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Blotter: Saturday, October 17, 2026
No new Dutchess County arrest releases today. State Police arrested a Poughkeepsie woman on fraud charges after an East Fishkill investigation, and a grand jury indicted a Napanoch man in a 2025 fatal crash in Wawarsing, Ulster County.
The Pause That Isn't: New York's Data Center Moratorium and the Holes Big Enough to Build Through
New York's executive order pausing large data center permits has real gaps: a 50-megawatt floor, no coverage of local permits, and exemptions for projects already in the pipeline. A reporting tour of East Fishkill, Massena, Orangetown and Chateaugay finds the developers the state was aiming at have gone quiet, not gone away.
What a Data Center Freeze Actually Does: Inside East Fishkill’s Three-Year Moratorium
A moratorium is not a ban. Inside East Fishkill's three-year pause on large data centers, and the gigawatt-scale proposal that prompted it.