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Sep 01, 2026
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Notice of Formation of GREEN VILLAGE CONTRACTORS LLC Articles of Organization filed with the NYS Department of State (SSNY) on 05/15/2026. Office location: Dutchess County. SSNY has been designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail a copy of any process to: Tomas Tun Ico 766 Old Route 22 Amenia, NY 12501 Purpose: Any lawful purpose.
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Notice of Formation of Polonia Hudson Valley, LLC (the "LLC"). Articles of Organization filed with the Secretary of State of New York ("SSNY") on July 27, 2026. Office location: Dutchess County. SSNY has been designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail a copy of any process served against the LLC to: 4 Marshall Rd, Unit 143, Wappingers Falls, NY 12590. Purpose: Any lawful activity.
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NOTICE OF FORMATION OF LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY True Kettle Corn, LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with the Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 6/30/2026. Office location: Dutchess County. SSNY has been designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 14 Wright Boulevard, Hopewell Junction, NY 12533. Purpose: Any lawful purpose.
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Notice of formation of West Ridge Farm LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 8/04/2025. Office location: Suffolk County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process may be served. SSNY shall mail process to The LLC, PO Box 5061 East Hampton, NY 11937. Purpose: real property management.
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The Union Cemetery Association will hold its annual meeting on Sept. 18, 2026, at St. Thomas Church, 40 Leedsville Rd., Amenia, NY from 10:30am to noon. Call Gail with any questions at 845-454-6641.
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NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING
TOWN BOARD OF THE TOWN OF NORTH EAST
PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that the Town Board of the Town of North East will conduct a public hearing on September 10 at 7:15pm at the Town of North East Town Hall in Millerton, New York on the adoption of proposed Local Law No. 3 of the Year 2026, which is entitled: "Override the Tax Levy Limit for Fiscal Year 2027 Pursuant to General Municipal Law 3-c". If this Local Law is enacted, the Town Board of the Town of North East, County of Dutchess, will be authorized to adopt a budget for fiscal year 2027 that requires a real property tax levy in excess of the limit specified in General Municipal Law 3-c. Any person desiring to be heard on said Local Law will be provided with an opportunity to do so at said public hearing. By Order of the Town Board dated August 13, 2026.
ELIZABETH STRAUSS
Town Clerk for the Town of North East
09-03-26
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Classifieds - September 1, 2026
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Sep 01, 2026
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Friends, neighbors remember NECC co-founder Sam Busselle
John Coston
Sep 01, 2026
Friends and colleagues of the late Sam Busselle gathered at his home on Sunday, Aug. 30, to give and hear testimony about his lifelong mission to make Millerton and northern Dutchess County a better place.
Photo by John Coston
MILLERTON — Sam Busselle’s half century of life and work in the Millerton community was celebrated on Sunday, Aug. 30, by friends, family members and colleagues who gathered to remember him as someone with boundless imagination and a relentless push to make the community a better place.
Busselle, who died on July 31 at the age of 86, was a Millerton resident for 50 years and cofounded with Wendy Curtis what became the North East Community Center, a nonprofit that addresses social service needs in the local community and northern Dutchess County.
“Because of him, Dutchess County’s a better place,” said Jenny Hansell, whom Busselle hired in 2001 to run NECC. “We had no staff. No programs. Busselle wanted programs for teenagers, the elderly, for transportation. My basic approach was to say ‘yes’ to everything,” she said.
“He always had another idea,” Hansell said, adding that his legacy — the NECC itself — will last beyond him.
Rebecca Busselle, Sam’s wife, said the sadness of his death is overcome by the knowledge of all the friends Sam had. “The love he spread around is coming back,” she said.
Busselle’s eldest son, Wynne Morriss, who described with some humor how his father taught him how to hitchhike, said “most importantly he told me to think about other people first.”
The gathering at Busselle’s home in North East also drew local and county politicians and civic leaders who recognized Busselle’s indomitable spirit and drive to address community problems, notably the need for affordable housing. In past years, Busselle served as a volunteer on the North East Town Board and on the Planning Board.
Former Pine Plains Town Supervisor Darrah Cloud recalled how he stopped into her office almost daily to urge her to take action on housing. “I realize now that you have to be a pain in the butt to get anything done,” she said, getting affirmative chuckles from the gathering, which was all too familiar with Busselle’s general refusal to take “no” for an answer.
