Dover Plains News

NORTH SALEM - Tom Duffy, chairman of the Peach Lake Coalition, stood on the porch of the Vails Grove Pavilion at the lake and gave a two-minute summary of the almost 40-year effort to rid the lake of pollution.

New York Assemblyman Greg Ball announced Saturday that he's abandoning his campaign for the 19th Congressional District seat held by Rep.

Re 'Immigration reform advocates gather in Carmel,' Oct. 14 article: U.S. Rep. John Hall, D-Dover Plains, says he supports comprehensive reform to fix our nation's broken immigration system, emphasizing that any reform bill must secure our borders.

A line of Peekskill Middle School chorale ensemble members snaked around the lobby of the school, eagerly waiting to inaugurate the 550-seat auditorium with a song of jubilation.

Anyone who looked at Edwin Kehoe's case against the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs would have agreed it was open and shut.

After three surgeries, 16 weeks of chemotherapy and partway through a course of radiation, Claire Brennan-Jarrow thought she was in the home stretch of her breast-cancer battle.

SOMERS - Robert Jaffe has serious concerns about the future of health care in America for his two children, ages 22 and 24, his five employees and the small business he started in 1996.

DOVER PLAINS - Advanced Power filed its application with the Town of Dover Wednesday for a special permit to build Cricket Valley Energy, a major natural gas-fired electric power plant, in the Town of Dover.

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

The Cazenovia College mena TMs soccer team had only one shot on goal Saturday afternoon Oct.

Kickboxing, karate and Brazilian jiu-jitsu will be coming to the Patterson Recreational Center in Patterson on Saturday.

HIGHLAND - More than 700 runners and walkers literally had their heads in the clouds Sunday morning at the inaugural Treetops to Rooftops 5-kilometer road race on the Walkway Over the Hudson.

A voting-rights group in Dutchess County has accused state Assemblyman Greg Ball of violating federal election laws.

A Town of Dover man who was convicted for the fourth time of driving while he was drunk was sentenced today to up to three years in prison.

I recently attended the town hall meeting on health care reform hosted by Congressman John Hall, D-Dover Plains.

U.S. Rep. John Hall, D-Dover, will host two public meetings Saturday: a Congress on Your Corner event in Dover and a Town Hall Health Care Forum in New Windsor.

Re 'Hecklers and haters threaten democracy,' a Sept. 10 letter about a town hall meeting on health care at Fox Lane High School: I was in attendance and certainly did not come away with the nasty feelings that letter-wrier Val Donovan did.

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

A woman was charged with DWI after she and her husband were pulled over for tooling down a Dutchess County highway late at night -- in a golf cart.

About 500 people showed up to express their views on health-care reform at a town-hall meeting hosted by U.S. Rep.