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Vol. 30, No 21
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MAY 23 - 29, 2018
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ONE DOLLAR
Meet the
valedictorian Officer of
the year
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SERVING NEWBURGH AND NEW WINDSOR
Aftermath of the storm
Newburgh region digs out from deadly tornado
Voters
approve
$275M
school
budget
Howard, Burton, Santiago,
Levinstein elected to
Newburgh School Board
By SHANTAL RILEY
[email protected]
Brian Wolfe
Newburgh Mayor Torrance Harvey surveys the scene on Librerty Street following the devastating tornado that passed through last
Tuesday.
By WAYNE A. HALL
Life is slowly returning to normal
following last Tuesday’s storm that
claimed two lives in the Newburgh area
and caused untold damage
In the City of Newburgh, Gina
Garzon, 11, was killed when a fallen tree
crashed onto a car on Robinson Avenue.
She and her mother had arrived home
and were unloading the car at 4:15 p.m.,
when the wind caused a large tree to
topple onto the vehicle. The 11 year old
girl was extricated from the vehicle by
the fire department and transported
to St. Luke’s hospital where she was
pronounced dead. The mother suffered
minor injuries.
The second fatality occurred shortly
after 5 p.m. at the Mount Saint Mary
College Desmond Campus on Albany
Post Road in the Town of Newburgh.
Lisa Resnick, 58, of Rosendale was killed
when a tree fell on her vehicle.
Hundreds of storm knock downs
created a huge fallen tree removal
problem for homeowners in the town of
Newburgh. So many trees fell that town
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Voters in the Newburgh Enlarged City
School District approved a $275-million
school budget last Tuesday. Residents also
backed a more than $5-million budget for
the Newburgh Free Library.
Ramona Burton was newly elected to
the Newburgh Board of Education with
776 votes. Sylvia Santiago was also elected
to the board with 650 votes. Incumbent
board member Philip Howard was
welcomed to a third term with 882 votes
cast.
Mark Levinstein came in fourth,
winning 553 votes. He will serve out the
remainder of the term left by former board
member Domenic Tebano, who resigned
earlier this year. Carrie Robinson and
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