Salt Point News

The public accounting firm of Vanacore, DeBenedictus, DiGiovanni, & Weddell has promoted Jennifer Dugas to senior accountant status.

ANL Lighting Ltd. of Salt Point has awarded a contract to the Mid-Hudson Workshop for the Disabled, of Poughkeepsie, to provide various services toward the manufacture of ANL's new Green Lighting Project.

SALT POINT -At the intersection of Route 82 and County Route 13 sits a stately mansion that in the early 19th century was the center of a thriving industrial site.

PLEASANT VALLEY - Some say the town center hamlet should extend a quarter-mile east of the mill site to allow more business development along Main Street.

Red Hook Rotary Club President Jonah Triebwasser has been named an assistant governor of Rotary District 7210 in the Hudson Valley for 2009-10. Triebwasser will act as liaison between Dutchess County clubs and the Rotary District.

A Hyde Park man faces a jail term and five years on probation for driving while he was drunk in the Town of LaGrange in March.

Northern Dutchess Hospital in Rhinebeck announced Renate Friedrichsen of Salt Point was recently honored as its employee of the year.

Catherine Colao, of Salt Point, a nurse on the behavioral rehabilitation unit at Phelps Memorial Hospital Center in Sleepy Hollow, is the winner of the 2009 "Excellence in Caring Award," a nursing award given out annually by the hospital for excellence in patient care.

State Attorney General Andrew M. Cuomo announced Friday his office had reached settlements with six New York-based home heating oil companies that do business in the Hudson Valley for improper practices involving consumers.

PLEASANT VALLEY - The skeleton on the motorcycle, with skull in flames, was terrifying.

Things were a bit more festive than usual at Alterniverse today. The Salt Point shop owner Anthony Just welcomed customers to Free Comic Book Day, a national, annual event that celebrates an American literary tradition that dates to the 1840s.

Route 44 at Townsend Boulevard in the Town of Poughkeepsie was closed for several hours Wednesday after a two-car accident.

A small group of people from different segments of Lansing met Tuesday to see what can be done to get the North Log Cabin erected at the entrance to Salt Point.

You may be familiar with Irish singer Ronan Tynan through his many appearances at Yankee Stadium, singing 'God Bless America' during the seventh-inning stretch.

Two years ago the oldest log cabin in Tompkins and Cayuga Counties was dismantled and brought home to Lansing after spending 50 years in Auburn.

Hey there my name is Angus. I am a male neutered black cat. I am 7 years old and am an awesome feline.

Behind many construction businesses, there's a man, a truck and a toolbelt. Not Joseph Kirchhoff's company.

The Dutchess County Young Republican Club is sponsoring essay-writing contests for high school and college students.

'Slumdog Millionaire' might have been the big winner at the Oscars on Sunday night, but Brenda Williams of Salt Point was the winner of the Poughkeepsie Journal's annual You-Pick-the-Winners contest.

Aiden Gallagher wants to help. When she was in fifth grade, the resident of Salt Point was stricken with lupus, a chronic disease in which her body's immune system attacks its own cells and tissues.