Pleasant Valley News

NEW STAFF Massage therapist joins hospital program - Donna Wisnewski, a licensed massage therapist, has joined the complementary therapy team at Northern Dutchess Hospital's Women's View Montgomery Street Health Annex in Rhinebeck.

Town of Poughkeepsie leaders have awarded contracts to two companies to perform nearly $1.5 million worth of road improvements - part of an ongoing effort to maintain the town's approximately 142 miles of streets.

A Clinton Corners man convicted for the third time of driving while intoxicated faces up to three years in state prison for the crime.

PLEASANT VALLEY - A reported drive-by shooting on Salt Point Turnpike Sunday afternoon was unfounded, according to state police.

On the Record features birth announcements on Page 2B on Mondays and announcements about local residents in college and the armed services on Page 3B throughout the week.

A 25-year-old woman died in a three-vehicle accident that shut down the northbound lanes of the Thruway in the Hudson Valley for almost six hours.

Rain, rain go away. June's incessant rains are spoiling crops, ruining hay and making farmers very unhappy.

FREEDOM PLAINS - Supervisor Jon Wagner is determined to resolve LaGrange's identity crisis.

Government from the federal level to the local level has failed. All politicians care about is their own self worth.

Richard Drake, a senior partner at the New Windsor law firm Drake, Loeb, Heller, Kennedy, Gogerty, Gaba & Rodd was recently appointed to serve a three-year term as a member of the Independent Judicial Election Qualification Commission for the Ninth Judicial District.

Republican Suzanne Horn of Pleasant Valley is running for re-election in the Dutchess County Legislature because of a sense of duty.

PLEASANT VALLEY - The town Republican Committee is endorsing John McNair for supervisor in the Nov.

A Dutchess County jury will begin its third full day of deliberations Tuesday morning in the trial of a Pleasant Valley man accused of molesting two girls and raping a third between 2004 and 2007.

WICCOPEE -Mark Taylor, 53, of Pleasant Valley, has been with NXP Semiconductors and all of its earlier incarnations for 20 years.

A Dutchess County jury has begun deliberations in the trial of a Pleasant Valley man accused of molesting two teenage girls and raping a third between 2004 and 2007.

PLEASANT VALLEY - Some say the town center hamlet should extend a quarter-mile east of the mill site to allow more business development along Main Street.

The Dutchess County Sheriff's Office will get the $1.2 million officials were expecting to pay for housing out inmates.

Lloyd Young, president of Solid State Cooling Systems in Pleasant Valley, has joined the board of The Hudson Renewable Energy Institute, a nonprofit organization developed to promote understanding about the use and development of renewable energy.

PLEASANT VALLEY - An apparently suicidal 54-year-old man with a shotgun facing eviction this morning briefly barricaded himself in his West Road apartment before surrendering to authorities.

Joseph Kirchhoff's winning of the Business Person of the Year award from the Poughkeepsie Journal was celebrated Tuesday at a luncheon at Dutchess Community College with about 215 guests.