By Holly Crocco The Putnam County Legislature voted 8-1 last week to send a memorialization up to Albany supporting State Sen. Rob Rolison’s proposed “utility tax holiday.” Rolison, R-Poughkeepsie, has proposed a one-year suspension of utility bill and tax surcharges and a two-year suspension of green energy gas taxes, with the hopes of providing relief to residents facing high utility costs. “All of us in this room have received calls from residents that their utility bills

It was a team effort between the Putnam County District Attorney’s Office, Putnam/Northern Westchester Women’s Resource Center, the Department of Social Services, and local law enforcement agencies, but after months of advocacy, Putnam was selected as one of five counties across the state to partner with the New York State Office for the Prevention of Domestic Violence to join the Coordinated Community Response Pilot and develop the county’s first Domestic Violence High-Risk