Nelsonville News

NELSONVILLE - This 1-mile-square village adjacent to Cold Spring employs only seven people, with Village Clerk and Treasurer Pauline Minners its highest-paid employee in fiscal year 2008.

PATTERSON - To get from Elm Tree Corner in Patterson to Dykeman's Station in Southeast, you head west to Deuelsville and its grist mill and store.

Voters go to the polls today in 17 villages in Westchester and two in Putnam to elect government leaders.

Residents in four villages yesterday showed that change was indeed on their minds.

Mayor Thomas Corless was elected to a full term and Village Trustee Anthony Merante was returned to office for a third consecutive term in today's village election.

PHILIPSTOWN - A New York City-based architect-builder is suing Philipstown and the village of Cold Spring for denying him a building permit for one of four houses he envisions on a North Highland hillside.

Archbishop Anthony Bondi of the Orthodox Church is concerned about the region's frail and elderly.

Putnam County Legislator Terry Intrary, who represented constituents of Kent for nine years on the nine-member governing body, was lauded Monday at the legislature's year-end meeting.