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Beacon’s Backyard, which has been providing free meals three times a week since January 2025 at The Yard, said it will ...

The Beacon City Council is expected at its Monday (Sept. 21) meeting to name Tweeps Phillips Woods as deputy city ...

Arts Mid-Hudson will present its annual Dutchess County Executive’s Arts Awards on Oct. 7 at the Roundhouse in Beacon.

After four years of discussion, community pushback and a federal lawsuit, the Dutchess County Legislature on Sept. 14 ...

The Dutchess County Legislature on Sept. 14 confirmed the appointment of Jennifer Cocozza as commissioner of planning and development. Cocozza has been the deputy commissioner since 2014. She succeeds ...

The Dutchess County Board of Elections on Sept. 16 recommended that voters use drop boxes at voting sites for absentee or mail ballots instead of relying on the U.S. Postal Service.

Dutchess County will hold an event on Oct. 17 in Poughkeepsie to collect household hazardous waste for disposal and electronics for recycling. The collection will take place from 8 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.

Under a new state plan, an estimated 2.5 million more households statewide could be eligible for monthly utility bill ...

The other board members are Christine Bockelmann, Yaslyn Daniels (vice chair), Will Felder, David Goldberg, Kyle Good, Nick Groombridge (treasurer), Mel Laytner (secretary) and Jia Jia Ye of ...

Michael Turton has been a reporter with The Current since its founding, after working in the same capacity at the Putnam County News & Recorder. Turton spent 20 years as community relations supervisor ...