TIMES
MID
Judge rules
on Brennan
defamation
lawsuit
Case against Dubaldi, D’Angelo
moves forward
HUDSON
Vol. 28, No 28
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JULY 13 - 19, 2016
New Windsor
goes for
title
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ONE DOLLAR
Villains
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SERVING NEWBURGH AND NEW WINDSOR
Voices of reason
City, community call for calm in wake of police shootings
By SHANTAL RILEY
[email protected]
Emotions ran high at Newburgh City
Hall, four days after the killing of five
police officers in Dallas and five days
following the fatal shooting of a black
man reaching for his license in his car
during a police traffic stop in Minnesota.
“If we don’t come together and do
something about this, the same thing
that happened in Dallas is going to come
here,” Cynthia Beadle Brunson said.
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Photographer’s delight
By SHANTAL RILEY
[email protected]
Orange County Supreme Court
Judge Gretchen Walsh has ruled that
a defamation lawsuit brought against
Carmen Dubaldi and Jack D’Angelo will
move forward. However, the complaint
against Orange County Sheriff Carl
DuBois and the New Windsor Republican
Committee was dismissed.
“It means that she found the statements
that were made against Ms. Brennan are
reasonably understood as defamatory,”
said Brennan’s attorney Michael
Sussman.
The lawsuit arose following a 2012
political campaign in which the Republican
committee published a mug shot of New
Windsor Town Council candidate Bonnie
Brennan in political mailers and ads in
The Sentinel newspaper. The mug shot
was obtained from the Orange County
Sheriff’s Office.
The mailers contained headers that
read, “Democratic council candidate
Brennan seems to always be on the wrong
side of the law,” among other captions.
Brennan went on to win the election,
defeating incumbent candidate D’Angelo,
but lost the seat in 2013.
The mug shot was taken in 2009 after
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Carl Aiello
A photographer, making his way through Algonquin Park in the Town of Newburgh, would find many photo opportunities in the pictuesque
and historic park. The town was set to unveil a new historic marker on Wednesday. Story on page 5.
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