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GOSHEN — The annual Orange-Ulster BOCES Spelling Bee, co-sponsored by the Times Herald-Record, the Orange County School Boards Association, the Community Foundation of Orange and Sullivan, and OU BOCES will be held on March 10 at 7 p.m.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share

MONTICELLO – Incumbent Mayor Gary Sommers and Trustee George Nikolados will square off in a race for the village’s top elected job on March 18.The mayor’s job is a part-time position with a four-year term and a salary of $9,668.Sommers was appointed mayor on May 16, 2018, two months after being elected to a trustee position.He replaced Doug Solomon, who resigned as mayor after being appointed police chief in the City of Newburgh.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share

VILLAGE OF MONTGOMERY- A proposal for a nearly 500,000-square-foot warehouse project has prompted the village to consider temporarily halting industrial development. This would be the largest of several warehouses in the village.KSH Route 211 Development LLC, a Cornwall-based company, proposed to build a commercial development, including two warehouses and two 2-story office buildings on a 33.75-acre land on the northwest side of Route 211.The proposal made its debut in [...]

ALBANY - An obstetrician gynecologist from Catskill was sentenced Friday to 54 months in federal prison for distributing opioids, health fraud and other charges, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of New York.From 2015-2017, Myra Mabry, 50, wrote [...]

CITY OF NEWBURGH – The Newburgh City Council will vote Monday on a resolution censuring Councilman Omari Shakur for his conduct during a recent confrontation with city police. The resolution, which was posted on the city’s website, says Shakur "engaged in a wholly inappropriate interaction with members of the City of Newburgh police" when he was stopped and given a summons for a traffic infraction on Carpenter Avenue shortly after noon on Feb.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share

Recently American Legion Post 1181 members met a young man who is working toward His Eagle Scout badge. He is 17 and a member of Troop 31 out of Montgomery.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share

ELLENVILLE — United States Representative Antonio Delgado visited Ellenville High School on Feb. 20 to participate in a Black History Month workshop titled “Black American Greatness from the 19th to 21st Century.”The event, which also featured Ulster County Legislator John Gavaris, was hosted by Go Beyond Greatness, a college and career readiness program that empowers young people to develop the skills they need to succeed in the 21st century.The [...]

You can’t fix systemic poverty with a hug and a kitchen island.Also: Losing weight through extreme and unsafe methods can cause harm. Every parent is different. And wives probably belong with the spouses they originally married.American TV viewers learned these lessons in the early 2000s when a certain kind of morally odious reality TV show proliferated on network television, epitomized by "Extreme Makeover: Home Edition," "The Biggest Loser" and "Supernanny." [...]

MILWAUKEE – In one of the worst shootings in Wisconsin history, five people were killed by a gunman during a rampage on the Milwaukee campus of Molson Coors on Wednesday afternoon.The gunman died by suicide, bringing the total of known dead so far to six.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share

Harold Card, of the Town of Wallkill, is the founder of the Town of Wallkill Historical Association and resides in the historic Horton House on Van Burenville Road.The house was originally small when built in the late 1700s and was later expanded by Vincent Clark in 1803.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share