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RHINEBECK, N.Y.  – Six-year resident Aaren McKen has been appointed to fill the vacancy created when Josh Pulver stepped down from the board in November. McKen, 41, was sworn in Monday during a Town Board meeting that turned out to have two topics – draft noise ordinance revision and a proposed 256-unit housing development – […]

POUGHKEEPSIE, N.Y. — Incumbent Dutchess County Legislator Brennan Kearney defeated Clinton Town Board member Dean Michael in a race for the Dutchess County Legislature’s District 11 seat. The vote was 2,574 to 1,629. Kearney, a Rhinebeck resident, is a Democrat who won a third two-year term on the county Legislature. A former Rhinebeck Town Board […]

KINGSTON, N.Y. — Incumbent Dutchess County Legislator Brennan Kearney and Clinton Town Board member Dean Michael will face off in the race for the Dutchess County Legislature’s District 11 seat. Kearney, a Rhinebeck resident, is a Democrat who is running for a third two-year term on the county Legislature. A former Rhinebeck Town Board member, […]

3:53 The Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. March for Social and Economic Justice in Poughkeepsie began in 1996 and became an annual activist event until a few years ago. This year, during COVID-19, it was held virtually, and hosted by one of the original organizers — former Dutchess County Legislator Joel Tyner. Tyner resigned in Janaury 2019 amid sexual harassment allegations and then moved across the country. Yet Zoom brought together some of the usual participants. That’s folk singer...