Editor's Note: We bring back this previously published post in case you missed it.Thanks for being a Southeast-Brewster Patch reader! Here is a short list of some of the most popular articles in 2015.<ul><li><a href="https://patch.com/new-york/southeast/crash-southeast-started-when-driver-lost-control-ramp-684-east-84" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Crash in Southeast Started when Driver Lost Control on Ramp from 684 to East 84</a></li><li><a href="https://patch.com/new-york/southeast/stabbing-bull-and-barrel-police" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Stabbing at the Bull and Barrel: Police</a></li><li><a href="https://patch.com/new-york/southeast/watchtower-bible-and-tract-society-buys-property-ebo-road-south" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Watchtower Bible and Tract Society Buys Property on Ebo Road South</a></li><li><a href="https://patch.com/new-york/southeast/route-121-closed-southeast-police-activity" target="_blank" rel="noopener">UPDATE: Armed Standoff in Southeast: Police</a></li><li><a href="https://patch.com/new-york/southeast/patterson-woman-loses-half-home-unknowingly-neighbor" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Patterson Woman Loses Half of Home Unknowingly to Neighbor</a></li><li><a href="https://patch.com/new-york/southeast/retired-carmel-cop-charged-fatal-crash" target="_blank" rel="noopener">DWI Charge for Retired Cop in Fatal Crash</a></li><li><a href="https://patch.com/new-york/southeast/nichols-road-standoff-ends-suicide" target="_blank" rel="noopener">UPDATE: Dead Man in Nichols Road Standoff ID'd</a></li><li><a href="https://patch.com/new-york/southeast/park-n-ride-sex-ends-rape-charge-brewster-man" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Park 'n Ride Sex Ends in Rape Charge for Brewster Man</a></li><li><a href="https://patch.com/new-york/southeast/church-volunteer-accused-stealing-plate-proceeds" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Church Volunteer Accused of Stealing Plate Proceeds</a></li><li><a href="https://patch.com/new-york/southeast/putnam-county-commuter-saves-life-grand-central-watch-video" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Putnam Valley Commuter Saves Life at Grand Central: Watch VIDEO</a></li><li><a href="https://patch.com/new-york/southeast/brewster-company-will-be-new-yorks-new-testmaker" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Brewster Company Will Be New York's New Testmaker</a></li></ul>

Editor’s Note: We bring back this previously published post in case you missed it.

Thanks for being a Southeast-Brewster Patch reader! Here is a short list of some of the most popular articles in 2015.<ul><li><a href="https://patch.com/new-york/southeast/crash-southeast-started-when-driver-lost-control-ramp-684-east-84" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Crash in Southeast Started when Driver Lost Control on Ramp from 684 to East 84</a></li><li><a href="https://patch.com/new-york/southeast/stabbing-bull-and-barrel-police" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Stabbing at the Bull and Barrel: Police</a></li><li><a href="https://patch.com/new-york/southeast/watchtower-bible-and-tract-society-buys-property-ebo-road-south" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Watchtower Bible and Tract Society Buys Property on Ebo Road South</a></li><li><a href="https://patch.com/new-york/southeast/route-121-closed-southeast-police-activity" target="_blank" rel="noopener">UPDATE: Armed Standoff in Southeast: Police</a></li><li><a href="https://patch.com/new-york/southeast/patterson-woman-loses-half-home-unknowingly-neighbor" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Patterson Woman Loses Half of Home Unknowingly to Neighbor</a></li><li><a href="https://patch.com/new-york/southeast/retired-carmel-cop-charged-fatal-crash" target="_blank" rel="noopener">DWI Charge for Retired Cop in Fatal Crash</a></li><li><a href="https://patch.com/new-york/southeast/nichols-road-standoff-ends-suicide" target="_blank" rel="noopener">UPDATE: Dead Man in Nichols Road Standoff ID’d</a></li><li><a href="https://patch.com/new-york/southeast/park-n-ride-sex-ends-rape-charge-brewster-man" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Park ‘n Ride Sex Ends in Rape Charge for Brewster Man</a></li><li><a href="https://patch.com/new-york/southeast/church-volunteer-accused-stealing-plate-proceeds" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Church Volunteer Accused of Stealing Plate Proceeds</a></li><li><a href="https://patch.com/new-york/southeast/putnam-county-commuter-saves-life-grand-central-watch-video" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Putnam Valley Commuter Saves Life at Grand Central: Watch VIDEO</a></li><li><a href="https://patch.com/new-york/southeast/brewster-company-will-be-new-yorks-new-testmaker" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Brewster Company Will Be New York’s New Testmaker</a></li></ul>

