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Local health-care providers said the Affordable Care Act should be improved, not eliminated, following the Trump administration telling a federal appeals court this week to overturn the law.The legislation, also known as Obamacare, was already threatened after a federal judge in Texas invalidated it late last year. But, goaded by President Donald Trump, the U.S. Justice Department announced on Monday that it now agrees with the judge that the whole law, not just pieces of it, should [...]

GOSHEN — The National Alliance on Mental Illness of Orange will be conducting an education meeting on April 8, at 6:30 p.m. at the Orange County Department of Mental Health at 30 Harriman Drive in Goshen. The topic will be “Medicaid Buy-In for Working People with Disabilities (MBI-WPD) and Medicaid Spend-down Explained.”The guest speaker will be Len Statham from the Director of Employment and Economic Self-sufficiency Initiatives with the New York Association of [...]

MONTICELLO - One in five families has a loved one who’s been diagnosed with a psychiatric illness. Like any other chronic illness, these affect not only the person with the diagnosis, but the entire family.NAMI is the National Alliance on Mental Illness. The NAMI Family-to-Family Education Program is a free, confidential, 11-session course for family, significant others and friends of people living with mental illness. The comprehensive course is taught by trained NAMI members [...]

HURLEYVILLE – The First Sunday Music and History Program began a year and a half ago, in a small side gallery of the Sullivan County Museum at 265 Main St. in Hurleyville. The Sullivan County Historical Society and the county invited some special guitarists who performed 1960s music and talked about their personal experiences in Woodstock. By the third month, First Sunday had become so successful that it moved to the museum’s main auditorium.There will be no April [...]

PORT JERVIS - For the first time in the 32-year history of the Alcoholism & Drug Abuse Council of Orange County’s annual poster contest, both grand prize winners this year are from the same school, Post Jervis High School.The poster contest involves schools all over Orange County participating with the same message, which this year is "Alcohol and Drug Free is How I Choose to Be." The contest this year drew 1,348 submissions from 13 schools in eight districts in Orange [...]

CORNWALL – The Cornwall Public Library, at 395 Hudson St., will host a presentation on recycling at 6:30 p.m. April 4. Ermin Siljkovic, recycling coordinator for the Orange County Department of Public Works, will present the program.The program will highlight the growing dilemma of solid waste management across the United States. Siljkovic also will discuss proper recycling habits, as well as opportunities for waste prevention, reduction, and reuse in Orange County. [...]

A Florida man was jailed Wednesday afternoon after investigators say he killed a lawyer while high on adult-themed nitrous oxide, the Miami Herald reports.Joseph Franco, 27, accused of killing Amir Pelleg and injuring his wife and two young daughters, was charged with DUI manslaughter after Miami-Dade prosecutors determined he was under the influence of nitrous oxide when he ran over the family [...]

ALBANY — The perennial debate over how much New York spends on public schools returned to Albany Thursday, with some lawmakers joining a Capitol protest seeking hundreds of millions of dollars in additional funding.The lawmakers, all Democrats, joined dozens of parents and education advocates outside the office of Democratic Gov. Andrew Cuomo. Their demand for more money for schools came as Cuomo and the Legislature work to craft a new state budget before the new state [...]

Editor’s Note: This story was originally published June 22, 2017. An investigative collaboration of 11 news organizations led by Carolina Public Press and reporting on sexual assault convictions in North Carolina was published this week.Aaliyah Palmer was at a party when a man pulled her into a bathroom for sex.She was willing. [...]

SAUGERTIES - A Poughkeepsie man has been charged with causing a traumatic brain injury to a 5-month-old infant, according to the Ulster County District Attorney’s Office.Officials said Joshua Imboli, 25, was charged Thursday with reckless assault of a child, a felony.The investigation into the injury of the baby in the Village of Saugerties began on March 5, and involved Saugerties town police and the Ulster County Family and Child Advocacy Center. Officials said [...]