New Windsor News

Drivers already are, or soon will be, benefiting from nearly $350 million in improvements the state Thruway Authority has been making in the Lower Hudson Valley.

New Windsor Elementary School teachers and boys in the fifth and sixth grades played in the ninth annual Dave Harris Memorial Basketball Game on June 12 in honor of the late Harris, a popular teacher at New Windsor School who died unexpectedly in June 2000.

A local entrepreneur is in trouble again. Jim Ludlow was charged with driving while intoxicated, a misdemeanor, after he was stopped about 11:15 p.m. Sunday on Lutheran Street.

The Hudson Valley will be well represented when "Wedding Day," a new reality show on TNT, presents an episode featuring West Point graduates and Army captains Shawn Fitzgerald and Christina Fanitzi.

Just when we thought it was safe to enjoy the beautiful landscapes of upstate New York ... we received the awful news.

The Dutchess County Sheriff's Office is investigating a two-car crash in the Town of Pine Plains Saturday that killed one of the drivers.

The developer of hundreds of New Windsor homes is muddying the City of Newburgh's drinking water supply, according to a federal lawsuit.

There's no law that says Wawayanda Town Justice Peter Gromacki has to leave office, but there are some hints coming from Albany that the time is right.

An Orange County grand jury on Monday indicted a Dutchess County man who's accused of stabbing his wife and daughter last week, fleeing to New Windsor and crashing his car, then menacing a cop with an ice pick.

An Eagle Scout Court of Honor was held last Sunday at the Bethlehem Presbyterian Church in Cornwall to honor Cornwall Boy Scout Troop 118's newest Eagle Scouts, Hugh Patrick Eisele, Benjamin V. Fasano III, Andrew Melucci, Denis J. O'Keeffe III, Eric Paul Reimer and Matthew Sweet.

WHITE PLAINS - Desperate for money and wooed by a man offering cash and favors, the men accused of trying to blow up two temples and other terrorist activities had little choice but to go along with the plot, the family of three of the four men said last night at a forum sponsored by supporters.

New Windsor Town Justice Donald Suttlehan sees the writing on the wall, so he's leaving office at the end of July, even though his term doesn't expire until 2012.

LAGRANGEVILLE - A date has yet to be set for the arraignment of Kerry Peck for the attempted murders of his wife and daughter in the Town of LaGrange.

Richard Drake, a senior partner at the New Windsor law firm Drake, Loeb, Heller, Kennedy, Gogerty, Gaba & Rodd was recently appointed to serve a three-year term as a member of the Independent Judicial Election Qualification Commission for the Ninth Judicial District.

NEW WINDSOR - A New Windsor man is scheduled to appear in town court on June 23 after he was allegedly found to be in possession of child pornography.

Jun 17, 2009 9:40 am US/Eastern LAGRANGE, N.Y. Authorities say a 50-year-old Hudson Valley man has been charged with attempted murder after he stabbed his wife and teenage daughter with an ice pick.

Firefighters doused a fire Tuesday afternoon at a New Windsor factory. The fire began about 3 p.m. in the American Felt and Filter complex, 361 Walsh Avenue.

Orange County has created a new Web site that the public can use to follow the $1 million Newburgh Area Transportation and Land Use Study.

A LaGrangeville man stabbed two people with an ice pick Tuesday morning, then got into two accidents in New Windsor and scuffled with police until he was eventually tasered and subdued.

The second in a series of studies that seek to raise the bar in transportation and land-use planning in Orange County is out of the gate.