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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. in the auditorium of the Emanuel Axelrod Education Center at OU BOCES at 53 Gibson Road in Goshen. Seventh and eighth grade students attending public schools in Orange County participate in this annual spelling bee. The event is organized by the OU [...]

If your organization is holding a St. Patrick’s Day event or parade and would like to be included in this list, email information to dkessler@th-record.com or mail information to Donna Kessler, St. Patrick’s Day Events, c/o Times Herald-Record, P.O. Box 2046, Middletown 10940. This complete list can be found on recordonline.com.ParadesSt. Patrick’s Parade: 2 p.m. March 14, Rock Hill Fire Department, 61 Glen Wild Road, Rock [...]

CALLICOON — By popular demand, WJFF's Movies & Music series returns with a trip to the 80's as David Byrne and Talking Heads are captured in their prime by rock and roll director Jonathan Demme in the groundbreaking “Stop Making Sense” at The Callicoon Theater at 30 Upper Main Street in Callicoon on March 25 at 7 p.m.It's all there - the quirky motions, poetically surreal lyrics, the driving bass lines and of course a tremendously big white suit. Drawing from the [...]

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. [...]

CITY OF NEWBURGH – About 200 people rallied outside in Newburgh on Friday in support of city police in light of recent budget cuts, layoffs and a controversial incident involving a city councilman and a group of officers that is under investigation.The crowd outside the Karpeles Manuscript Library on Broadway mostly consisted of Orange County law enforcement form the District Attorney and Sheriff's offices, Newburgh city police and fire departments, politicians and business [...]

SOUTH BLOOMING GROVE - One of two candidates in the upcoming village election who want to remove the incumbents from the ballot was dismissed from the related court case because she never showed up to court.Orange County Supreme Court Justice Craig S. Brown dismissed LaShanta Stephenson’s challenge Thursday. She was ordered to appear in court that day as part of her and running mate George Kalaj’s attempt to knock current South Blooming Grove Mayor James LoFranco and [...]

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 [...]

Gov. Andrew Cuomo just signed a bill that makes it a felony to throw the contents of a toilet bowl at a prison guard, whether or not there is urine or feces in the bowl. Previously, it had only been a felony if the inmate threw bodily wastes, blood or semen. The bill was sponsored […]

More Westchester and Rockland schools are closing or canceling activities, due to the coronavirus.Somers Central School District will be closed this weekend and on Monday, after a parent of a Primrose Elementary School student tested positive for the coronavirus, schools Superintendent Raymond H. Blanch said in a message to families. Maintenance staff will deep-clean all four school buildings, based on state health [...]

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 [...]