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Nearly 100,000 More Visit Dutchess State Parks, Historic Sites
POUGHKEEPSIE, N.Y. -- The popularity of parks such as the Walkway Over the Hudson helped boost tourism in Dutchess County this summer, according to a report in the Poughkeepsie Journal.
The Journal reported that state parks and historic sites in Dutchess drew close to 100,000 more visitors this year than last. Most of that upsurge, it said, can be attributed to the 212,116 folks who trekked across and enjoyed the spectacular views from the historic 1.28-mile span this summer, the Journal reported. The walkway's numbers represent a 33 percent increase in attendance, the report said.
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Bells Will Ring In Celebration Of Constitution Day In New Canaan
NEW CANAAN, CONN. -- Let freedom ring! Church bells will peal at 4 p.m. Thursday in several communities in Connecticut — Bristol, New Canaan, Norwalk, Redding, Ridgefield and Stamford — in honor of Constitution Day, according to the Stephen Betts Society of Children of the American Revolution.
The U.S. Constitution was signed on Sept. 17, 1787, by 39 attendees of the Constitutional Convention. As our Founding Fathers exited the meeting room at 4 p.m., our government’s birth was celebrated with the ringing of bells throughout Philadelphia.
Betts, a Wilton native, was a Revolutionary War hero…
Mary Wyman Hunt, 92, Bronxville Education Advocate, Political Activist
BRONXVILLE, N.Y. -- Mary Wyman Hunt, a longtime resident of Bronxville, died Saturday, Sept. 5, in Chesterfield, Mo. She was 92.
Hunt was born in St. Louis to Mr. and Mrs. Edmund Allan Wyman. She was a 1941 graduate of Mary Institute, where she was senior class president, and attended Smith College in Northampton, Mass.
She returned home after two years of college because of World War II. In 1945, she married Charles Lucas Hunt Jr., and they settled in St. Louis, later living in New Canaan, Conn., and finally settling in Bronxville, where they raised their seven children.
Hunt was living i…
Southport Man Gets 21 Months In Prison For $18.6 Million Fraud
SOUTHPORT, CONN. -- A Southport man was sentenced to 21 months in federal prison and ordered to forfeit more than $950,000 for defrauding investors and lenders of millions of dollars through his New Jersey-based company G3K Displays, according to U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara.Jonathan Wheeler, 46, must also make $18.6 million in restitution, Bharara, U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced on Wednesday.
Wheeler and the two other owners and principals of G3K, a company that manufactured and designed displays for retailers around the world, Steven Kaitz, 56, of Jersey City…
Driver Going 85 MPH On Sprain Charged With DWI, Police Say
GREENBURGH, N.Y. -- A Mahopac man faces DWI and other charges after he was pulled over on the Sprain Brook Parkway in Greenburgh, New York State Police said.
Daniel Ivezaj, 45, was arrested Sunday, Sept. 6, and charged with aggravated driving while intoxicated, a misdemeanor, police said.
Police said they spotted Ivezaj doing 85 mph in a 55-mph zone. He also faces speeding charges, police said.
Ivezaj’s blood alcohol content was determined to be 0.18 percent, more than two times the legal limit of intoxication, police said.
He was ticketed and is to appear Tuesday, Sept. 15, in Greenburg…
