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The Monticello Rotary is hosting free Narcan training session and opioid seminar at the Hurleyville Firehouse on Thursday.All attendees will receive training, dinner, a completion card, a Narcan kit and Continuing Teacher and Leader Education credit. Registration starts at 5:30 p.m. and the training begins at 6 p.m.The organization is hosting the training in collaboration with Sullivan County Public Health Services, MobileMedic EMS, the Sullivan County Sheriff's Office, [...]

CITY OF NEWBURGH - The Newburgh City Council approved prices for its municipal IDs during Tuesday's regular meeting at City Hall.The ID cards will cost residentsAdults will be charged $15 to process their applications. Adults who are veterans, disabled or over age 62, and children under 18, will be charged $7 for an application fee, according to the fee ordinance.To renew an ID or to change information on the card will cost $5.Residents will [...]

ALBANY — Cuomo administration officials say they support efforts by AARP to stem the rising cost of prescription drugs for New Yorkers.More than 100 AARP volunteers from across the state rallied at the state Capitol Tuesday to support bills in the Legislature that address high drug costs.Lt. Gov. Kathy Hochul spoke to the gathering, saying Democratic Gov. Andrew Cuomo and his administration will do everything they can "to reel in the exorbitant, unconscionable [...]

Police in Las Vegas have charged a woman with murder after she allegedly shoved a 74-year-old man off a city bus, causing injuries that led to his death.According to TV station KLAS, Cadesha Bishop, 25, was yelling at other passengers on the bus March 21 when the victim, Serge Fournier, reportedly told her to "be nice."Bishop responded, police say, by [...]

Where else can you find the Alien Beauty Pageant, the game show "You Bet your Asteroid" and the UFO Museum and Paranormal Center? Only one place: The Pine Bush UFO Fair, 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Saturday along Main Street in Pine Bush. Come dressed for the occasion, stay for the music, performances, food, games and speakers at an other-worldly festival. pinebushufofair.com.Join singer-songwriter Deb De Lucca, above, "That 70s Girl," 1-2 p.m. Saturday on a [...]

NEW WINDSOR – The town began introducing water from the Catskill Aqueduct into its distribution system Wednesday after reactivating its Riley Road filtration plant.The town is switching to aqueduct water because of the discovery of low levels of PFOS and PFOA in its Butterhill wells.The transition from the Butterhill wells to the aqueduct will be gradual as production at Riley Road increases while production at Butterhill decreases. The change-over should be [...]

PINE BUSH — Field hockey players and their parents voiced upset over a proposition put forward by the Pine Bush Central School District to build a synthetic turf field.It's not the synthetic turf field and eight-lane track proposed for Pine Bush High School that they have a problem with; it's the possible lining of the field, which they worried might not accommodate the varsity, jayvee or modified field hockey teams."As the captain of the field hockey team, I feel a [...]

NEW YORK — The Woodstock 50 festival in Watkins Glen is back on after a court rebuffed an ex-investor's effort to cancel the anniversary extravaganza — but organizers will have to do without some $18 million, at least for now.Manhattan judge Barry Ostrager ruled Wednesday that the festival's former chief backer, Amplifi Live, couldn't singlehandedly call off the August show but also doesn't have to put the $18 million back into it. The money dispute and other issues [...]

A bill introduced Wednesday by state Sen. James Skoufis could derail a pending petition by Hasidic property owners to create a new village in Monroe by adding criteria to state law that could lead to the proposal's rejection.The legislation would amend the state's simple standards for forming a village by requiring petitioners to show that their proposals serve "the overall public interest" and are consistent with the Comprehensive Plans of the towns in which they would be [...]

NEW YORK — The famous winged TWA terminal at New York's John F. Kennedy Airport came out of its decades-long retirement Wednesday with a new life as a luxury hotel.Gov. Andrew Cuomo was on hand for a ribbon-cutting ceremony opening the $268 million project.He said he remembers seeing the terminal as a Queens boy "and saying, 'Wow! Wow! It was ahead of its time and it was New York's vision and creativity and boldness, and outside of the box thinking that made New York, [...]