TIMES
MID
HUDSON
Vol. 28, No 23
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JUNE 8 - 14, 2016
Authorities
remain
tight-lipped
two weeks after City of Newburgh
Comptroller John Aber was arrested on
at least one charge of grand larceny. The
Orange County District Attorney’s Office
is investigating the case.
“We are the prosecuting agency and we
are evaluating the case,” said Christopher
Borek, chief assistant district attorney
at the Orange County District Attorney’s
Office.
City of Newburgh Police have released
no news or information about Aber since
his resignation and arrest on May 24.
“I’m completely shocked,” Mayor Judy
Kennedy said outside of Newburgh City
Hall last month.
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SERVING NEWBURGH AND NEW WINDSOR
DA’s Office investigates Aber
By SHANTAL RILEY
[email protected]
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Fourth-degree grand larceny involves
theft of $1,000 to $3,000 of money or
property. Kennedy said the arrest did
involve municipal funds and Aber was
being investigated by City of Newburgh
Police for some time. “I have full
confidence that the right thing is being
done,” said Kennedy.
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Survivor’s lap
Town of
Newburgh
backs
Skartados’
bill to ban
pipeline
By SHANTAL RILEY
[email protected]
Bob McCormick
Anita Manley takes a survivor’s lap during the annual Relay for Life at Cronomer Hill Park Saturday. More photos on page 31.
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The Town of Newburgh has reiterated
its opposition to the Pilgrim Pipeline with
the adoption of a resolution supporting
a bill sponsored by Assemblyman Frank
Skartados to ban the proposed Pilgrim
Pipeline.
“It would cost our communities
millions of dollars to attempt to address
the effects a leak would have on our
drinking water, open spaces, homes,
farmlands and streams,” said Newburgh
Town Clerk Andrew Zarutskie, reading
from a resolution at Newburgh Town Hall
on Monday.
Zarutskie read from a resolution
citing a host of reasons for supporting the
bill. Among them is concern over pipeline
leaks which, according to the resolution,
have the potential to be “catastrophic.”
The double pipeline, slated to run
almost 200 miles from Linden, New
Jersey, north to Albany, would transport
crude oil and refined petroleum products
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