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Trailblazer Marie Tarver, the first Black Poughkeepsie school board president, has died.

Former Poughkeepsie School Board President Dies

Kingston Land Trust staff, board and Land In Black Hands Steering Committee.

54 More Acres For Land In Black Hands Program

O.J. Simpson talking to reporters in 1967.

O.J. “The Juice” Simpson, an Iconic Athlete, Dead at 76

Senator James Skoufis (D-42nd District) and Chris Eachus (D-99th District) welcomed cadets and leadership from the U.S. Military Academy at West Point on Tuesday, April 9, as they visited the Capitol to commemorate the West Point Day, an annual tradition.

USMA Honored At Annual West Point Day

Eight distinguished community citizens were recognized Saturday at Poughkeepsie’s Double Tree by Hilton at the Civic Center during the 104th Lincoln- Douglass Awards Luncheon.

104th Lincoln Douglass Awards Luncheon

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The Brewers triumphed 16-9 in the first game, led by two homers and seven runs batted in from senior Jack Silvera, and completed the sweep with a 10-7 victory in game two. Photo: Carlisle Stockton

Brewers Take Down #RV/25 Ithaca Twice

The Mount Saint Mary College softball team earned a hard-fought split in their doubleheader against the Saint Joseph’s University Brooklyn Bears on Thursday afternoon. Photo: Emily Gursky

The MSMC Knights Split Doubleheader

Army Secures Doubleheader Sweep at Lafayette

Marist Men’s Lacrosse Celebrate Senior Day with Victory

200-Meter Record Crushed Under Lights

Schoenegge Shatters 5000-Meters Record

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Brewers Take Down #RV/25 Ithaca Twice

Army West Point Baseball scored a combined 26 runs in its Patriot League doubleheader Saturday afternoon.

Army Secures Doubleheader Sweep at Lafayette

SUNY NP Baseball Clinch Series Win Over Oneonta

Marist Red Foxes Baseball Splits Doubleheader

The Bash Brothers Go Yard Three Times

Bard Baseball Drops Series to New Paltz

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The #20 Vassar College Women’s Cross Country team earned its first ever Liberty League Championship on Saturday afternoon as the Brewers edged #28 St. Lawrence for the title at Seneca Lake State Park in Geneva. Photo: Carlisle Stockton

Vassar Cross Country Team Makes History

Junior Gabriel Rodriguez led the men’s cross country team with a 19th-place finish at the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference Championships on Saturday at Twin Ponds on the Farm.

Rodriguez Leads Marist at MAAC Championships

Hawks Cross Country Team Takes Runner-up

Bard Finishes 9th at the Fred Pavlich Invitational

Mount Duo Fly Out of the Gate to Start the Season

Three Knights Shine at ECAC Championship

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More than 25 players are lined up to play for Poughkeepsie, as the Pioneers hope to grow in their second season and the third overall that flag football has been a varsity competition in the New York State Public High School Athletic Association.

Varsity Flag Football Grows, Bright Season Ahead

The Marist football team fell in the 2023 season final against Bucknell, Saturday afternoon. Photo: Carlisle Stockton

Marist Red Foxes Football Falls In Season Finale

West Point Football Beats Holy Cross on Veterans Day

Marist Football Drops PFL Game to Dayton, 35-6

Army Defeats Rival Air Force; Biggest Win Since 1972

Marist Red Foxes Football Falls to Drake

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Army West Point hockey posts 4-2 non-conference victory at RV UMass-Lowell.

Army Hockey Posts Victory at RV UMass-Lowell

Army West Point Hockey collected its first victory of the season with a win over Canisius.

Army Hockey Picks Up Victory Over Canisius

New Paltz Field Hockey Earns 2-1 Double OT Win

Army Black Knights Hockey Suffers OT Defeat

Army West Point Blanks Bentley Behind Evenson Shutout

Lindenwood Sweeps Army West Point Hockey

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Bolshoi Ballet, who won his North American debut in the Grade 1 Belmont Derby more than two years ago, put away favored fellow Irish-bred Stone Age leaving the far turn and powered through the stretch to a decisive 4 1/2-length triumph in Saturday’s Grade 1, $750,000 Resorts World Casino Sword Dancer at Saratoga Race Course. Photo: Chelsea Durand

Bolshoi Ballet Danced His Way to Victory Saturday

Amidst Waves doubled up on stakes scores in Sunday’s ninth running of the $150,000 Bolton Landing.

