News from The Putnam Examiner, covering Brewster-Southeast, Cold Spring-Philipstown, Kent, Mahopac-Carmel, Patterson, Putnam Valley, Putnam County, NY.
In an election day that echoed to every major city and every small Rust Belt town in America early Wednesday morning, Donald Trump, in stunning victory, was elected the 45th president of the United States. Beating his Democratic foe Hillary
Read MoreIncumbent State Senators Terrence Murphy and David Carlucci and longtime State Assemblywoman Sandra Galef were comfortably reelected Tuesday, while Republican Kevin Byrne was elected to the Assembly to replace Steve Katz. With 100% of the votes tabulated in Putnam
Read MoreSlamming a possible safe storage gun ordinance as intrusive and unconstitutional, gun owners provided a laundry list of complaints to the Philipstown town board in hopes of stopping the controversial proposal. With opponents of the proposed gun safety storage law
Read MoreAndrew Vitelli The towns of Kent and Carmel unveiled their preliminary 2017 budgets last month, with taxes flat in Kent and increasing by 1.5 percent in Carmel. Kent’s $14,241,982 budget, not including special districts, represents a $13,651 increase (around 0.1
Read MoreIn a 7-2 vote, the county Legislature signed off on this year’s budget that comes out to $153 million and remains under the New York State tax cap for the fifth year in a row. While lawmakers had some disagreements, a
Read MoreTwo napping fugitives accused of robbing a bank in Connecticut woke up to Putnam County Sheriff Office investigators ready to arrest them last Tuesday. Vance Coffin and Vincent Rollins, both 50, of Norwich, Ct., are facing local stolen property charges
Read MoreA gun-storage ordinance that packed town hall Wednesday night moved forward in Philipstown as the town board voted to send a draft of the law to the town attorney for legal review. In a 4-1 vote, the all-Democratic board decided
Read MoreBy Neal Rentz Two major new buildings are being planned in Putnam Valley. At the Oct. 19 town board meeting, proposals for a new firehouse for the town’s volunteer fire department and a new community recreation center were discussed. The
Read MoreA suspect who allegedly committed an armed robbery in the Patterson Commons Shopping Center was nabbed Thursday morning and charged with robbery. John Caputo of Wingdale in Dutchess County was arrested and is facing a first-degree robbery charge after he’s
Read MoreWestern Connecticut State University is offering in-state tuition to residents of seven New York counties starting with the Fall 2017 semester. Students from Putnam, Westchester, Dutchess, Orange, Sullivan, Rockland and Ulster counties will be able to enroll at WCSU at
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