Cold Spring News

Trains have distinct personalities, kind of like children. Seriously. Don't believe me? Just try switching up your routine and instead of taking the 7:28 a.m., push it back to the 7:05, or go wild and try the 7:44. The mix of people, conductors and attitudes change with every train, and it's never the same experience depending on the time of day.

Marjorie Anella McFarlane and Albert Edward Lucas were married on Saturday, July 4, 2009 at 4;00 PM in The Episcopal Church of St.

The Cold Spring River Festival featuring 75 vendors selling art, antiques and crafts in Mayor's Park on the banks of the Hudson River takes place from 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Handmade arts and crafts including jewelry, glass, art, pottery, photography will be on display plus antiques dealers are offering a mixed array of furniture, glass, china, paintings, ...

COLD SPRING - About 5,000 people came to the village's waterfront today for an Independence Day celebration.

Don't worry if the economy has put a crimp in your plans to visit Europe this summer.

Cold Spring, NY-It's getting worse and worse, and the wizards don't have a clue.

PHILIPSTOWN - A Cold Spring man faces a felony criminal mischief charge after a Putnam deputy, responding to a trespass complaint, determined that he banged his fists on the exterior of a Route 9 house, damaging it, police said today.

GARRISON - It's a combination that most people wouldn't have thought could co-exist harmoniously in one place - yoga and golf.

A broad measure of economic activity shows that sales in Westchester and Putnam counties are tumbling at their fastest pace in at least 19 years.

Owner Luis Pinto opened Cafe Maya and Cantina in Fishkill five years ago and themed it around his home in the Yucatan Peninsula in southeastern Mexico.

COLD SPRING - Green-and-white tree swallows carve paths through the sky above the Hudson River where cast-iron shells once flew before exploding on the opposite bank.

Hike name: Little Stony Point State Park. Location: Putnam County, just north of Cold Spring.

See a collection of photographs from the Haldane High School graduation at http://lohud.com/gradphotosputnam. The school is located in Cold Spring.

For anyone worried that several of the region's top outdoor sculpture shows may be eschewing the challenges of contemporary art for something more populist and safe this season, two of the latest plein air collections to have opened in recent weeks are must-sees. Up in Columbia County, between Routes 66 and 9H near the communities of Ghent and West ...

The Eastern red cedar is a handsome native evergreen but apt to become a bit weedy if left to its own devices.

NELSONVILLE - This 1-mile-square village adjacent to Cold Spring employs only seven people, with Village Clerk and Treasurer Pauline Minners its highest-paid employee in fiscal year 2008.

Whether you viewed the 400th-anniversary flotilla from Yonkers' industrial waterfront, the Cold Spring Dock or the stunning heights of the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, there was no mistaking that the river Henry Hudson navigated in 1609 is a river worth celebrating.

COLD SPRING - Volunteers say the Chapel of Our Lady Restoration finally has all the resources it has gone without since it was built in 1833 - including restrooms.

There's an old saying, "he who laughs last, laughs best" and audiences who see The Complete Works of William Shakespeare , at Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival this summer will gain a whole new appreciation for the adage.

The significance of Saturday's commencement exercise at Our Lady of Lourdes High School in Poughkeepsie was different depending on who you asked.