Amidst Waves Prevails in $150K Bolton Landing

Casa Creed Doubles Up in Fourstardave Handicap

White Abarrio Surges Clear to Win G1 Whitney

Long Shot Yo Yo Candy Delivers First Spa Victory

Big Invasion Tallies Sixth Consecutive Victory Sunday

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Freshman guard Jadin Collins of the Marist men’s basketball team was named to the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference All-Championship Team. Collins averages 15.0 points, 4.0 assists, 3.0 steals and 3.0 rebounds. Photo: Carlisle Stockton

Collins Named to MAAC All-Championship Team

Hawks knock off No. 5 nationally ranked and top-seeded Oswego Lakers, 85-80 in conference finals. Photo: Oswego State

First SUNYAC Championship Secured By Hawks

Small’s Helps Secure Fourth Consecutive Win

Barnett Beats Buzzer, MSMC Knights Win

Hawks Secure No. 2 Seed in SUNYAC Tournament

Vassar Closes Season With Win Over Ithaca

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The Senators played Suffolk back on September 2nd in their second game of the season and lost 5-1.

Ulster Falls to Suffolk in the Regional Semi-Final

In the last home game of the regular season the Mount Saint Mary College Knights triumphed over St. Joseph’s University Brooklyn, 6-0. Photo: Lee Ferris

Mount Saint Mary Blue Knights Top Bears, 6-0

Army Mens Soccer Falls to American 3-0

New Paltz Hawks Fall in SUNYAC Quarterfinals 1-0

Marist Soccer Powers Past Canisius In Away Match

Army Moves Into First Place After Colgate Win

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The MSMC Knights Split Doubleheader

Sydney Waldon doubled down on the prolific pitching performance for SUNY New Paltz as she set a new single game program record in strikeouts in the 7-3 victory in game two. Photo: Monica D’Ippolito

Hawks Earn Big Doubleheader Sweep of Oswego

Marist Softball Splits Saturday Doubleheader

Red Foxes Softball Captures Series at Niagara

Hawks Collect Doubleheader Sweep of Skidmore

New Paltz Hawks Earn Doubleheader Sweep

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Rippon and Wiener post runner-up finishes as the Vassar College Women’s Swimming and Diving team closed out the 2024 Liberty League Championship in fourth-place. Photo: Carlisle Stockton

Vassar Brewers Swim to a Fourth-Place Finish

Red Foxes win conference record 13th MAAC Title in program history. Photo: Carlisle Stockton

Marist Red Foxes Capture MAAC Championship

Bard Drops Dual Meet At William Patterson

Jauregui Breaks 100-Yard Butterfly School Record

Vassar Brewers Swim Hard Against RPI

Bard Swimming Competes at St. Lawrence

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The Knights Track and Field team powered through the elements at the RPI Under The Lights Invitational Friday.

200-Meter Record Crushed Under Lights

Schoenegge shattered the school record in the 5000-meters with a time of 16:32.59 for a third place finish among Division I competition and broke the record of Aubree Piepmeier’s time of 16:41.93 in 2014. Photo: Carlisle Stockton

Schoenegge Shatters 5000-Meters Record

Vassar College School Records Fall at the CGA Invite

Army Track & Field Falls to Navy Midshipmen

Bard Track And Field Opens Outdoor Season

Army Track and Field Wraps Up Spring Break

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The #28 Vassar College Women’s Tennis team won for the sixth straight outing on Saturday following an 8-1 Liberty League victory over St. Lawrence. Photo: Carlisle Stockton

Vassar Brewers Cruise to Sixth Straight Victory

Erin McCusker rallied for a ninth straight singles win for the Brewers. Photo: Carlisle Stockton

Vassar Tennis Cruises to Fifth Straight Victory

Army Women’s Tennis Sweeps Saturday Action

Vassar Tennis Winning Streak Stopped

Army West Point Tennis Remains Hot With Victories

MSMC Knights Can’t Overcome the Panthers

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Gavin Akoto finishes with five kills and six block for the Brewers. Photo: Carlisle Stockton

Vassar Earns Seventh Straight Victory in Sweep

Maggie Goodenough from Pine Bush, N.Y. and SUNY Orange sophomore, is a volleyball standout, and was recently among 20 State University of New York (SUNY) student-athletes named Scholar Athlete of the Year in their respective sports.

