BEACON, N.Y.  -- The Beacon Historical Society is honoring a longtime mayor and a business that has helped preserve the history of the city.The inaugural "Beacons of History" awards will be held on Thursday, Nov. 9, at the Fishkill Creek at the Roundhouse at 2 East Main St. in Beacon. Clara Lou Gould, who was mayor for 17 years is being honored. Gould is the longest serving ...

DUTCHESS COUNTY, N.Y -- A series of events will be held throughout Dutchess County on Monday to commemorate the 16th anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks.LaGrange will be hosting a memorial service at Stringham Park at 78 Stringham Road at 8:30 a.m.East Fishkill will be hosting a memorial at East Fishkill Town Hall at 330 Route 376 in East Fishkill at 6:30 p.m.Hyde Park is hosting a ...

WAPPINGERS FALLS, N.Y. -- Jack Fedigan has been an institution in Wappingers Falls for 50 years.Fedigan was honored by the Exchange Club of Southern Dutchess for his dedicated service to helping others with its Meritorious Service Award on Tuesday. The event also raised more than $1,000 to support the victims of the fire in the Wappingers Falls and $900 to support Autism Society Hudson ...

WAPPINGERS FALLS, N.Y. -- New Hackensack Fire Chief Anthony Marquez was recently honored for saving another man's life.Marquez was presented with the 2017 Hometown Hero Award by The Exchange Club on March 16 in recognition of his rescue of a man from a burning building last summer.On  July 11, Marquez was the first to arrive at an apartment fire on Diddell Road in Wappinger. Police ...

WAPPINGERS FALLS, N.Y. – Wappingers Falls resident Dani Masterson is on a mission.Masterson, who believes that no military veteran should have to have “canned” music at his or her funeral, has played “Taps” on her bugle at thousands of events over the past 30 years.So far, she has provided that dignified final salute at ceremonies in 23 states, has six more on her schedule, and hopes to ...

BEACON, N.Y. -- A fundraiser on Saturday paid homage to Beacon's hat past.The city is second only to Danbury, Conn., in its relevance as a hat making capital in the region, said Mary Colbert, vice president of the Beacon Historical Society.The society's fundraiser this past weekend featured the auctioning of 40 hats local artists created, to pay homage to the history."Hats ...

BEACON, N.Y. -- James Kent’s grave marker in a Beacon cemetery was cracked in four places and so covered with soil that it couldn’t be seen, say local historians.Kent, an American jurist and legal scholar, was born in 1763 in Fredericksburgh (then in Dutchess County, but now part of Putnam County).When Kent’s modest gravestone in St. Luke’s Cemetery off Wolcott Avenue first toppled over ...

DUTCHESS COUNTY, N.Y. -- A service club whose primary goal is to prevent child abuse recently honord Dutchess County Court Judge Peter M. Forman.The Exchange Club of Southern Dutchess presented Forman with the "2016 Book of Golden Deeds" award recognizing his "decades of behind-the-scenes service to his neighbors in Dutchess County.A past club president and member of the ...

FISHKILL, N.Y. -- Fishkill Rural Cemetery dedicated a new historic marker and conducted ceremonies to mark its 150th anniversary Saturday.Wreaths were placed on the graves of the primary founder, James Van Steenbergh, and Dr. Lewis H. White, the board of trustees’ first president.The wreath-laying was followed by the dedication of a new historic marker denoting the cemetery’s century ...