Pine Plains News

'What if,' is a phrase we typically ask ourselves after a near miss with a bad event.

How the Dutchess County Resource Recovery Agency will be funded is uncertain since a legislative committee tabled resolutions that would have created a solid waste user fee.

The proposed Dutchess County 2010 budget, open to public comment on Thursday, will include no changes by the Legislature.

Dutchess residents and community leaders are very concerned about County Executive William Steinhaus' proposed cuts and revenue increases in his 2010 budget.

BEACON - Two weeks and one day after an intruder forced the evacuation of a school in Pine Plains, a similar scenario was played out - as a drill - at Beacon High School.

When police from five agencies responded to a hostage crisis at a school in Pine Plains this month, the officers in charge quickly devised a plan to negotiate with the gunman and keep the students safe.

PLEASANT VALLEY - The next stop, and possibly the end of the line, for the town's former train station is the Dutchess County Fairgrounds in Rhinebeck.

Dutchess County legislators should waste no time in overriding Executive William Steinhaus' veto of a bill that sought to bring an end to the blatant unfairness of elected officials getting free health-care premiums.

The man accused of holding a Pine Plains school principal hostage at gunpoint Nov.

Some Dutchess County legislators have publicly made a commitment to find a way to fund sheriff's road patrols without asking municipalities to pay for the service next year.

Although Dutchess County Executive William Steinhaus had left no money in his proposed 2010 budget for a $481,247 security plan, Steinhaus wants the Legislature to add it to the budget in light of the hostage incident at Stissing Mountain Middle School in Pine Plains.

Pine Plains Superintendent Linda Kaumeyer answered questions and addressed rumors regarding last week's hostage situation at Stissing Mountain Middle School during Wednesday's school board meeting.

Very little venting took place during Thursday's community forum in Pine Plains.

Share + Nov 12, 2009 5:55 am US/Eastern Reporting Tony Aiello PINE PLAINS, N.Y. 1 of 2 Stissing Mountain High School in Pine Plains was locked down and SWAT team members arrived at the school after a man entered the building and took a principal hostage on Nov.

On Thursday the bucolic main street in Pine Plains,60 miles south of Albany,was a far cry from the frenzy that took over this northern Dutchess County town on Tuesday when anguished parents filled the streets wondering if their children were safe froma man who used a shotgun to take the middle school principal hostage.

In Pine Plains New York, a gunman in his 40s, alone, has taken a high school administrator hostage, no shots have been fired, and it sounds like they are getting the students out of the school OK.

A community shaken looks to begin the recovery process. People in Pine Plains remain on edge after police say 42-year-old Christopher Craft held the principal of Stissing Mountain Middle School hostage for more than two hours on Tuesday.

PINE PLAINS - A day after a Stanfordville man held a middle school principal at gunpoint, sparking fear and anxiety among parents, things here seem almost back to normal.

Share + Nov 11, 2009 2:44 pm US/Eastern Reporting Jay Dow PINE PLAINS, N.Y. 1 of 2 Christopher Craft, 43, is led away by police after taking a principal at his alma mater hostage on Nov.

PINE PLAINS - Two families were displaced Thursday morning when a fire damaged their Pine Plains home.