Sterling Forest News

Cameron Jacobs of Sterling Forest displays his Nativity collection at the Greenwood Lake Public Library.

If IBM eliminates jobs at its data-recovery center in Sterling Forest, it will lose some of the tax breaks it enjoys there under a new agreement with the Orange County Industrial Development Agency.

Former Orange County Executive Louis Heimbach has been presented Pattern for Progress' Lifetime Achievement Award.

Pattern for Progress's mission is to promote quality of life in the Hudson Valley - socially, economically and environmentally - and the honorees at its annual awards dinner Thursday were chosen for their contributions to those ends.

Paddle Squantz Pond - Squantz Pond, Western Connecticut. Oct. 18. An easy paddle with the mid-Hudson chapter of the Adirondack Mountain Club.

IBM will bring 450 jobs to New York City - and then hire 100 more people - to support a new Business Analytics Solution Center in Manhattan.

Sterling Forest's "Forest of Fear" opens at nightfall with its haunting Halloween attractions, including a haunted house, entertainment, food and games.

IBM is this morning announcing the creation of the IBM Business Analytics Solution Center and a plan to hire up to 100 new employees.

VAN CORTLANDT Park, located at West 246th Street and Broadway, will hold the following special events this weekend: This month's Birding Club meeting will take place on Saturday, Sept.

HUNTS POINT Riverside Park, located at Lafayette Avenue and Edgewater Road in the Bronx, will host the Bronx River Community Paddle, a special outdoor program for the whole family, on Saturday, Aug.

WAVE HILL, located at West 249th Street and Independence Avenue, presents the special outdoor program, "Outrageous Aquatics Garden Walk," which will be held on Thursday, Aug.

A clearer picture emerged Tuesday of the number of IBM layoffs that took place earlier this month.

Queen Elizabeth I played men - and countries - against each other constantly as a way of assuring her reign and keeping England secure.

Jousters, knights and devourers of gigantic turkey legs of all ages, step up and visit the Faire! The 2009 New York Renaissance Faire opens Saturday at Sterling Forest in Tuxedo, bringing seven weekends of medieval fun to the Hudson Valley.

IBM East Fishkill workers were called to an all-hands-on staff meeting Thursday evening where they were told more work is coming their way.

The good news keeps on coming for IBM, which Thursday reported higher profits despite a weak economy.

IBM is less than three hours away from reporting its second-quarter earnings. Eyes are on the company, as it is considered the leading bellwether for the tech industry and the economy at large.

A developer is suing the Village of Monroe for $1 million for refusing to allow septic systems to be built within 300 feet of the reservoir that supplies the village with drinking water.