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Vol. 28, No 12
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MARCH 23 - 29, 2016
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Something to
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SERVING NEWBURGH AND NEW WINDSOR
Loop-Hudson Valley on hold
By SHANTAL RILEY
[email protected]
The Loop-Hudson Valley project is on hold. That’s
according to it’s developers, who appeared before the
Kennedy:
Chief is
likely to be
replaced
Town of Newburgh Planning Board to provide a project
update last week.
“We need to find a way forward,” said John Bainlardi,
Director of Development at Wilder Barter Partners.
“What we need at this point is some time.”
Bainlardi appeared before the planning board to
explain the project was stalled due to a lack of financing.
“It’s the risk,” said Robert Wilder Jr., quoting nervous
investors.
Continued on page 4
State of
City sets
positive
tone
Searching for treasures
Judge sides with Civil
Service Commission
By SHANTAL RILEY
[email protected]
By SHANTAL RILEY
[email protected]
Newburgh City Council members had
a heart-to-heart with residents at City
Hall last week following a decision by the
Orange County Supreme Court to deny
a request for a restraining order to stop
the city’s Civil Service Commission from
holding an open exam for the position of
police chief.
The decision, given by Justice Catherine
Bartlett, means city police Chief Dan
Cameron is likely to be replaced. “It’s a
difficult situation we find ourselves in at
Continued on page 3
Carl Aiello
Youngsters under adult supervision frolicked through the grass of Downing Park, Saturday, in
search of Easter Eggs at the annual Easter Egg Hunt. More photos on pages 24-25
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“We are literally working from the
ground up to bring the city into the next
century,” said Newburgh City Manager
Michael Ciaravino.
The Newburgh State of the City
Address was held at SUNY Orange
Kaplan Hall last Thursday. Highlights of
the program focused on infrastructure,
policing initiatives and news of the city’s
improved bond rating.
Ciaravino pointed to a presentation
slide labeled “city accomplishments,”
showing that Moody’s raised the city’s
bond rating from a Baa3 to a Baa2 in 2016.
A colorful chart compared city reveContinued on page 5