Recess Book Club at CV Starr School

Ten year old Jaylin Morales loves to read and when her teacher at the C.V. Starr Intermediate School in Brewster set her student’s reading goals for the school year, Jaylin decided to go one step further and created the Recess Book Club for her classmates. “Isn’t this every teacher’s dream to have a student initiate such a great idea?” asked […]

Kent Town Board Organizes for 2019


The Kent Town Board has organized for 2019. Meeting last Tuesday evening, Supervisor Maureen Fleming appointed Bill Huestis as her deputy supervisor. Fleming will serve as budget officer for the year while Town Clerk Yolanda Cappelli will act as Registrar of Vital Statistics, Marriage Officer and Records Clerk. Ron Calkins was appointed as Deputy Fire Inspector with T.J. Donahue and […]

Things to Do

Still Crossing Out An 8 & Putting 9?

2019-On Select Tues.-6:45- 8pm Drug Crisis in our Backyard Spotlight Family Support Group at Mahopac Library. More info: MahopacLibrary.org Through Jan- Photographs By Marcelino Pagan on Display at Mahopac Lib Jan 6-Jan 30 ‘ALLEGORY’ exhibit at Mahopac Lib More info: mahopaclibrary.org, 845-628-2009, ext. 100. Tuesdays (Jan 8-22) Music with Marlana at Patterson Lib. More info/reg: pattersonlibrary.org, 845-878-6121 x10 Jan 8-Feb […]

New York City State Lawmakers Call for Name Change of Putnam’s Trump State Park


Lawmakers in the Democrat controlled New York State Legislature are making another attempt to have President Donald Trump’s name removed from a state park along the Taconic State Parkway in Putnam Valley. State Assemblywoman Nily Rozic of Queens and State Senator Brad Hoylman of Manhattan have introduced legislation that would allow the state parks commissioner to give the Donald Trump […]

Could It Be? Obfuscation, from NYS

FREE Could It Be? Obfuscation, from NYS

I’ve come to think of those LED signs along our highways as a positive development – you know, the ones with messages that change, based on conditions or traffic alerts. For some days last week, there was an alert to this effect, GMCB Closed 01/12/19. Then, suddenly, late in the week, Closure Delayed; GMCB Open /1/12/19. And the reasonable person […]

Children’s Expo and Safety Fair Scheduled

Plans are already in the works for the county’s 14th annual Children’s Expo and Safety Fair. The event is planned for Sunday, Sept. 22, at the Putnam Bureau of Emergency Services complex in Carmel. Children of all ages as well as their moms, dads and grandparents will be treated to a variety of exhibitions that bring awareness about aspects of […]

Central Hudson Warns of Phone Scam


If you are served by Central Hudson Gas and Electric Company for your natural gas or electricity, company officials are warning the public to be on the lookout for a phone scam in which a caller threatens to disconnect service unless a special fee is immediately paid. The utility reported this week that customers had complained about receiving calls that […]

Sifting Through the Sands of Time

CARMEL TOWN BOARD

JAMES HYATT APPOINTED HIGHWAY COMMISSIONER IN PLACE OF CORBIN The town board of Carmel held a special meeting at the Town Hall at Mahopac. on Wednesday afternoon, for the purpose of electing a successor to William J. Corbin, who resigned his office of highway commissioner. James L. Hyatt of Carmel was chosen to fill vacancy. The board settled upon Thursday. […]

Word of the Week

boustrophedon | boo-struh-FEE-dahn NOUN: the writing of alternate lines in opposite directions (as from left to right and from right to left)

FROM THE CHAMBER

Is the Government Shutdown Shutting Down Small Business?

We are in the midst of the longest so-called “Government Shutdown” in history, the lack of appropriations affecting a sizeable portion of federal workers and offices. The Small Business Administration stopped processing new loans on Dec. 22. President Trump has said the shutdown could last “months or even years,” a scenario that is having an impact on banks and business […]