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Vol. 31, No. 15
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APRIL 10 - 16, 2019
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SERVING NEWBURGH AND NEW WINDSOR
Report cites widespread absences overlooked in school district
In June of 2016, a teacher noticed his
students were ineligible to participate
in a championship track meet. The key
runners were in serious breach of the
school’s attendance policy. Upon noticing
his students’ ineligibility, Newburgh
Free Academy teacher and former Girls
Varsity Basketball Coach,
Richard
Desiderio was met with the decision
to report the students ineligibility to
administrators in his building or to keep
the information to himself and allow
the students to compete regardless of all
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By KATELYN CORDERO
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their absences.
“I had two students in my class in
June 2016 that were competing in state
track meet in Syracuse but they were
ineligible as per our attendance policy
to be competing. It was a big deal it was
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N ational C rime V ictims W eek
Maloney
announces
Federal
investment
on water
cleanup
By KATELYN CORDERO
[email protected]
Brian Wolfe
Crime victims are memorialized Sunday afternoon during a National Crime Victims Week vigil held at the parking lot between Johnson Street
and Lander Street. Each year Jeanette Drake (in purple) and Rhonda Valentine hold a vigil in honor of their daughters that were shot and killed
at a Halloween party in 2016.Also pictured are Amanda Silvagnoli and Tylon Ross. Story on page 3.
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The City of Newburgh is finally
starting to see some federal investment
on its contaminated water supply.
Representative Sean Patrick Maloney
announced on April 3 that the United
States Army Corps of Engineers will
fund the installation of a filtration
system to prevent further contamination
from Recreation Pond. They will invest
$2.4 million into the project to clean
up the PFAS contamination created by
Aqueous Fire Fighting Foam at Stewart
Air National Guard Base.
The contamination dates back to May
of 2016, when the City of Newburgh’s
drinking water reservoir, Washington
Lake was discovered to be contaminated
with PFAS. The contamination was
discovered at Recreation Pond next to the
base, which then moved through Silver
Stream, into Washington Lake.
“This is a huge victory for the City
of Newburgh, there’s much more work
to do, but this is a critical first step in
getting the city’s original water supply
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