New York town and county election results

Harlem Valley voters re-elect all incumbents to County Legislature

By Kaitlin Lyle

DUTCHESS COUNTY — From the early hours of the morning until late into the night of Tuesday, Nov. 2, Harlem Valley voters practiced their civic duty when they cast their ballots for the their Dutchess County legislators in this year’s election...Read more

 

Voters send message in Amenia

By Kaitlin Lyle

Following a heated race for the Town Board, registered voters in the town of Amenia prioritized casting their ballots on Tuesday, Nov. 2....Read more

 

Cooper, Fedele elected to North East Town Board

By Kaitlin Lyle

NORTH EAST — Ready to take part in one of this country’s most important governmental processes, registered voters in the town of North East went to the NorthEast-Millerton Library Annex on Election Day on Tuesday, Nov. 2, to vote for their choice of candidates to fill the two open seats on the North East Town Board...Read more

 

A change in leadership on Pine Plains Town Board

By Kaitlin Lyle

PINE PLAINS — After listening carefully to candidates about their vision for the town’s future, Pine Plains voters were eager to get out to the polls on Tuesday, Nov. 2, to cast their ballots in this year’s election...Read more

 

Few surprises in Washington election, Millbrook more complex

By Judith O’Hara Balfe

Washington — Nov. 2, Election Day, was busy in the Town of Washington and Village of Millbrook. With many issues pending in the adjacent communities, registered voters wanted to make sure they weighed in on who would be running their municipal boards....Read more

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Donors give Stanford $2 million for ambulance; $150,000 for park

The proposed Dot and Ira Burdick Park plan with funding donated by Gayle Bontecou in memory of her late husband Jesse, features among other things a berry patch, beehives, crab apple walk, benches, walkways, a pollinator meadow, split rail fence, a pavilion for field trips and historical society exhibits, a pond with a boardwalk over it, and parking.

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STANFORD — When an ambulance arrives in the next three years to save a life in Stanford, it will be doing so largely thanks to the generosity of an anonymous donor who recently gave what Town Supervisor Wendy Burton describes as a “jaw dropping” $2 million to pick up the lion’s share of that service’s annual fee of $750,000.

When families build memories in the soon to be created Dot and Ira Burdick pocket park, named respectively after the former historian and town supervisor, their appreciation should go to Gayle Bontecou for the $150,000 donation she made in memory of her late husband Jesse — one of many they made over the years.

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Millerton Police receive $220,000 funding increase

MILLERTON — The Millerton Police Department has received $220,000 from New York’s Division of Criminal Justice Services to update infrastructure and aid in supplying officers with uniforms and firearms.

In July, Millerton’s Police Department requested an increase in funding to support the officers on duty.

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The Creators:
Sam Guindon's artistic palette

Norfolk painter Sam Guindon.

Jennifer Almquist

Painter Sam Guindon is an earnest young man who paints light with the skill of John Singer Sargent. Guindon’s attention to technique harks back to an earlier time when artists studied under a master, learned anatomy, perspective, how to make their own pigment, and closely observed the work of great artists. Guindon has studied oil painting since he was nineteen. In a recent show of his paintings in his hometown of Norfolk, Connecticut, Guindon sold 40 of the 42 paintings he exhibited.

Guindon’s sketchbooks are windows into his creative mind and a well-traveled life, packed with vignettes, ink drawings, observations and thoughts written in the margins. His subjects range from sketches done in gouache at the National Gallery, to ink drawings of vine-covered trees in Costa Rica, to the interior of an airplane drawn with the perspective of a fisheye lens, to colorful bottles of hot sauce. Currently Guindon is teaching art at the Compass Atelier in Maryland.

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