports, the Agent, Miss Laura M. […]

Homecoming for Physical Therapist

Returns to Putnam to practice

Kristen Gallipani is back in Brewster. The 2006 graduate of Brewster High School, who excelled both in the classroom and on the athletic field before attending the University of Buffalo where she earned a Doctor of Physical Therapy degree, has begun practicing with AON Physical Therapy and Wellness on Route 312 in Southeast. Kristen described the opportunity to be employed […]

Di Carlo Shakes Up Chamber Forum with Scandal Talk

Meet and greet, forum for candidates in new districts

The setting was a golf club but participants were far from the links, as business met politics last Thursday evening for the Putnam County Chambers of Commerce. And even here, there was a whiff of the Putnam County corruption scandal that roiled the county in 2010 and 2011, broached by Senate candidate Neil Di Carlo, who last appeared in 2010 […]

Jambor Will Lead Brewster Board

The Brewster Standard

One of Putnam County’s most senior and well-respected school trustees will again lead the Brewster Board of Education in the new school year. Dr. Stephen Jambor was unanimously selected as president of the school board during its organizational meeting last week. Joseph Charbonneau also received full support in his reelection as vice president. Trustees appointed Susan Gavin as District Clerk, […]