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SERVING NEWBURGH AND NEW WINDSOR
Gift from Goshen
County asks city to use surplus sales-tax funds to keep firefighters
Gardnertown
Road closure
expected in
early June
By SHANTAL RILEY
[email protected]
Orange County Executive Steve Neuhaus and other county officials visited the City of Newburgh Fire Department on Tuesday to announce
the City of Newburgh will receive more than $536,000 in surplus sales-tax revenue from 2017.
By SHANTAL RILEY
[email protected]
Orange County Executive Steve
Neuhaus visited the City of Newburgh
Fire Department on Tuesday to
announce the city will receive surplus
funds of more than $536,000 in sales-tax
revenue. The announcement location
highlighted the county’s hope that the
money will go to save 12 city firefighter
jobs.
“We just presented a check for
$536,000,” said Neuhaus. “The City of
Newburgh can utilize that money that
they’ve gotten in sales tax revenue... to
keep those firefighters rather than lay
them off.”
Neuhaus explained the county took
in a surplus of $3.7 million in 2017
fourth-quarter sales tax revenue. The
City of Newburgh will receive a total
of $536,635 in surplus sales-tax funds,
he said. “The economy is doing better
in Orange County than anywhere else
in the Hudson Valley,” said the county
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The Town of Newburgh will replace
a culvert bridge along Gardnertown Road
this summer. The project is expected to
close Gardnertown Road between Taft
Avenue and Gidney Avenue for about
three months, beginning in June.
The detour will lead traffic along
Route 300, Route 32 and Gidney Avenue.
Gardnertown Road will be restricted to
local traffic closer to the construction
site, near Gidney Avenue. Local traffic
will be able to use a detour route along
5th Avenue, South Plank Road, South
Street and West Street.
The 13-foot span crosses over
Gidneytown Creek. Traffic was brisk
next to the bridge, at the corner of
Gardnertown Road and Gidney Avenue
on a recent weekday afternoon.
The existing culvert is “severely
deteriorated,” according to the town. The
culvert was badly damaged in 2011 during
Hurricane Irene and Tropical Storm Lee,
which washed out a stone section of
the bridge. The span was temporarily
reinforced with steel plates following
the storm, said town Supervisor Gil
Piaquadio.
The project calls for a new, four-sided,
buried box culvert. The steel and concrete
structure will be partially buried under
the creek, so as not to disturb marine life,
Piaquadio said. “It will have a durability
of 75 years,” he said.
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