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Putnam County Veterans Memorial Park

Putnam County Heroes Battle the Redcoats! Celebrating America’s 250th Revolution Putnam County Veterans Park (201 Gipsy Trail Road, Carmel, NY)&nbsp;&nbsp; Military drills and demonstrations, stirring fife &amp; drum music, exciting musket firing exhibitions, medical, blacksmith, and woodworking demonstrations, as well as a bustling market of merchants offering Revolutionary War - themed goods.
Putnam County Veterans Memorial Park, Carmel, New York All information is subject to change. &nbsp; photos: ©D. Santalis Photography &amp; ©Jeff Bross&nbsp; &nbsp;

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Putnam County Heroes Battle the Redcoats! Celebrating America’s 250th Revolution Putnam County Veterans Park (201 Gipsy Trail...

Putnam County Heroes Battle the Redcoats! Celebrating America’s 250th Revolution

Tarrywile Mansion

<a href="https://www.unitejewishcenter.org" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">www.unitejewishcenter.org</a>An afternoon of Celebration and Fun including- Food, music, Israeli dance, a magician, puppet show, Touch a Truck, Middle Eastern Food, community etc.. 12-4pm&nbsp; ALL&nbsp;ARE&nbsp;WELCOME

Local Event: Jewish Festival- Opening Event Celebrating 100 Years of United Jewish Center in Danbury!

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www.unitejewishcenter.orgAn afternoon of  Celebration and Fun including- Food, music, Israeli dance, a magician, puppet show,...

Jewish Festival- Opening Event Celebrating 100 Years of United Jewish Center in Danbury!