Goodenough Is SUNY 2-Year VB Scholar Athlete

Vassar Sweeps Both Lancaster Bible and Messiah

MSMC Knights Celebrate Seniors With a Victory

Blue Knights Fall in Final Regular Season Matchup

Army Volleyball Drops Star Series Heartbreak

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Hawks can’t overcome a poor shooting night and fall to Yellowjackets, 65-42 in the Hawk Center. Photo: Isabel van der Veen

SUNY New Paltz Women Fall in NCAA Second Round

Despite a valiant effort, the Mount Saint Mary College Knights (18-9) fell to Baruch College (17-11) by a score of 55-49 in the semifinals of the ECAC Division III Women’s Basketball Tournament. Photo: Lee Ferris

Knights Exit ECAC Tournament in Semifinals

Knights Fall to Mount Saint Vincent in Semifinal

Mount Takes Final Win Over St. Joseph’s

Vassar Brewers Get Back On Track With Win at Ithaca

Army West Point Wins Star Matchup Over Navy

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BUSINESS

Riley Norwood of East Haven, Conn., president of Mount Saint Mary College’s Student Nurses’ Association, was hired by Yale New Haven Hospital weeks before her graduation in May 2024. Photo: Lee Ferris.

Scholar, Softball Star Snags Job at CT Hospital

NEWBURGH – It’s still weeks before she’s scheduled to receive her diploma from Mount Saint Mary College, but Nursing senior Riley Norwood of East...

Baumann Awarded Earthwatch Fellowship

By Christine Baumann NEWBURGH - Newburgh Free Academy P-TECH teacher, Christine Baumann, has been awarded an Earthwatch fellowship and will spend the beginning of her...

POLITICAL

Cadets Honored at the Capitol on West Point Day

ALBANY - Senator James Skoufis (D-42nd District) and Chris Eachus (D-99th District) welcomed cadets and leadership from the U.S. Military Academy at West Point...

Wagstaff Files 3x The Required Signatures to Run

WHITE PLAINS - Westchester County District Attorney Candidate William O. Wagstaff III has filed over 6,000 signatures to seek the Democratic nomination, more than...

ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT

MSMC students, faculty, and staff enjoyed a solar eclipse party. Photo: Lee Ferris

Celebrating the Eclipse at Mount Saint Mary

NEWBURGH – Mount Saint Mary College students, faculty, and staff enjoyed a solar eclipse party on the North Patio of the Dominican Center on...

Actor and Activist Louis Cameron Gossett Jr. Dies

By Stacy M. Brown NNPA Newswire Senior National Correspondent Louis Gossett Jr., the groundbreaking actor whose career spanned over five decades and who became the first...

HEALTH

Assemblymember Aileen Gunther visits Samaritan Daytop Village’s Ellenville Residential Treatment Program. Pictured from left to right: * Deirdre Rice-Reese (Samaritan Daytop Village, Assistant Vice President of Residential Treatment) * Quetcy Alexander-Young (Samaritan Daytop Village, Program Director at Ellenville Residential Treatment Program) * Mitchell Netburn (Samaritan Daytop Village, President & CEO) * Assemblymember Aileen Gunther (Assembly District 100) * Michelle DeMott (Samaritan Daytop Village, Vice President of External Affairs) * David Osorno (MirRam Group, Vice President) * James Hollywood (Samaritan Daytop Village, Vice President of Residential Treatment and Recovery Services)

Gunther Visits Ellenville Treatment Program

ELLENVILLE - Assemblymember Aileen Gunther visits Samaritan Daytop Village’s Ellenville Residential Treatment Program. Assemblymember Gunther engaged with Samaritan’s staff about their work to support...

Vassar Brothers Medical Center opemed its new Cardiac Catheterization and Electrophysiology Laboratory on April 15th marking a significant advancement in cardiovascular care in the Hudson Valley.

Vassar Medical Center Opens New Cardiac Cath Lab

POUGHKEEPSIE - Vassar Brothers Medical Center opened its new Cardiac Catheterization and Electrophysiology Laboratory on April 15, 2024, marking a significant advancement in cardiovascular...

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