Cold Spring News

The Hudson Highlands Nature Museum will present "West Point Foundry Preserve: Unearthing the Past, Forging a Future," part of its Winter Evening Speakers Series, at 7:30 p.m. Feb.

As I slog through Grand Central each workday, I hear announcements trumpeting Metro-North's service that allows you to check if your train is on time and what track it's on.

Do you want to artistically contribute to a widely visible canvas? Artists who live in Beacon or within a five-mile radius of the town are wanted to contribute to the Beekman Street Artist Banners.

The Distinguished Poets Series of the Poetry Center at Passaic County Community College is pleased to present a Poetry Reading by the winners and finalists of the 2009 Paterson Poetry Prize.

COLD SPRING - More than six years after Putnam County almost purchased the former Julia L. Butterfield Memorial Hospital in Cold Spring, officials are again entertaining the idea of buying the site.

Hike name: Howell Trail to North Crows Nest Location: Western Hudson Highlands, south of Storm King Length: Three miles round trip Rating: To be determined … Photo Gallery: www.poughkeepsiejournal.com/photos Dogs: Probably a bit intense for Fido this time of year.

A Cold Spring family was homeless but glad to be safe Saturday after a Christmas Eve fire in their home on Main Street.

Despite a last-ditch effort from a group of shareholders and investors, Luminetx Corp.

RHINEBECK - The revival of an old Dutch Yuletide tradition is drawing people to the village.

Today is a major holiday launch for all things holiday-related in the noncommercial realm of firehouses, libraries, church halls and historical societies.

Police seized three pounds of marijuana and $14,000 and arrested two in a raid of a home-based marijuana business, police said today.

COLD SPRING - The Howland Chamber Music Circle will present the internationally known ensemble Early Music New York at 4 p.m. Sunday at St.

After spending a few hours wandering up and down the hill that is Cold Spring's Main Street, you're going to get hungry.

COLD SPRING - The Village of Cold Spring gets decked out for the holidays for its annual festival.

With the government poised to reform one-sixth of the U.S. economy and bankers and auto workers owing their industries' survival to federal intervention, a Yorktown filmmaker and his partners thought it was a good time for an in-depth study of entrepreneurial capitalism.

FISHKILL - Firefighters from four counties are pooling manpower to surround a brush fire that began late Thursday afternoon and has spread to about 100 acres.

He investigated terror attacks in India and Turkey, gathered intelligence in the Middle East, and commanded an NYPD unit that sniffs out police corruption.

The mystery of who brought the rabid skunk to a Cold Spring wildlife rehabilitator was solved Monday.

Kevin McConville, the Democratic challenger for Putnam County sheriff, has raised and spent considerably more money than two-term incumbent Republican Donald B. Smith in what has been Smith's first real re-election challenge.

County Executive Robert Bondi recently told the Putnam County Legislature he was vetoing not only certain 2010 budget resolutions but also the entire spending plan as modified by county lawmakers.