Amenia News

AMENIA: Two Town of Amenia residents are due in court on charges stemming from a September home invasion robbery.

Banners on billboards for a Dutchess County comptroller candidate that inaccurately claimed he had been endorsed by the Poughkeepsie Journal were removed Friday after the newspaper objected.

Editor's note: The Poughkeepsie Journal will run a series of candidate profiles before the Nov.

Heathcote Farm in Amenia was ranked the seventh largest in registering the most Angus beef cattle in New York state.

Visiting Wassaic, one of five hamlets in the Town of Amenia, is like taking a trip back in time.

A full brother to major sire Giant's Causeway , 11-year-old Freud has sired 16 stakes winners.

ALBANY - Health-care facilities throughout New York will get $436 million to upgrade facilities, consolidate services and add new technology.

Sequel Stallions New York, the breeding operation of Becky Thomas and Dennis Narlinger, will close its farm in Hudson, New York, this fall.

Panama City set a pressured pace in the nightcap at Calder Race Course on September 18 and powered to a 2 1/4-length score to become the first career winner for freshman sire True Direction.

WAPPINGERS FALLS - Multi-time winners Marisa Hanson and Mike Slinskey again emerged victorious at Sunday morning's Dutchess County Classic.

It's not that Ecosystems Strategies Inc. is full of secret agents or working undercover.

Local general election campaigns will kick into high gear following Tuesday's primaries, which featured several races that likely determined who will serve in various offices in 2010.

"On the Record" appears Mondays, Tuesdays and Wednesdays. On Mondays, the section features birth announcements.

Preparations for transportation in the new school year in the Webutuck school district began during the summer.

Amenia school hires director -Ron Wilson is Maplebrook School's new director of the Northeast Collegiate Institute and the head of school's special consultant.

Dutchess County Young Republicans Chairman Michael Kelsey of Salt Point is running for the county Legislature in District 25.

My name is Nicholas Meyer, I am originally from Highland, and I am an honorably discharged sergeant in the United States Marine Corps.

RHINEBECK - Seventeen-year-old Kelly von der Leith capped her week at the Dutchess County Fair in style Saturday, taking home more than $13,000 at the 4-H Livestock Sale.

State police charged a 62-year-old Pawling with misdemeanor driving while intoxicated.

Happy Endings Antiques is wedged alongside a gas station and a shuttered luncheonette in this sleepy town about 80 miles north of Manhattan in Dutchess County, on the way to the Berkshires.