2023-05-30 E-Edition

WATCH FIRES BEGIN MEMORIAL DAY OBSERVANCES

Irene Rohde and Art Hanley cut dozens of flags into strips for incineration. Full story, A3 Photo, Eric Gross.

Mary-Margaret Zehr Resigns as Superintendent in Troubled Carmel District


Mary-Margaret Zehr is out as Carmel School Superintendent only 28 months after arriving in Putnam to lead the county’s largest school district. The Carmel Board of Education accepted Zehr’s resignation effective June 30 last Tuesday evening at its meeting held at the Kent Elementary School. Zehr joined the Carmel School in February 2021 receiving an annual salary of $237,000. She […]

Wolf Pac Is New Mascot in Mahopac


Starting this fall, the Mahopac School District will be known as the Wolf Pac. For decades, Mahopac High School teams carried the moniker of the Indians. Earlier this year, when the Board of Regents adopted a regulation enforcing the Dignity for All Students Act that addressed Native American symbols, the school district had no choice but to change its mascot […]

Byrne Plays Follow the Leader

Declares State of Emergency, Ostensibly to Keep Migrants Out of Putnam

County Executive Kevin Byrne has joined his neighboring executives in Dutchess, Rockland and Orange Counties in filing a State of Emergency in response to New York City’s recent moves to relocate asylum seekers to the Hudson Valley. Westchester is the only county in the immediate area which has welcomed the relocation of asylum seekers from New York City’s upstate relocation […]

Carmel PD Launch Christened on Lake Mahopac; Cost was $70,000


Carmel Police Officer Erin Macon poured a bottle of champagne across the bow of the department’s new police launch last Thursday morning, signifying the beginning of the 2023 boating season along Lake Mahopac. Police Chief Anthony Hoffmann told a news conference the patrol vessel was custom built by Lifeproof Boats according to specifications: “The boat contains a variety of tools […]

Summer Jobs Available for Low Income Putnam Youth


Attention youngsters: Are you between the ages of 14 and 20 and seeking a summer job? Putnam Community Action Partnership’s Summer Youth Employment Program is seeking applicants for those who are legally able to work in the U.S. and whose total household income is within 200 percent of the federal poverty level. CAP Executive Director Marisa O’Leary said her non-profit […]

Thousands of American Flags Retired at Watch Fire


Friday evening, at the beginning of the Memorial Day weekend, two dozen county residents gathered at the Putnam Veterans Memorial Park to participate in the Watch Fires ceremony. The Watch Fires marked the beginning of Memorial Day and Memorial Weekend observances all across Putnam County. Thousands of tattered American flags were patriotically retired throughout the weekend in a large steel […]

Shirley D. Creazzo

April 6, 1935 – May 20, 2023

Shirley D. Creazzo of Brewster, NY, passed away at Paramount Rehabilitation in Somers, NY while recuperating from a short stay in the hospital on Saturday, May 20, 2023, at the age of 88. Shirley was born April 6, 1935, in Queens, NY, daughter of the late John and Evelyn (Tolano) Dichtelmiller. She graduated from Newtown High School and the Traphagen […]

Barbara Jean Capone

June 8, 1955 – May 20, 2023

Barbara Jean Capone of Brewster, NY, passed away Saturday May 20, 2023, at the age of 67. “Big Time” or “Little” as friends called her, was born on June 8, 1955, in Mount Vernon, New York to her loving parents Aleck and Frances (Seyfert) Vozzella. Barbara was born and raised in Mount Vernon, New York. She attended Our Lady of […]