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TOWN OF GREENVILLE - Police are seeking the public's help to identify a hit-and-run driver who left a runner with a head injury and a broken ankle early on Jan. 8.State police said the runner, 62-year-old Robert Ruscher, was struck between 6:35 and 7 a.m.Police said Ruscher runs the same route each day, traveling on Rutger Creek Road, Kurpick Road, Center Road, Logtown Road, County Route 1 and Monahan Road. He wears reflective gear and runs against traffic, police said. [...]

Ever wonder how you got to be so grown-up?Happened to me the other day when I was in the college town where time seems to stand still – New Paltz, home of shops like Groovy Blueberry and Karma Road. I was browsing in another sort of shop that’s a blast from my past, Rhino Records – one of three record stores in this college town, along with Team Love and Jack’s Rhythms - when I saw a CD I’ve wanted to get for years, Paul McCartney's first solo album, [...]

SAN FRANCISCO — Gymboree has filed for bankruptcy protection for a second time in as many years, but this time the children's clothing retailer will begin winding down operations for good.The San Francisco company said late Wednesday that it will close all of its Gymboree and Crazy 8 stores and attempt sell its Janie and Jack business, intellectual property and online business.Gymboree operates a store at Woodbury Common Premium Outlets."The company has [...]

Kiryas Joel leaders have started the process of annexing 62 acres from the new Town of Palm Tree to match the borders of the two municipalities and enable them to eliminate a redundant governing board by the end of Palm Tree's first year of existence.The new town took effect on Jan. 1, and its elected board - led by longtime Kiryas Joel Mayor Abe Wieder, now doing double-duty as Palm Tree town supervisor - already has passed its first budget, a $1.1 million plan that preserves the [...]

Mid-Hudson banks are stepping up to help local customers deprived of paychecks since the federal government's Dec. 22 shutdown, extending mortgages and waiving fees.Locally, Orange Bank & Trust was first out of the gate with a Monday announcement offering assistance to federal workers who use the bank.Orange Bank & Trust will defer mortgage and loan payments for up to six months or until the end of the government shutdown, whichever comes first, while suspending [...]

STEWART AIRPORT – Norwegian Air will close its cabin crew and pilot bases at New York Stewart International Airport later this year, a cost-saving move that will not affect current flight schedules.The closings, and an identical action at T. F. Green Airport in Providence, R.I., follows a steady reduction in flights at both airports that welcomed Norwegian as their first international carrier only 18 months ago.At Stewart, where the low-cost carrier has almost single- [...]

CITY OF NEWBURGH — Many New Yorkers this week cheered the passage of legislation aiming to protect minors from what is considered by many to be an inhumane form of counseling called gay conversion therapy.But Newburgh Rev. Bill Banuchi said Christian counselors, like himself, believe the state has gone too far."We call this the 'counselor coercion bill' because it’s really coercing the counselors to counsel the way the government says they ought to," Banuchi [...]

WASHINGTON — She imperiled his State of the Union address. He denied her an aircraft to visit troops abroad.The shutdown battle between President Donald Trump and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is playing out as a surreal game of constitutional brinksmanship, with both flexing their political powers from opposite ends of Pennsylvania Avenue as the negotiations to end the monthlong partial government shutdown remain stalled.In dramatic fashion, Trump issued a letter to Pelosi [...]

PROVIDENCE, R.I. — Thousands of federal employees and their families are applying for unemployment and food stamps to get by as the longest government shutdown in U.S. history drags on with no end in sight. But for some of them, it has been an exercise in confusion and frustration.Others, meanwhile, are hesitant to apply, knowing they will have to pay back the unemployment benefits when they finally return to work.The U.S. Labor Department on Thursday reported that the [...]

LIBERTY – The Town of Liberty Parks and Recreation Department is now accepting applications for summer seasonal employment. The department employs over 30 seasonal employees to provide a wide variety of services throughout the summer. Available positions include ground maintenance technicians, Renaissance project supervisor, lifeguards, day camp counselors, concession attendants and day camp counselors in training.Applicants must be 16 years of age or older with the [...]