Verplanck News

Buchanan-Verplanck: Jared Neidhardt, a fifth-grade student at Buchanan-Verplanck Elementary School, wanted to help kids with cancer at Maria Fareri Children's Hospital in Valhalla.

HAVERSTRAW - More than 200 people gathered yesterday morning for the funeral of a 17-year-old who died after he was found floating in a Verplanck quarry last week.

A Canadian energy company is looking to turn an abandoned quarry in Verplanck, where a teen drowned last week, into a hydroelectric plant.

Family and friends will say farewell today to a Haverstraw 17-year-old who drowned last week in a Verplanck quarry.

HAVERSTRAW: The wake for Victor Polanco, 17, who drowned Thursday night at a quarry in Verplanck, will be from 7 to 9 p.m. today and from 2 to 4 p.m. and 7 to 9 p.m. tomorrow at George M. Holt Funeral Home, 50 New Main St.

HAVERSTRAW - Family and friends gathered yesterday at the home of a teenager who died after he was found floating in a quarry in Verplanck.

VERPLANCK - A teenager who died after he was found floating in a quarry last night after he was separated from friends who were swimming there was identified today as a 17-year-old from Haverstraw, police said.

A young man has been found dead after swimming with friends in a suburban New York quarry.

When a district has a nuclear power plant not two miles from one of its elementary schools, concerns about disaster recovery are bound to surface in technology discussions.

A Verplanck woman was arrested by the Westchester County Department of Public Safety Friday and charged with stealing $8,000 from the Buchanan Fire Department Ladies Auxiliary while she was the organization's treasurer.

The treasurer of the Buchanan Engine Company No. 1 Ladies Auxiliary has been accused of stealing thousands of dollars from the organization, Westchester County police said yesterday.

BUCHANAN - An employee at the Indian Point power plant was taken to the hospital this afternoon for chest trauma after he was struck by a piece of equipment.

FISHKILL - Before it had an alarm, Mount Gulian Historic Site in Fishkill had Filly Baisley.

LET the sun shine in! That's what the Met ropolitan Museum of Art has done with its American Wing, which reopens tomorrow, bigger and brighter than ever.

Long Pond Road: Stephanie Evans, 20, of Mahopac was charged around 1:15 a.m. April 9 with driving while intoxicated, a misdemeanor, leaving the scene of a property-damage accident and driving while talking on a mobile phone, violations.

BEACON - Nick Fazzingo enjoyed tea time with his grandmother Tuesday. Fazzingo, 11, of the Town of Poughkeepsie, was one of more than 60 people who attended the 'Children's Spring Tea' at the Mount Gulian Historic site.

A legal complaint that a condominium complex in Cortlandt prohibited an elderly and frail resident from installing a wheelchair ramp in front of her residence is likely to be settled in coming days.

Two Cortlandt teenagers have been charged with assaulting a 19-year-old woman, causing lacerations to her face, state police said today.

One morning this week, a rag-tag bunch of young men and women marched through the snow, wooden muskets resting on their left shoulders.

The federal stimulus package now making its way through the U.S. Senate would help New Jersey meet increasing demands for aid to the unemployed, but officials say the state may still have to make a big ...