ALBANY – Putnam County had the lowest unemployment rate in the Mid-Hudson Valley in January at 5.0 percent and the second lowest in the state.

Recovered gun NEWBURGH – A pot party in a Newburgh basement apartment led to the arrest of a 16-year-old youth for possession of a loaded

CHESTER – Isomedix, which provides medical sterilization services, wants to build a second facility in the Town of Chester and is seeking Orange County Industrial

TOWN OF POUGHKEEPSIE – A 37-year-old Poughkeepsie man has been remanded to the Dutchess County Jail without bail following his arrest on a felony charge