Blooming Grove News

A barbecue will be held from 7-10 p.m. tonight at the Captain's Table, Route 17M, Monroe, to help William Lee, 22, and his brother, Michael, 19, keep their Mountain Lodge Park home in Blooming Grove after the death of their mother, Linnea Lee.

Police are looking for the whereabouts of a highly dangerous registered sex offender, recently evicted from his residence in Blooming Grove.

For years, the Orange County Water Authority has labored in semi-obscurity, putting out dense water-supply studies, teaching kids how to conserve water and offering maps and services that never generated controversy.

Three Oneonta-area women face felony drug charges after cocaine, crack and heroin were allegedly found in their vehicle in Orange County last week.

BLOOMING GROVE The former Mayer Landfill off Prospect Road in Blooming Grove has been remediated by the state Department of Environmental Conservation through its Superfund Program.

James Johnson of Blooming Grove, N.Y., poses in a 1777 ensign 5th New York Regiment uniform at a Revolutionary War grave site in Fishkill, N.Y., last month.

BLOOMING GROVE A traffic stop on the Quickway turned into a major heroin bust, Four Oneonta residents were arrested after police discovered a substantial quantity of heroin and cocaine in the vehicle, Monday afternoon.

Town police arrested a man Monday who is suspected in at least nine burglaries, a home invasion and a drive-by pellet-gun shooting.

Once a warehouse for some of New York City's most unwanted homeless men, Camp La Guardia could become a model community in which affordable apartments, senior housing and single-family homes are situated around two community centers with offices, shops and educational buildings.

Mountco will be unveiling its site plan Wednesday night for the development of an 807-unit community on the property that formerly housed the 1,000-bed homeless shelter known as Camp La Guardia.

Police arrested a 20-year-old town resident for beating a man unconscious during a bar brawl over the weekend.

Jun 23, 2009 5:41 pm US/Eastern 1 of 1 Best friends and cousins Melissa Martucci and Marina Petersen were killed in a car accident in Orange County On June 20, 2009.

A group of Satmar Hasidic investors are trying to renovate the crumbling buildings at a former summer resort, possibly with an eye to starting a religious community there.

Two 20-year-old women died and another motorist is in critical condition after two cars collided early Saturday morning, state police said.

Board members, employees and supporters of the Pike County Public Library will conduct petition drives beginning Aug.

BLAUVELT South Orangetown School Superintendent Dr. Kenneth Mitchell has already been before the Rockland County grand jury, which is investigating the case earlier this week in which a man walked into a school armed with a gun and took him hostage in his office.

Firefighters quickly extinguished a small house fire on Woodland Circle South in the Mountain Lodge Park community.

Superintendent Ken Mitchell was back on the job at the South Orangetown School District today, one day after disarming a gun-wielding parent who had barged into his office.

Authorities in Rockland County say a school district superintendent wrestled an armed man to the ground in a middle school and took the gun away.

Orange County Court Judge Robert Freehill on Tuesday sentenced Christopher L. Mendez of Blooming Grove to three years in state prison and 10 years' probation for raping a 17-year-old girl last year.