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Vol. 1, # 23 | June 11, 2007

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While scientists continue to research the phenomena known as Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD), a term used to describe the abrupt disappearance or death of worker bees in a hive, beekeepers and farmers in the Hudson Valley are hoping the problem doesn’t worsen.

 

 

 
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Hyde Park is home to several of the most significant and heavily visited tourism sites in the Hudson Valley: the Franklin D. Roosevelt house, Eleanor Roosevelt’s Val-Kill and the Vanderbilt Mansion, all of which hold National Historic designations, the Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum, the Culinary Institute of America (CIA) and the Staatsburgh State Historic Site, or the Mills Mansion as it’s called.

 

 

 

Northern Dutchess Hospital, located in Rhinebeck, is less than five miles away from Benedictine and Kingston hospitals. But it receives approximately 25 percent more in federal reimbursements for Medicare.

 

 

 

In 2004, Panattoni Development Co. was a blip on the realty radar screen. Now, its emergence in Orange County as a key developer has won the company the county’s admiration and it is now officially in Orange County Partnership’s “winner’s circle.”

 

 

 

Chris Bette has been in the construction business since he was old enough to wield a shovel in a sandbox. With his brothers Kevin, Mark, Matt and Pete, the Bettes’ company, First Columbia, took a long-term lease on the former U.S. Army base that is now Stewart International Airport.

 

 

 

A unique Orange County estate will now add to its history by becoming a haven for the suffering.

 

 

 

Roll over Beethoven. Toe tapping and high-fives ruled at the Dutchess County Economic Development Corp.’s “Radio EDC” celebration May 31 at the Poughkeepsie Grand. Tell Tchaikovsky the news.

 

 

 

Two months after the Great Depression began, it is doubtful Alan Gerry’s parents were contemplating their newborn son would one day become one of Sullivan County’s richest men and the builder of what he predicts will be the Hudson Valley’s version of Saratoga’s or Tanglewood’s performing arts centers.

 

 

 

Five commonly owned and operated construction companies in Westchester and the Hudson Valley have agreed to pay 55 employees more than $126,000 in back wages and interest to resolve a lawsuit filed by the U.S. Department of Labor for allegedly violating the federal Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA).

 

 

 

Orange County Partnership President Maureen Halahan took time out at the partnership’s 2007 annual “most valuable partner” breakfast on June 5 to talk about another of the region’s most valuable partners: Montgomery’s James Taylor Jr.

 

 

 

Michael Gesmundo didn’t start out thinking about banking or running a golf course. He was an avid musician in his hometown of Connecticut, studying at the Julius Hartt Conservatory of Music in Hartford. Then he got a letter from Uncle Sam ­ the kind most men in the 1960s dreaded receiving: a draft notice.

 
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