Carmel Town Board Organizes for 2019


The Carmel Town Board conducted its annual organizational meeting before a sparse crowd at Carmel Town Hall last Wednesday evening by approving a 36 item agenda in less than an hour. The board designated the Putnam Courier and Mahopac News as the town’s official newspapers for 2019 while the Spain Insurance Company of Mahopac was selected as the town’s insurance […]

Sifting Through the Sands of Time

Water Supply for Brewster

The village trustees of Brewster have granted to former District Attorney Miller and Mrs. John R. Yale a franchise to build water works and pipe for that village. The taxpayers and people of Brewster have lost a valuable opportunity to elect and own their water supply, which they will regret very much in the years to come. The village needs […]

Word of the Week

taradiddle | tair-uh-DID-ul NOUN: a trivial or childish lie : fib

DWAI Arrest Following Wrong Way Crash


A Pennsylvania man is facing drug-related driving charges following a wrong way crash on the exit ramp of I-84 in Southeast. Last Wednesday’s mishap occurred at 8:30 am when a Jeep driven by Christopher Franz, 45, of Broomall, Pa., entered the interstate on the eastbound off ramp and less than 50 yards later was struck head-on by a large Toyota […]

Snowfest at Reed Library

Reed Library in Carmel is inviting people to join in afternoon of winter fun. Participants will drink white hot chocolate, create snow slime, make white whoopie pies and more. For children age 5 & up. It’s Tuesday, January 22, at 4:30pm. Please call the library to register 845-225- 2439.

PUZZLES

Sheryl Lynn Walker

Sheryl Lynn Walker of North Salem, NY, passed into eternal life in December of 2018. Sheryl was born to Albert C. and Isabel R. Moncalieri in June of 1951. She attended Maria Regina High School in Yonkers and Berkley College in White Plains. After completing her studies, Sheryl began working at Nestlé USA where she later met her husband of […]

Nellie Lato Tavino

Nellie Lato Tavino, a longtime resident of Brewster, formally of the Bronx, passed away on January 5, 2019. She was 90. Nellie was born December 9, 1928 in Lynn, MA to the late Louis and Catherine Pelicano Lato. Nellie was married to the late Peter J. Tavino for 60 years. Nellie is survived by sons Peter (Mary), James (Nancy), Louis […]

Sylvia M. Rieg

Sylvia M. Rieg, of Brewster, NY, died peacefully on Wednesday January 2, 2019, at Village Crest in New Milford, CT. She was 78 years old. Born on February 29, 1940, in New York City, NY, daughter of the late Vincent and Monica (Vasquez) Martinez. She graduated from the NYC schools. On September 27, 1969, she married the love of her […]

Tommy Lyons Hailed; Was at Ground Zero


Hundreds of members of the law enforcement community stood in torrential rain Saturday outside St. James Church in Carmel to remember Thomas Lyons, a 52-year-old career member of the New York City Police Department who spent weeks on the pile at Ground Zero after the 2001 terrorist attacks and died New Year’s Eve from 9/11 related cancer. The Carmel man […]