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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 [...]

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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, [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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Congressman John Hall, D-Dover Plains, vowed today to fight plans by President Bush to leave “hundreds of thousands of U.S. troops in Iraq for the indefinite future.”

Bush wants to put in place a “Status of Forces Agreement” before he leaves office that [...]

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Amidst talk of severe cuts in services in Putnam in 2009, the Putnam Council Coordinating Council for People with Disabilities and the county Office for People with Disabilities will hold their annual forum with federal, state and county legislators on March 29.

The forum gives [...]

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Putnam Legislator Vincent Tamagna, R-Philipstown, has proposed the formation of a Philipstown council of governments to look for ways to consolidate services and thus save money.

The council would include representatives from Philipstown, the villages of Cold Spring and Nelsonville, the Garrison and Haldane [...]