Wappingers Falls News

WAPPINGERS FALLS - The Oak Grove Grange is hosting its annual free Thanksgiving dinner for senior citizens of Southern Dutchess County on Nov.

"Twelve Angry Men" by Reginald Rose was a successful 1957 film courtroom drama starring Henry Fonda and directed by Sidney Lumet that became a Broadway hit play in 2004.

The Wappingers Falls Rotary Club hosted the Students of the Month from three local schools at a recent meeting of the club.

WAPPINGER Two men are under arrest in Wappinger following a series of events that began with a fight outside a bar in the City of Newburgh.

Wondering how your great, great grandparents on your mother's side first met each other? Or when your father's great Aunt Sonja moved to Italy? How about why your Armenian ancestors made their way from Syria to the United States more than a century ago? Well, then, create a family tree.

WAPPINGERS FALLS - People who require wheelchair ramp access to their homes will face fewer requirements if proposed legislation is enacted in the Town of Wappinger.

If you are looking for candidates who will best represent you and your families, who are concerned about our constitutional rights, and who have a true respect for life, please look seriously at Row D before you pull the lever on Tuesday.

Halloween in the Hudson Valley wears many hats: It is quaint, cute, devious, scary and beautiful.

Poughkeepsie Day School senior Erin Gadis, of Wappingers Falls, is a semifinalist in the the 2010 National Merit Scholarship Competition.

WAPPINGERS FALLS - The Colonial Harvest Festival set for this afternoon has been postponed by rain and will now be held Sunday.

WAPPINGERS FALLS - Calling the 2010 tentative budget a 'Trojan horse,' a Wappinger councilman said a $1.1 million deficit is being ignored.

While the Village of Wappingers Falls remains a thoroughfare for countless vehicles traveling along Route 9D to nearby malls and Interstate 84, the community boasts a historically rich past, prominently featured in its downtown district.

John McCarthy is to start his duties as assistant superintendent of the Putnam-Northern Westchester Board of Cooperative Educational Services on Nov.

Matthew Colbert, a student at Myers Corners Elementary School in Wappingers Falls, carries his new kitten, Slinky, around the house wherever he goes.

WAPPINGERS FALLS - A Poughkeepsie man is charged with disorderly conduct after he allegedly threw a cup of soda at a McDonald's drive-through employee.

WAPPINGERS FALLS - Ancient infrastructure along Delavergne Avenue is being replaced, and residents and businesses will benefit from a new road and sidewalks.

Accounting firm adds junior auditor - Nicole Earl of Wappingers Falls joined the business and accounting firm of Vanacore, DeBenedictus, DiGovanni & Weddell as a junior auditor.

'Wired to Care' tells the story of how organizations of all kinds prosper when they tap into a power each of us already has: empathy, the ability to reach outside of ourselves and connect with other people.

With the economy in scary shape, you may not have the money to hit up each of the Hudson Valley's haunted attractions.

WAPPINGERS FALLS - Maryann Zimmerman brought her two daughters - Abigail, 10, and Emma, 7 - to meet James Parla, the new Wappingers Central School District superintendent, Wednesday.