Category: North East

Pets of the week: Mike and Ike

  Mike and Ike are bonded Persian brothers at the Putnam Humane Society.  They were left outside a local animal hospital with a note saying that the owner was ill and to please find a family to take good care…

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Organic Farms Growing in New York

  Organic Farms Growing in New York  Sales of organic farm products rose 56 percent statewide from 2008 to 2014 with $164 million in sales that year, as New York ranked third nationwide in the number of certified organic farms,…

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State Police investigate fatal motorcycle crash in Washington

  State Police investigate fatal motorcycle crash in Washington NEW YORK STATE POLICE  Major Robert M. Nuzzo Troop K Commander Washington, New York – On October 14, 2016 at approximately 7:45 p.m., a Trooper from the New York State Police Poughkeepsie barracks…

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Governor Announces $5 Million Clean Energy and Energy Efficiency Competition

  Competition To Lower Electricity Costs And Combat Climate Change In Rochester, Syracuse, Albany, Buffalo and Yonkers Supports New York State’s Clean Energy Standard For 50 Percent Of Electricity To Come From Renewables By 2030 Governor Andrew M. Cuomo today…

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Local Families Receive Vehicles from ‘Wheels to Work’ Program

  Local Families Receive Vehicles from ‘Wheels to Work’ Program     Poughkeepsie… Dutchess County Executive Marc Molinaro joined the County Department of Community & Family Services (DCFS) and Dutchess County BOCES today to present five local families with pre-owned…

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cientist Karen Lips to discuss why frogs and salamanders are on the decline and what can be done to protect them

  Scientist Karen Lips to discuss why frogs and salamanders are on the decline and what can be done to protect them Pet trade and emerging infectious diseases are driving amphibian extinctions   (Millbrook, NY) On Friday, October 21 at 7…

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Dutchess County Department of Human Resources Exam Announcement

  Dutchess County Department of Human Resources Exam Announcement Exam Title: Junior Planner State Exam Number: 67189 Exam Date: 12/10/2016 Last File Date: 11/2/2016 A civil service exam has been announced in a title you indicated interest in. If you…

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204th Session of the Basic School graduates from the New York State Police Academy

  204th Session of the Basic School graduates from the New York State Police Academy NEW YORK STATE POLICE George P. Beach II Superintendent Beau Duffy Director of Public Information  PRESS RELEASE Superintendent George P. Beach II welcomed 226 new members of…

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Fifteen Charged In White Plains Federal Court With Using Front Music Company To Engage In Cocaine Trafficking in Dutchess

  Fifteen Charged In White Plains Federal Court With Using Front Music Company To Engage In Cocaine Trafficking in Dutchess   Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, William F. Sweeney Jr., Assistant Director-in-Charge…

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Western Connecticut State University offers in-state rate for tuition, fees to nearby New York students

  Western Connecticut State University offers in-state rate for tuition, fees to nearby New York students   DANBURY, Conn. — Western Connecticut State University is offering in-state tuition to residents of seven New York counties starting with the Fall 2017…

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Bright, beautiful peak colors spread across New York State this week.

Bright, beautiful peak colors spread across New York State this week. Week of Oct. 13-19, 2016 9 regions will see peak or near peak leaves this weekend  This is the fifth 2016 Fall Foliage Report for New York State. Reports…

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Run/Walk with Team Julia’s Wings

  Run/Walk with Team Julia’s Wings Sherman, CT – Team Julia’s Wings is making big strides and growing weekly as it plans to participate in the Kent Pumpkin Run on October 30, 2016.  Festivities begin with a kid’s Fun Run…

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County Clerk Kendall with County Historian Tatum Host West Point Cadets

  County Clerk Kendall with County Historian Tatum Host West Point Cadets Engaging Hands-On History Experience   Poughkeepsie, NY… Dutchess County Clerk Bradford H. Kendall hosted cadets today from the United States Military Academy at West Point’s Phi Alpha Theta…

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Dutchess County Earns “Best of Hudson Valley” Honors

  Dutchess County Earns “Best of Hudson Valley” Honors  Readers of Hudson Valley Magazine have again honored Dutchess County in the “Best of Hudson Valley” survey: Bowdoin Park has been selected as the area’s Favorite Park; the William R. Steinhaus…

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ArtEast’s Tenth Open Studio Tour

[pdf-embedder url=”https://www.theharlemvalleynews.net/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/2016-ArtEast-10-10-16.pdf”] TAKE A ROADTRIP TO… ArtEast’s Tenth Open Studio Tour Dover Plains – Holmes – Hopewell Junction – Millbrook – Patterson Pawling – Poughquag – Wingdale Take a road trip at the peak of leaf season and follow the…

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