News from The Putnam Examiner, covering Brewster-Southeast, Cold Spring-Philipstown, Kent, Mahopac-Carmel, Patterson, Putnam Valley, Putnam County, NY.
Areas along the lakefront in Putnam Valley will no longer allow parking with several safety concerns arising as the summer months approach. Town officials intend to restrict parking in the Roaring Brook Lake District to property owners, their lessees, members
Read MoreThe Carmel Board of Education has agreed to trim more than $1 million from the school budget as the district looks to place a second plan up for a vote in two weeks after its original proposal was defeated last
Read MoreSecondaries Boutique, a new consignment shop in Mahopac, is all about second chances. The brainchild of Julia Maher and Samantha Jinek, two Mahopac High School seniors, and Jennifer Maher, Julia’s mother, this visionary, for-profit boutique will not only give clothing
Read MoreThe Kent Town Board will likely move to ban retail marijuana dispensaries within the community but first plan to hold a hearing next month to see where residents stand on the issue. With Gov. Andrew Cuomo legalizing recreational marijuana earlier
Read MoreBy Lindsay Marr The whole world is busy, always on to the next thing. We are constantly moving, hardly paying attention to the present. But not Eleanor Rahim. Rahim, an abstract painter, focuses on the simplicities of life through texture
Read MoreGail Perillo, known to hundreds of community members as Miss Gail, will officially retire from Mahopac Public Library on Thursday, May 27. “It will be hard to fill Gail’s shoes,” said Library Director, Michele Capozzella. “Her energy and enthusiasm is
Read MoreVoters in Putnam County school districts approved most budgets for the 2021-22 school year and elected board of education members Tuesday but the Carmel budget went down. In Carmel, the budget was voted down 1,296-1,125. In the Board of Education race
Read MoreThe Carmel Board of Education is attempting to be proactive in keeping an open line of communication between the district and the Kent Town Board regarding a transportation facility following years of contention over a lack of dialogue. Over the
Read MoreThe Putnam County Department of Health will be starting to vaccinate children 12 to 15 years of age this week, based on expanded authorization of the Pfizer vaccine, approved last week by the New York State Department of Health. Parents and caregivers should be aware that to receive
Read MoreA Lake Carmel resident will spend the next seven years in prison following a two-month investigation where law enforcement officials purchased over $2,800 worth of methamphetamine from him. Brian Flandreau, 42, received the enhanced sentence on Wednesday after pleading guilty
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