Putnam Valley News

PUTNAM VALLEY - At the T-intersection of Church and Oscawana Lake roads, which some maps identify as Crofts Corners, others as Oscawana or Sodom Corners, is a sad-looking, nondescript white farmhouse.

CARMEL - The director of the Putnam County Department of Probation this week announced recent arrests by members of the department's warrant squad.

The Putnam County Department of Health has given the green light for four beaches in Putnam Valley to reopen.

Putnam Valley Middle School Principal Edward Hallisey was "misleading" and "evasive" in an affidavit regarding the alleged rape of a 12-year-old student, but there is not enough evidence to support a perjury ...

PUTNAM VALLEY - Four private beaches that were closed Monday for high bacteria readings remain off limits today.

WHITE PLAINS - Some children wore their white graduation caps while others struggled to keep their heads upright.

A 19-year-old Putnam Valley resident who was asked after a traffic stop about marijuana in his car invited police to search it and was charged with having a small amount of the substance, the Putnam County ...

PUTNAM VALLEY - It's a tough crowd in Barbara Parmly's third-grade classroom at Putnam Valley Elementary School.

The nice thing about Peekskill is that there are no crowds of shoppers jamming the streets, or jockeying for that one open parking space - yet.

The nice thing about Peekskill is that there are no crowds of shoppers jamming the streets, or jockeying for that one open parking space-yet. Here, you can still feel like a hip insider, stopping in for a latte ...

Route 6N: Claudine Montalvo, 36, of Putnam Valley was charged June 9 with third-degree aggravated unlicensed operation of a motor vehicle, a misdemeanor, police said.

CARMEL - Putnam County lawmakers will be digesting the DVDs and other materials they've amassed concerning the pluses and minuses of rodeos.

Several school board members have been honored for their contributions to public education by the Westchester-Putnam School Boards Association, in conjunction with local school districts.

About 250 addresses remained without power today at 8 a.m. in the Lower Hudson Valley - most of them in Putnam Valley and others in Mahopac - as utility crews worked to restore electricity where thunderstorms ...

PUTNAM VALLEY - The turnout was small, but the subject matter certainly wasn't. Fewer than a dozen residents and health-care advocates made their voices heard yesterday at Putnam County's second public hearing ...

The Putnam Valley Parks and Recreation Department will open Leonard Wagner Park to residents and nonresidents from 2 to 9 p.m. Sunday, for a day of music, food, fun and games.

Assemblywoman Sandra R. Galef is holding a public forum tonight to discuss last week's property-tax relief recommendations by a state task force.

SOMERS - About 100 students and a dozen parents gathered this morning on the front lawn of Kennedy Catholic High School to protest Cardinal Edward Egan's recent directive, which includes the transfer of the ...

Mikey Ballou's got ambition, that's for sure. "I want to be a rock star," said Ballou, 17.

Police tonight arrested a Putnam Valley man they believe intended to jump off the Bear Mountain Bridge.