Poughkeepsie News

POUGHKEEPSIE, N.Y. The Marist Athletics Department will host a selection show gathering for the women's crew team on Tuesday, May 21, at 5 p.m. in the Fitness Center Lounge, located in the McCann Center.

Liza Minnelli is in rare company. She's one of the few EGOT legends , joined by 13 other stars, names such as Barbra Streisand, Marvin Hamlisch and Audrey Hepburn.

It is a pleasure to see a paper that reports the news instead of making the news.

Authorities say they plan to resume the search for an upstate man now that a body found in the Hudson River earlier this week has been identified as his companion in a canoe that capsized last December.

Authorities say an autopsy is scheduled to determine if a body found along the banks of the Hudson River is one of two canoeists who went missing last December.

In this special performance, middle school students from Poughkeepsie will perform stories from their lives through the vessel of hip-hop. It's a culmination of a two-week residency program led by rappers and teaching artists Yako440 and Mtume.

POUGHKEEPSIE, N.Y. The Marist softball team defeated Fairfield 4-1 on Saturday afternoon to win the 2013 Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference Softball Championship.

POUGHKEEPSIE, N.Y. The Marist baseball team, which has a bye from Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference play this weekend, will travel to Virginia Tech of the Atlantic Coast Conference for a two-game series.

Minnelli will join Ray and guest co-host Emeril Lagasse to discuss the 40th anniversary of the "Cabaret" film, which was recently released on Blu-ray from Warner Bros Home Video.

Jakeem Sylvester, Levy Lassiter and Shaquille Heirs were arrested in charged after City of Poughkeepsie Police conducted a search warrant on May Street which recovered approximately 400 bags of heroin, Marijuana, and firearms in Poughkeepsie.

Flags across the state will fly at half mast Friday in recognition of the death of Staff Sergeant Eric Christian , a Marine and graduate of Ramsey High School who was killed in Afghanistan last Saturday.

Auctions of surplus state vehicles and equipment are scheduled for next week in Poughkeepsie and the Town of Wallkill.

Ali Kavadlo, retired principal violist with the Charlotte Symphony Orchestra, endowed an orchestra chair to honor her late mother, Zoe Bunten Merrill.

The brother of a Poughkeepsie native killed in Afghanistan says his sibling and another Marine were slain by an Afghan soldier they were training.

Poughkeepsie, NY May 07, 2013 Marist College is proud to announce that alumnus and technology entrepreneur Suresh Kothapalli '91MS, founder of IT services firm iSpace, has been elected to the College's Board of Trustees.

Eleven organizations and entities across the Hudson Valley and Catskills have been awarded 2013 Art Works grants by the National Endowment of the Arts.

What are the things that concern you most about advancing age? The group known as Aging in Place America has found the top five things seniors fear most are: losing independence, moving to a nursing home, loss of family and friends, giving up driving and death.

6 p.m. May 5. Self-help support group in fourth-floor conference room. Call Rosalyn at 845-331-6267. SLAA Women's Support Group -- Room 111, St.

Auctioneer Steven J. Chickery led a lively afternoon, auctioning off vacations, tickets, collectibles, furniture and many other items donated by generous local businesses and community members.

YOU may never have heard of Edward D Wood Jnr, a cross-dressing filmmaker, pornographer and author of pulp novels who was born in Poughkeepsie New York in 1922 and lived much of his life in Los Angeles.