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Stony Point Community Struggles Years After Hurricane Damage Stony Point Community Struggles Years After Hurricane Damage
Stony Point Community Struggles Years After Hurricane Damage STONY POINT, N.Y. -- Ba Mar, a privately owned mobile-home park with roughly 140 trailers adjacent to Cedar Pond Brook, is facing an uncertain future as residents still try to recover from the damage of Superstorm Sandy in 2012, according to lohud.com. Many residents have made repairs and rebuilt but just how they can remain living in a 100-year flood plain is in limbo and won't be resolved until November or later, said New York Rising officials, the agency created in the aftermath of Superstorm Sandy, Hurricane Irene and Tropical Storm Lee, according to lohud.com. The Mobile Home Community…

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by Jason Bisnoff
Police & Fire
Search Intensifies For Suspect Who Beat, Shot Poughkeepsie Resident Search Intensifies For Suspect Who Beat, Shot Poughkeepsie Resident
Search Intensifies For Suspect Who Beat, Shot Poughkeepsie Resident POUGHKEEPSIE, N.Y. -- Police in Poughkeepsie continue to search for the suspect behind the beating and shooting of a resident early Tuesday morning, according to the Poughkeepsie Journal. Police responded to a call for a person shot on Innis Avenue at 2:27 a.m. and found the 43-year-old had been shot three times and beaten, according to the Poughkeepsie Journal. The victim was taken to MidHudson Regional Hospital of Westchester Medical Center where he underwent surgery and was listed in serious condition. Anyone with information regarding the attacked is asked to call the police at 845-451…

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Ramapo Police Officers Participate In Airmont Day Ramapo Police Officers Participate In Airmont Day
Ramapo Police Officers Participate In Airmont Day RAMAPO, N.Y. -- Ramapo Police Officers were in attendance at Airmont Day, the community event hosted by the Village of Airmont. The officers interacted with the community and held a K-9 demonstration.

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Schools
Dutchess Day School In Millbrook Turns 60 Dutchess Day School In Millbrook Turns 60
Dutchess Day School In Millbrook Turns 60 MILLBROOK, N.Y. -- Dutchess Day School held a 60th anniversary gala recently at the sheep barn on the Thorndale estate in Millbrook, according to the Poughkeepsie Journal. Some 380 guests turned out on April 30 to celebrate the school’s first 60 years. Parent volunteers worked for a year planning the event, transforming the barn and acquiring more than 160 items to be auctioned off in both a silent and live auction, according to the Poughkeepsie Journal. Guests from all parts of the school’s history were in attendance from a former head of school, several former board presidents, alumni, fo…

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Politics
Letter: Sen. Serino Should Denounce Dean Skelos Letter: Sen. Serino Should Denounce Dean Skelos
Letter: Sen. Serino Should Denounce Dean Skelos DUTCHESS COUNTY, N.Y. -- The Northwest Dutchess Daily Voice accepts signed and original letters to the editor up to 350 words. To submit your letter, e-mail northwestdutchess@dailyvoice.com. To the editor: Recently, on May 12, former Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos was sentenced to prison for multiple counts of public corruption, bribery, and conspiracy. The conviction of the 30-year state senator from Long Island casts a shadow upon our political process no New Yorker should be proud of.  For Hudson Valley residents, in particular, his legacy lives on. In 2014, he came to Dutchess Count…

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by Christopher Rand
Police & Fire
Poughkeepsie Honors Fallen Police Officers At Memorial Poughkeepsie Honors Fallen Police Officers At Memorial
Poughkeepsie Honors Fallen Police Officers At Memorial POUGHKEEPSIE, N.Y. -- Mayor Rob Rolison spoke at a memorial event honoring fallen officers of the Police Department, according to the Poughkeepsie Journal. He spoke about the appreciation the city has for its police force as well as the sacrifice police make in working a dangerous job, according to the Poughkeepsie Journal. Click here to watch a Poughkeepsie Journal video of the mayor;s speech.

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Chappaqua Units Count In County's Affordable Housing Deal, Judge Rules Chappaqua Units Count In County's Affordable Housing Deal, Judge Rules
Chappaqua Units Count In County's Affordable Housing Deal, Judge Rules CHAPPAQUA, N.Y. -- Westchester County breached its obligations under an affordable housing settlement by not opposing a 28-unit development in Chappaqua, a federal judge ruled Tuesday, according to lohud.com. The judge added that Chappaqua Station units can count toward the county’s benchmarks outlined in the settlement. Westchester faced $60,000 a month fines and could have been required to build additional housing if those units weren’t counted, according to lohud.com. In 2009, Westchester settled a lawsuit from a New York-based group called the Anti-Discrimination Center by agreeing to t…

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Port Chester Residents Protest Tax Breaks Amid Firefighter Cuts Port Chester Residents Protest Tax Breaks Amid Firefighter Cuts
Port Chester Residents Protest Tax Breaks Amid Firefighter Cuts PORT CHESTER, N.Y. -- Port Chester protesters don't want big tax breaks for corporations who want to build in the area if there's not enough money to pay firefighters, according to News 12. Village leaders chose to fire all eight paid firefighters last month to save money, and rely only on volunteers.  Inside a village senior center in Port Chester, residents gathered to hear the latest about a proposed Starwood project at the former site of United Hospital. Members of Sustainable Port Chester Alliance rallied to ensure that Starwood will pay its fair share if it receives big tax cuts from …

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Remains Found Of World War II Marine From Poughkeepsie Remains Found Of World War II Marine From Poughkeepsie
Remains Found Of World War II Marine From Poughkeepsie POUGHKEEPSIE, N.Y. -- The remains of a Marine from Poughkeepsie who had been unaccounted for since being killed in World War II have been identified and are being returned to his family for burial with full military honors, according to Daily Freeman News. Pfc. James Johnson, 19, will be buried May 31 at Arlington National Cemetery in Virginia.  The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency said that in November 1943, Johnson was assigned to Company K, 3rd Battalion, Eighth Marines, Second Marine Division when it landed against stiff Japanese resistance on the island of Betio in the Tarawa Atoll of …

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Politics
Judge Tosses Conviction Of Man Jailed Eight Years In Carmel Arson Judge Tosses Conviction Of Man Jailed Eight Years In Carmel Arson
Judge Tosses Conviction Of Man Jailed Eight Years In Carmel Arson CARMEL, N.Y. -- A Connecticut man who spent eight years in prison for setting a fire in a Carmel restaurant has been exonerated after Putnam prosecutors agreed there wasn't enough proof of wrongdoing, according to lohud.com. A federal judge threw out the arson conviction of 44-year-old William Haughey after a Putnam County jury found guilty of setting the 2007 fire at Smalley’s Inn, according to lohud.com. Haughey was initially freed on bail May 9 after Putnam District Attorney Robert Tendy told a magistrate judge that his office was supportive of Haughey's bid for freedom.  On Monday, May…

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