TIMES
MID
HUDSON
Vol. 27, No 45
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NOVEMBER 11 - 17, 2015
Rock,
funk,
jazz
Mayor Judy Kennedy appears to have
made history this month when she was
re-elected as City of Newburgh mayor,
coming from behind as the Independence
The art of
Barry Pariser
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SERVING NEWBURGH AND NEW WINDSOR
Mayor basks in the glow of a historic win
candidate less than two months after
being defeated in the Democratic primary
election.
“We won against all the odds,” said the
mayor last week.
According to the city historian, it is
the first time in living memory that a
ONE DOLLAR
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Kennedy back at the helm
By SHANTAL RILEY
[email protected]
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third-party candidate triumphed over
opponents from the two traditional political parties to be elected City of Newburgh
mayor.
“There has been no time in the lives
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Section 9 Champs
Bill Bianco, NFA football coach, celebrates with his players after the Goldbacks beat Monroe-Woodbury Saturday to win their second straight
Section 9 title. Story on page 40.
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City fixes
sinkhole,
encounters
gas leak
By SHANTAL RILEY
[email protected]
Residents were shocked when the City
of Newburgh announced that a large
sinkhole was found along a section of
Water Street last week.
But, as city workers faced the gargantuan task of fixing the sinkhole, they
encountered a potentially more dangerous problem: a gas leak close to the Varick
Homes housing complex.
As the city Department of Public Works
“dug out a massive hole” at the sinkhole
last week, said Newburgh City Manager
Michael Ciaravino, they also worked on a
diversion pipe along Second Street.
“Upon further examination we discovered a long-standing water leak up the
street near Varick Homes,” he explained
at a Newburgh City Council meeting
Monday. “In addressing that problem…
many of us began to smell a strong odor
of gas.”
Varick Homes is a low to moderate-income housing development with 122 rental units, located near where the gas leak
occurred.
The City of Newburgh Fire Department
was promptly notified of the leak,
Ciaravino said. “We discovered that there
was a valve that was stuck open, once
again, for a significant amount of time,”
the city manager said.
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