BREAKING NEWS - Gallagher Wins Cold Spring Mayoral Race
Gallagher - 479, Phillips - 420
On March 18, 2009, 53 minutes after the polls closed at the Cold Spring firehall, a village official announced the results of the mayoral election. Challenger Seth Gallagher defeated longtime incumbent Anthony Phillips. Full Story
Bondi Optimistic About Putnam's Prospects
Several days after County Executive Robert Bondi's State of the County speech last week, the PCN&R sat down with Mr. Bondi at the county offices in Carmel for a follow-up conversation. We were joined by Deputy County Executive John Tully and Chief of Staff Lisa Denig. Full Story
County Exec Cites Preemptive 'Hard Decisions' in Speech
While elected officials ranging from the president of the United States to local leaders are warning of dire times, Putnam County Executive Robert Bondi offered an optimistic State of the County address last week to a packed house in an ornate chamber of the county courthouse in Carmel. Full Story
Quadricentennial Flag Comes to Cold Spring
State's First Lady did not come with it
With mist-shrouded Storm King as the backdrop, the area's civic leaders gathered on March 11, 2009, at the Cold Spring bandstand to receive the official Hudson-Fulton-Champlain Quadricentennial flags from members of the state commission set up to commemorate the 400th anniversary of Henry Hudson's voyage up the river named after him. Full Story
Village Board Explores Conversion of Private Road
Lone holdout converts at trustees' meeting
The monthly Cold Spring Board of Trustees meeting on March 10, 2009, began with a discussion of whether East Belvedere should become a public road, a proposal favored by the trustees, who would like to be able to use state funds to pay for the street's upkeep. Full Story
Taconic Truck Mishap Ties up Morning Commute
An eight-hour closure of the Taconic State Parkway in Putnam Valley Monday resulted in one of the region's most serious traffic jams in recent memory. State Police at Stormville identified the culprit of the catastrophe as a man from Georgia who according to Sgt. Michael Piasecki was "following the directions of his vehicle's GPS device. Full Story
Haldane Heating Deliberations Have Cooled
The sometimes heated and almost panic-stricken debate over how to replace the rapidly aging steam-based heating system in the Haldane elementary and middle schools has cooled considerably - at least for the time being. AKF Engineering presented its finding to Haldane Central School District trustees and the public on March 10, 2009. Full Story
Budget Issues Overshadow GUFS Meeting
The Garrison Union Free School District Board of Education met for its fortnightly meeting on Wednesday, March 11, 2009. All board members were present along with a half dozen audience members. Also present before the meeting began were a dozen or so persons, presumably teachers, wearing bright red t-shirts emblazoned with "Still No Contract. Full Story
High- tech Learning a Priori ty for PV School s
At the February 26, 2009, School Board meeting the Putnam Valley Central School District's teachers and administrators demonstrated how they incorporate technology into education, including an update on the school's laptop initiative program. Full Story
A Glimpse of Spring
Daffodil sales benefit cancer research
Spring has arrived a few days early in Putnam County, thanks to the local chapter of the American Cancer Society. A truck carrying 50,000 daffodils dropped off the freshly cut flowers Monday in Cold Spring and Mahopac Falls, where an army of volunteers sorted and packaged the beautiful yellow flowers for distribution this week throughout the region. Full Story
PVHS Model Congress Club Excels in Cradle of Liberty
Benjamin Franklin, who founded the University of Pennsylvania, would have been proud. The Model Congress Club at Putnam Valley High School has completed another successful trip to the 2009 Penn Model Congress, held in Philadelphia over the last weekend in February. Full Story
Highways Crews Use 15 Million Pounds of Salt in 08-09
Friday can't come fast enough for Putnam County highway crews! The first day of spring arrives March 20 -- a relief for the Putnam County Department of Highways and Facilities, which used 15 million pounds of salt this winter keeping roads safe for motorists from Cold Spring to Carmel. Full Story
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