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Safe Harbors Gala set for September 12

Greetings from River City. Join in on Thursday, September 12 at 6 p.m. for a beautiful evening on Safe Harbors Green with delicious food and drinks, music and performances, a silent auction and …

Local campers visit the Howe Caverns

  We’ve been bewildered by too many weeks of soggy gray days; however, there’s always a surprise in nature that lifts our spirits.  Tiny pearls of beauty, hummingbirds, …

Renegades to recreate The Newburgh Gorhams

If you have never heard of The Newburgh Gorhams, the week is arriving to learn something amazing. Friday evening, August 2nd, is a night of tribute to The Gorhams. They were Newburgh’s Negro …

Cochecton Turnpike’s historic markers

On July 4th weekend I entertained a gentleman who is a long-haul trucker and has genealogical ties to our area. I picked him up at a truck stop and provided a tour of the improvements made to the …

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I was tossing around what I should put on paper this week when I saw an article on the Wurtsboro Founder’s Day Street Fair featuring an artist who was displaying a number of steampunk items. I …
For so many reasons, it is a good time to look back, way back. Our country and our local community have been through far worse confusion, worry and pain than we are experiencing now. Read your …
John Fleming Gould, renowned Hudson Valley artist, illustrator and lecturer on art, enjoyed a long prestigious career in art. With his wife Mary, Gould established the Bethlehem Art Gallery in …
Greetings from River City. There’s always interesting places to visit, whether it’s our wonderful Library or Safe Harbors Green, artists’ studios and art exhibits, or the first …
Most of us learn as children or as newcomers that our community is very old – 315 years old to be exact – yet not everywhere. Some areas of this little four-square-mile city are still …

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School News
Newburgh’s Will Soto stands atop the podium with his gold medal in the freestyle portion of the U15 Pan-American Games on June 16 in San Salvador, El Salvador.
Will Soto is only a sophomore and already one of the most decorated wrestlers in Newburgh Free Academy history. He showed up on the scene as an eighth grader and finished third at the New York …
Marlboro’s Gabby Murphy dribbles as Red Hook’s Emilie Kent (21) defends and Katie Boyd looks on during a Section 9 Class A championship girls’ basketball game on March 1 at Mount St. Mary College in Newburgh.
Seven local players will fill the Hudson Valley roster this weekend at the Basketball Coaches Association of New York’s Summer Hoopfest in Johnson City. The team will be led by Wallkill …
John Reilly, professor of History Mount Saint Mary College - John Riley 1/2017.Mount Saint Mary College, history, staff, professor, emeritus
Historian, traveler, and professor emeritus John T. Reilly, one of the longest-serving faculty members Mount Saint Mary College has ever known, passed away on Tuesday, July 9 at the age of 84. …
The Community Foundation of Orange and Sullivan (CFOS) is pleased to announce that applications are being accepted for the 2024 Make a Difference grants. This year, the Fund will prioritize …
The 159th Newburgh Free Academy Commencement ceremony celebrated more than 600 graduates on Tuesday, June 25. The event included words of reflection, a special presentation by paratroopers from West …

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