Wappingers Falls News

Signed items from 'American Idol' champ Taylor Hicks, singer Alice Cooper and musical group 3 Doors Down will be among the prizes raffled off this weekend to benefit 6-year-old Frankie Flora.

Dutchess County's history, like so many other counties in the Northeast, is strongly linked to its water resources.

WAPPINGERS FALLS - VA Hudson Valley Health Care System will host a "Welcome Home Night" at Dutchess Stadium on July 25 for all returning soldiers from Iraq and Afghanistan.

This photograph from our region's past was sent in by Richard Welsh of Wappingers Falls.

Wedding planner opens in Wappingers Falls - The Hudson Valley Wedding Sitter is a new event planner in Wappingers Falls.

Too often, working weekends, living out of a suitcase, and bringing the BlackBerry to dinner are the price one pays for being an entrepreneur.

MILLBROOK - To mark their transition from second to third grade, 85 students from four second-grade classes at Elm Drive Elementary School planted and dedicated a tree on the grounds of Alden Place Elementary.

WAPPINGERS FALLS - The Village of Wappingers Falls Recreation Department seeks crafts and food vendors for the annual Picnic in the Park/WPDH Roof-A-Thon event at Mesier Park.

A Wappingers Falls man who was caught driving drunk in the Town of Poughkeepsie five weeks after he was convicted of DWI in Suffolk County faces a prison term for the crime.

Troy Wojciekofsky of Wappingers Falls is now a Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design Accredited Professional for New Construction, announced engineering consulting firm Fuss & O'Neill. Wojciekofsky is a senior project manager at the firm's Poughkeepsie office, where his environmentally friendly and sustainable land development projects ...

LENOX, Mass. -Three local teens were selected to participate in this summer's Boston University Tanglewood Institute, summer music program for high school students focusing on musical study and performance.

Richard Drake, a senior partner at the New Windsor law firm Drake, Loeb, Heller, Kennedy, Gogerty, Gaba & Rodd was recently appointed to serve a three-year term as a member of the Independent Judicial Election Qualification Commission for the Ninth Judicial District.

WAPPINGERS FALLS - The Dukes and Duchess, a popular, local swing band, will perform at a free dance at the First Presbyterian Church's Wade Fellowship Hall on June 28 from 2-4 p.m. The church is located at 2568 South Ave.

WAPPINGERS FALLS -It was more than volunteer work, more than something to put on his college applications.

WAPPINGERS FALLS - A total of 263 runners and walkers participated Saturday in the Mid-Hudson Road Runners Club's 32nd annual Memorial Run at Mesier Park in the village.

WAPPINGERS FALLS - Students and parents want the Wappingers school board to reinstate a marching band composed of musicians from four schools.

New York sales taxes almost drove a Dutchess County helicopter business out of state.

Ashley Poulin, 25, Class of 2002, laughs with fellow alumni in the cafeteria before surprising their music teacher Mike Patrizio during his final concert on Thursday, more... Past music students of Mike Patrizio rehearse in the cafeteria before surprising him during his final concert on Thursday, June 4, 2009, at Shaker High in Latham.

Damage from a trailer fire in Wappingers Falls early this morning was confined to the rear deck of the structure.

Pete Sanfilippo wonders where all the years have gone. The longtime race director simply cannot believe that Saturday will be the 32nd running of the Mid-Hudson Road Runners Club Memorial Run, which started back in 1978 as the Joseph McDonald Memorial 10-kilometer race in Wappingers Falls.