Jefferson-Valley News

The Yorktown Town Board will meet tonight at 6:30 at Lakeside at Osceola , 399 Main St.

East Main Street: Maureen D. Strong, 48, of Finnerty Place, Putnam Valley, was charged at noon June 21 with driving with a suspended registration and third-degree aggravated unlicensed operation, misdemeanors, after an alert from an electronic license-plate reader.

YORKTOWN - A Peekskill man and woman were arrested after they were caught shoplifting with a 4-year-old child, police said today.

A Putnam County man is due in Yorktown Town Court tonight to answer a felony burglary charge, police said today.

Route 35: Max E. Galloway, 56, of Bedford was charged at 9:33 p.m. June 4 with misdemeanor driving while intoxicated.

YORKTOWN - Two Yorktown teens pulled a knife on a third teen last night in an attempted robbery at the Jefferson Valley Mall, police said today.

Critics have formed a panel aimed at opposing police consolidation plans, questioning how it could save taxpayers any money as touted.

YORKTOWN HEIGHTS: The Jefferson Valley Mall is hosting a spring health and fitness festival from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. May 2. The day will feature martial arts, yoga and other exercise demonstrations, free health screenings, massages, mini facials, entertainment and more.

In April 2007, Munish Kapur was standing in the basement of his toy store in Hartsdale wondering how he could recover from a devastating flood that destroyed tens of thousands of dollars worth of inventory and closed his doors for more than a month.

JEFFERSON VALLEY - The offices of Dr. Richard L. Schechtman recently held the 12th annual 'Patient Appreciation Party' at the Jefferson Valley Bowling Lanes.

A contract to clean the uniforms of Putnam County Sheriff's Department employees has been awarded to a Westchester County business, sparking anger among some who say the county's "Shop Putnam" campaign means ...

A couple and their three children have been displaced from their home after a fire broke out on the second floor of their three-story Jefferson Valley house last evening, officials said.

There have been many precedents set by Rosemarie Bahr during her decade-long leadership of the Putnam Community Action Program.

City Place: Kala Johnson, 19, of 31 Clarenden Ave., Yonkers, and Eboni Askins, 20, of 251 Warburton Ave., Yonkers, were charged with petty larceny, a misdemeanor, Wednesday at Target, 9 City Place.

YORKTOWN - A Carmel man faces felony charges of driving while intoxicated after an officer responded to a report of a erratic motorist and found him stopped on East Main Street, police said today.

Only one of 24 stores that state police visited yesterday during an underage drinking and tobacco initiative would sell to a 16-year-old operative working with the troopers, police said.

Putnam CAP food pantry is in dire straits these days due to governmental cutbacks and reductions of grants.

Route 6: Angela Grecco, 20, of Mahopac was charged Monday with petty larceny, a misdemeanor.

Antoinette DeBellis had just left work for the day and was walking to her car when she decided to go back in and tell her son something.

December shopping usually means crowded malls, long lines and frustration finding the must-get goodie.