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May 12, 20232 min read
Kathy Kahng Seeks Seat on County Legislature
Longtime Kent resident Kathy Kahng, a Democrat, has announced her candidacy for Putnam County Legislature, District 3, in the November...
May 12, 20231 min read
Candidates Set For May 16 School Board Elections
School board elections will take place May 16 across the county, accompanying the annual school budget votes. In Mahopac, three seats on...
May 12, 20232 min read
Healthcare Workers Ratify Contract with Nuvance
More than 1,500 members of 1199SEIU United Healthcare Workers East, the nation’s largest healthcare union, have voted overwhelmingly to...
May 12, 20233 min read
Mahopac Schools Propose 2.81% Tax Levy Hike
By Holly Crocco The Mahopac School Board has approved a $137.9 million budget for the 2023-24 school year, which represents a 4.1 percent...
May 12, 20233 min read
Kent Looks to Address Food Insecurity
By Holly Crocco The Town of Kent is hoping to enlist the help of Cornell Cooperative Extension-Putnam County in using American Recovery...
May 12, 20234 min read
Sheriff: Racist TikTok Videos Lend No Basis for Arrest
By Holly Crocco Following weeks of demands for action from parents and residents from Carmel, Brewster and all throughout Putnam, county...
May 12, 20233 min read
Delayed Peekskill Hollow Road Project Causes Frustration
By Holly Crocco Town and county lawmakers, residents, business owners and others who travel Peekskill Hollow Road in Putnam Valley are...


May 12, 20232 min read
Materion Donates $5,000 for InterArts Center in Patterson
Materion, of Brewster, a global leader in advanced materials that enable technologies to create a safer and more sustainable world,...


May 12, 20232 min read
Lipton Expected to Be Named EMS Commissioner
Putnam County Executive Kevin Byrne recently announced his intention to name Robert Lipton as commissioner of the Bureau of Emergency...
May 12, 20232 min read
Peach Lake Brook Flooding Continues to be a Nuisance
By Holly Crocco Residents who live along the Peach Lake Brook in Southeast are looking to the town for assistance remediating flooding...
May 12, 20233 min read
Carmel School Board Eyeing 1.86% Tax Levy Increase
By Holly Crocco The Carmel School Board is expected to adopt a budget with a 1.86 percent property tax levy increase later this month....
May 12, 20233 min read
Parents Demand Action to Prevent School Violence
By Holly Crocco Area parents who are troubled by, and fed up with acts of racism, violent threats, and other concerning behavior at local...
May 12, 20232 min read
Public Safety Training Facility Eyed in Southeast
By Holly Crocco While a proposal to build a public safety training facility on donated land in Southeast fell through a couple of years...
May 12, 20234 min read
Improvements Coming to South Lake Dams in Kent
By Holly Crocco The Town of Kent and Putnam County are working together to maintain the upper and middle South Lake dams in Kent, with...
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