Mahopac News

MOUNT KISCO - These colors don't run, or so the bumper sticker says. But today they run.

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 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.

YORKTOWN - The owner of an embattled Mohegan Lake winery says he doesn't plan to pursue his appeal of the dismissal of his lawsuit against the town.

MAHOPAC - Participants entered the sanctuary wearing colorful traditional costumes and bearing flags from around the world, including Poland, Italy, Ireland, Philippines, Portugal, Germany and Mexico.

MAHOPAC: Singer-songwriter Thomas Earl will perform at 7 p.m. July 15 at the Mahopac Public Library as part of the BAMM2 Listening to America concert series.

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.

Route 6N: Joshua Torres, 28, of Fishkill was charged at 2:45 a.m. June 9 with third-degree aggravated unlicensed operation of a motor vehicle, a misdemeanor, as well as being an unlicensed driver and crossing the double-yellow line, both violations.

Seven years ago this week, Michael Sichenzia stood in Orange County Court and admitted he was a crook.

A routine traffic stop involving Putnam County Legislator Anthony Fusco, R-Mahopac, in March 2008 has led to a court odyssey stretching from state Supreme Court in Putnam to the Appellate Division in Brooklyn before winding up in Putnam Valley Town Court last month.

PEEKSKILL - For Jake Hernandez yesterday evening at the First Hebrew Congregation of Peekskill was about gaining new experiences while being Jewish.

A Putnam County man is due in Yorktown Town Court tonight to answer a felony burglary charge, police said today.

Revere thoroughly deserves his place in American history, but another courageous American has been ill-served by those who write books about the Revolutionary War.

BREWSTER - Brewster Central School District officials announced that a Garden Street Elementary School student had a probable case of swine flu.

Four Mahopac teens face felony charges after they broke into a Lake MacGregor home and stole electronic equipment, state police said today.

CARMEL - Town residents and officials are hoping a Boston company that owns a cell-phone tower at the firehouse will finally return an American flag to the top of its empty pole.

RAMAPO - Schools throughout Rockland are seeing a rise in the number of students out sick with flulike symptoms, and health officials suspect that many of those children have the swine flu, a disease that has been fairly mild as it spreads through the region.

Patricia McMahon Houser of Carmel, an assistant professor of geography at Central Connecticut State University, is Putnam's new county historian.

The Westchester County Bomb Squad is at Mahopac High School this afternoon after someone found a suspicious package this morning outside the administrative offices of the high school, police said.