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Early voting begins Oct. 24
Christian Murray
Oct 13, 2026
Voters across Dutchess County and throughout the state can begin casting ballots Saturday, Oct. 24, when New York opens a week of in-person early voting ahead of the Nov. 3 election.
Early voting runs daily through Sunday, Nov. 1, including both weekends. Hours are 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., except Monday, Oct. 26, and Wednesday, Oct. 28, when locations will be open from noon to 8 p.m.
Regional contests include the 41st State Senate District race between Democrat incumbent Michelle Hinchey and Republican Patrick Sheehan. In the 105th State Assembly district, which includes Amenia, Republican incumbent Anil Beephan is facing a challenge from Democrat Brooklyn Talarico. In the 106th District to the northwest, which includes North East, Pine Plains, Washington and Stanford, Democratic incumbent Didi Barrett is facing off againt Republican Gregory Campus for the seat.
In the 18th Congressional District, Democratic incumbent Pat Ryan faces Republican challenger Jackie Mary Auringer.
Voters will also choose a governor and lieutenant governor, with incumbent Democrats Kathy Hochul and Adrienne Adams facing Republicans Bruce Blakeman and Todd Hood, and fill two other statewide offices: comptroller and attorney general.
Residents must vote at one of seven early voting location, which may differ from their usual Election Day polling place. The Dutchess County Board of Elections lists the following locations for the county:
— The Pavilion at Brookmeade, 34 Brookemeade Park, Rhinebeck
— Fishkill Town Hall, 807 Route 52, Fishkill
— Boardman Road Library, 141 Boardman Road, Poughkeepsie
— Cornell Cooperative Extension, 2715 Route 44, Millbrook
— Mid-Hudson Library Auditorium, 105 Market Street, Poughkeepsie
— Board of Elections Training Center, 4280 Albany Post Road, Hyde Park
— Wappinger Town Hall, 20 Middlebush Road, Wappingers Falls
The registration deadline is Saturday, Oct. 24. The Dutchess County Board of Elections must receive new applications for voter registration on or before that day. Change of address requests must be received on or before Monday, Oct. 19.
Election Day polls will be open Tuesday, Nov. 3, from 6 a.m. to 8 p.m. Voters can check their registration and find additional information at elections.dutchessny.gov
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Small trout, big lasagna and bad movies
Patrick L. Sullivan
Oct 13, 2026
I recently convened the fall meeting of CACA, which stands for Cinema, Angling and Culinary Appreciation.
This takes place in Phoenicia, New York. We fish all day, make a bountiful dinner, and watch the world’s worst movies.
CACA was founded about 25 years ago, back when we had to worry about the elderly VCR eating the tape of “Death Race 2000.”
Attending this year were Steve DeSimone, who I met in the sixth grade, and my itinerant attorney Tom Gallucio.
Steve is gainfully employed and could only manage a few days. Tom wanders the nation with a small camper, so he was underfoot the entire week.
When the cool weather begins, he knows it’s time to head south. So this was his last hurrah in the Northeast this year.
The culinary appreciation began when Tom made a 15 pound lasagna. We weighed it to be sure. It lasted all week.
On the cinema front, the big discovery was John Boorman’s 1974 ode to weirdness, “Zardoz.”
Whatever you do, do not Google the words “Zardoz” and “Sean Connery” and then select “images.”
If you do you will see something that cannot be unseen. And because this is a family newspaper, that’s all I have to say on the subject.
The angling was so-so. The Esopus was suffering from turbidity, so we concentrated on tributaries, which ran clear.
What we were hoping for was brown trout ready to put on the nosebag.
What we found were small wild rainbows.
I caught my fish on Leadwing Coachmen wet flies and small, heavy Bread and Butter and Surveyor nymphs.
Here in Connecticut, the stocking trucks have been rolling and a trip to the Blackberry, Housatonic or Farmington will probably be rewarding.
