Kiryas Joel News

A state judge has invalidated a commitment to expand sewer service that Orange County Executive Ed Diana made two years ago before quietly dropping a lawsuit against the Village of Kiryas Joel's plans to tap the Catskill Aqueduct.

Anonymous fliers said Hasidic dissidents sought a deal with school board candidates for $1 million to send their students to private special-education schools.

Kiryas Joel's ruling faction has been unable to stop Ulster County from issuing summer camp permits to their Satmar adversaries.

Voters in school districts across our region went to the polls Tuesday to vote on 2012-2013 budgets and school board candidates.

The race for three Monroe-Woodbury school board seats next week has veered in an unlikely direction, with one board member contending in a widely distributed email that three candidates support Kiryas Joel residents who want special-education services for their kids at Monroe-Woodbury's expense.

Ulster Executive Mike Hein has ruled that the Kiryas Joel dissidents can continue to operate four Jewish summer camps in the southwestern portion of the county.

The village of Kiryas Joel will hold its annual traditional bonfire to mark the Jewish holiday of Lag Baomer on Wednesday night.