Pleasant Valley News

POUGHKEEPSIE "No more business as usual" said Budget Director Valerie Sommerville, in defending a long list of what she conceded were very painful choices, in putting the 2010 Dutchess County budget together.

In the age of the Internet there is no shortage of information about Finger Lakes wine country or, for that matter, any other wine region of the world.

Chamber's staff expands - The Dutchess County Regional Chamber of Commerce in Poughkeepsie recently announced the addition of Lynn Russell as membership development associate.

PLEASANT VALLEY - Homeowners are facing a 9.03 percent increase in the town property-tax rate next year.

For her fundraising efforts, 16-year-old Aiden Gallagher, of Pleasant Valley, will receive a Youth Philanthropy Award.

The Wappingers Falls Rotary Club hosted the Students of the Month from three local schools at a recent meeting of the club.

PLEASANT VALLEY - John McNair, a Republican, will return as the town's next supervisor after defeating Sally Harding Tuesday, according to unofficial results.

When Dick Vincent started his running streak, Gerald Ford was president of the United States, and a new music fad called 'disco' was just starting to hit its stride.

PLEASANT VALLEY - The town is taking the first step to tap the potential of 29-acre Redl Park.

Catering to gender differences -[0x0f]The Center for Relationship Therapy recently opened at 1421 Dutchess Turnpike, Pleasant Valley, under the leadership of psychologist Dr.

When retired City of Poughkeepsie Detective Arthur Regula learned Wednesday afternoon that Dewey Bozella had been set free, he said he wasn't surprised - and that it was the right thing to do.

Will Tendy, a 24-year-old Pleasant Valley resident and Arlington High School graduate, will play guitar on "Jimmy Kimmel Live" tonight, as a member of the band Morningwood.

PLEASANT VALLEY -The Pleasant Valley Lions Club will hold its annual Halloween Parade and Party at 7 p.m. Friday.

A Pleasant Valley man who admitted taking part in an armed robbery at an East Fishkill convenience store faces up to six years in state prison for the crime.

Editor's note: The Poughkeepsie Journal is running a series of candidate profiles prior to the Nov.

PLEASANT VALLEY - To prevent future flooding of town hall, work will begin soon on clearing fallen trees and stumps from Wappinger Creek.

PLEASANT VALLEY: A murder that claimed the life of a 48-year-old wife and mother - and revealed a tangled web of sex and corruption - will be featured tonight on the Investigation Discovery channel show "On the Case with Paula Zahn." The show airs at 10 p.m. Susan Fassett was murdered in October of 1999 as she left choir practice at the Pleasant ...

PLEASANT VALLEY - A Milton man driving a motorcycle was killed in an accident Thursday morning on Route 44.

Pleasant Valley voters will have a clear choice at the polls this November - they can elect a former supervisor who can point to his experience running town government or someone relatively new to the town who also has been elected to office before and served quite well as a councilwoman in Oregon.

PLEASANT VALLEY - State police and the Dutchess County Sheriff's Office are investigating a fatal car versus motorcycle accident at Route 44 and the Taconic State Parkway.