BHS students built the lean-tos and rabbit hutches in class. The ducks were quacking and the bunnies hopping when a group of Brewster High School carpentry students visited Green Chimneys School on a ...

Putnam Commissioner of Jurors Tanya Mafes displays a former jury selection box used some 50 years ago in Putnam County. A citizen’s right to a trial by jury is a central feature of the United States ...

Jayron Sandoval Sola and Mariana Miguel Mendez Photo Courtesy of Brewster School District Two juniors at Brewster High School have been accepted into the Puerto Rican/Hispanic Youth Leadership Program ...

Eric Buzzetto and children at the PQ Elementary School Photo Courtesy of Eric Buzzetto Schools in Putnam County have joined the Sweethearts and Heroes anti-bullying message thanks in part to a ...

If you were driving through the greater Carmel-Mahopac area last week and observed a larger than normal police presence, the reason was that Carmel PD participated in the statewide No Empty Chair ...

It took police a year of investigative work but a Bronx man accused of allegedly stealing a pickup truck from a Southeast business is now behind bars. Sheriff Kevin McConville reported the arrest ...

A year ago in March, the Carmel School District experienced great excitement when the Board of Education appointed Erin Meehan-Fairben as its new superintendent effective July 1, 2024. Now, a year ...

Putnam residents with limited incomes in need of making household repairs received good news this week. The Putnam Housing Corporation is administering RESTORE and AHC Grants through the NYS ...

The Putnam County Legislature’s decision of last August, to deny the application of Ridge Ranch for inclusion in the county’s Agricultural District, was overturned last week by the New York State ...

Representatives of each of Putnam’s six towns and three villages joined County Executive Kevin Byrne outside Kent Town Hall last week when the executive proposed renewing the county’s previously ...

Firefighters at the scene of a commercial fire in a strip mall in Brewster. Photos Courtesy of Brewster Fire Department Rapid response by firefighters from several communities averted a calamity for a ...

Emergency responders at the scene of the overturned Amazon vehicle in Mahopac Photo Courtesy of Mahopac Fire Department An Amazon van overturned on Croton Falls Road in Mahopac last week, an incident ...