Category: Government

Governor Signs Sweeping Legislation to Combat the Blight of Vacant and Abandoned Properties

Comprehensive Legislative Package Enhances Mandatory Settlement Conferences and Establishes a Consumer Bill of Rights to Help People Remain in Their Homes, Creates the Community Restoration Fund Combats Blight Created By Zombie Properties By Imposing a Pre-Foreclosure Duty on Banks and…

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Dutchess Stadium Gains National Attention

  Dutchess Stadium Gains National Attention New York Giants star Odell Beckham shone the national spotlight earlier this week on our great Dutchess County park, Dutchess Stadium, when the former NFL Rookie of the Year joined other Giants, past and present,…

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Governor Signs Legislation to Combat the Heroin and Opioid Crisis

Comprehensive Legislative Package Limits Opioid Prescriptions from 30 to 7 Days, Requires Mandatory Prescriber Education on Pain Management to Stem the Tide of Addiction, Eliminates Burdensome Insurance Barriers to Treatment Expands Supports for New Yorkers in Recovery, Increases Treatment Beds…

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Dutchess County Department of Human Resources Recruitment Announcement

  Dutchess County Department of Human ResourcesRecruitment Announcement Title: Senior Carpenter Recruitment Number: 2016-00000022 Last File Date: 6/27/2016 A recruitment has been announced in a title you indicated interest in. If you are still interested, please follow these steps: Read…

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Latest Bureau of Economic Research report shows growing gap between region’s workers, jobs

  More in region working, more commuting  Latest Bureau of Economic Research report shows growing gap between region’s workers, jobs   POUGHKEEPSIE (June 16, 2016) – The gap between the number of people working in the Hudson Valley and the number of…

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Sheriff’s Office investigates one-car fatality in the Town of North East

  Sheriff’s Office investigates one-car fatality in the Town of North East The Dutchess County Sheriff’s Office reports the investigation into a one-car fatal crash which occurred on Sharon Rd. in the Town of North East at approximately 5:35 am on…

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Dutchess County Office For the Aging’s AGING NEWS

Dutchess County Office For the Aging’s AGING NEWS State Farmers Market Nutrition Program Returns Tips for Sound Sleeping June 20 – The Longest Day (TODAY) NYPIRG Conducts Surveys in East Fishkill Senior Picnics Continue; More Volunteers Sought Citizen’s Preparedness Training…

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Air Quality Alert – Hazardous Weather Outlook

Air Quality Alert NYZ063>066-210300- WESTERN ULSTER-EASTERN ULSTER-WESTERN DUTCHESS-EASTERN DUTCHESS- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF…ELLENVILLE…WOODSTOCK…WEST HURLEY… WEST SHOKAN…KERHONKSON…NAPANOCH…SUNDOWN…KINGSTON… NEW PALTZ…POUGHKEEPSIE…BEACON…ARLINGTON…PAWLING…WINGDALE… DOVER PLAINS…MILLBROOK…STANFORDVILLE…PINE PLAINS…AMENIA 801 AM EDT MON JUN 20 2016 …AIR QUALITY ALERT IN EFFECT FROM 11 AM THIS MORNING TO 11…

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Poughquag woman dies in two-car rollover auto collision

  Troop K investigates fatal crash on Interstate 84 in the Town of Fishkill NEW YORK STATE POLICE  Major Robin H. Benziger Troop K Commander PRESS RELEASE Fishkill, New York – On June 18, 2016 at approximately 1:00 p.m., New York State Police…

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Comptroller DiNapoli & A.G. Schneiderman Announce Charges Against Florida Resident For Allegedly Stealing Over $148k In NYS Pension Benefits

  Comptroller DiNapoli & A.G. Schneiderman Announce Charges Against Florida Resident For Allegedly Stealing Over $148k In NYS Pension Benefits   From March 2010 to January 2015, Defendant Renee Kanas Allegedly Stole Pension Benefits Issued to Her Deceased FatherDiNapoli and…

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Governor and Legislative Leaders Announce Agreement on 5 Point Ethics Reform Plan

  Agreement Enacts Nation’s Strongest Protections to Combat Citizens United; Prohibits Coordination between Candidates and Independent Expenditure Committees in New York State Election Law for the First Time; Mandates Across the Board Disclosure of Donors and Staff Elected Officials &…

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Antarctic observatories register 400 parts per million of carbon dioxide for the first time

  One by one, the observatories sounded the alarm in the past few years—from the peak of Mauna Loa in Hawaii, and the top of the Greenland ice sheet—as the amount of carbon dioxide in the Earth’s atmosphere crept above…

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DBCH Drowning Prevention Seminars – Revised Schedule

   DBCH Drowning Prevention Seminars – Revised Schedule   The Dutchess County Department of Behavioral & Community Health reminds local lifeguards and residents of the upcoming Drowning Prevention Seminars to raise awareness and develop skills to recognize a swimmer in…

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Pawling Resident Honored for Service to Community

  Pawling Resident Honored for Service to Community By Susan Stone Ann Godesky, a resident of Pawling, was honored on June 13, 2016, during the Women of Distinction award ceremony which took place at Mount Kisco Elementary School honoring women…

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Citizen’s Preparedness Training to be Held in Hyde Park on Tuesday 6/21

  Citizen’s Preparedness Training to be Held in Hyde Park on Tuesday 6/21 www.dutchessNY.gov

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