Mid Hudson Times Aug. 10 2016

TIMES MID Dubaldi sentenced to state prison HUDSON Vol. 28, No 32 3 AUGUST 10 - 16, 2016 3 National Night Out Sunflower art Page 18-19 Page 10 ONE DOLLAR SERVING NEWBURGH AND NEW WINDSOR Kathryn Mack named new city comptroller By SHANTAL RILEY [email protected] Kathryn Mack has been appointed the new comptroller and director of finance for the City of Newburgh. Mack has served as acting city comptroller since May. “We are not only impressed by her competence but by her enthusiasm for the ways in which she takes crises as they occur in the city’s finances and in our comptroller’s office and converts them into opportunities,” said City Manager Michael Ciaravino at a Newburgh City Council meeting Monday. Mack has worked for the City of Newburgh for six years. An Aug. 5 city press release described Mack as “integral in stabilizing the financial condition of the city.” “In her first role as the junior accountant, Ms. Mack revitalized the financial billing and receipt of funds for the city’s PILOT program and worked to create reconciliation processes for all city finances.” In 2014, Mack was promoted to the position of accountant. According to the press release, she led “all private and public audits, initiated new financial processes to ensure the recapture of Continued on page 2 Setting sail for Newburgh By SHANTAL RILEY [email protected] Former New Windsor Republican Committee chairman Carmen Dubaldi was sentenced in Orange County Court to one to three years in state prison last week. Dubaldi was convicted on three counts of third-degree grand larceny stemming from the theft of more than $120,000 in campaign funds from O r a n g e C o u n t y Clerk Annie R a b b i t , f o r m e r C o u n t y Executive Ed Diana and state Sen. Bill Larkin Carmen Dubaldi Jr. “Justice has been served,” Larkin said in a statement last Friday. According to Ulster County District Attorney Holley Carnright, audits of the three campaign accounts revealed that, between 2008 and 2015, Dubaldi Continued on page 2 The Kalmar Nychel, a replica of a ship that brought the settlers from Sweden to Delaware in 1638 docked in Newburgh over the weekend. Additional photos on page 34. WWW.MIDHUDSONTIMES.COM