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NATIONAL NEWSPAPER ASSOCIATION FIRST-PLACE AWARD FOR GENERAL EXCELLENCE, 2016
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Vol. 29, No 39
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SEPTEMBER 27 - OCTOBER 3, 2017
Performing at
Disney World
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SERVING NEWBURGH AND NEW WINDSOR
Schools, bus companies working to fix delays
Newburgh parents and students may
notice that during the first few weeks
of school the buses are often delayed
or unpredictable. However, Sue Young,
grandparent of a Newburgh Free
Academy North high school student,
views this year’s busing schedule as a
“big mess.” Her grandson, who rides a
ONE DOLLAR
Lady Goldbacks
win in overtime
Catching the late bus
By LAUREN BERG
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Gallagher bus several times a week, was
picked up from his Liberty street bus
stop for the first time the morning of
September 18, two weeks after school had
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A great day for kites
DoD won’t
pay for
past PFOS
cleanup
By SHANTAL RILEY
[email protected]
The U.S. Department of Defense states
it will not pay for past work performed
in connection with perfluorooctane
sulfonate (PFOS) contamination of
the City of Newburgh drinking water
reservoir at Washington Lake or
surrounding public and private wells in
the towns of Newburgh and New Windsor.
That is according to a DoD statement
which comes more than a year after the
discovery of elevated levels of PFOS
in the lake and surrounding drinking
watershed.
State sampling has shown the
contamination came from the nearby
Stewart Air National Guard Base.
Alongside local municipalities, the New
York State Department of Environmental
Conservation has carried out millions
of dollars in remediation work since the
water crisis emerged in May last year.
DoD digs in
The skies above Washington’s Headquarters were filled with kites once again on Saturday as the Friends of the State Historic Sites hosted their
annual “Kites Over the Hudson” event. It was a day in which the weather could not have been more cooperative.
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“Reimbursement for past expenditures
are not authorized,” DoD spokesman
Adam Stump said in an email to the
Mid Hudson Times on Tuesday. “The
Department of Defense defines past
expenditures as anything that the
community expended prior to having a
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