U.S. Rep. John Hall, D-Dover Plains, plans to spend Monday morning helping to install a geothermal system at a new environmentally sustainable housing development in Cold Spring.

Contractors from Altren Renewable Energy are doing the heavy lifting at Glassbury Court along Route 9 in Cold Spring. The geothermal systems use the ground’s relatively constant temperature to [...]

Kieran Michael Lalor, the Republican candidate for Congress challenging Democrat John Hall in New York’s 19th Congressional District, today announced the backing of the NYPD’s Sergeants Benevolent Association which has 11,000 active and retired members.

In December 2007 Lalor was endorsed by the National NYCPD 10-13, the organization that represents all retired New York City Police [...]

U.S. Rep. John Hall, D-Dover Plains, said once again a Republican presidential candidate is ripping off his song for use in their campaign.

Last week John McCain’s campaign started using “Still the One” without asking permission of the writers and performers who own the copyright, Hall said.

“We objected just as we did when George W. Bush [...]

More new voters are registering as Democrats in Putnam County than with any other party, according to Board of Election figures from Jan, 1 to May 20, 2008.

“Clearly the Putnam Democrats’ efforts at registering new voters is working and our message of open government and lower taxes is resonating,” said Democratic County Chairwoman Lynne Eckardt.

The [...]

Republicans from Putnam, Dutchess, Orange, Rockland and Westchester counties will caucus tomorrow night to pick a candidate to challenge Democrat John Hall for the 19th Congressional district seat he won in 2006.

The expected contenders are Iraq war veteran Kieran Lalor of Peekskill, Westchester County Legislator George Oros, and Ossining resident and former Congressman Joseph DioGuardi.

The [...]

Putnam County Legislator Terry Intrary, R-Kent, who has decided not to run for reelection, received the county Republican Committee’s highest award at this year’s Silver Plate banquet at Sciortino’s Restaurant in Brewster this weekend.

In Kent, the Republican Town Committee has endorsed Kent historian Richard Othmer, a retired New York City firefighter and a masonry contractor, [...]

Putnam County legislators want residents, caregivers, doctors and others to tell them how the lack of health care coverage or inadequate insurance affect them and the community.

To find out, they plan two public hearings.

The first is Saturday from 10 a.m. to noon at the Bureau of Emergency Services on the Donald B. Smith campus, [...]

U.S. Rep. John Hall, D-Dover Plains, was at a Mobil gas station in Yorktown Heights today to talk about how he would lower the price of gas at the pump by 24 cents a gallon.

Hall and 93 other Congress members have urged President Bush to stop buying oil to fill the Strategic Petroleum Reserve for [...]

Every three months, from the start of the war in Iraq, Greg Mitchell, editor of the news industry trade magazine Editor & Publisher, would write a column asking when a major newspaper was going to call for a pullout.

It never happened, until last year, said Mitchel, who speaks tomorrow at the Nyack public library. His [...]

Carmel Councilman Carmine DiBattista won the endorsement of the Carmel Republican Committee in his bid for the Putnam County Legislature seat held by Robert McGuigan, R-Mahopac.

McGuigan, a legislator since 1997, has announced he will not seek reelection.

“Just as I worked as part of the group on the Town Board to resolve long standing issues, I [...]