Kent News

Instead of a normal adjournment, Tuesday's Orleans County Legislature meeting was put into recess because of a resolution to appoint a new commissioner of Social Services.

Cheers filled the room of the Republican headquarters in Albion on Tuesday night as election results were read for the three contested Orleans County Legislature seats.

A hotel/motel occupancy tax was enacted Wednesday by the Orleans County Legislature.

Concerning the re-election campaign bid of Kent Town Justice Joe Esposito, I would like to remind people that unlike many other judges who only seem to care about raising more revenue through fines, Joe has been a lifelong pillar of the community who cares about the little guy.

Alcohol and excessive speed are believed to be factors in a weekend crash in the Catskill Mountains that killed a Putnam County man, state police said Monday.

Orleans County Legislature hopefuls voiced their stance on several important issues in a candidate forum Thursday.

KENT - A father and his 6-year-old daughter were taken to the Putnam Hospital Center in Carmel today after the Jeep SUV he was driving went off Farmers Mills Road around 9 a.m. and rolled over.

KENT - A 20-year-old Lake Carmel man was arrested after discharging a shotgun twice outside his home in an apparent effort to scare off a man with whom he had fought earlier, police said today.

Monroe County again has scored second place on a list county officials would just as soon be left off.

A Brewster man faces a felony charge in connection with an incident last week in which a Carmel man's leg was run over by a car on Route 6, police said.

CARMEL - Police were searching early yesterday morning on the ground and from the air for suspects in an altercation that left one man seriously injured Wednesday night, when he was run over by a car.

KENT - A predawn house fire begun by a candle was quickly extinguished before the flames could cause injuries or serious damage to the home.

KENT - Putnam County's plan to build a senior center off Ludingtonville Road in Kent is awaiting the permission of the state Legislature.

Whangtown Road: Dolores Martinez, 42, of Kent was charged July 21 with third-degree assault and resisting arrest, misdemeanors, after police responded to a report of a fight.

The Town Board this week approved settling the Kent Manor case, ending years of litigation over whether a developer can build hundreds of townhomes and how much the town should pay for delaying the project's construction.

The Putnam County legislators are planning an $8 million senior citizen center to be located in the Town of Kent.

REGISTER Orleans County Democrats held their annual picnic Sunday, July 12 at the Albion Elks Lodge.

Kent, a local historian noted recently, could be known as the stone-chamber capital of the world.

KENT LAKES: Ever read a book and wonder what music would fit a particular scene or character? Maggie Seligman did and will present her musical findings with Steve Kirkman and Sylvia Brooks at 8 p.m. Saturday at Arts on the Lake.

Whenever I think of the Grange, I think of the wonderful acts of kindness they bestow upon their rural communities and the sensational cookbooks they compile year after year.