Falling Unemployment Rates Top Week's News In Dutchess

DUTCHESS COUNTY, N.Y. -- Here's a look at the week's top stories around Dutchess County.

04/03/2016 5:30 a.m.

New York state officials on Tuesday released preliminary numbers that showed falling unemployment rates in the Hudson Valley for February.
Memorials poured in for slain Poughkeepsie student Caval Haylett Jr., including one that called for an end to gun violence.
East Fishkill police officers helped save an area man from an apparent heroin overdose.
Local authorities made a total of 32 arrests in Dutchess County between March 17 and March 20 during a St. Patrick's Day crackdown .
Spackenkill graduate Dennis Codrington is featured in a fitness video for Equinox in Manhattan.
Dutchess County and the rest of the Hudson Valley were featured in the New York Times for its part in providing water to New York City.

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