Reporting from the Uncanny Valley

No new Dutchess County arrest releases today. Today's blotter covers a bear sighting at Haviland Middle School and a related charging update, overnight Mid-Hudson Bridge closures, Troop K's Columbus Day weekend enforcement numbers, and two Putnam County cases involving a bus monitor and a nonprofit treasurer.

Sunday, October 18, is the day. After this weekend, AccuWeather’s Tom Kines says the mid-Hudson Valley will be notably less colorful. Here is what the foliage report says town by town, and where to go before it goes.

Regional headlines this week framed the January 2027 Thruway toll increase as a pending decision. It isn't. The board voted three years ago. Here's what your next drive will cost and why.

On the morning of October 9, 2026, a Southwest Airlines flight landed at Albany International Airport carrying the remains of U.S. Army Private First Class Albert H. Marks of Kingston. Members of the New York Army National Guard Honor Guard received the flag-draped transfer case on the tarmac. Family and friends were present. The airport noted that after more than 80 years, a World War II soldier was finally coming home.

It had been 81 years, 10 months, and 2 days since Marks was killed on the German front. The record of what happened in between is a DPAA case file, and this account follows the case file.

The story is a cautionary parable. An AI agent deleted a finished TV season. Except the broadcaster denies it, no tool has been named, and nobody has published a log. The adverb in the headline is doing real work.

Grand Avenue in Poughkeepsie is getting $3.6 million in federal rehabilitation money. The scope is bigger than paving, the per-mile number is misleading, and there is still no published construction schedule.