Newburgh News

NEWBURGH The Town of Newburgh CSEA plans on filing an improper practice charge against the Town of Newburgh for its laying off of nine full-time and four part-time employees late last month.

Don't believe it the next time someone tells you voluteerism is dead. A new program, Town of Newburgh Friends of Seniors, has just launched.

NEWBURGH The Police Community Relations Advisory Board, representatives of the police department and Colonial Terrace residents recently conducted the city's first safety audit of their neighborhood.

TOWN OF NEWBURGH Layoffs in the Town of Newburgh were handled without decency and professionalism, claim officials from CSEA, the union representing the majority of Town of Newburgh employees.

The City of Newburgh has extended the deadline to receive letters of interest for the proposed Housing Loan Committee to no later than 4 p.m. on July 15.

It started, the boy told police, when the man came to him at the church and exposed himself to the boy.

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 25-year-old will face a second-degree murder charge in the stabbing death of his girlfriend.

The New York State Thruway has released a big, color-coded diagram of the new interchange between the New York State Thruway and Interstate 84 in the Town of Newburgh.

Artists may scrub two scenes from a popular waterfront mural during restoration work this summer.

A City of Newburgh dive team searched the Wallkill River near Maple and Pine Street on Wednesday for proceeds from a burglary that occurred Saturday morning.

A Newburgh teen, who pled guilty to stabbing a Beacon man to death when he came to Newburgh to buy drugs, was sentenced to 19 years to life in Orange County on Wednesday.

The first two deaths of Orange County residents associated with swine flu were reported Wednesday by the county Health Department.

A Newburgh woman holding her grandson fell into a hole next to a water meter Wednesday morning, trapping her leg above her knee for more than 30 minutes until city firefighters could free her.

Congressman Maurice Hinchey announced $1.5 million in economic recovery funding for health care centers in Newburgh and Middletown to make various capital improvements.

City police officers wrote more than 150 tickets in April and May as part of the Buckle Up New York program.

TOWN OF NEWBURGH The president of the Town of Newburgh PBA Monday said the elected leadership in the town "has failed in its fundamental duty to lead in this crisis." Glenn Ryther's comments come after the town late last week laid off nine full-time employees and four part-timers. Two of the full-timers were police officers.

The Archdiocese of New York is making some changes in Newburgh. The Rev. Bill Scafidi, pastor of St.

More than 35 years after Interstate 84 barreled across Orange County and over the New York State Thruway, the region's pre-eminent highways will finally be connected.