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Police: Cairo teen charged
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TIVOLI — A Cairo teenager is being held on felony charges in connection with the shooting Tuesday of a 20-year-old Red Hook man in Dutchess County, the Dutchess County Sheriff’s Office said Thursday. The youth, whose age was given as 17, was charged with first-degree assault, first-degree robbery and second-degree criminal possession of a weapon, Lt. Shawn Castano of the Dutchess County Sheriff’s Office said. The incident took place
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We called them and the Dutchess County Sheriff’s Office drove up here and made the arrest themselves. All we did was assist them. — Peter Kusminsky Greene County Sheriff
Tuesday night at approximately 8:36 p.m., when the Dutchess County Sheriff’s Office responded to a 911 call reporting a shooting on Clay Hill Road in Tivoli, the sheriff’s office said. When deputies arrived at the scene, they found a 20-year-old man with a gunshot wound to the abdomen,
the sheriff’s office said. The man was taken by Tivoli Rescue and Northern Dutchess Paramedics to a local hospital, where he underwent surgery for serious injuries, according to the sheriff’s office. The investigation extended into Columbia County and ultimately into Greene County,
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where Dutchess County sheriff’s detectives took the suspect into custody without incident. Greene County Sheriff Peter Kusminsky said his department located a vehicle that matched a description from the Dutchess County Sheriff’s Office parked at a residence on Vedder Mountain Road
in the town of Catskill. The Dutchess County Sheriff’s Office did the rest. “We called them and the Dutchess County Sheriff’s Office drove up here and made the arrest themselves,” Kusminsky said. “All we did was assist them.” The preliminary investigation indicated that the shooting was not a random act of violence, Castano said. The teenager was arraigned before Judge Frank Mora in Poughkeepsie City Court and was sent to the Woodfield See TEEN A4
Local mom spreads message of kindness By Sarah Trafton Columbia-Greene Media
Hudson defeated the Rensselaer in Wednesday’s Patroon Conference game, 61-48. PAGE B1
COXSACKIE — Erin Murphy Welch spent years taking her young daughter to see specialists throughout the Northeast, searching for answers. During one trip to Boston’s Children’s Hospital, Welch began writing a poem about a little bird, giving the bird two parents and two brothers, just like her daughter Perri has. “I’ve been working on it for three years,” Welch said. The poem grew into a book, “Little Bluebird,” which Welch recently self-published. In the story, the little bird has one wing that is shorter
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than the other. “It’s mainly about having a child with special needs,” Welch said. “Obviously, we all want our children to be treated fairly. Having a child with special needs makes me more of a mama bear.” Welch hopes her book will inspire kindness and understanding in young readers, she said. “Maybe it can offer some guidance for young children to understand or not be afraid of people who are not like them,” she said. Perri, who is now 5, has See KINDNESS A4
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Erin Murphy Welch with her book “ Little Bluebird.”
Erin and DJ Welch with their three children, Rohan, Perri and Deagen.
Catskill to march (and party) for diversity By Sarah Trafton Columbia-Greene Media
CATSKILL — Residents of all ages will come together in the name of diversity and inclusiveness on the first Saturday of March. Organized by Catskill resident Elliot Matos, Catskill’s inaugural Diversity March will begin at 3 p.m. March 7. Marchers will gather at the county parking lot behind 411 Main Street and take Main Street to Bridge Street, with activities to follow. “I am very encouraged to by this diversity march and hope to see new residents as well as old timers participating,” Village President Vincent Seeley said. “As a growing community, our strength lies in us
embracing our differences and working together for the greater good of Catskill and Greene County.” Village Trustee Natasha Law, who helped Matos bring the march to fruition, believes it will be a good addition to the community. “It’s about celebrating everybody, no matter what your culture is or what issues you may have,” she said. “You are proud of who you are.” Matos, who works as a medical driver, interacts with people from all walks of life, he said. “As a medical driver, I am always meeting people from different disenfranchised groups, who don’t have a voice, who aren’t able to advocate See MARCH A4
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The Catskill Food Truck Festival in 2018 on Main Street. Catskill’s downtown business district has a long history of festivals of all kinds. The first Diversity March and festival will be held March 7.
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