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Officer Saves Choking Child In School Cafeteria In Hudson Valley Officer Saves Choking Child In School Cafeteria In Hudson Valley
Officer Saves Choking Child In School Cafeteria In Hudson Valley A quick-thinking School Resource Officer in Dutchess County is being credited with saving a 12-year-old student who began choking during lunch at a middle school, authorities said. The incident happened on Thursday, March 20, a little after noon, when Red Hook Police Officer David Schmitz, who was present in the school cafeteria, noticed a student in visible distress at the Linden Avenue Middle School cafeteria, the Red Hook Police Department said on Friday, March 21. Recognizing that the child was choking, Schmitz immediately jumped into action and performed the Heimlich maneuver, suc…

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by Ben Crnic
Police & Fire
Man Pulls Knife On Female Employee During Altercation At Hudson Valley Restaurant: Police Man Pulls Knife On Female Employee During Altercation At Hudson Valley Restaurant: Police
Man Pulls Knife On Female Employee During Altercation At Hudson Valley Restaurant: Police A man is facing multiple charges after allegedly threatening a restaurant employee with a knife during an altercation at a Hudson Valley business, police said. The incident happened in Dutchess County on Wednesday, Feb. 19, at around 7:45 p.m. at Cancun’s Mexican Restaurant on South Broadway in Red Hook, the Red Hook Police Department announced on Thursday, Feb. 20. According to police, witnesses said a man entered the restaurant and got into a heated verbal altercation with a female employee, which escalated when he allegedly displayed a knife and made threats against her. Both the man an…

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by Ben Crnic
Police & Fire
Vintage Plane Involved In Air Show Mid-Air Collision Crash Lands In Trees In Hudson Valley Vintage Plane Involved In Air Show Mid-Air Collision Crash Lands In Trees In Hudson Valley
Vintage Plane Involved In Air Show Mid-Air Collision Crash Lands In Trees In Hudson Valley Officials are investigating following a mid-air collision during an air show in the Hudson Valley. The incident occurred in Dutchess County around 3:30 p.m., Sunday, July 28, in the area of the Old Rhinebeck Aerodrome in Rhinebeck. According to the Red Hook Fire Company, two planes that participated in the air show at the Aerodrome were involved in the collision.  The department said one plane landed safely at the Aerodrome, and the other one crashed nearby.  Michael Fischer, secretary of the Aerodrom Board, said the plane, a Bucker Jungman from the 1930s, was piloted by David P…

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by Kathy Reakes
Police & Fire
Westchester Trio Charged With Stealing Over 100 Gallons Of Cooking Oil From Restaurant Westchester Trio Charged With Stealing Over 100 Gallons Of Cooking Oil From Restaurant
Westchester Trio Charged With Stealing Over 100 Gallons Of Cooking Oil From Restaurant Three people from Westchester were charged with stealing cooking oil from a Dutchess County restaurant.  On Wednesday, Oct. 19 at around 10:30 a.m., police in the Dutchess County town of Red Hook were alerted of a theft at the Jaeger Haus Restaurant at 5084 NY-9G, according to the Red Hook Police Department.  After responding to the scene, police learned that suspects driving a white Home Depot box van had stolen cooking oil and driven away, authorities said.  Shortly after this, officers pulled over a vehicle matching this description and found over 100 gall…

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by Ben Crnic
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Cow Crashes Into Car On Busy Hudson Valley Roadway Cow Crashes Into Car On Busy Hudson Valley Roadway
Cow Crashes Into Car On Busy Hudson Valley Roadway An area driver received a minor injury after striking a cow that was in the roadway in the Hudson Valley. The incident took place around 8:30 p.m., Thursday, Oct. 28 in Red Hook in Dutchess County. According to the Red Hook Police Department,  officers were dispatched for a car versus cow auto accident on North Broadway. Upon arrival, officers determined that a 2005 Dodge driven by a 64-year-old female from Livingston was headed northbound when a cow entered the busy roadway.  The vehicle struck the cow head-on causing extensive damage to the vehicle as well as a minor wrist inj…

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by Kathy Reakes
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'Inexperienced' Teen Driver Crashes Into Parked Cars, Building At Bard College 'Inexperienced' Teen Driver Crashes Into Parked Cars, Building At Bard College
'Inexperienced' Teen Driver Crashes Into Parked Cars, Building At Bard College A teen who hit two parked cars and then slammed into a building at Bard College was an "inexperienced" driver, police said. The incident took place 11 p.m. Tuesday when the Red Hook Police Department responded to a 911 call reporting a ca into a building on Robbins Road at the college in Annandale-on-Hudson, Red Hook Police said. Upon arrival, police found that the  19-year-old Georgia man had driven through a parking lot, striking two parked unoccupied vehicles then reversed the vehicle which went through an unoccupied building.  Driver inexperience was deemed the primary factor…

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by Kathy Reakes