Gap Hiring At Local Fulfillment Center, Bringing 1,400 Jobs To Hudson Valley
Gap is looking to hire 1,400 "flex" employees, who can choose which hours during the week and weekends that they'd prefer to work, at its Dutchess County packaging and assembly center in Fishkill for the holiday season.
Flex employees can work hours during the day, at night and on weekends; they are also permitted to pick up extra hours.
The starting rate for full-time, part-time and seasonal employees, said the company, went up by one dollar on Monday, Oct. 18.
Applications take no more than three minutes and can be filled out virtually at jobs.gapinc.com/seasonal.
Isaias Power Outages: Latest Updates For Dutchess, Ulster, Sullivan Counties
Thousands of New Yorkers are still without power in the wake of Tropical Storm Isaiah, though the overwhelming majority of residents in Dutchess, Ulster, and Sullivan counties have largely had electricity restored.
Central Hudson was reporting 15 active outages as of Monday, Aug. 10, which were impacting 154 Dutchess customers, and 11 customers in Ulster County. Sullivan County was reporting complete restoration.
NYSEG had 13 customers without power in Dutchess, and one in Sullivan County, while Orange & Rockland Utilities had 39 of its 9,087 customers reporting outages in Sullivan Coun…
Tropical Storm Isaias: Thousands Lose Power In Putnam
Tens of thousands of Putnam, Dutchess, and Ulster residents have lost power as Tropical Storm Isaias rocked the region with extreme wind gusts that toppled trees, felled utility poles and downed power lines throughout the area.
Putnam County was hardest hit, with 33,464 of NYSEG’s 38,693 customers reporting outages, with Carmel (11,654), Southeast (5,966), Putnam Valley (4,894), and Patterson (4,460) seeing the most outages.
Central Hudson was responding to 606 total outages that were impacting 63,821 of their customers as of 3:45 p.m. on Tuesday, Aug. 4.
In Dutchess, 30,067 customers wer…