WALDEN – The Village of Walden Board unanimously voted on Tuesday night to fire Village Manager John Revella, sources have confirmed to Mid-Hudson News. Revella had been on paid administrative leave since early last month. He made approximately $120,000 annually. The Village of Walden hopes to find Revella’s replacement as soon as possible, and interviews […]
POUGHKEEPSIE – Tom Case, 54, a retired LAPD cop and owner of Bilmar Nursery/Christmas Tree Farm in Pleasant Valley, has begun testifying in his own defense in his murder trial. Case is accused of killing his girlfriend’s son, Anthony Cuozzo, a 20-year-old autistic man, during a domestic violence incident on Rawls Road on October 5, […]
ALBANY – The State Assembly and Senate introduced bills on Tuesday to pass a law that would restore the County’s additional sales tax revenue to its municipalities. Last week, it was revealed that the county had improperly overdistributed sales tax revenue to its 42 cities, towns and villages. The county has been sharing 3.75 percent […]
NEWBURGH – The Newburgh City Council went Monday night convened an executive session to discuss the January 1 death of Marcus Burks, who died while in police custody. The Burks family attorney, Michael Sussman, released the Orange County Coroner’s autopsy report, which said Burks had been held down, with restricted breathing and while being tased. […]
PLEASANT VALLEY – The Dutchess County Comptroller’s Office has completed a special report on the purchase and operation of Camp Nooteeming, a 270 acre property owned by the Boy Scouts of America since 1926 and purchased by Dutchess County in April 2022. The county paid $4.2 million plus $600,000 appropriated for upgrades and ADA compliance. […]
KINGSTON – The Kingston Common Council adopted a resolution Tuesday that changes the city’s ethics code to include the municipal business liaison as an employee who must file an annual disclosure form. In February, Mayor Steve Noble appointed Stew Meyers as the City of Kingston’s first business liaison. In that role, he will build and […]
COXSACKIE – A National Guardsman was assaulted by a prisoner at the Coxsackie State Correctional Facility on Tuesday morning when the inmate tossed a cup of unknown liquid on the pants and boot of the guardsman, prison officials told Mid-Hudson News. A spokesman for the State Department of Corrections and Community Supervision said the guardsman […]
ALBANY – The state Labor Department released New York’s March unemployment statistics on Tuesday and Putnam tied with Rockland County reporting 3.3 percent rates of unemployment. Overall, Hudson Valley counties scored well when it comes to low unemployment rates. Dutchess and Westchester recorded rates of 3.6 percent followed by Orange and Ulster counties experiencing rates […]
POUGHKEEPSIE – Ron Hicks, who for years was assistant Dutchess County executive, has been named director of economic development with utility company Central Hudson to, as the company said, help ensure the company’s infrastructure is fully leveraged to support business attraction, expansion, and job creation. Hicks, with 25 years of experience in economic development and […]
CITY OF POUGHKEEPSIE – Public works Commissioner Chris Gent outlined a proposal Tuesday to enforce a 25 mph speed limit citywide to the Common Council. Commissioner Gent’s plan calls for hundreds of new speed limit signs across the city, seasonal speed humps in school zones, and three speed cameras across different school zones, with the […]
