Middletown News

Description: Grace Gulick, a student at the new Presidential Park Elementary School in Middletown, NY, is having a great time trying out all the new playground equipment in the school's new playground.

If anyone's hoping for a sunny weekend, it's Allen Zoghby and his crew at the Blueberry Mountain ice cream shop.

Featured in todays Record Newswatch - A Middletown High School student is killed in a car crash on the way to a senior prom in Wappingers Falls; a Saugerties woman is arrested for stealing more than 180 thousand dollars while employed as comptroller of a Town of Ulster business and fallen comrades are remembered during a memorial service at State ... (more)

State police say a Middletown teenager was killed Thursday night on the way to his prom after driving too fast entering Interstate 84, crashing with a tractor-trailer. Armando Colon, 17 was behind the wheel of a 1997 Acura with three passengers and was driving at a speed police say was too fast for the wet road condtions.

Syndicate Taxi bought the Toyota Prius earlier this month, said Jaswinder Singh, whose family owns the company, for both the environmental benefits and gas mileage.

For the 12-month period ending in April 2013, private sector employment in the Hudson Valley Region increased by 10,200 or 1.4 percent.

Project Knomad was born from the vision Ian Sharp had for his own future as an artist, skateboarder, traveler and mentor.

The court has ordered a competency exam for David Stevenson, 38, of Port Jervis, who is awaiting trial on murder, manslaughter and arson charges in the death of TyRochelle Haughton.

Middletown police wrote 75 traffic tickets, 31 of them for seat belt violations, and arrested four people on Monday as part of the statewide "Buckle Up New York" campaign.

A Middletown man was arrested Tuesday after, police said, he threatened family members with a knife and then threw two knives at the police when they got there.

SUNY Orange kicked off its year-end celebration of students achievements by hosting the College's 53th annual Awards Convocation in the Shepard Student Center cafeteria on Wednesday, May 15, 2013.

How do people go on after such losses? After a tornado destroys the town and a school, killing children and adults indiscriminately? How does Moore continue? How did West, Texas, continue? In West and in Moore, in Westbrookville and Middletown and Roscoe and Lake Katrine and Claryville, friends and neighbors come through.

A Middletown woman was arrested Tuesday after, police said, she cut her boyfriend with a knife during an early morning domestic dispute.

A competency hearing continued Tuesday in Orange County Court for Richard Brown, 69, of Middletown, who is charged with murder and manslaughter in the February 2012 shooting death of his neighbor, 54-year-old Arthur Twyman.

Nobody was hurt Tuesday afternoon when a car rear-ended a school bus at the intersection of Schutt Road and East Main Street, said town police.

The moratorium law requiring new business applications downtown to go before the Common Council instead of the Planning Board expires Tuesday.

Middletown Police "DARE Day" has been scheduled for Sept. 21. The child-themed annual event will take place from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. in Thrall Park.

He had seen one of his siblings die of malnutrition, and he didn't want to see it happen to another.

It is a pleasure to see a paper that reports the news instead of making the news.

The lack of an American flag within sight on Wednesday didn't keep the Orange County Industrial Development Agency board from reciting its usual premeeting Pledge of Allegiance.