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Medical
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SERVING NEWBURGH AND NEW WINDSOR
For the love of Judy
Mayor is guest of honor at celebration
By SHANTAL RILEY
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Curaleaf New York is on track to open
a medical-marijuana dispensary in the
Town of Newburgh this month. The
dispensary, to be located off I-84 on North
Plank Road next to Alexis Diner, is the
first medical- marijuana dispensary to
open in Orange County.
“Patients in Newburgh and Orange
County deserve access to high-quality,
medical-grade
marijuana,”
stated
Michelle Bodner, president and CEO of
Curaleaf’s parent company PalliaTech
NY, which operates facilities across the
Northeast.
The dispensary will sell marijuana
products in the form of tinctures,
oils, tablets, capsules, vaporizers and
sublingual strips that dissolve under the
tongue. “Some of these forms are easier
for our patients to ingest than others,”
said Bodner. “They are palliative, they
provide relief.”
Medical conditions that qualify
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Shantal Riley
Mayor Judy Kennedy (r) was honored at the Fullerton Mansion on Sunday.
By SHANTAL RILEY
[email protected]
They came from far and wide, but
mostly from Newburgh, to tell Mayor
Judy Kennedy what was on their minds
and in their hearts. “I want to thank
Judy,” said Mary Elin Korchinsky, “for
turning our world upside down.”
Mrs. Korchinsky attended a reception,
along with scores of friends and
colleagues, held in the mayor’s honor
at the Fullerton Mansion on Sunday. “I
was thinking how really blessed we all
are,” said Judy Johnson. “Think about
where the city was when she landed
here.”
Johnson recalled when she first met
Kennedy about a decade ago. “I was
driving on Grand Street one day and
I saw this woman in her front yard,”
Johnson said. “I jumped out of the car
and said, ‘You bought that beautiful
house?’”
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At the time, Kennedy was renovating
a house that her son had bought and
later sold to her. Johnson and Kennedy
became fast friends. “I thought,
I’ll introduce the poor dear to some
people,” said Johnson, speaking about
a Newburgh Preservation Association
fundraiser. “I introduced her to one
person and never saw her again,”
Johnson teased.
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