Sugar Loaf News

But while sales were higher, store owners paid a price for offering low prices. And some stores that saw their sales rise over last year actually made less money in the process.

It's the Saturday before Christmas, and all through the Valley, shopkeepers are hoping depressed sales will rally.

Many retailers are counting on last-minute shoppers to make their holiday season, and they'll have a lot of them, according to the latest surveys from state and national retail organizations.

Sugar loaf - It was a frigid Sunday night a week before Christmas in this crafts community when Trooper William McDonagh responded to a call about a man firing a gun.

The Chester Town Board has rejected a proposal by New Jersey consultant Equidex Energy to consider putting a waste-to-energy plant in the town.

On Oct. 16, 2005, the Warwick Reformed Church hosted more than a dozen Warwick-area musicians at a concert to benefit survivors of Hurricane Katrina.

SUGAR LOAF - Sugarloaf Music presents the Bruce Daigrepont Cajun Band at 7:30 Dec.

St. James Camera Club of Goshen will present the photography exhibit "Images From Within" from Oct.

VILLAGE OF FLORIDA A Sugar Loaf man, who is a teacher at S.S. Seward Institute, the high school in the Village of Florida, has been charged with criminal sexual act in the third degree, a felony.

A teacher at S.S. Seward High School was arrested Thursday for allegedly having oral sex with a female student in the school on multiple occasions.

When it comes to leaf-peeping, Barbara Walker of Ossining says her favorite Lower Hudson Valley lookout in any season is Bull Hill, aka Mount Taurus, just north of Cold Spring.

Dr. Richard Hull, professor of history at New York University and Town of Warwick historian, will focus on Orange County's architecture since the American Revolution at a lecture at 7 p.m. Thursday at the Seligmann Homestead in Sugar Loaf.

Bright with color, movement and the beauty of the landscape near and far, artwork by Carrie Jacobson and George Hayes will be on display for the month of September at the Wallkill River School.

Some say it was negative press coverage that drove the tourists away. Others claim it was new businesses that sold factory made goods instead of crafts made by hand.

The Orange County Citizens Foundation will sponsor a hike in Cascade Lake Park, in Warwick, at 9 a.m. Aug.

Ah, the warm, lazy months - exactly when the residents of safe, quiet neighborhoods like the one John Di Lapi lives in let down their guard.

As the Port Jervis rail line of Metro-North continues to grow passenger numbers, the railroad is continuing to upgrade the infrastructure, railroad President Howard Permut said Wednesday.

Karen Kettler, left, director of Small Fry Preschool at the Warwick Vallery Community Center, and photographer Debbie Holton-Smith discuss the upcoming photo gallery opening at the Seligman Estate Gallery, 23 White Oak Drive, in the village of Sugar Loaf.

The Orange County Citizens Foundation will host a breakfast forum on Metro-North initiatives and service in the region at 8 a.m. July 1 at the foundation's headquarters at the Seligmann Homestead, 23 White Oak Drive, Sugar Loaf.