Kiryas Joel News

Mamakating - A former resort hotel that has been under intense scrutiny since it fell into the hands of a Hasidic sect from New City has been charged with three counts of violating the state environmental conservation law after an oil spill at the site Thursday.

President Obama probably expected a letter supporting Israel from the mayor of "the largest village inhabited by Orthodox Jews." But what he got was a statement decrying the state of Israel and the shedding of Jewish blood in its name.

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.

A trio of Orange County villages are among the fastest-growing small localities in the state.

Orange County lawmakers voted unanimously Wednesday night to support a second lawsuit against Kiryas Joel to challenge the environmental review for the village's proposed pipeline to the Catskill Aqueduct.

Two villages in Ramapo - New Square and Kaser - are the fastest growing municipalities in the Lower Hudson Valley, according to newly released data from the U.S. Census Bureau.

Orange County Executive Ed Diana announced Thursday he plans to sue Kiryas Joel for the second time over the environmental review for the village's proposed connection to the Catskill Aqueduct.

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.

GOSHEN a ' For the second time in five years, Orange County lawmakers must decide if they want to sue Kiryas Joel to challenge the environmental review for the village's proposed pipeline to the Catskill Aqueduct.

An Orange County Legislature committee voted Thursday to urge County Executive Ed Diana to sue Kiryas Joel for a second time over the village's proposed pipeline to the Catskill Aqueduct.

A committee of the Orange County Legislature voted Thursday afternoon to urge county executive Ed Diana to sue Kiryas Joel for the second time over the village's proposed water pipeline.

Long before he managed to organize a lavish bar mitzvah inside a New York City jail, Rabbi Leib Glanz developed a reputation for making things happen within New York's ultra-Orthodox Satmar community.

Young men pelted trooper cars with eggs and plastic water bottles Monday during a melee before the outdoor wedding of a granddaughter of Rabbi Aaron Teitelbaum, a Satmar Hasidic leader.

Another showdown is looming in the Orange County Legislature over Kiryas Joel's controversial plan to tap the Catskill Aqueduct.

A tractor trailer carrying and oversized load on Route 17 slammed into the Forest Road overpass on Thursday, damaging the overpass and closing Route 17.

Trooper cars were pelted with eggs and plastic water bottles when a melee erupted hours before an outdoor wedding in a Hasidic community.

Thousands are expected to fill the square in front of the Congregation Yetev Lev synagogue in Kiryas Joel at 6:30 p.m. for the wedding of Bluma Ashkenaazy, a granddaughter of Rabbi Aaron Teitelbaum, one of two brothers who lead the Satmar Hasidic movement.

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 An Orange County realtor from Goshen, who maintains that the County of Orange and County Executive Edward Diana purposely blocked his client from being considered to purchase the former Camp LaGuardia property, has filed a federal lawsuit.

Mayor Abraham Wieder and his allies will get a free ride at the polls Wednesday, their first uncontested race since an opposition movement launched an unprecedented - and unsuccessful - challenge to their power in 2001.