Our 2009 Recipient:

Susan D. Blodgett

Ms. Blodgett was honored by the Dutchess County Youth Bureau as its Teacher of the Year award before her retirement from John Jay High School in 2001. At John Jay, she ran the in school suspension program for 23 years. Her retirement has allowed her the time to become more involved in the community.

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Our next meeting, on Wednesday, Aug. 12 (this week) is our caucus.

Here is a more formal notice:

Wednesday, the 12th day of August, 2009 at 7 pm

The East Fishkill Public Libray
380 Route 376 (next to town hall)
Hopewell Junction, NY 12533

for the purpose of selecting and nominating various candidates to be voted on at the General Election to be held on NOVEMBER 3, 2009, and for the transaction of such other business as may properly come before the meeting.

Please attend!
Our regular meeting will immediately follow the caucus.

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SAVE THE DATE:    
THURSDAY, APRIL 16TH
The a special meeting of the Dutchess County Democratic Committee’s full membership will be held in the James Earl Jones Theater at Poughkeepsie Day School on Thursday, April 16.  Barbara Jeter-Jackson will get official meeting notices and proxies out to all members, either by email or U.S. mail shortly.  Agenda is below.   

To:               Democratic Committee Members
From:          Jane Barber Smith, Chair
Subject:     Special Meeting to vote on VoteBuilder on Thursday, April 16

There will be a meeting of the full Dutchess County Democratic Committee at Poughkeepsie Day School, 260 Boardman Road, Poughkeepsie 12603,  on Thursday, April 16. Sign in starts at 6:30 p.m.   Meeting starts at 7 p.m.

This is a special meeting as requested by full committee vote at the last meeting held i on February 10th.  Edgar Santana, Deputy Executive Director of the NYS Democratic Committee, will be on hand to give us a full demonstration of VoteBuilder, the web-based program that has been under discussion for most of the past year.  We will need to vote at this meeting on whether or not the Committee will expend funds to contract for this service to use in our 2009 coordinated campaign. We will also vote on a By-Laws revision regarding filling of vacancies at endorsement meetings.

We look forward to seeing as many as possible

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The East Fishkill Democratic Committee will hold a meet-and-greet meeting on Wednesday, April 15, 2009, from 6-8 p.m. at Gian Bruno’s, 2593 Route 52 (Taconic Plaza) in Hopewell Junction.

The event is open to all East Fishkill Democrats. The committee will provide free pizza and soda. Continue Reading »

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