Cornwall on Hudson News

A federal judge will hear arguments Jan. 13 on whether a lawsuit brought by a village business owner against Mayor Joe Gross and other defendants should be dismissed.

The first snowfall of the season that covered roadways resulted in several accidents across the Mid-Hudson Valley from late Saturday afternoon through early Sunday morning.

Katharine Carolan Sulentich, 11, of the hamlet of Wallkill, has entered the annual World's Smallest Stretched Canvas Painting Competition for the second year in a row with her 1-by-2-inch painting titled "Lymon." Katharine has been the youngest noncompetitive entrant both years - you must be 18 years old to compete for the $500 prize.

Leave the apprehension of criminals to the police. That was the thrust of Cornwall-on-Hudson's interim police Chief Paul Weber's message when he gave his monthly report to the Village Board of Trustees.

FORT MONTGOMERY - It took eight long years of war, but on Nov. 25, 1783, the defeated British finally pulled out of the United States.

It happens every year about this time: The village's cash flow starts to dry up.

The state's Division of Criminal Justice Services has suggested that the village cut back its police patrols to a single, 12-hour shift to save money.

So many deer in New York, and so many hungry people. Sen. Chuck Schumer was at the Black Rock Fish and Game Club Friday afternoon, touting his plan to encourage more hunters to help the hungry by trimming the deer population.

You are among the legions of local people who have used the new interchange between the New York State Thruway and Interstate 84 and landed - whoops - in the wrong lane, on the wrong ramp or on the wrong highway.

The Hudson Highlands Nature Museum will present "The Good, the Bad & the Ugly: Endangered, Exotic and Nuisance Species in the Hudson Highlands," part of its Fall Evening Speakers Series, at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday at Painter's Tavern, 266 Hudson St., Cornwall-on-Hudson. Jay Westerveld will lead a discussion of contemporary endangered species of the ...

City firefighters found a house on fire when they arrived Tuesday evening on Carter Street.

The Hudson Highlands Nature Museum will host "Meet Atka, a Live Gray Wolf!" at 4 and 5:30 p.m. Nov.

House invader ladybugs are a true pest, giving this tribe of cute round beetles - one species is the official New York state insect - a place in the homeowner hall of shame right beside cockroaches, mole crickets and mice.

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Town police on Tuesday charged a man with stealing more than a quarter of a million dollars worth of heavy equipment.

Neither a local law nor an animal rights group have stopped a hunt to thin the village's deer herd.

The Hudson Highlands Nature Museum's Fall Evening Speakers Series will present "Only a Pond: The Story of Earth in a Drop of Hudson Valley Water" at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday at Painter's Tavern, 266 Hudson St., Cornwall-on-Hudson. Matthew C. Ally, assistant professor of philosophy at the City University of New York/BMCC and a lifelong pond-watcher, will ...

The Hudson Highlands Nature Museum's Wildlife Education Center, at 25 Boulevard in Cornwall-on-Hudson, will host a program on the Atlantic sturgeon, the largest fresh-water fish of the North American coastal waterways, at 10 a.m. Saturday.

Like many of the women featured in the pages of the magazine she helped found, Susan Crandell appeared to have it all.

New York Gov. David Paterson is known for his good sense of humor, which he flexed mightily during Saturday's opening of the Walkway Over the Hudson.