NATIONAL NEWSPAPER ASSOCIATION FIRST-PLACE AWARD FOR GENERAL EXCELLENCE , 2016
Vol . 29 , No 4 JANUARY 25 - 31 , 2017 3 3 ONE DOLLAR
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SERVING NEWBURGH AND NEW WINDSOR
Push for PFOS action
Black Friday Demonstrators , clad in funeral black , march on Inauguration Day
Lawmakers call on Dept . of Defense to take action at Stewart Airport
By SHANTAL RILEY sriley @ tcnewspapers . com
Almost a year since the City of Newburgh water supply was found to be contaminated with perfluorooctane sulfonate ( PFOS ) coming from the Stewart Air National Guard Base , the source of the contamination continues to go untreated .
Government officials are now calling on the U . S . Department of Defense to install a filtration system where the chemical continues to fester in a pond at the air base .
“ It ’ s been nine months since we asked DOD to clean up the mess they ’ re responsible for making at Stewart - a mess which threatens the drinking water for thousands of my neighbors in Newburgh ,” Congressman Sean Patrick Maloney wrote in a joint press release Thursday .
“ New York State DEC has confirmed that Stewart is the source of the contamination - and it ’ s time for DOD to get their act together and come up with a solution that doesn ’ t force the innocent people of
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March organizer Julie Tremblay reads George Washington ’ s speech , meant to quell the “ Newburgh Conspiracy ” at the end of the American Revolutionary War in 1783 .
By SHANTAL RILEY sriley @ tcnewspapers . com
Traffic stopped as they marched , wearing black and carrying black
umbrellas . A marcher pounded a steady beat on a drum as the procession made its way down Liberty Street .
It was the “ Funeral for American Democracy ,” an artistic show of
protest on Inauguration Day , the day Donald Trump was sworn in as the 45th president of the United States . “ I ’ m not comfortable with the direction
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