Red Hook News

A talk about Red Hook's former chocolate industry will be held at 2 p.m. Feb. 12 at the Elmendorf Inn in Red Hook.

Dear Annie: I am 90 years old and am concerned that after I die my kids will squabble over my... I received my 2012 property tax bill and, once again, the highest line item on the bill is for the... Stocks had their worst day of the year Friday after Greece hit a roadblock on its way to a critical... Credit union announces 2 additions, promotion - ... (more)

At a recent meeting of the Hyde Park Rotary Club, Owen Brewster was installed as a new member by club President Ann Reilly and Pompey Delafield.

Artist Shura Chernozatonskaya's giant vertical paintings on the Brooklyn Museum's third floor tease humanity from the iconography of street signs.

Children use sandplay figurines to create scenes like this one at the office of Jennifer Axinn-Weiss. / Darryl Bautista/Poughkeepsie Journal Jennifer Axinn-Weiss has a wide variety of figurines for children to use in sandplay therapy.

What pairs well with your couch, a bowl of popcorn and the Super Bowl? How about a wine with a... Two Dutchess County men face felony grand larceny charges after Hyde Park police arrested them following investigation of theft of road grates.

Many Dutchess County voters would see changes in who represents them in Albany under a proposal for new state legislative districts.

Spike Lee has never suffered from a lack of ambition and the most remarkable thing about his latest film, Red Hook Summer , is how it finds so many ways to be absolutely terrible.A Every seed of a good idea is smothered under the weight of incompetent directing, horrible pacing, rancid dialogue, and atrocious performances from its lead child ... (more)

Three people are due to appear before a judge in connection with an investigation into sales of prescription narcotics and marijuana in the Village of Red Hook, police report.

A new crab shack is going up in Red Hook, Brooklyn, right next to that unequaled monument to the human spirit, Ralph's Place .

Cynthia Moyer, a parishioner and a conservator at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, paints the ceiling at the Church of St.

The city Department of Environmental Protection has finished construction of two inflatable dams in Brooklyn, one of which is located at Gold and Plymouth streets in Red Hook and is remotely monitored by Red Hook Wastewater Treatment Plant.

Richard Merritt, 90, a resident of the RiverWoods Retirement Community of Exeter, N.H., since 1998, died January 8, 2012, after a short illness.

A haunting snapshot of the Atlantic Docks, circa 1870-80s photo by George Bradford Brainerd Quite a few notes on the podcast this week! There were a lot of little details I found interesting that didn't make the cut: Before the Water Taxi : One of the more enlightening tales left on the cutting-room floor was that of the Hamilton Avenue Ferry , the ... (more)

Alphonse Capone was born in Brooklyn on Jan. 17, 1899, the first American-born child of parents who had immigrated to the U.S. from Naples, Italy, in 1893.

In recent years, food trucks have taken over the streets of New York City. But for the casual observer, it can be difficult to distinguish between the good , the bad , and the ugly when it comes to street food.

Autopsies are under way for the three men who died early Saturday morning in a car crash on Route 9G just north of West Kerley Corners Road, according to police.

State Police say three men died in a car crash early Saturday morning, just south of the Columbia County line.