Putnam County News

Voters in Putnam County on Tuesday went with incumbent supervisors in Carmel and Putnam Valley and moved Philipstown Councilman Richard Shea up to replace Supervisor William Mazzuca.

Putnam County deputies charged two motorists with driving while intoxicated in recent traffic stops, police said.

PATTERSON - County Legislator Mary Conklin, R-Patterson, appeared to hold off a challenge from Democrat Mark Armon of Putnam Lake and won a second, three-year term representing District 4 in the Putnam County Legislature, according to unofficial results from the county Board of Elections.

Putnam County health officials have found the person who handled a rabid young skunk.

GARRISON - A 23-year-old man accused of inducing his friend's fatal drug overdose was arrested by Putnam County sheriff's deputies early Thursday and returned to Bergen County, N.J., where he faces homicide charges, officials said.

The Putnam County Legislature is considering whether to restart the construction of a controversial park-and-ride lot at Route 6 and Mount Hope Road.

CARMEL - The Putnam County Legislature Monday night overrode most of County Executive Robert Bondi's budget vetoes, reinstating most positions Bondi had targeted for layoffs and bringing to a close the preparation of Putnam's 2010 budget.

A 17-year-old town youth accused of slashing another teen in the face with a knife at a party was arrested on a felony assault charge, the Putnam County Sheriff's Office said Monday night.

Troopers charged 14 motorists with driving under the influence of alcohol or drugs in weekend traffic stops in Westchester and Putnam counties, state police said today.

State police say one man has died and another has been charged with driving while intoxicated after a one-car crash in the northern Catskills.

A Putnam County man has pleaded guilty to menacing another motorist in an alcohol-fueled road-rage incident that preceded a fatal crash.

THORNWOOD - Every year since 2002, Hillside Food Outreach, a nonprofit food pantry that delivers food to the homebound, has raised at least a third of its $450,000 operating budget through a fundraising event.

Carmel schools Superintendent James Ryan acknowledged Tuesday that there had been a case of H1N1 flu in the district, and he urged parents to use common sense to prevent their children from getting sick.

The Democratic challenger to Republican Putnam County Sheriff Donald B. Smith wants to add at least one more person to the work force at the sheriff's office: a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent.

Police say the decomposing body of a man found in a Putnam County stream has been in the water for several months.

CARMEL - The Putnam County Sheriff's Office has requested various documents from the Carmel assessor's office as part of what it terms 'an ongoing criminal investigation.' But Assessor Paul Jonke blames the sheriff's inquiry on former two-term town Councilman Norman Marino, whom Jonke characterizes as a disgruntled taxpayer.

CARMEL - Undercover officers arrested three men in two separate stings into drug dealing in Putnam County, the Sheriff's Office said Thursday.

The father of a Putnam Valley man who hanged himself in the Putnam County jail has reached a settlement with four of five defendants in a civil rights lawsuit he filed over his son's death.

Police from several agencies searched on the ground and from the air yesterday for a distraught Wood Street man who ran from his home with anti-freeze, which authorities feared he may have drank and which he was threatening to drink.

An archaeologist has found ancient tool fragments and other artifacts at the site of a Putnam County sewer construction project.