Putnam County Press and the Putnam County Times

Cornell Cooperative Extension-Putnam County hosted its annual Master Gardener Plant Sale and 4-H Family Fun Day on May 13 at Veterans’ Memorial Park in Carmel/Kent. Patrons lined up early to shop from the hundreds of plants and flowers that were for...

By Holly Crocco
The proposed operating budgets for the 2023-24 academic year were approved by voters in school districts across the county last week.
The Carmel Central School District budget passed by a vote of 1,729 to 1,627. Also approved were propositions to replace the water tank at George Fischer Middle School (2,461 votes to 881) and to replace the district-wide phone, intercom and public address...

This Memorial Day weekend, while enjoying the unofficial start of summer, remember to take some time out to honor those American heroes who made the ultimate sacrifice for our freedoms, and consider attending one of the many remembrances taking place...

Following his exoneration earlier this year, Andrew Krivak is suing the county and the state, seeking compensation for the more than two decades he spent “wrongfully imprisoned” for the killing of a 12-year-old girl in Patterson in 1994.
Krivak filed a claim March 30 seeking $100 million in compensation and $50 million in punitive damages against Putnam County and its district attorney’s office, including D.A. Robert Tendy, and the sheriff’s department, including individual sheriff’s...