Just in time for Memorial Day, the Mahopac High School Leo’s Club and its parent club, the Mahopac Lions, have honored Michael Tromblee with a Hometown Heroes Banner. Tromblee, who served in the U.S. Air Force from 1997-2001, serves as co-advisor to
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Voters in two Putnam County school districts rejected budgets for the 2022-23 school years Tuesday. In Mahopac, the $133 million spending plan failed to pass the muster by eight votes, 1,225-1217. Residents did approve a $1.16 million proposition to buy
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The Mahopac community will come alive with art on Wednesday, May 4 when the Mahopac School District’s 2022 Art Hop kicks off with an opening reception. Featuring nearly 400 art works by students in elementary through high school, the opening
Read MoreBy Rick Pezzullo The Carmel Planning Board recently reviewed preliminary plans for a proposed 24-room hotel at 910 South Lake Blvd. in Mahopac. The three-story “boutique” hotel would replace an existing two-story building on the site that was once envisioned
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By Rick Pezzullo A Mahopac woman was sentenced last week to six to 18 years in state prison for fatally striking a pedestrian while driving drunk last year on Route 6N in Mahopac. Maggie Deperna, 38, pled guilty to aggravated
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By Rick Pezzullo The Mahopac Board of Education announced last week it had found the replacement for retiring Superintendent of Schools Anthony DiCarlo. Christine A. Tona, who currently works as Assistant Superintendent for Curriculum and Instruction in the Riverhead Central
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The third-largest St. Patrick’s Day Parade in New York State is returning to Mahopac on Sunday, March 13. The 45th Annual Northern Westchester/Putnam St. Patrick’s Day Parade will kick off at 2 p.m. following the Pledge of Allegiance on the
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Sydney Hughes, Mahopac High School’s 2018 Valedictorian and a senior at Princeton University, has been awarded one of Princeton’s highest honors. She will spend two years studying in Munich, Germany, working to fight climate change. Hughes was awarded the Daniel
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A Mahopac man was sentenced Jan. 26 to seven years in state prison after pleading guilty to charges of drug sales and weapons possession. Kyle Novotny, 27, was arrested by investigators from the Putnam County Sheriff’s Office Narcotics Enforcement Unit
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By Rick Pezzullo State Assemblyman Kevin Byrne (R, C/Mahopac) held a press conference last week to call on the state Department of Education to scrap any effort to tie financial assistance for school districts to the controversial “Diversity, Equity, and
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