Cornwall News

Melinda Walk needs her Canadian customers back - so much so that she's willing to give them full value for their currency at her convenience store-gas station just over the U.S.-Canadian border, even at a loss of 12 cents on the dollar.

Fireworks at dusk at Crane Park. Rain date July 5. Rhinebeck - Two nights of fireworks Friday and Saturday at Dutchess County Fairgrounds.

Orange County Executive Edward A. Diana and the Orange County Legislature announced the awarding of $45,000 in grants to county municipalities and organizations for events and projects celebrating the 2009 Hudson-Fulton-Champlain Quadricentennial.

Don't believe it the next time someone tells you voluteerism is dead. A new program, Town of Newburgh Friends of Seniors, has just launched.

Akwesasne leaders want the courts to decide if two Canadian officials illegally closed the Seaway International Bridge.

Metro-North Railroad wants to sell you a cheaper train ticket. Commuters who regularly buy a monthly ticket can shave 2 percent off the price if they enroll in Metro-North's Mail&Ride program at www.mta.info. "It's the most efficient way to buy and sell tickets," said Marjorie Anders, a spokeswoman for the railroad.

Nearly half of the school districts in the mid-Hudson lost ground last year in the battle to graduate as many students as possible.

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

An Eagle Scout Court of Honor was held last Sunday at the Bethlehem Presbyterian Church in Cornwall to honor Cornwall Boy Scout Troop 118's newest Eagle Scouts, Hugh Patrick Eisele, Benjamin V. Fasano III, Andrew Melucci, Denis J. O'Keeffe III, Eric Paul Reimer and Matthew Sweet.

The second in a series of studies that seek to raise the bar in transportation and land-use planning in Orange County is out of the gate.

The Optimist Club of New Windsor/Cornwall honored senior school monitor Dave Maldonado of Heritage Junior High School May 19 during its second annual Law Enforcement Recognition Awards Dinner.

Boats are ferrying essential goods to St. Regis Mohawks on Cornwall Island while the Seaway International Bridge remains closed a fourth day.

Most traffic is blocked at the Seaway International Bridge for a third day as the issue of armed customs agents continues to divide St.

State police say two teenagers were throwing rocks at cars on Friday from the Taylor Road overpass of the New York State Thruway and at least one car was struck.

Eileen Barnes of Cornwall has been chosen as the May employee of the month at The Reis Group.

Roots Television has a great online video taken from old movies of Memorial Day in 1920.

Officer Michael Lewis Jr. pulled his patrol car to the side of the road about 2:30 a.m. Tuesday and radioed Sgt.

The Girls 2 Ladies Club at Heritage Junior High School recently took an educational tour of the Orange County Family Court in Goshen.

The first Public Information Meeting of the Newburgh Area Transportation & Land Use Study is scheduled for Wednesday, May 27.

City police have identified the man killed Monday night in a motorcycle crash. Kyle O. Lau, 18, of New Windsor was riding a motorcycle about 10:35 p.m. on West Street when he struck a disabled trailer that was left in the road.