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Putnam Schools Join the Winter Olympics Hype!

Fulmar Road Elementary School students in Mahopac try their hand at “Ice hockey." Professional athletes aren’t the only ones who want in on the Olympics excitement. Fulmar Road Elementary School kindergartners in Mahopac recently celebrated the Winter Olympics with an opening ceremony parade through the school hallways, greeted by cheers from older students along the way. Representing their home classrooms, students wore blue, red, yellow or green and proudly waved paper flag

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Philipstown Folks Seek ‘Equal Protection’ Law

Local activists packed the Philipstown Town Hall for the Town Board’s Feb. 5 meeting to discuss proposed updates to the town’s “equal protection resolution.” The town originally adopted a version of the resolution in April 2017, but with the recent civil unrest throughout the country and Immigrations & Customs Enforcement officers making arrests, a local citizens group called Joining Forces has submitted a stronger 2026 version of the resolution to the Town Board for adoption

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With Crisis Center Vetoed, County Looks to Spend Federal Funds

By Holly Crocco With the proposed Putnam County mental health crisis stabilization center that was planned for Stoneleigh Avenue having been voted down by the Carmel Planning Board earlier this month, the County Legislature is now scrambling to spend $2.5 million in American Recovery Plan Act funds that were tied to the project so that it doesn’t have to be returned to the federal government. “At this point, with the ARPA deadlines, the money has to be spent by the end of thi

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NYPD Sergeant from Putnam Found Guilty of Manslaughter

A New York Police Department sergeant from Putnam County was recently found guilty of second-degree manslaughter after throwing a cooler at a fleeing suspect in August of 2023, leading to the man’s death. Sgt. Erik Duran, 38, pleaded not guilty during his bench trial, in which there was no jury – just a judge hearing the arguments and rendering the verdict. He was convicted Feb. 6 by Bronx Supreme Court Judge Guy Mitchell and faces up to 15 years in prison. Sentencing is sche

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Mahopac Man Accused of Brandishing Gun at Bus Driver

A Mahopac man was arrested last week following a road rage/menacing incident in which he allegedly aimed a loaded gun at a school bus driver. New York State Police at Hawthorne received a walk-in complaint Feb. 4 from a school bus driver who reported that, while driving on the Taconic State Parkway southbound near exit 3 in Mount Pleasant, the driver of another vehicle pointed a handgun at him. In addition to the driver, a bus monitor and three children with special needs wer

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Community Comes Together to Rescue Trapped Cat in Brewster

Kathleen Sutherland from Putnam AdvoCATS and Andrew Evans from Evans Septic Tank Service visit the animal five days after her rescue. Photo by Chloe Wareham-Gordon. By Holly Crocco When a Marshalls employee heard a cat’s cry coming from somewhere outside the Brewster store on a bitter cold day last month, they coul dn’t just keep walking. Instead, they called the Putnam County SPCA to report what they believed to be a trapped feline, likely in a storm drain, and what happened

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Community Comes Together to Rescue Trapped Cat in Brewster

Roof Placed on Cornell Cooperative Barn at Tilly Foster

Cornell Cooperative Extension-Putnam County Executive Director Stefanie Hubert explains the barn structure to Stephen Gnojewski and Nat Prentice of the Community Foundations of the Hudson Valley, which has donated to the campaign to build a new home for CCE at Tilly Foster Farm in Brewster. Cornell Cooperative Extension-Putnam County last week welcomed supporters to celebrate the substantial progress on its new home now under construction at the county-owned Tilly Foster Farm

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