Pine Plains News

PLEASANT VALLEY - The next stop, and possibly the end of the line, for the town's former train station is the Dutchess County Fairgrounds in Rhinebeck.

Dutchess County legislators should waste no time in overriding Executive William Steinhaus' veto of a bill that sought to bring an end to the blatant unfairness of elected officials getting free health-care premiums.

The man accused of holding a Pine Plains school principal hostage at gunpoint Nov.

Some Dutchess County legislators have publicly made a commitment to find a way to fund sheriff's road patrols without asking municipalities to pay for the service next year.

Although Dutchess County Executive William Steinhaus had left no money in his proposed 2010 budget for a $481,247 security plan, Steinhaus wants the Legislature to add it to the budget in light of the hostage incident at Stissing Mountain Middle School in Pine Plains.

Pine Plains Superintendent Linda Kaumeyer answered questions and addressed rumors regarding last week's hostage situation at Stissing Mountain Middle School during Wednesday's school board meeting.

Very little venting took place during Thursday's community forum in Pine Plains.

Share + Nov 12, 2009 5:55 am US/Eastern Reporting Tony Aiello PINE PLAINS, N.Y. 1 of 2 Stissing Mountain High School in Pine Plains was locked down and SWAT team members arrived at the school after a man entered the building and took a principal hostage on Nov.

On Thursday the bucolic main street in Pine Plains,60 miles south of Albany,was a far cry from the frenzy that took over this northern Dutchess County town on Tuesday when anguished parents filled the streets wondering if their children were safe froma man who used a shotgun to take the middle school principal hostage.

In Pine Plains New York, a gunman in his 40s, alone, has taken a high school administrator hostage, no shots have been fired, and it sounds like they are getting the students out of the school OK.

A community shaken looks to begin the recovery process. People in Pine Plains remain on edge after police say 42-year-old Christopher Craft held the principal of Stissing Mountain Middle School hostage for more than two hours on Tuesday.

PINE PLAINS - A day after a Stanfordville man held a middle school principal at gunpoint, sparking fear and anxiety among parents, things here seem almost back to normal.

Share + Nov 11, 2009 2:44 pm US/Eastern Reporting Jay Dow PINE PLAINS, N.Y. 1 of 2 Christopher Craft, 43, is led away by police after taking a principal at his alma mater hostage on Nov.

PINE PLAINS - Two families were displaced Thursday morning when a fire damaged their Pine Plains home.

Christine's therapist, Max , tries to get her to not give up so easily when circumstances turn difficult and attempts to teach her how to follow through with commitments.

CLASSES THIS MORNING ARE NOW BACK IN SESSION AT SCHOOLS IN THE PINE PLAINS DISTRICT; TWO DAYS AFTER A GUNMAN ENTERED THE STISSING MOUNTAIN MIDDLE SCHOOL AND TOOK PRINCIPAL BOB HESS HOSTAGE..42 YEAR OLD CHRIS CRAFT HAS BEEN CHARGED WITH KIDNAPPING AND CRIMINAL POSSESSION OF A WEAPON.

PINE PLAINS - Parents, students and teachers are breathing a collective sigh of relief after a hostage situation involving a lone gunman at Stissing Mountain Middle School ended without incident Tuesday.

Stissing Middle School in Pine Plains, New York has a hero among its student body.

Zach Pruner, 12, was in the guidance office of Stissing Middle School in Pine Plains when the gunman came in, armed with a long rifle, and demanded to talk to the principal.

PINE PLAINS Police have charged Chris Craft, 42, of Pine Plains with Kidnapping in the first degree, criminal possession of a weapon in the third degree and criminal trespass in the first degree after he took a shotgun into Stissing Middle School in Pine Plains on Tuesday morning and held the principal hostage.