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WASHINGTONVILLE — A break in a water main valve in downtown Washingtonville at about 4 p.m. Friday affected businesses at Brotherhood Plaza as well as more than a dozen families along Main Street/Route 94. Service was restored Saturday afternoon.Brother Brunos Restaurant at the plaza, as well as residents whose homes were affected, have been told to boil their water until it can be tested on either Tuesday or Wednesday.Tenants at Brotherhood Plaza were without [...]

Studies consistently report that most people have no will or estate plan. A Gallup poll in 2016, caring.com in 2017, forbes.com in 2018 and other surveys confirm that most Americans have not planned. Depending on the study, as many as 60 percent have not done their estate planning.The reasons most people put off estate planning are many — it’s depressing; I’ll get to it someday; it’s unpleasant to think about death and disability; I’ll leave it [...]

April 9New Paltz Regional Chamber of Commerce at Hampton Inn: 4 South Putt Corners Road, New Paltz,. 9 a.m. Free seminar with guest speaker Irene Berner, owner of Berner Financial Services. Understanding a healthy financial life. Registration: newpaltzchamber.org. 255-0243.Free Agriculture Career & Job Fair: SUNY Sullivan, Grover Hermann Memorial Library, 112 College Road, Loch Sheldrake. 10 a.m.-1:30 p.m. Farmers [...]

STEWART AIRPORT — Anthony Mancinelli, a World War II veteran who’s still a practicing barber at the age of 108, will be among the passengers as Hudson Valley Honor Flight makes its 22nd trip to Washington, D.C., on Saturday.He’ll be joined by 13 of his fellow World War II veterans; others who served in Korea, Vietnam and Operation Desert Storm; and still others who served in peacetime between World War II and Korea, and Korea and Vietnam. A total of 83 [...]

The only two men to run one of Orange County’s largest towns for the last 32 years are set to square off again this year, for the first time since George Green unseated George Meyers as New Windsor supervisor in 2005.Both Georges filed Republican petitions for supervisor last week, setting the stage for a June 25 primary if both of their petitions survive any challenges. Meyers, who succeeded Green as supervisor in 1994 and held the office for 12 years, also has been endorsed [...]

MAMAKATING — An old, dormant mine tucked away inside the Wurtsboro Ridge State Forest contaminated more than 57,000 gallons of water per day with lead way above standard levels for 24 years before the state Department of Environmental Conservation noticed and took action.But the contaminated water continues to flow today.The DEC acquired the land that established the forest in 1988 and knew part of it was historically used as a mine, but it didn't have any data to [...]

NEW YORK — A 600-ton crane has delivered six granite monoliths to the World Trade Center — stone sculptures honoring those who were sickened or died from toxins while cleaning up the site of the terrorist attack.On Saturday, the chiseled granite pieces were in place, pointing skyward to also honor rescue, recovery and relief workers facing the 9/11 aftermath.The monoliths were chiseled from the Rock of Ages granite manufacturing company in Barre, Vermont, using [...]

NEWBURGH — The woman with the bobbed blond hair and the ready smile at the end of the table looked like my friend Beth. She looked like everybody’s friend Beth, really. She looked like everybody’s mom. She looked like anyone’s suburban neighbor.And she was, pretty much, all these things — except her name wasn’t Beth. It was Adrienne Voltaire, and she was speaking Saturday at this roundtable on the opioid epidemic called by state [...]

NEW YORK (AP) — New York City is set to become the first American metropolis that seeks to ease traffic congestion, cut pollution and boost mass transit by charging motorists a hefty toll for the privilege of driving into its most crammed areas. So can it work?If the experience of other cities around the world that have tried it is any indication, the answer appears to be yes. London, Singapore and Stockholm have all reported that "congestion pricing" systems similar to the [...]

ALBANY — New York state has reversed a proposed $50,000 funding cut to the Special Olympics.Special Olympics New York has received $1.1 million a year from the state to support its regular programs serving 68,000 athletes.Officials inadvertently cut $50,000 when putting together the state budget that passed on Monday. Gov. Andrew Cuomo's administration reallocated money from other programs to restore the lost funding when the cut was noticed.In a [...]