T IMES
MID
HUDSON
Vol. 30, No 25
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JUNE 20 - 26, 2018
Celtic
Festival
returning
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Town of Newburgh Supervisor Gil
Piaquadio has reached out to the state
to ask that a center line rumble strip be
installed along a dangerous stretch of
New York State Route 52, west of Union
Avenue.
“In the last ten years, there has
been three fatalities caused by head-
on collisions on New York State Route
52,” Piaquadio wrote to the New York
State Department of Transportation this
month.
“As supervisor in the Town of
Newburgh, I am requesting this center
line rumble strip be installed for the
safety of the 30,000 residents of the town
and all those who travel on this New York
State roadway.”
The ride was rough along Route
52 earlier this week. Pieces of broken
asphalt littered the narrow shoulders
ONE DOLLAR
Salute to
Roaring 20s
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SERVING NEWBURGH AND NEW WINDSOR
Town: Route 52 is dangerous
By SHANTAL RILEY
[email protected]
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of the road. During the afternoon rush
hour, the traffic coming in and out of
the Meadow Winds housing complex was
brisk. That wasn’t enough to stop cars
and trucks from barreling down the road
at 60 miles an hour or more.
It was in this area that strips of blacktop
lined the edges of the state road, causing
bumpy unevenness. Vehicles wobbled
slightly as they drove on the narrow road
with barely a shoulder to spare.
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F lag D ay
Law firm
urges
Newburgh
residents to
join PFOS
class-action
suit
By SHANTAL RILEY
[email protected]
Carl Aiello
Members of the Civil Air Patrol Honor Guard participated in a flag retirement ceremony last Thursday at Washington’s Headquarters. More
photos on page 34.
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They listened to arguments why they
should join a class-action lawsuit suing
chemical manufacturers, the City of
Newburgh and the Port Authority of New
York and New Jersey for exposing them to
water contaminated with perfluorooctane
sulfonate (PFOS) and a host of other
perfluorinated chemicals.
“Clean water is a right and a privilege,”
environmental activist and author Hill
Harper told a small audience at the
Hampton Inn and Suites on Monday
night.
Harper, also an actor who appears in
the television show “The Good Doctor,”
spoke to a group of about 100 Newburgh
and New Windsor residents who wanted
to learn more about a class-action lawsuit
Harper and NorthStar Legal Group are
working on with the personal-injury law
firm Napoli, Shkolnik PLLC.
Attorneys handed out intake forms
for people to join the lawsuit, which seeks
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