Verplanck News

A Westchester County man has been arrested, having been accused of making a threatening telephone call to an ex-girlfriend's home in Putnam County, Sheriff Donald Smith said.

FISHKILL - The Mount Gulian Historic Site off Route 9D boasts strong ties to the American Revolution and to the first veterans organization formed in America.

CORTLANDT - A teenager has been accused of defacing property at a handful of locations in town with spray paint, state police said Wednesday.

State police arrested two people for driving while intoxicated and issued seven tickets during a Halloween night DWI detail.

October 28, 2009, 7:11 AM / Buffalo fire investigators are probing an early morning fire Tuesday in a vacant building on Verplanck Street.

Despite the cancelation of 675 MW of renewable projects in 2009, the Northeast Power Coordinating Council region maintains a healthy list of future renewable projects.

A two-hour fall foliage cruise on The Commander will depart from the Haverstraw Marina at 1:30 p.m. taking you north, past the Stony Point Lighthouse, Verplanck, Tomkins Cove and Iona Island.

Verplanck, New York September 15, 2009 - As surgical birth continues its upward trend, expectant couples are researching their choices for childbirth.

VERPLANCK -[0x0f]Tilcon New York and state regulators have settled a Hudson River pollution case, with the quarry company agreeing to pay a $250,000 penalty and donate $100,000 to Clearwater to fund environmental education programs.

Our modest little series about some of the greatest, notorious, most important, even most useless, mayors of New York City.

GARNERVILLE - Dor[0xad]othy O'Donnell traveled 2,800 miles from her home this week in order to be able to touch a piece of her family's past.

The last time I was in Peekskill, New York I was desperate for a Starbucks. Alas, no Starbucks in Peekskill.

The Half Moon makes its way through the Upper New York Bay as Atlantic Salt hosts the Board of Directors of the Staten Island Chamber of Comerace captain's reception under the Half Moon at Atlantic Salt on Richmond Terrace.

CORTLANDT - A Verplanck man is accused of stealing a boat from the Hudson Valley Marina to go to a bar and then snatching another in Haverstraw when his first ride broke down, police said.

The Aug. 7 article, 'Hydropower company discusses proposal for Verplanck site,' is misleading.

Troopers charged seven motorists with driving while intoxicated in weekend traffic stops in Westchester and Putnam counties.

Philip Pascetta has been a parishioner at the Church of the Assumption nearly all his life, receiving his first Holy Communion, walking down the aisle in matrimony, and baptizing his children all within the Roman Catholic church.

FISHKILL - A $106,000 Museums for America grant from the federal Institute of Museum and Library Services will allow Mount Gulian Historic Site to create a new education program based on the journal kept by James F. Brown.

A hydropower company gave its first public presentation last night at Cortlandt Town Hall on plans to build a large electrical generator at a quarry in Verplanck, a project that could excavate 15 million to 20 million tons of soil and rock, and public concerns about the idea are already growing.

Five teenagers are among nine people arrested by Westchester County police after a fourth-month investigation into drugs sales in town, police said today.