Pine Plains News

Stissing Middle School in Pine Plains, New York has a hero among its student body.

Zach Pruner, 12, was in the guidance office of Stissing Middle School in Pine Plains when the gunman came in, armed with a long rifle, and demanded to talk to the principal.

PINE PLAINS Police have charged Chris Craft, 42, of Pine Plains with Kidnapping in the first degree, criminal possession of a weapon in the third degree and criminal trespass in the first degree after he took a shotgun into Stissing Middle School in Pine Plains on Tuesday morning and held the principal hostage.

PINE PLAINS - No one expected the change the quiet town of a little more than 2,700 people would undergo Tuesday morning.

Pine Plains, N.Y., was the site of a kidnapping. Pine Plains, N.Y. is the location of Stissing Mountain Middle School and Pine Plains, N.Y. was the site of the arraignment of Christopher Craft Sr.

New York - A gunman who took the principal at a high school in New York State hostage on Tuesday has been captured and the hostage released, a town official said.

A gunman has given himself up after holding a school principal hostage in a school in New York State, police said.

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The sheriff's department says an upstate New York high school has been locked down, and police are on the scene.

The Poughkeepsie Journal is doing a series of candidate profiles for the Nov. 3 election.

A regional arts organization dedicated to a genre of music that celebrates the average person's trials and triumphs will observe its 30th anniversary this weekend with two evenings of song.

MILTON - Ten New York state farms, including three in the mid-Hudson Valley, will receive funds to install solar energy systems, make renewable upgrades and cut energy consumption.

Beauty. Mystery. Nature Transformed. A group show of five local Hudson Valley Artists pays homage to the environment at Hammertown Gallery in Rhinebeck.

PINE PLAINS - An 88-year old Pine Plains died Friday due to a two-car automobile accident on Mount Ross Hill Road in town.

A candidate for the Dutchess County Legislature's 19th District is offering a $500 reward for information on the individual or individuals who stole his political signs.

Dutchess County Budget Director Valerie Sommerville warns the 2010 budget process will be challenging due to the impact of the struggling economy.

Two Dutchess County legislators would like the Legislature to be involved with the budget process before County Executive William Steinhaus releases a proposed budget on or before Nov.

The Dutchess County Legislature's budget committee tabled Thursday a proposed local law that would require county elected officials, managers and confidential employees to pay 15 percent of their health insurance premiums, but Chairman Roger Higgins said he plans to call for a vote on the controversial proposal at Monday's board meeting.

PINE PLAINS -Richard Azoff, principal of Seymour Smith Elementary School, said he told many of the kindergartners that attended orientation Wednesday they shouldn't get too attached to their surroundings.

Preparations for transportation in the new school year in the Webutuck school district began during the summer.