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Rhinebeck Resident, 'Walking Dead' Actor, Has A Sweet Side
RHINEBECK, N.Y. -- Zombies overrun candy store.
Now there’s a Halloween headline you’re unlikely to see, unless (insert scary music here) it’s talking about Samuel’s Sweet Shop in Rhinebeck, an old-fashioned purveyor of sugary treats that’s co-owned by actors Jeffery Dean Morgan and Paul Rudd.
Morgan, who once broke hearts as a doomed patient on “Grey’s Anatomy” is more recently known for breaking zombie heads as a bad-but-good guy on the monster hit TV series, “The Walking Dead.”
His “Dead” character, Negan, wields his barbed-wire-wrapped baseball bat, “Lucille,” with gruesome gusto, but …
Longtime New Rochelle Coach, Athletic Director Paul E. Ryan, 86
NEW ROCHELLE, N.Y. -- Paul E. “Coach” Ryan, a former physical education teacher, athletic director and administrator for the New Rochelle school district, died Friday, Oct. 21, in Sarasota, Fla. He was 86.
Ryan began working in New Rochelle in 1954 and retired in 1991 after a long and distinguished career coaching local basketball, football and golf teams.
He was New York state's “Coach of the Year” for golf in 1959, for basketball in 1965 and for football in 1977.
Ryan was inducted into the New Rochelle Sports Hall of Fame in 1997.
Devoted to the Boys and Girls Clubs of New Rochelle, he …
Dutchess County Exec's 2017 Budget Lowers Taxes, Preserves Services
POUGHKEEPSIE, N.Y. – Dutchess County Executive Marc Molinaro this week released a proposed 2017 spending plan he says will cut taxes but not programs or services.
Unveiled Thursday, Molinaro’s budget calls for a reduction in the tax rate to $3.58 from $3.60 per $1,000 of true value assessments.
According to Molinaro’s spokespeople, this reduction is reflected in an approximately $170,000 difference between the 2016 modified tax levy of $105,644,908 and the proposed levy for 2017 of $105,470,935.
This is the third consecutive year that the county has been able to reduce the levy, Molinaro s…