Jay Heritage Center

Nothing says spring better than our popular Classic Design Luncheon and Lecture! We’re honored to feature Genevieve Wheeler-Brown, the author of&nbsp;<a href="https://beyondblueandwhite.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">“Beyond Blue and White.”</a>
Wheeler-Brown’s book explores the history of Delftware ceramics, focusing on the often-overlooked roles of women as makers, patrons, and collectors, from 17th-century factory owners like&nbsp;Barbara Rotteveel&nbsp;to Gilded Age collectors like&nbsp;Mrs. J. Pierpont Morgan. A must for devotees of decorative arts and the history of material culture. 
Location: The award-winning Jay Estate Gardens designed by Nelson Byrd Woltz. Co-Chairs, Tracy Edwards, Liz Garrett, Emmy Lambert, Lindsay Bello Martin and Suzanne Clary.
Guests will enjoy botanical cocktails and a tour of the blue and white blooms of our gardens at 11:30am followed by lunch and lecture at 12 Noon. Booksigning at 1:30pm. Catering provided by Scarborough Fair Catering.
Spring garden attire and hats encouraged! 
Tickets start at $150. Tables of 10 start at $1500
<a href="https://lp.constantcontactpages.com/ev/reg/a31e6d65-09b3-4ec7-8d78-139c937f6fd2" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">lp.constantcontactpages.com/ev/reg/a31e6d65-09b3-4ec7-8d78-139c937f6fd2</a>
All proceeds will benefit JHC's family and adult horticulture programs.
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GENEVIEVE WHEELER BROWN
Founding Genevieve Wheeler Decorative Art Advisory in 2003, Genevieve comes to the advisory business with more than 12 years of experience in the auction world, strong generalist knowledge and a wide range of contacts in American, European and Asian decorative and fine arts.
Genevieve began her career with Christie’s in 1992 with the European Decorative Arts Department after working as an intern at The Phillips Collection, Washington D.C. in 1990. She was then asked to run Overseas Consignments at Christie’s Park Avenue, a department that handled inquiries for European based auctions including Indian and Southeast Asian art, Islamic Art, Miniatures, Textiles and Cameras. In 1995 Genevieve became the New York contact for sales of Fabergé and Russian Silver at Christie’s Park Avenue and most recently was as a specialist in Fine Musical Instruments at Christie’s Rockefeller Center from 1998 to 2003.
While at Christie’s, she was involved with important sales such as ‘The Pine Cone Egg’ by Carl Fabergé and ‘The Taft’ Stradivari which fetched the auction record for an instrument sold in the United States. She has also been an appraiser on the PBS production ‘The Antiques Roadshow’.
A supporter of several fine and decorative art related institutions, Genevieve has served on the Board of the National Society of Colonial Dames in the State of New York, served as a member of the Young Fellows Steering Committee of the Frick Collection from 1995 to 2005 and co-Chaired the Winter Antiques Show Young Collector’s Night, New York in 2004, 2005, and 2006.
Genevieve currently advises several organizations including <a href="https://www.dumbartonhouse.org/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">Dumbarton House</a>, a Federal period house museum in Georgetown, as a board member as well as for <a href="https://www.thewintershow.org/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">The Winter Show</a> as a vice-chair of Opening Night and as co-founder of The Winter Show Luncheon.About The Jay Heritage Center
The nonprofit Jay Heritage Center (JHC) is dedicated to preserving, protecting, and revitalizing a place that has meaning for all Americans: The Jay Estate. The property is the centerpiece of the Boston Post Road Historic District, Westchester County's only National Historic Landmark District,&nbsp;an irreplaceable cultural and natural resource.&nbsp;
Through lectures, workshops, volunteer opportunities, school programs, and concerts, JHC offers timely lessons in history, environmental conservation, architecture, and social justice, while tracing the evolution of democracy in the United States. It hopes to inspire the future historians, civic advocates, and stewards of our fragile cultural and natural resources.&nbsp;
Just as the architects of our nation’s government pursued self-improvement through dialogue about our nation’s most relevant topics, JHC promotes learning through programs led by prominent experts, Pulitzer Prize-winning authors, and academics in a variety of disciplines from sustainability to legal history.
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Local Event: Classic Design Luncheon & Lecture: Beyond Blue and White with Genevieve Wheeler-Brown

Classic Design Luncheon & Lecture: Beyond Blue...

Nothing says spring better than our popular Classic Design Luncheon and Lecture! We’re honored to feature Genevieve...

Classic Design Luncheon & Lecture: Beyond Blue and White with Genevieve Wheeler-Brown

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Rendezvous With 15-Year-Old After Meeting On...

New York State Police say the sex crime involving a young girl took place at a home in Dutchess County.

Rendezvous With 15-Year-Old After Meeting On Snapchat Leads To NJ Man's Arrest On Sex Abuse Charges: NYSP

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Overturned Semi-Trailers Turned The I-84 And I...

Two trailers overturned at the ramp connecting the two busy Hudson Valley Interstate highways at NY 9W, according to NYSP.  

Overturned Semi-Trailers Turned The I-84 And I-684 Commutes Into Garbage 

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Multi-Agency Child Exploitation Sting Nabs 5...

All five were arraigned in the Town of Fishkill Court and remanded to the Dutchess County Justice and Transition Center, state police said.

Multi-Agency Child Exploitation Sting Nabs 5 Hudson Valley Men In 2 Days: NYSP

Victim In Deadly Motorcycle Collision With Dump...

Police say he was riding a Suzuki motorcycle at high speed on Route 299 when it hit the back of an unidentified, dump-style trailer.

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After he drove away from the lake, police stopped his vehicle and saw a loaded .45 caliber pistol on the driver's seat near him.

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