Cloud pointed out that Busselle helped start the Tri-Town Coalition for affordable housing.
Chris Kennan, North East Supervisor, remarked that when he first took office Busselle demanded a meeting “to tell me what we needed to do.”
But family stories about how Busselle spent time with his children and grandchildren along with how he persisted in community improvement — including a three-year stint in the Peace Corps with Rebecca and the children in West Africa — created a broad-stroke portrait of family man with a developed public mission.
“He was game for whatever was going on,” said Don Cosentino, a UCLA professor emeritus who recalled Busselle from early Peace Corps days. “Always ready to jump in.”
Cosentino summed it up: “Architect, carpenter, devoted husband, fond father, community organizer, tireless reformer, country gentleman and city slicker. A man indeed of many ways.”
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Public forum on Flock cameras set for September
Graham Corrigan
Sep 01, 2026
Dutchess County’s top law enforcement officials will hold a public forum on their use of surveillance technology manufactured by Flock Safety on Wednesday, Sept. 23, at 5 p.m. at the Pleasant Valley Town Hall.
The forum, hosted by County Legislator Eric Alexander, will include District Attorney Anthony Parisi and Dutchess County Sheriff Kirk Imperati.
The announcement comes amid a controversial year of expansion for automated license plate readers across the county. Flock cameras have spread through small towns, gathering vehicle movement data to aid law enforcement investigations.
In a statement, Alexander said the event will give residents an opportunity to “ask questions and express concerns” about the AI-equipped cameras, while allowing the sheriff and DA to explain how the technology is deployed.
County Legislature Chair Yvette Valdés-Smith said the forum grew out of repeated constituent concerns, while Parisi said his office and the Sheriff’s Office are prepared to “answer difficult questions” and correct misinformation, even as he defended the county’s right to use lawful tools to solve crimes. Imperati added the county has taken steps to ensure the cameras are used within legal guidelines while remaining accountable to the public.
Parisi pointed to ARTCIC, the office’s online portal for Flock activity. ARTCIC highlights arrests made with the help of the Flock system, and lists the publicly available camera locations. Parisi has described it as one of the first efforts to unify multiple agencies under one crime-analysis platform.
Flock’s cameras and software are used by law-enforcement agencies across the country. It is just one company in an industry of automatic license plate readers, but Flock’s rapid growth has drawn criticism from privacy advocates. Concerns over data sharing with outside agencies—including federal immigration authorities—have prompted municipalities from Los Angeles to Windsor, Connecticut, to terminate their Flock contracts.
Earlier this year in the town of Pine Plains, a police sergeant signed an $80,000 contract with Flock without the Town Board’s knowledge or approval. The discovery came after residents spotted survey stakes marking planned camera locations around town. The sergeant has since retired, and the town ultimately canceled the agreement with Flock.
But some property owners have entered into independent agreements with the Sheriff’s department to host the cameras, leading to the presence of at least one Flock camera in every county municipality.
In August, Dutchess County Chief Deputy Steve Reverri appeared before the Amenia Town Board to discuss the utility of these cameras, and assuage concerns that the data was being misused.
September’s forum will be the county’s most direct attempt yet to address that unease head-on. Alexander frames the event as part of an ongoing effort at transparency, and Valdés-Smith said she expects a “candid and robust conversation.”
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Upcoming ‘Affordability Fair’ in Amenia highlights cost-cutting options
Graham Corrigan
Sep 01, 2026
AMENIA — In the midst of the ongoing affordability crisis, Amenia’s upcoming town meeting on Thursday, Sept. 17, will double as an affordability fair.
Organized by local politicians and businesses, the fair will bring residents and local businesses together to highlight discounts already available in the community.
“These are existing programs that have not found their way to Amenia in a fulsome way,” said County Legislator Eric Alexander. “It’s my job to make sure that my constituents are aware of and have easy access to these programs.”
From 5 p.m. to 7 p.m., residents can learn about property tax relief, free services for seniors, low cost veterinary services, prescription drug savings, grocery discounts, utility bill discounts, and more. Attendees are encouraged to bring their utility bills to the fair.
Alexander has organized the fair alongside State Sen. Michelle Hinchey, Assemblyman Anil Beephan, and Dutchess County Legislature Chair Yvette Valdés Smith. Participating organizations and businesses include Freshtown, Cornell Cooperative Extension, the Dutchess County Office of Veterans Affairs, and Hudson Valley Animal Rescue.
