New Hampton News

Many folks celebrate Christmas Day around here in similar ways: midnight Mass, opening presents under a tree, a big family dinner.

It's not just a building. It's not just a place of worship. The new Middletown Islamic Center is both of those things, but it's also much more.

Until last week, the Orange County-run transfer station off Route 17M was little more than a set of concrete cubbies where haulers and homeowners dumped their trash - a place so primitive and overused that it earned the county $60,000 in fines two years ago.

New Hampton - New Hampton School's Galletly Gallery will feature works by Andy Moerlein, a sculptor from Bow, this September.

NEW HAMPTON State Police identified the man killed in a one-car crash on Route 17M in New Hampton on Sunday as a Middletown resident.

Our current tough times have prompted a lot more people to consider selling their old gold wedding bands, unused earrings or 14-karat gold tennis bracelets for some badly needed cash.

A group of McVeigh Road neighbors petitioned the Wawayanda Town Board Thursday night, asking the town to install stop signs to slow down speeders.

Photo provided From left, Karen VanHouten, executive director of the Community Foundation; Linda Padden, president of the Women's University Club; Nora Strunsky, Alison Gillis, Emily Genender, and Arrti Agarwal, Women's University Club Scholarship recipients; Sandra Carlino, recipient of the E. Bash Soderlund and Barbara Soderlund Mentoring Award; ...

The Washington Heights Fire District covers about 3 square miles just north of Middletown.

When Home Depot CEO Frank Blake was explaining a housing market metric to shareholders during the company's annual meeting last week, hecklers interrupted.