Month: October 2017

Be-a-Better-Gardener: One Last Thing to Plant: Garlic

    One Last Thing to Plant: Garlic Garlic scapes: the other harvest  By Thomas Christopher   This is the season when my wife and I do our last planting of the year: garlic. This may be my favorite vegetable crop,…

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How to Donate at Christmas and Have that Gift Extend Beyond the Holidays: The St. Nicholas Project

  How to Donate at Christmas and Have that Gift Extend Beyond the Holidays: The St. Nicholas Project (DUTCHESS) – October 11 — Every holiday season people seek out organizations to support and ways they can assist people in their local…

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Twenty-eight Earn Coveted DCC Foundation Scholarship Award Covers Tuition for Top High School Graduates

  Twenty-eight Earn Coveted DCC Foundation Scholarship Award Covers Tuition for Top High School Graduates   Twenty-eight DCC freshmen were awarded the 2017 Charles E. and Mabel E. Conklin Scholarship for Academic Excellence. Seated in the center, front is Dr….

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The Interact Club of Pawling is hosting their annual Pancake Breakfast on Sunday, October 22nd

  The Interact Club of Pawling is hosting their annual Pancake Breakfast on Sunday, October 22nd. We are raising funds for the organization Shelter Box with hopes to aid in efforts for hurricane relief in the Caribbean.

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Bronx man arrested for menacing and criminal possession of a weapon after fight with Walmart Security

  SP Wappinger – Bronx man arrested for menacing and criminal possession of a weapon after fight with Walmart Security NEW YORK STATE POLICE  Major Robert C. Gregory Troop K Commander     PRESS RELEASE   Fishkill, New York – On October…

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OFFICIAL DUTCHESS COUNTY BOARD OF ELECTIONS NOVEMBER CANDIDATES

LEGAL NOTICE To all voters of Dutchess County, New York General Election, Tuesday, November 7, 2017   The following is a true and correct list of all nominations of candidates for the offices to be filled at the General Election…

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Obituary, Ralph M. Cummings

  CUMMINGS LCDR (Ret.) Ralph M. Cummings, 61, passed away peacefully on October 4, 2017. He was born on November 22, 1955 in Oneonta, New York and was raised in Amenia, New York. He graduated from Webutuck Central School in…

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Pulitzer Prize-Winning Historian to Lecture at DCC

  Pulitzer Prize-Winning Historian to Lecture at DCC   October 10, 2017 – Dr. David Kennedy, Pulitzer prize winner and Stanford University professor emeritus, will discuss “Franklin D. Roosevelt: A Twentieth-Century Life” at Dutchess Community College Oct. 19 at 7…

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Dutchess County Emergency Response to Facilitate  Amateur Radio Licensing Class

    Dutchess County Emergency Response to Facilitate  Amateur Radio Licensing Class Poughkeepsie, NY… The Dutchess County Department of Emergency Response in partnership with the Mt. Beacon and QSY Society Amateur Radio Clubs, will host a two-day Technician Level amateur…

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Westchester man dies in Patterson crash

PATTERSON – The head-on crash on Route 22 in Patterson Monday morning around 6:20 a.m.  claimed the life of Luis Alberto-Arpi, 56, of Ossining. At  a jeep suv driven by Damiana Mackoon, 47, of Patterson was attempting to pass a…

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Dover man arrested after domestic Strangulation investigation

  SP Dover – Dover man arrested after domestic Strangulation investigation NEW YORK STATE POLICE  Major Robert C. Gregory Troop K Commander     PRESS RELEASE   Dover, New York – On October 8, 2017, the New York State Police from the Dover…

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Dutchess County Office for the Aging’s AGING NEWS For the week of October 9

  Dutchess County Office for the Aging’s AGING NEWS For the week of October 9   Golden Living . . . News for Senior Citizens Todd N. Tancredi, Director Dutchess County Office for the Aging     MEDICARE: OPEN ENROLLMENT…

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Fishkill man arrested for stealing from his employer

  SP Wappinger – Fishkill man arrested for stealing from his employer. NEW YORK STATE POLICE  Major Robert C. Gregory Troop K Commander PRESS RELEASE On October 5, 2017, the New York state Police from the Wappinger barracks arrested John M. Barberan,…

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Obituary, John P. Cunningham

  Poughquag – John P. Cunningham, 75, an area resident since 1970, died on October 8, 2017 at home. He previously lived in Jamaica, Queens. Born in New York City on October 15, 1941, he was the son of the…

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