Newburgh News

As part of a bigger initiative to revitalize the City of Newburgh, the Orange County Planning Department held a public transportation and land use study Saturday in Newburgh to gather input and ideas from community members regarding possible improvements and enhancements to the Broadway Corridor.

The Half Moon got its final Quadricentennial salute on Saturday with a song from Hudson Valley singing sensation The Voices of Glory and a parade of students waving flags from around the world.

Kindergarten teachers at Gardnertown Fundamental Magnet School in Newburgh were glowing with pride recently during a small presentation ceremony on behalf of Walmart in Newburgh as part of Walmart's Teacher of the Year Award.

Orange County is losing a strong advocate for victims of domestic violence, but all of New York state is gaining one.

NEWBURGH One resident who lives in the neighborhood were the city's latest murder occurred says she would like to see more of a police presence there.

High school students and their families can speak with recruiters from a variety of colleges, trade schools and military branches on Wednesday night at Newburgh Free Academy.

The first of three interactive public design workshops for the Newburgh Area Transportation and Land Use Study will be held from 9:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Saturday at the Newburgh Recreation Center, 401 Washington St.

A judge Thursday said he expected to find acts like the ones that made Michael Mele a registered sex offender "in a secure mental health facility, or zoo, not in a mall in the United States of America." Orange County Court Judge Nicholas DeRosa called Mele's lewd conduct at the Palisades Center mall "depraved and unfathomable" as he sentenced the ...

An Orange County man who was caught with heroin in his car when he was stopped by police in East Fishkill faces up to two years in prison for the crime.

NEWBURGH - Jay Ungar and Molly Mason will open the second concert of Newburgh Chamber Music's 2009-10 season 3 p.m. Sunday at St.

Clifford Barber III is going to be treated like the ringleader of a $1 million crew of Walmart thieves, even if Judge Robert Freehill wasn't convinced of that when he sent Barber to prison earlier this month.

The police description of the crime read like a streetside execution. Police said 29-year-old Delvin Pemberton climbed into a minivan parked Tuesday on Liberty Street just up the block from Clinton Street.

City firefighters found a house on fire when they arrived Tuesday evening on Carter Street.

NEWBURGH Two Democrats won the two seats up for grabs on the Newburgh City Council, but the fact that Republican Mayor Nicholas Valentine remains in the political minority, is not what matters in Newburgh, he says.

WAPPINGER Two men are under arrest in Wappinger following a series of events that began with a fight outside a bar in the City of Newburgh.

City police are investigating a homicide that occurred on Liberty Street. Emergency responders tried to revive a man who was shot in his vehicle as it sat on Liberty near Clinton Street.

Echoing the trend throughout the mid-Hudson, Supervisor Mike Hayes and Republican Town Board candidates swept the Town of Montgomery elections Tuesday.

Republicans regained control of the Orange County Legislature Tuesday night, taking several of the most hotly contested races and defeating a few Democratic incumbents.

WALLKILL State Police have charged two Newburgh men with attacking the desk clerk at the Howard Johnsons Motel on Route 211 in the Town of Wallkill with an aluminum baseball bat.

NEWBURGH - Ever wonder what happens when the lights go out at a historic site? Join the night watchman at Washington's Headquarters State Historic Site as he makes his rounds Friday and Saturday to find out.