Representatives and elected officials will be on-site to answer questions and assist with applications.
The fair aims to address what Alexander sees as a lack of awareness in Amenia. On a per-capita basis, Pleasant Valley residents are five times more likely than Amenia residents to request free home-delivered meals, case management, and health insurance counseling.
Closing that gap has become more urgent as household budgets tighten.
Alexander also notes that the high prices aren’t just driven by local factors. The conflict in Iran, insurance spikes, and tariffs have driven up the cost of many household items. Wages and Social Security have not kept pace — and Alexander says relief from high prices is still a ways off.
“The purpose of this event is to help people start saving money now,” he said, “and be prepared for what lies ahead.”
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Student films bring hidden history to the big screen
Patrick L. Sullivan
Sep 01, 2026
Rhonan Mokriski, left, and Lionel Maltby discussed the student’s film at The Moviehouse Thursday, Aug. 27.
Photo by Patrick L. Sullivan
MILLERTON – Five student films on little-known aspects of history were shown at The Moviehouse in Millerton Thursday, Aug. 27.
Rhonan Mokriski, a history teacher at Salisbury School, introduced the films, which were from the 2026 Troutbeck Symposium, held at the Troutbeck hotel complex in Amenia.
“Hamilton in Salisbury” by Rocco Famularo, a student at Salisbury School, used primary sources and some detective work to establish that Alexander Hamilton did in fact have a connection to Salisbury.
Drawing on a survey by Samuel Moore, Famularo noted that what is now Route 44 was known for years as Hamilton Street.
And working backwards from an item in The Lakeville Journal in 1941, Famularo was able to find evidence of a 1793 real estate transaction in Salisbury involving Hamilton.
Ty Moynahan, another Salisbury School student, looked at the Northeast Lime Company of North Canaan, which produced magnesium.
Magnesium was needed as part of the Manhattan Project, which produced the first atomic bombs, subsequently used on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan during World War II. Moynahan interviewed Christian Allyn of North Canaan, who said that the Northeast Lime Company was known for the purity of the product and the plant’s ability to produce the volume necessary.
There was a personal connection for the filmmaker. He interviewed his grandfather Steve Moynahan, who told the story of his father, John F. Moynahan, who worked on the project.
“My name was actually on the bomb” that was detonated over Hiroshima on Aug. 6, 1945.
“It was supposed to be the bomb that ended the war,” said Steve Moynahan. “My father wrote ‘No white crosses for Stevie’ on it.”
Produced by a team at Housatonic Valley Regional High School, “MLK in Connecticut” looks at the summer a 15-year-old Martin Luther King Jr. spent at a tobacco farm in Connecticut.
The story relates how King, traveling by train in the summer of 1944, had to ride in a segregated car until Washington, D.C., where the travelers switched to a train with integrated seating.
He was headed to the Cullman Brothers tobacco farm in Simsbury. The farm produced broadleaf tobacco for cigar wrappers.
One interviewee, Lerone Martin of the Martin Luther King Jr. Research and Education Institute, said King’s future career was foreshadowed at the farm, when he was asked to lead Bible study.
The Black students working at the farm were invited to worship by a church in Simsbury, and King was asked to join the choir.
The MLK film was produced by Jordan Almeida, Sophia Camphouse, Ivy Zheng, and Sophia Fitzpatrick.
Another film was “Hotchkiss and Hampton,” made by students in Hotchkiss teacher Amanda Robiolo’s history classes, who examined the connection between The Hotchkiss School in Lakeville and what was then known as the Hampton Agricultural and Industrial Institute in Hampton, Virginia. (It is now Hampton University.)
In 1903 Hotchkiss students were making direct financial donations to Hampton and the relationship deepened over the years. The students practiced “microhistory,” making use of census records, city directories, and military records.
The final film, “Juanita Jackson: The Power of Youth” by Lionel Maltby of Salisbury School, focused on the remarkable career of Juanita Jackson Mitchell, who was the first African-American woman to practice law in Maryland and was active in the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) starting in the mid-1930s.
After the films, Mokriski opened the discussion by noting that the 2026 Troutbeck Symposium was the sixth year of the event, which brings high school students together to work on neglected areas of history and to tell those stories.
“We’ve found so many good ones,” he said. “You just got a taste of it.”
Mokriski said that in addition to acting as historians, the students are also filmmakers, responsible for all the technical aspects of a successful film.
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