Garrison News

Doctors who oppose abortion and, in some cases, birth control pills say they may stop providing care if the Obama administration follows through on threats to repeal controversial Bush administration regulations aimed at allowing health care workers to refuse to provide care that conflicts with their beliefs.

Sure, they're vain and stubborn. Of course, they fight and bicker and call each other names.

As now noted on the book website , we have added two new confirmed stops to our tour, with many more hopefully soon to come.

'Second Love,' a romantic comedy about a young Manhattan couple struggling through their first years of marriage, will be on tour in the region: - Saturday: Chappaqua Library, 195 S. Greeley Ave., at 2 p.m. and 7 p.m. A $15 donation is suggested for the free performances.

All of the changes at Putnam National Golf Club over the past two seasons have provided a new selling point for Ciaran Carr, the course's director of golf.

Owner Luis Pinto opened Cafe Maya and Cantina in Fishkill five years ago and themed it around his home in the Yucatan Peninsula in southeastern Mexico.

GARRISON - It's a combination that most people wouldn't have thought could co-exist harmoniously in one place - yoga and golf.

I was jerked awake in my sleeping bag by a sharp, pinching pain centered on my nose.

On Sunday, the Garden Conservancy is hosting a tour of five private gardens in Garrison.

THE 23rd annual Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival is jumping off this Saturday at the Boscobel House & Gardens in Garrison, NY, with "The Complete Works of WIlliam Skaespeare" -- a goofy, 97-minute rundown of each of his 37 plays.

There's an old saying, "he who laughs last, laughs best" and audiences who see The Complete Works of William Shakespeare , at Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival this summer will gain a whole new appreciation for the adage.

GARRISON - Relief, along with continued grief over the loss of a well-regarded community fixture, followed the arrest of a local teen in the killing of John Marcinak.

CARMEL - A Lake Peekskill teen is accused of fatally shooting Garrison tow-truck driver John Marcinak in December while breaking into his Garrison Garage on Route 9, Sheriff Donald B. Smith said yesterday.

CARMEL - Investigators with the Putnam County Sheriff's Office have made an arrest in the Dec.

Local arts organizations are responding to the current economic crisis with the same creativity that they bring to their exhibits and performances.

Voters today approved a $8.9 million school budget that increases taxes by 0.12 percent.

The following is a list of local Mother's Day events. 'Pretty in Pink' Mother's Day brunch - Culinary Institute of America, Route 9, Hyde Park.

After dozens of calls to legislators, Highland Falls school board Vice President Roxanne Donnery finally discovered why her district is getting no - no - federal Title I stimulus dollars.

MAHOPAC - Roger Ailes, Fox News chairman and chief executive officer, told a group of Putnam civic and business leaders yesterday morning that daily newspapers are dying and people don't read anymore.

PHILIPSTOWN - To mark Pope Benedict XVI's trip to the Holy Land, the Franciscan Friars of the Atonement at Graymoor will host a program Thursday about how to enhance inter-religious cooperation in the Lower Hudson Valley.