Saturday’s weather might have been frightful with dark, dank rainy conditions yet inside the Henry Wells Middle School in Brewster hundreds gathered for the Eastern Putnam Relay for Life—a merger of ...

State Senator Pete Harckham addressed an Albany news conference last week. Photo by Tom Staudter Putnam County State Senator Peter Harckham has called for a ban of toxic sewage sludge known as ...

Participants raised funds in memory of the fallen officer. Photos by John Kenny Gary Pietropaolo may have been only 29, but the love and respect he received was an indicator of the kind of person the ...

Peter Lisikatos, a lifelong area resident, died at home on Saturday, May 3, 2025 surrounded by his family. He was 80 years old. Peter was born in Cold Spring on June 6, 1944, to the late Emmanuel and ...

Pope Francis is dead. But at age 97, musical humorist Tom Lehrer is still with us. And so are his many parody songs, the rights to which Lehrer has generously transferred to the public domain. Among ...

Brian Fullerton Photo Courtesy of U.S. Attorney’s Office A 46-year-old Mahopac man is facing a decades long prison sentence if found guilty of sexually exploiting a child. Brian Fullerton was arrested ...

It’s become Putnam County’s $64,000 question! Both the legislative and executive branches of government agree that towns and villages should receive a portion of the county’s sales tax but how much ...

Putnam sales tax dollars declined dramatically in March. Commissioner of Finance Michael Lewis reported last week $5.8 million was collected during the 31-day period, down by $1.8 million from the ...

Putnam Hospital Center has received a grade of “A” when it comes to protecting patients from preventable harm. The Leapfrog Group’s Spring 2025 Hospital Safety Grades was released last Thursday and ...

“The Accountant” was a midsized hit from 2016 that until recently had a reputation as a wannabe franchise-starter that never got a follow-up. I watched the first movie for research last weekend, and I ...

What you are about to digest is not preaching. It’s more of an observation. And to preface this, you are reading the words of someone who went to a Catholic grade school, Catholic high school and a ...