Highland News

NEW STAFF Massage therapist joins hospital program - Donna Wisnewski, a licensed massage therapist, has joined the complementary therapy team at Northern Dutchess Hospital's Women's View Montgomery Street Health Annex in Rhinebeck.

Though bad weather threatened to ruin more than one ceremony Friday, six local high schools still graduated more than a thousand students with all the appropriate pomp and circumstance.

Given the transient nature of sexual offenders, the ripple effects of cases that take place in New York City could easily find their way to a quiet neighborhood in the hamlet of Highland.

Spackenkill seniors said goodbye to high school with a bit of the usual and a bit of the unusual Saturday morning.

HIGHLAND - The 100th graduating class of Highland High School heard words of advice Friday night from a lifelong Highland resident who graduated from the school 50 years ago.

HIGHLAND - Led by a contingent of fHighland High School graduates of 50 years ago, the 139 members of Highland High School's Class of 2009 marched into a large white tent on the high school campus this evening for commencement ceremonies.

Now that summer is on the horizon, it's time to abandon some of your bad habits.

A Newburgh man was jailed after Lloyd town police arrested him on drug charges. Police said a patrol officer spotted Kenneth Schoonmaker, 22, on Thursday in a car parked in a municipal lot in Highland.

A Father's Day outing on a rain-swollen Hudson Valley creek nearly ended in tragedy for a family that had to be rescued by emergency crews.

Melissa Holt, a 1990 graduate of Kingston High School, is making a name for herself shooting the stars.

LLOYD - The town Recreation Department is offering two "Summer Fun" programs from June 29-July 31.

WHO: Richardson's Fast Food Deli WHAT: Specializing in open pit barbecue WHEN: 1 to 8 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday, 1 to 6 p.m. Monday.

The Mid-Hudson Bridge was closed for about 4 hours on Sunday as a suicidal man threatened to jump off of the bridge.

Ulster County Executive Michael Hein and the Ulster County Office of Employment and Training have announced that applications for the 2009 Summer Youth Employment Program are now available.

When the Halfmoon, the Clearwater and the rest of the Quadricentennial Flotilla arrive in Poughkeepsie on Tuesday, hundreds of Walkway Over the Hudson supporters are expected to cheer them on from the River Day Dance celebration at the Mid-Hudson Children's Museum Pavilion.

A concert by rock band Phish at the Asheville Civic Center Tuesday night resulted in a spike in the number of drug arrests.

HYDE PARK - The school district's assistant superintendent of pupil services is leaving to take a principal post in the Highland school district.

About 1,400 Central Hudson customers in the Highland area remain without power as crews work to fix a malfunctioning transformer on Plutarch Road.

The transformation of brownfields into a thriving green industrial park and construction of a new road consisting of a business park are among the key components in a draft master plan to revitalize Highland Avenue and the surrounding North End community.

Tentative plans for a new-look North End will be presented to residents on Monday.