Car Destroyed by Fire During Sunday’s Winter Storm



A Buick sedan was burned to a crisp late Sunday afternoon during winter’s latest blast from Mother Nature. The vehicle caught fire on Glenvue Drive in Carmel when a woman from Mt. Kisco was visiting a friend’s home. “I pulled the car into the driveway and backed up to straighten it out in the heavy snow when my girl friend […]

Hotel Approved for Southeast

Traffic Impact Feared By Neighbors

It might have taken more than 200 years but a top-oftheline quality hotel will soon call Putnam County home. By a 3-1 vote, the Southeast Town Board approved a zoning change Thursday evening amending Chapter 138 of Local Law No. 3 which will allow the hotel to be constructed as part of the Crossroads 312 project. Voting in support of […]

Battle Over Sign Ordinance



Business owners in the greater Carmel-Mahopac area are up in arms over proposed amendments to the Town of Carmel’s municipal sign ordinance. Before a SRO audience at Town Hall Wednesday night, more than 125 businessmen and businesswomen vehemently protested the changes that call for the banning of lights that flash, blink, move, change colors or their message more than once […]

From the Chamber

Assessing The Business Community’s Impact On Putnam’s Economics

Recently, after input from local businesses led by representatives of the Greater Mahopac-Carmel Chamber of Commerce, The Carmel/Kent Chamber of Commerce and the Putnam County Chambers of Commerce, the Town of Carmel decided to reconsider a proposal that would have enacted a sign ordinance that many feel would have severely hampered commerce in the town. This was a great example […]

Retired Sheriff’s Investigator Charged in Beating of Prisoner



Retired Sheriff’s Investigator Pat Castaldo finds himself on the wrong side of the law after being indicted Friday on charges that he attacked a shackled prisoner after the alleged bank robber grabbed for a fellow officer’s gun. Castaldo was charged with one felony count of offering a false instrument for filing in addition to misdemeanor charges of attempted assault and […]

Salomones Speak Out on the Drug Crisis in Our Backyard



Editor’s Note: The heroin epidemic has hit both sides of Putnam County hard. Our sister paper, the Putnam County News and Recorder, did a video report with the Salomones of Mahopac about their experience. Their account is below. When two young people, one from Mahopac and one from Philipstown, lost their lives to heroin overdoses in Putnam in two days […]

Sunday is for Wearing of the Green



Everyone will be a “little bit Irish” in Putnam County Sunday when the county’s 39th annual St. Patrick’s Day Parade steps off at 2 p.m. in Mahopac. The parade, New York State’s third largest, with only the Manhattan and Yonkers St. Patrick’s Day Parades with more in the line of march, consists of six divisions this year containing dozens of […]

Potholes Called Worst in Years



Pothole season has arrived in a big way! Roads throughout the county contain craters, dips and divots that have resulted in damage to tires and alignments on many vehicles. Potholes usually don’t emerge until late March but the temperature swings of recent weeks from arctic cold to more moderate readings combined with frozen precipitation expands and contracts roadbeds, leaving undersurfaces […]

Brewster Residents ‘Lucky to be Alive’



Four Brewster residents are “lucky to be alive” say Connecticut State Police following a spectacular one vehicle crash on I-84 in Danbury. The Cooper Mini operated by David Machado, 31, was headed eastbound at a high rate of speed near Exit 3 last week when, according to Trooper Christopher Rivera, the vehicle went out of control. Police said the Mini […]

Gallery Naming at Mahopac Library





Mahopac Public Library announces a naming opportunity for its Art Gallery located on the third floor of the building. “We have a number of areas in our Library named after generous local businesses and patrons,” said Michele Capozzella, Library CEO and Executive Director. “The financial goal for the Art Gallery renovation project is $15,000. A gift of $10,000 enables the […]