Goshen News

What could be more American than this? People scarfing down hot dogs, politicians making their pitches, craftsmen selling their handiwork, veterans proudly wearing their service hats.

Goshen - The annual Great American Weekend celebration will relocate to the Orange County Government Center parking lot and the former Erie Street jail site after organizers discovered its traditional location at the village square was partially submerged in rainwater.

ALBANY State Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli's office has conducted audits on the Goshen Central School District and Greenburgh Eleven Union Free School district and Tuesday released the findings.

Faced with dwindling prospects for either a new library building or selling the land acquired to construct it, Goshen Public Library officials are now considering a third option: Leasing a newly built commercial space downtown.

Headlines all over the country tell the story: Summer school programs are being dropped or scaled back this year, and the economy is to blame.

Charles E. Carnes, James R. Stout and Jacqueline Dufresne have opened a new branch of Commonwealth Financial Network at 100 Crystal Run Road in the Town of Wallkill.

Here's a recap of the June 16 Town Board meeting. Supervisor Alex Gromack and Town Board members Shirley Lasker, George Hoehmann, John Maloney and Frank Borelli were present.

Warwick resident Jack Berkowitz has been elected president of the Jewish Federation of Greater Orange County.

Daniel Madura Sr. died the way he had lived - hard at work. Even at 80 years old, he was the image of good health.

An 80-year-old farmer in Orange County died a few hours after a tractor ran over him while he was working on his farm.

An 80-year-old farmer died on Sunday a few hours after a tractor ran over him while he was working on his black dirt farm on Madura Lane in Goshen.

When you pull into Tony Pisano's Sunoco station on Greenwich Avenue in Goshen, you get the full-service treatment.

GOSHEN - The New York State Department of Transportation will be closing lanes on Route 17 between Exits 122A and 124 in Orange County later this week.

Motorists are advised that the New York State Department of Transportation will be removing the temporary concrete barrier on Route 17 between exits 122A and 124 in the Town of Goshen later this week.

A real estate broker who tried to buy the former Camp La Guardia property has filed a lawsuit claiming Orange County rebuffed his offer because his clients were thought to be Hasidic Jews affiliated with the Village of Kiryas Joel.

GOSHEN A Warwick man, who stabbed his ex-girlfriend to death in her Middletown home last summer, was sentenced in Orange County Court Friday to 20 years to life in prison.

GOSHEN An Orange, New Jersey man has been indicted by an Orange County grand jury for allegedly robbing the TD Bank branch in Middletown on May 16.

GOSHEN Seven people who are on probation have been arrested on charges that they violated that condition.

UPDATE: TOWN OF WALLKILL - A fully involved structure fire at Lothar's Body Shop at Maltese Drive has been declared under control less than an hour after being reported.

St. James' Episcopal Church will host its sixth annual Gardens of Goshen Tour and Luncheon on the Lawn event from 9 a.m.-4 p.m. June 20, with self-guided tours of six of Goshen's most beautiful gardens.