BREWSTER – The Putnam Community Action (CAP) Food Pantry is facing unprecedented demands amid rising costs, shrinking federal assistance and widespread hardship for working families, seniors and single parents.

State Senator Peter Harckham visited the pantry on Main Street in Brewster Wednesday where he met with CAP Director Marisa O’Leary to learn firsthand of the hardships facing scores of Hudson Valley residents.

Following the tour Harckham described food pantries as “vital community lifelines when public-assistance programs fall short, are delayed or non-existent. With inflation climbing, energy bills soaring and the benefits of the SNAP interrupted, de-funded and under long-term threat, food pantries have become the front line of defense for thousands of working people who can’t mak

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