And fly-fishers can come to the Autumn at the Town Farm event in Falls Village on Saturday, Oct. 17 (1 p.m. to 4 p.m. at the Recreation Center on Route 63) to watch Greer Sallick tie flies and yours truly attempt to teach people to cast.
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Committees, Leo Club, housing, Arnoff
Millerton News
Oct 13, 2026
The following excerpts from The Millerton News were compiled by Kathleen Spahn and Rhiannon Leo-Jameson of the North East-Millerton Library.
October 17, 1935
Committees Announced By Auxiliary
Committee appointments for the year were announced at the regular meeting of the Millerton American Legion Auxiliary last Wednesday night. They were: Membership, Mrs. Bessie Mathews; rehabilitation, Mrs. Marie Loan; welfare, Mrs. Agnes Diegnan: Americanism, Mrs. Florence Wood; national defense, Mrs. Josephine Best; Fidac (note from library: Fidac is Fédération Interalliée Des Anciens Combattants, English: The Interallied Federation of War Veterans Organisations) , Mrs. W. E. Parks; legislation, Mrs. Jessie Sprague.
October 21, 1976
Lions Form Club For North East Teenagers
The Millerton Lions Club is forming a “Leo Club” for boys and girls ages 12 to 20 who live in the Town of North East.
At the first meeting on Wednesday, Oct. 13, the following were elected Leo officers: Keith Bradley, president; Bruce Valentine, vice-president; Laura Shoifet, secretary; and Bob Cuddeback, treasurer. The 13 teenagers attending designated the first and third Mondays of the month as meeting nights. The time will be 7 p.m.
Millerton Lions Kevin Smith and Edwin McGhee will serve as the club’s advisors.
October 18, 2001
NE/Village Officials Mull Housing Project
MILLERTON — The North East Housing Committee and the Rural Preservation Company of Dutchess County have been approached by one of the leading not-for-profit builders in the northeastern portion of the United States about a possible project in Millerton.
Village of Millerton officials along with their counterparts from the town of North East are excited but cautious about the potential housing project, which would require a significant amount of federal and state aid to be constructed.
Community Builders, a not-for-profit developer which is constructing a similar project in Kent, is considering a project for the Millerton area.
The project was made public at a meeting of the North East Housing committee Monday.
The meeting was designed to continue work on a housing survey which will soon be circulated to the community.
Town and village officials said they are excited because Community Builders has been able to gain federal and state approval for many other projects, attracting the financing necessary to make the projects become a reality.
“They have an outstanding track record, particularly when it comes to applying for grants,” said Pat Sassaman, the executive director of Rural Preservation Co. of Dutchess County (RPCDC), who is also a member of the housing committee.
Community Developers is considering a 24-unit housing project for Millerton, which if constructed, would be the largest public housing project in the history of the town.
The construction firm would ideally like a three acre tract of land to build such a project. However, a representative told the committee they could construct on as little as two acres of land
Town of NorthEast Supervisor Dave Sherman called the potential of such a project “very exciting.” But he said, “It will require a great deal more thought and much more work before we move forward.”
Arnoff Looks To Millerton
MILLERTON - The village of Millerton Board heard a proposal from a moving company for a possible new site in the village last night. Arnoff Moving and Storage based in Poughkeepsie shared its plans in a meeting with the Village Board.
Arnoff is considering a three-acre site on Route 22 near the red light in the village. The location is the site of the former Village Auto and prior to that it served as the site for Stateline Chevrolet, before that car dealer went bankrupt several times in the mid-1990s.
Peter Levy, a representative of Arnoff, briefed the board on his company’s plan for the site in Millerton. Arnoff operates a storage and moving facility in Lakeville, 4 miles east of the village.
In other business last night, the Village Board was to consider a temporary curfew of 9 p.m. for Halloween night.
“This was the last meeting before Halloween so we needed to have the curfew in place,” Mayor Mariley Najdek said.
The meeting took place after our press time.
