Carmel News

All of the changes at Putnam National Golf Club over the past two seasons have provided a new selling point for Ciaran Carr, the course's director of golf.

CARMEL - A Carmel man was arrested after he got into an argument with several people inside a convenience store, then chased after one of the individuals with a claw hammer and a wooden stake, police said today.

CARMEL: Get your puppy all spiffy and help raise money for the Putnam Humane Society at the same time.

Carmel police enlisted the help of the called the Westchester County Bomb Squad yesterday in executing a search warrant on a Boniello Drive home, where they seized roughly $6,000 in fireworks and arrested a man who lives there on a variety of charges, police said today.

MAHOPAC - A small closet fire in a rooming house by Lake Mahopac was quickly extinguished with little damage to the building early yesterday morning.

MAHOPAC - A quick-acting Carmel police officer put out a third-floor closet fire with an extinguisher from his squad car this morning, the fire department said.

Putnam's largest town continues to experience a major construction boom. Last year, Carmel saw the unveiling of the new Putnam County Courthouse, a four-story, 60,000-square-foot building off Gleneida Avenue, as well as major changes to its main shopping district, the Putnam Plaza, and the county's only hospital, Putnam Hospital Center.

A Yorktown woman who was charged with drunken driving last night in Somers is among several motorists charged with that offense.

CARMEL - Joel Shipley's 250-pound, cast-iron chicken apparently made an appearance in Westchester County over the past weekend.

A badly-injured motorist was taken by a helicopter to Westchester Medical Center in Valhalla and Route 6 was closed both ways after a 3-car accident today near Route 118 in Baldwin Place, police said.

SOUTHEAST - Whistling hasn't helped Brianna Super attract bluebirds to her backyard, so the 11-year-old figured she'd build them a house.

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BREWSTER - The tragic deaths of a mother and her 8-year-old daughter - run down, police say, by a drunken driver as they walked from the young girl's dance class on a warm June evening - has without a doubt shaken the Brewster-Southeast community.

A lot of folks I know how been complaining about the frequent, rainy weather we've been having this month.

A surveillance camera on the Gateway Dental Center building on Route 22 in Brewster captured the horrific crash last week in which an allegedly drunk driver struck and killed a mother and daughter, a prosecutor said today in Putnam County Court.

Just over a year after he killed a bicyclist in a collision with his van in East Fishkill, a Putnam County man was sentenced yesterday to up to three years in prison for the crime.

LAGRANGE - A Putnam County woman was drunk when she ran a red light in Dutchess County early today, state police said today.

I don't take sides in elections, not officially. And I have no horse in the Carmel town supervisor's race.

Cycling advocates have sued to force the state to pave over rumble strips carved into a 4.4-mile stretch of Route 100 in Yorktown and Somers - a favorite stretch for bike riders.

CARMEL - A Lake Peekskill teen is accused of fatally shooting Garrison tow-truck driver John Marcinak in December while breaking into his Garrison Garage on Route 9, Sheriff Donald B. Smith said yesterday.