News from The Putnam Examiner, covering Brewster-Southeast, Cold Spring-Philipstown, Kent, Mahopac-Carmel, Patterson, Putnam Valley, Putnam County, NY.
The Putnam County Health Department is raising concerns about the significant decline in vaccination rates for the 14 preventable childhood diseases since the coronavirus pandemic took hold. “We can look at two sets of numbers and see there has been
Read MoreAssemblyman Kevin Byrne has received the endorsement of the Log Cabin Republicans, a conservative group that works to make the GOP more inclusive, especially on issues impacting gay, lesbian, transgender and bisexual people. The group’s state chairman made the announcement last
Read MoreThe Brewster Board of Education has decided it will fill two existing vacancies by appointing individuals instead of holding a special election. The current five-member board held a special meeting on June 30 to discuss how to proceed with filling
Read MoreBrewster school trustees decided on Tuesday they will solicit candidates to eventually fill a pair of vacancies left open on the Board of Education due to two recent resignations. Daniel Heintz submitted his resignation as a trustee on June 28,
Read MoreThe body of a Brooklyn man who drowned in Oscawana Lake in Putnam Valley over the weekend was recovered by the New York State Police Dive team Monday. Sydney Joseph, 46, was located at about 11:18 a.m. by police with
Read MoreBy Gabriel Harrison Carmel Superintendent of Schools Andy Irvin stressed at the Board of Education’s final meeting of the school year last week how his recent decision to resign was entirely voluntary. The meeting came about a week after Irvin
Read MoreThe Brewster Board of Education will be losing another member with Daniel Heintz submitting his resignation on Sunday, citing a demanding work schedule as the reason for his decision to step down. In the same letter to the community on
Read MoreThe Brewster Board of Education offered departing Trustee Glenn Niles the seat left open by the resignation of Krista Berardi but he has declined the offer. Berardi submitted her resignation on June 12 amidst a backlash over social media posts she made
Read MoreBy Gabriel Harrison Carmel Superintendent Andy Irvin, at the board’s final meeting of the year Tuesday night, stressed how his recent decision to resign was entirely voluntary. The meeting came about a week after Irvin announced he was resigning from
Read MoreBy Gabriel HarrisonThe school year’s end didn’t go as planned for the Carmel High School class of 2020. The last day of in-person classes was in mid-March. Senior ball was canceled. The school production of Guys and Dolls was canceled.
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