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Let's hear it — October 15, 2026
Millerton News
Oct 13, 2026
This Week
Cold Spring Early Learning Center in Stanford is set to close, with nearly 150 pre-K through first-grade students moving to Seymour Smith Intermediate Learning Center in Pine Plains for the 2027–2028 school year.
What are your thoughts on the closure of Cold Spring Early Learning Center? How do you think it will affect students, families and the community?
Send your responses to social@lakevillejournal.com by Monday, Oct. 19 at 10 a.m. or comment on Facebook or Instagram.
We’ll publish a selection in next week’s paper.
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Letters to the editor — Thursday, October 15, 2026
Millerton News
Oct 13, 2026
Roush will bring collaborative leadership
I write in support of Trevor Roush for Pine Plains Supervisor.Trevor, a busy farmer and businessman, wants to make our Town government work more effectively and democratically.His campaign literature points out that our Town Board should work as a team, and that he wants “to bring collaborative leadership to Town Hall, improve communication, and make sure every voice in our community is heard.”
Trevor’s push to improve communication and increase collaboration among Town Board members reflects the shocking lack of communication and collaboration that resulted in Brian Walsh, our current Supervisor, agreeing to a provisional arrangement (and planned expanded contract) with Flock Safety to install cameras in various places in our town.Brian Walsh’s high-handed and dishonest conduct in the Flock affair is now well-known by Pine Plains residents; it resulted in numerous calls for Walsh’s resignation – calls he did not heed.Forcing Walsh out of office would have been a time-consuming process, dragging Town government down even further than his behavior had brought it.Walsh nevertheless seems to think that he deserves to be re-elected.
As Trevor’s campaign material suggests, the Flock affair was the result of Walsh’s refusal to work collaboratively or even to communicate with the rest of the Board.Walsh’s lack of commitment to doing his job conscientiously is also reflected in his failure to attend any, or almost any, County-wide meetings of Supervisors.To make this failure worse, Walsh neglects to inform the other Board members of these meetings, so that no other Board member can attend in his place; our Town goes unrepresented.On many occasions, Walsh even fails to respond to other Board members’ emails seeking information.
I think it is clear that we need a new Town Supervisor --someone who will take seriously his responsibilities to work cooperatively with other Board members and to communicate with Pine Plains residents.Trevor has stated his intention to, if elected, not only increase communication and transparency, but also to “[h]old regular office hours and monthly workshop meetings . . . [and to] bring people together for community projects . . . “Trevor also plans, if elected, to create a town map highlighting local businesses, and to use vacant town property for a temporary community park.
In short, Trevor Roush has enthusiasm for doing the job and doing it with integrity and commitment to improving life for Pine Plains residents.Let’s do ourselves a favor and elect him Pine Plains Town Supervisor.
Amy Rothstein
Pine Plains
Affordable housing crisis needs a fighter
We face many issues in upstate New York, but one of the most significant is the lack of affordable housing. The housing crunch creates a whole range of problems for residents as well as for the health of the local economy.
Young people are leaving the area for other parts of the U.S because they can’t afford to rent or buy a house here. That is leading to a major brain drain of talented and often highly educated residents.
An entire generation is missing out on building home ownership equity – a key source of savings for all income groups.
Local companies and other employers are having trouble luring prospective employees to work here, which makes it tougher for them to stay in business much less expand.
That’s why I was heartened to learn that our congressman, Rep. Josh Riley, is a strong advocate of rural and affordable housing. He helped pass the 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act in July, a bi-partisan law that promotes home construction by lowering costs, cutting red tape in housing programs, protecting housing in rural communities and restricting large institutional investors from buying up affordable single-family homes. The law also requires major federal agencies to coordinate environmental reviews regarding housing construction, increases housing density in government Opportunity Zones, and expands a rental- assistance program.
And more, Congressman Riley sponsored the Veterans Housing Promise Act, which remains pending.
While this isn’t going to end the housing crisis, it shows that Riley is fighting what to ease the crisis.
That is why I plan to vote to re-elect him on November 3.
Ellen G. Levy
Co-Chair
Hillsdale Housing Committee
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