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Jay R. McClintock Jr. said members of the Mechanicstown Fire Company are a family. They've been through hard times before and will do what they need to do to move on from the latest crisis.McClintock, the Mechanicstown Fire District's board chairman, was occasionally at a loss for words in his office Wednesday morning while talking about two of the fire department's members who were rounded up in a massive drug ring sweep on Tuesday.The firefighters learned between 9 [...]

If your organization is holding a Valentine’s Day event and would like to be included in this list, email information to dkessler@th-record.com or mail information to Donna Kessler, Valentine’s Day Happenings, c/o Times Herald-Record, P.O. Box 2046, Middletown 10940. This complete list can be found on recordonline.com. Stampin’ Up! Card Craft: Feb. 8, Mamakating Library, 128 Sullivan St., Wurtsboro, 6:30-8 p.m., make two hand-crafted [...]

ALBANY — Gov. Andrew Cuomo's spending proposals for New York state's mental hygiene programs are the subject of a public hearing in Albany.The Democratic governor's $175 billion spending plan for the next fiscal year includes his ongoing efforts to reduce the number of New Yorkers who die by suicide each year. Cuomo says federal statistics show that New York state's suicide rate rose by nearly 30 percent from 1999 to 2016.The governor's also is seeking to pass [...]

NEW YORK (AP) — New York City's health department has ordered restaurants to stop selling foods and drinks containing CBD, a compound found in cannabis plants.On Wednesday, customers at Manhattan's Fat Cat Kitchen bakery and restaurant couldn't buy a favorite chocolate-filled cookie that included CBD — which doesn't make people high, but the health agency said it hadn't been deemed safe as a food additive by the federal Food and Drug Administration.New York [...]

ALBANY — Three Republican state senators are demanding strict new limits on two industrial contaminants that have been found in water sources in three areas in New York state.Senate Minority Leader John Flanagan and Republican senators Ken LaValle and Phil Boyle on Wednesday called on the state Department of Health to set drinking water standards for PFOA and PFOS, two chemicals linked to cancer and other health problems.PFOA has contaminated drinking water in [...]

WASHINGTON (AP) — Democrats including Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York are calling for a Green New Deal intended to transform the U.S. economy to combat climate change and create thousands of jobs in renewable energy.The freshman lawmaker and veteran Sen. Ed Markey of Massachusetts are teaming up on the plan, which aims to eliminate the U.S. carbon footprint by 2030.A joint resolution drafted by Ocasio-Cortez and Markey sets a goal to meet "100 percent of [...]

BETHEL - Mountain Jam, the three-day summer music festival, is moving to Bethel Woods Center for the Arts this year.This summer’s festival is scheduled for June 13-16.Hunter Mountain had been the festival's home for 14 years.In a statement, Hunter Mountain management said: "While we are disappointed to see the festival move, we would like to extend our most sincere gratitude to the many supporters who made Hunter Mountain a successful Mountain Jam venue [...]

ALBANY — New York's income tax receipts are down more than $2 billion so far, creating a significant and serious state budget deficit that is mainly caused by last year's Republican-led federal tax cuts, Democratic Gov. Andrew Cuomo said Monday.Cuomo said at a state Capitol news conference that the year-old federal law capping a deduction for state and local taxes — known as SALT — at $10,000 is the culprit for a projected $2.3 billion deficit."We've [...]

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump, a uniter?That's the approach advisers say Trump will take in his first State of the Union address delivered under divided government. A president who's mocked everyone from women to the U.S. intelligence community, foreign leaders and members of Congress is expected to speak Tuesday night of setting aside hard feelings and moving forward.For an idea of how that goes over, keep an eye on House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, seated [...]