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The Trump administration said Friday it is freeing itself from the constraints of a nuclear arms control treaty with Russia and will begin withdrawing from the pact on Saturday.

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — National parks across the United States are scrambling to clean up and repair damage that visitors and storms caused during the recent government shutdown while bracing for the possibility of another closure ahead of the busy Presidents Day weekend later this month.Visitors left human waste, piles of trash, graffiti, used unauthorized trails and damaged Joshua trees at the namesake park in California during the 35-day shutdown. Many of the parks went [...]

BETHEL - The multi-platinum, Grammy Award-winning Zac Brown Band will bring its 2019 summer outing, The Owl Tour, to Bethel Woods Center for the Arts on June 21, with special guest Caroline Jones. Tickets will go on sale at 10 a.m. Feb. 8 at BethelWoodsCenter.org, Ticketmaster.com, Ticketmaster outlets or by phone at 800-745-3000.Pre-sale for Bethel Woods members begins at 10 a.m. Tuesday.The country-music band is about to release a new studio album [...]

WEST POINT — The number of sexual assaults reported at West Point more than doubled in the past three years, according to an annual report released by the Pentagon on Thursday.There were 56 reports during the 2017-18 academic year, and 26 in the 2015-16 academic year, according to the report. Fifty were reported in 2016-17.Those numbers were well above the Naval Academy, which had 29 assaults reported in 2016-17 and 32 in 2017-18, and the Air Force [...]

BETHEL — Legoland New York is already attracting Sullivan County residents, and it isn’t even open.Leaders of the forthcoming $500 million theme park near Route 17’s Exit 125 in Goshen, due to open as soon as early March 2020, spoke about the park’s economic potential to 120 Sullivan County business leaders on Friday morning.The crowd braved minus-8 degree weather at 7:30 a.m. to hear a park leader talk at a Sullivan County Chamber of Commerce [...]

ALBANY — Gov. Andrew Cuomo said Friday he remains confident the Legislature can vote to legalize recreational marijuana as part of the state budget, which is due on April 1.The optimistic comments came after Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie, D-the Bronx, questioned whether lawmakers would have enough time to resolve thorny questions surrounding legalization while also working their way through a $175 billion budget.While both the Democratic governor and Heastie support [...]

WARWICK — Stephanie Gouss and her husband, Gene, were looking to downsize after living and raising their kids in a charming historic home on Locust Street.The children had moved out, and the 1863 home with three bedrooms, two-and-a-half baths, a screened porch, a rose garden and a lap pool had become too much for the Gousses to maintain. So they called a Realtor, made a few fixes to the home, and put it on the market.The day after the Gousses held an open house, a [...]

THOMPSON — The Town of Thompson is seeking to temporarily halt the development of camps, dormitories, schools and bungalow colonies.The proposed moratorium would suspend development approval for six months with the possibility for a three-month extension, according to Thompson Supervisor Bill Rieber.“We’ve been pushed by the county planning department to update our definitions and regulations with regard to camps, etc.,” he said.He added [...]

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CORNWALL – The Cornwall Public Library, at 395 Hudson St., will hold an information session at 6:30 p.m. Feb. 7 to give an overview of its upcoming Battle of the Books.The information session is for teens in grades 6-12 and their parents, and will provide details about the selected books, buzzer practice, and the big event on Sept. 8. The information session will also feature past participants of the event and allow teens to sign up for book groups. Teens can then borrow [...]