Carmel News

All Luther Collins wanted was something sweet when found disoriented in a heavily wooded area of Kent.

CARMEL - The Putnam County Legislature has approved a $137.4 million budget for 2009 that calls for three layoffs in the highway department but restores funds to arts organizations and libraries that were cut ...

A Lake Carmel man charged in August with assaulting his girlfriend and breaking her puppy's jaw has pleaded guilty in Putnam County Court to felony animal cruelty and will serve six months in the Putnam County ...

FREEDOM PLAINS - The Arlington High School girls' tennis team won the four doubles matches, leading the Admirals to a 5-2 win over Carmel on Monday.

CARMEL - The Concerned Residents of Carmel and Mahopac is holding its annual candidates forum at 7:30 tonight at the Mahopac Public Library, 668 Route 6, near Mount Hope Road.

All Luther Collins wanted was something sweet when found disoriented in a heavily wooded area of Kent.

Officials are refusing to disclose details of taxpayer-funded cell phone bills for elected officials, saying that would invade people's privacy and put town operations at risk.

Carmel contractor Frank Ciano has filed a multimillion-dollar federal lawsuit against Putnam County, its Republican elections commissioner, Anthony Scannapieco, the Carmel police and others over a June 2007 ...

Rye Neck 3, Solomon Schechter 0: At Rye Neck, Loma Reimers had four aces and five kills in a 25-9, 25-14, 25-12 win.

SOUTHEAST - An elderly man who died in a car accident Tuesday on Route 22 may have suffered a heart attack or some other medical condition prior to the crash, state police said yesterday.

Carmel town officials have told the owner of a Mahopac-based tree-pruning business to stop building a barn-like structure on his nearly 2.5-acre property without a permit.

CARMEL A Cold Spring man, who is a Level Two sex offender with the Dutchess County Probation Department, is wanted by the Hudson County, New Jersey Sheriff's Office, Putnam County Sheriff's officials said ...

Three people are accused of abducting a man at knifepoint from his home in suburban New York and torturing him.

A 47-year-old Mahopac man was abducted from his home at knifepoint and driven to at least two places in Mahopac where he was tortured by three people he knew, police said.

CARMEL - Most Putnam County legislators want to establish a new reserve fund in which to deposit excess sales-tax revenue to be used solely to reduce county property taxes.

CARMEL - The Putnam County Legislature last night restored funding to libraries and arts and historical organizations that County Executive Robert Bondi had cut in his $136.3 million proposed county budget for ...

SOMERS - On a breezy morning at Muscoot Farm, a group of children sit and color pictures of sheep.

Sweetums is one of the more obscure Muppets, a towering, shaggy character whose threatening appearance is offset by his friendly disposition.

The Putnam County highway department begins a culvert replacement project on Croton Falls Road beginning Monday and has announced that parts of the major thoroughfare will be closed until roughly Oct.

MAHOPAC - After losing the GOP line in the Putnam County Legislature District 8 race, Carmel Councilman Carmine DiBattista is giving up his campaign.