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🌱 Prison sentence handed down in fatal Hyde Park drugged-driving crash

Hyde Park, New York Patch AM: a 4 min read

Good morning Hyde Park! Your connection to what's happening around town is here. Take a sip of coffee and read on. ☕️️

In today's newsletter:

  • Prison sentence handed down in fatal Hyde Park drugged-driving crash
  • FDR's United Nations sketch finds a place in presidential history book

Also on today's calendar: Amazon Prime Comedy Star Candice Guardino Brings Hit "Italian Bred" to Poughkeepsie December 6!** and 10 more events.

Today's riddle: What are the two sides of a circle? 🤔 (Answer below!)

Weather forecast:

  • Wednesday: A sun-and-cloud mix, with a high of 59 and low of 43 degrees.
  • Thursday: Cooler with rain, temps: high: 51, low: 40.
  • Friday: Rain, with a high of 42 and low of 33 degrees.

📰 News we're reading

• Kingston man sentenced in fatal drugged-driving crash (dailyfreeman.com) — A Kingston man received maximum prison sentences Tuesday for a drugged-driving crash that killed Hyde Park resident Alijah Johnson, 28. Richard C. Rider had pleaded guilty to vehicular manslaughter and impaired driving after authorities said his pickup crossed into oncoming traffic on Albany Post Road in December 2025.
   

• What BlackBerries and Horseshoes Reveal About Our Presidents (dailygazette.com) — A 1943 sketch preserved at Roosevelt's presidential library in Hyde Park offers a glimpse of his vision for what became the United Nations. Photographer Peter Adams found it while exploring 15 presidential libraries for a forthcoming book about the objects that reveal presidents' decisions and daily lives.
   

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  • 4 Rescued From Early-Morning Fire Blaze At Poughkeepsie Apartment Building (newsbreak.com)
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  • Upstate NY bagel shop to appear on ‘Shark Tank' (syracuse.com)

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-- The Patch AM Team

P.S. The answer to today's riddle: "What are the two sides of a circle?" — The inside and the outside ! (Thank you James M. for sending it in!)
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