TIMES
MID
HUDSON
Vol. 27, No 40
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OCTOBER 7 - 13, 2015
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ONE DOLLAR
Newburgh boy
Making
meets
a splash
the Pope
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SERVING NEWBURGH AND NEW WINDSOR
Town of Newburgh stays within tax cap
By ALLAN GAUL
[email protected]
Taxpayers will be looking at a modest tax increase in
2016, Town of Newburgh Supervisor Gil Piaquadio said
Tuesday.
Columbia
University
begins
city urban
design lab
The owner of an average house assessed at $68,000
will pay an additional $46.87 over what he or she paid this
year, according to figures supplied to the Mid Hudson
Times by Piaquadio.
Owners of a house assessed at $200,000, for instance,
will pay an extra $137 while those owning a home
assessed at $300,000 will pay an extra $206, he said.
In order to stay within the 0.73 percent tax cap being
required by New York State, the Town of Newburgh can’t
exceed $18,377,822 in combined tax levy for general and
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How to create
a thriving
Main Street?
Feast of Saint Francis
By SHANTAL RILEY
[email protected]
By SHANTAL RILEY
[email protected]
“How can we improve the environment
with all the social and economic issues
in the city?” asked Columbia University
graduate student Yuri Kim, offering a possible starting point for a study focused on
the City of Newburgh.
Kim and about 40 other students visited the City of Newburgh last week as part
of the Urban Design Studio at Columbia’s
Graduate School of Architecture, Planning
and Preservation.
The studio is designed to provide
hands-on learning in areas of housing,
infrastructure, the environment and other
urban design-related subjects.
“All of these black sections are vacant
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Allan Gaul
The Rev. Dustin Trowbridge of St. George’s Church blesses Jackson Kendall and Jackson’s
human, the Rev. Jerry Brooks, Sunday with the assistance of the Rev. Deacon Mauvoureen
(Vonnie) Hubbard. St. Francis is the patron saint of animals and many churches offer animal
blessings on the Feast of St. Francis of Assisi on Oct. 4. Story on page 3
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You reap what you sow. It was a message that emerged again and again at a
panel discussion of Hudson Valley business owners held at Space Create Monday.
“When you’re in a community and
you’re not connected or committed to the
community, it probably won’t work,” said
Maria Luisa Whittingham. “You have to
take ownership of it.”
Whittingham, owner of the Maria
Luisa Boutique in Nyack, spoke along
with other longtime business owners at
the “Downtown Turnaround: Creating
Thriving Main Streets in a Changing
Economy” event exploring the successes
and challenges of small, Main Street businesses in the Hudson Valley.
“Every vendor that we work with … we
know who they are,” said Whittingham,
and vice versa.
No wonder. The environmentally friendly boutique created a scholarship for female high school students and
donates a certain percent of its profits
to charity each year. Whittingham even
started a “Say No to the Bag” initiative
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