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Mid Hudson Times, Wednesday, January 20, 2016
IN THIS ISSUE
Calendar. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
City of Newburgh.. . . . . . . . . . . . 18
Classifieds. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
Crossword. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
Letters to the Editor. . . . . . . . . . 8
Meadow Hill. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
Town of Newburgh. . . . . . . . . . . 23
Newburgh Heritage. . . . . . . . . . . 10
New Windsor.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
Obituaries. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
Opinion. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Police Blotter. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
Service Directory. . . . . . . . . . . 33
Sports. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
PUBLIC AGENDA
THURSDAY, JANUARY 21
Newburgh City Council Work
Session, 6 p.m., City Hall, 83 Broadway.
Newburgh Town Planning Board, 7
p.m., Town Hall, 1496 Route 300.
MONDAY, JANUARY 25
Newburgh City Council, 7 p.m. City
Hall, 83 Broadway.
TUESDAY, JANUARY 26
Newburgh Enlarged City School
District Board of Education, 6 p.m.
Board of Education Auditorium, 124
Grand St.
THURSDAY, JANUARY 28
Newburgh Town ZBA, 7 p.m., Town
Hall, 1496 Route 300.
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Black History Committee celebrates MLK
BY SHANTAL RILEY
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“Life’s most persistent and urgent
question is, ‘What are you doing for others?’”
Meredith Henderson quoted the Rev.
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. at New Hope
Baptist Church on Monday, 48 years after
the civil rights leader’s passing. “This is
a day for the community to talk about a
legacy of service,” said Henderson. “It’s
a day on, not a day off.”
Henderson, a Newburgh native and
the North Atlantic regional director of
the Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, was
the keynote speaker at the Black History
Committee of the Hudson Valley’s annual
MLK Day celebration. This year’s event
theme was “A Legacy of Service.”
“Dr. King has brought us a long way,”
Henderson said, but social change is still
needed in the United States, a country
grappling with racism, inequality and
gun violence. “We know gun violenc