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SERVING NEWBURGH AND NEW WINDSOR
Two Stewart airmen killed Paved
Pair and four others killed by suicide bomber in Afghanistan
streets
Mill, William, Ann
and Wisner Ave.
smooth for winter
By SHANTAL RILEY
[email protected]
BOB MCCORMICK
An honor guard formed along Route 17K, Monday, when the body of Technical Sgt. Joseph Lemm was returned to the Stewart Air National
Guard Base.
By SHANTAL RILEY
[email protected]
Two airmen stationed at Stewart Air
National Guard Base made the ultimate sacrifice when they encountered
a suicide bomber while on security
patrol in Afghanistan in the days before
Christmas.
Technical Sgt. Joseph Lemm, 45, and
Staff Sgt. Louis Bonacasa, 31, were
killed outside of Kabul, Afghanistan on
Dec. 21. The men died along with four
other U.S. airmen when a suicide bomber on a motorcycle detonated an explosive vest. An American interpreter and
two others were wounded in the attack.
Col. Howard Wagner provided details
about the incident at a press conference
held at Homewood Suites at Stewart
International Airport last Wednesday.
“At approximately 1:30 p.m. local
Afghanistan time, a security patrol consisting of U.S., NATO and Afghan forces
was attacked outside Bagram Air Base,
north of Kabul,” Wagner stated. “They
were attacked by an individual on a
motorcycle wearing an explosive vest.”
According to Wagner, the patrol was
on foot when the attacker rode up and
detonated the vest, killing himself and
six servicemen, including Lemm and
Bonacasa, who served with the 105th
Base Defense Squadron of the Air
National Guard.
“These members… were providing
security for the patrol,” the colonel said.
“The other four U.S. servicemen killed
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Newly-paved streets will make it easier
to navigate parts of the City of Newburgh
this winter. City officials say a plan is in
place to pave more streets badly in need
of paving sometime next year.
Four pot-hole-filled streets were paved,
including all of Ann Street and Wisner
Avenue from Broadway to Little Britain
Road. Mill and William streets were also
paved from Renwick Street to Broadway.
“William Street was all brick and probably one of the worst streets in Newburgh,”
said city Department of Public Works
Superintendent George Garrison. “It was
sinking and settling in different areas. It
was probably more than 100 years old.”
“Quite a few” city streets are just as
old, he said. Paving took place in October.
“It took about a week to do the milling,
a week of prepping and a week to do the
paving,” Garrison said.
Workers employed the “mill and fill”
paving method to complete the majority
of the streets, Garrison said. “You mill
down an inch and a half to two inches of
top layer of asphalt and then go back over
it with two inches of fresh asphalt,” he
said. “William Street was all brick underContinued on page 4