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Mid Hudson Times, Wednesday, April 5, 2017
IN THIS ISSUE
Calendar. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
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Classifieds. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
Crossword. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
Letters to the Editor. . . . . . . . . . 8
Meadow Hill. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
Town of Newburgh. . . . . . . . . . . . 21
Newburgh Heritage. . . . . . . . . . . 9
New Windsor.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
Obituaries. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
Opinion. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Police Blotter. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
Service Directory. . . . . . . . . . . . 31
Sports. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
Newburgh’s PFOS water crisis: How it happened
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WEDNESDAY, APRIL 5
New Windsor Town Board,7 p.m. Town
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Newburgh City Council Work
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Broadway.
THURSDAY, APRIL 6
Town of Newburgh Planning Board, 7
p.m. Town Hall, 1496 Route 300, Town of
Newburgh.
MONDAY, APRIL 10
Newburgh Town Board, 7 p.m. Town
Hall, 1496 Route 300, Town of Newburgh.
TUESDAY, APRIL 15
City of Newburgh Planning Board,
7:30 p.m. City of Newburgh Activity
Center, 401 Washington St.
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Washington Lake is being treated with activated carbon after being contaminated by the chemical PFOS.
sulfonate, belongs to a group of man-
made chemicals called perfluorinated
compounds, or PFCs, Hutton explained.
“This was a chemical that was
manufactured in the U.S. and used in
several different products because its
chemical properties were desirable for a
lot of different reasons.”
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