Community party planned for later in the year BY BILL DEMAREST VALLEY COTTAGE – One-hundred years ago, 17 Valley Cottage residents got together and decided the community needed protection from the dangers of fire – forming the Valley Cottage Fire Department and opening a firehouse on Lake Road. On Monday night, the volunteers who today […]
The infamous leader of Westboro Baptist Church, Fred Phelps, is on death’s door, according to his estranged son. Beginning in the early 2000s, Phelps and his church, comprised largely of his close and extended family, began terrorizing their fellow Americans, showing up at funerals with signs reading that God Hates Them and is glad they […]
Local youth from the Hudson Valley who have had it with marketing from the tobacco industry joined youth around the country to stand up and speak out against big tobacco on Kick Butts Day, March 19. The Hudson Valley Tobacco Free Partners (SmokeFree Dutchess, POW’R Against Tobacco, TFAC of Ulster and Reality Check of Rockland […]
Residents and town board debate biking on Conger’s Lake Walkway BY MARIA BROWNSELL Congers Lake walking path was recently completed, giving many people in the community a new peaceful place to get their exercise. And for many others, more reasons to complain. The key cause of new complaints: bicycles. A walking path is supposed to […]
United Water, in cooperation with the National Association of Water Companies–New York Chapter, is offering three $2,500 scholarships to high school seniors who will be attending a university or college in New York and pursuing a degree related to the water utility field. The NAWC’s membership consists of water companies in the private sector. The […]
Material used in manufacturing makeup spills at Congers plant BY BILL DEMAREST CONGERS – A worker at a Congers manufacturing plant suffered first-degree burns to the face when about 5 gallons of material used in production of makeup spilled early Sunday morning, according to the Congers Fire Department. Fire Chief Jason DiSalvo said the worker […]