Poughkeepsie

WAMC’s Southern Adirondack Bureau Chief Lucas Willard spoke with Marc Nelson as he prepares to transition to acting mayor of the City of Poughkeepsie.

President Biden visited an IBM facility in Poughkeepsie Thursday to tout the CHIPS and Science Act he signed earlier this year. The Democrat’s visit comes weeks before the key November midterms.

Poughkeepsie Mayor Rob Rolison is outlining his vision for the year as his second and final four-year term slowly winds down. Rolison, a Republican, is scheduled to deliver an in-person State of the City address for the first time since 2019 on Thursday, with a focus on youth initiatives, infrastructure, and pandemic recovery.

Abolitionist Frederick Douglass delivered a speech about U.S. politics to an audience of several thousand at Poughkeepsie’s College Hill Park in August of…

“Mexodus” is a new musical work by Brian Quijada and Nygel D. Robinson inspired by the estimated 4,000-10,000 enslaved people in the Southern part of the…

Back in mid-January, an arsonist set fire to a well-known house in Poughkeepsie’s so-called “Witchcraft District.” It’s an area where some Church of Satan…

The Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. March for Social and Economic Justice in Poughkeepsie began in 1996 and became an annual activist event until a…

The Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center at Vassar College in Poughkeepsie, New York was founded in 1864 as the Vassar College Art Gallery. Vassar was the first…

Seven Department of Public Works employees in Poughkeepsie have tested positive for COVID-19.City of Poughkeepsie Mayor Rob Rolison said on Thursday that…

In New York, the Poughkeepsie Common Council will hold a special meeting and town hall Monday night on police reform and racial justice.The City of…